Civilization III - Play the World

[Graham]

Anyone else here play this game?

I've been addicted to the CIV series since playing the original on a 286 IBM.

I had this friend who failed her high school exams and had to repeat a year 'cos she played the game so much. Personally the only real long-term ill-effect I've had is an irrational but heartfelt hatred of the Zulus.

Anyway, if anyone is interested in playing an email game, I'm a reasonable player but not great - Regent level is about as high as I can manage.

PM me or post to this thread.

Thanks,

Graham

Oops - should have posted this in Movies, Games and other Entertainment or whatever the h** it's called - too many d*** subdivisions in this forum, IMHO)

 

[ZouPrime]

I did around 1600% at Civ2. Emperor level, maximum numbers of cities, 6-7 engineers per city terraforming the entire world to grasslands... 50 minutes per turn, I never played again after that game.

I checked CivIII but my computer wasn't powerful enough at the time to handle it.

 

[bignickel]

For reasons that I not completely sure, everytime I'd play Civ3 I'd play for a bit, and then not touch it again for quite awhile.

Why is that? I'm not sure; I played the heck out of Civ2, playing til the early hours of the morning. But Civ3... so many little things would just annoy the heck out of me. Getting my cities culture-flipped while unable to do the same to my AI opponents, losing tons of city units to inefficiency even under democracy (and try building your capitol at a better place, when those cities can't produce SQUAT anyway), and worse: having your military units DEFECT to the opposite side when you losing a captured city due to ONLY having 5 of your units in it.

Because, of course, in real life, our own army has to worry about Bagdad flipping back to enemy control, and all our army units there suddenly switching sides...

Anyways, I've been told that the latest patches make the game alot better (and Play the World actually playable), so one day I'll go back and give it a try.

In the mean time: have you considered the virtues of the wonderful Alpha Centauri (and it's expansion)? You can pick up both from EA in "The Laptop Collection". Me, Thrombus29, and Stainless_Steel_Rat currently have a few email games going (although, not without bugs...).

BTW - you can ask the nice mods, and they'll move this thread to whatever fora you wish, no prob...

 

[a_unique_person]

I worked with this guy who showed me his CIV I technique for a guaranteed win. Get gunpowder first, then kill everyone else. This strategy certainly worked when he demonstrated it to me. No need to stuff around with all that religion, writing, exploring, diplomacy bullsh!t.

 

[gnome]

For reasons that I not completely sure, everytime I'd play Civ3 I'd play for a bit, and then not touch it again for quite awhile.

Why is that? I'm not sure; I played the heck out of Civ2, playing til the early hours of the morning. But Civ3... so many little things would just annoy the heck out of me. Getting my cities culture-flipped while unable to do the same to my AI opponents, losing tons of city units to inefficiency even under democracy (and try building your capitol at a better place, when those cities can't produce SQUAT anyway), and worse: having your military units DEFECT to the opposite side when you losing a captured city due to ONLY having 5 of your units in it.

Because, of course, in real life, our own army has to worry about Bagdad flipping back to enemy control, and all our army units there suddenly switching sides...

Anyways, I've been told that the latest patches make the game alot better (and Play the World actually playable), so one day I'll go back and give it a try.

In the mean time: have you considered the virtues of the wonderful Alpha Centauri (and it's expansion)? You can pick up both from EA in "The Laptop Collection". Me, Thrombus29, and Stainless_Steel_Rat currently have a few email games going (although, not without bugs...).

BTW - you can ask the nice mods, and they'll move this thread to whatever fora you wish, no prob...

Wait just a few more weeks--the latest expansion (Conquests) is the first version of Civ3 that I would call complete. They finally sorted out air/sea battles properly. Unfortunately its release is marked by a couple of very annoying bugs that everyone is currently anticipating a patch for.

And a clarification--when you lose an army because a city flips, the other country does not get the army. It just disappears--the idea is, I suppose, that somehow the disgruntled natives destroyed the garrison.

I love the game myself despite its annoyances.

 

[bignickel]

And a clarification--when you lose an army because a city flips, the other country does not get the army. It just disappears--the idea is, I suppose, that somehow the disgruntled natives destroyed the garrison.

Well, that's good. Did that show up in a patch? I thought when I spied on the city later, I saw my units in there, but my memory might be mistaken.

One day, I'll get back to my Civ3 game. If the thing could be played in a window, I'd be playing it 5 days a week (if you know what I mean). As it stands, I still have to get off the first island in GTA3, actually get into a multi-player game of America's Army, and play Deus Ex2 when it comes out. Not to mention that D2 has become a challenge again with the release of of the new patch.

So many games, so little time...

 

[gnome]

Well, that's good. Did that show up in a patch? I thought when I spied on the city later, I saw my units in there, but my memory might be mistaken.

It might have... if you've been playing Civ3 unpatched, it's no wonder you hated it. Initial releases were terrible.