Anybody found 'hidden' features?

[Moquia]

Just discovered you can rename a unit by clicking on the name in the lower left corner. Naming your first caravel 'Santa Maria' really takes the game to another level.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally posted by Moquia
Just discovered you can rename a unit by clicking on the name in the lower left corner. Naming your first caravel 'Santa Maria' really takes the game to another level.

You can re-name units in CivIII... this isn't new.

Does naming a caravel "Santa Maria" actually do anything?

[Moquia]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble


You can re-name units in CivIII... this isn't new.

Does naming a caravel "Santa Maria" actually do anything?

No, but maybe I need to name the explorer onboard 'Columbus'

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
You can re-name units in CivIII... this isn't new.

IIRC in CIV 3 you can rename only an elite unit, when it create a military leader.

[Kuciwalker]

In Conquests (maybe in a patch) IIRC you could rename anything.

[nathanebht]

Back on the chaining irrigated farms topic. Note that cities and some other tile types count as fresh water sometimes, so you may be able to start your irrigation chain someplace you didn't expect.

If your irrigated farms are coming off of one fresh water source and the chain gets broken. You'll see all the downstream farm graphics change. They'll lose their water! Have your workers fix the break in your chain and the irrigation will come back to all the ones that lost it. I did this by accident my last game and thought it was kinda neat.

[Jonah5]

Originally posted by Willem


Oh geez, don't bring that up! You'll have Hillary Clinton hanging out around here in no time.

ok I just threw up in my mouth...twice

[Aro]

Originally posted by Moquia
Just discovered you can rename a unit by clicking on the name in the lower left corner. Naming your first caravel 'Santa Maria' really takes the game to another level.

Yep. Cool indeed...
But this feature doesn't work everytime, I can't see why...
Sometimes, I click on the name of the unit, and a box pop up comes. Sometimes I can type a name in the box, sometimes I can't. The box is there, the cursor is blinking on the right place, but it is like the keyboard doesn't work. I didn't figured out why the stupid thing act like that. This happens in the two computers where I've installed Civ IV.

[Brutus66]

Originally posted by Konquest02
You can play as the barbarians, and Sid is your leader...

http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/s...784&original=1

Is this for real?

[Finarfin]

Originally posted by padillah


My father was from Puerto Rico and he maintained that when he and my mother went to Italy he had absolutely no problem speaking with anybody. There were some people that gave him a hard time, but it was because he didn't speak Italian, not because they didn't understand him.

I, for one, also speak Portuguese (my wife is from Brazil) and they are so close I have a hard time determining if a person is speaking Italian or Portuguese for the first few words.

Tom P.

I would think that applies to any of the Romance languages. I took six years of French and can make out enough Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian to make sense of what I'm reading. I haven't any exposure to Romanian, though.

[padillah]

Originally posted by Finarfin
I would think that applies to any of the Romance languages. I took six years of French and can make out enough Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian to make sense of what I'm reading. I haven't any exposure to Romanian, though.

A friend I was talking to had the last word on this subject:

If you get hungry enough you can communicate in any language.

Tom P.

[Datajack Franit]

romance

italian, french, spanish, portuguese and romanian are neo-latin languages

italian-spanish is the easiest link
italian-spanish/romanian is a little harder but possible
italian-spanish/french need some basic knowledge
italian-spanish/portuguese really wondering how can it be that hard? it's like klingon

[padillah]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
romance

italian, french, spanish, portuguese and romanian are neo-latin languages

italian-spanish is the easiest link
italian-spanish/romanian is a little harder but possible
italian-spanish/french need some basic knowledge
italian-spanish/portuguese really wondering how can it be that hard? it's like klingon

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying Italian<-->Protuguese is hard or easy? And where/why does spanish fit into each translation?

Plus, remember, I'm a second language Portuguese speaker so I may not have the ear you do. I may only think I understand it.

Tom P.

[Datajack Franit]

/ = to




Italian and Spanish to Portoguese is HARD

[Generalisimo]

Well, being a native spanish speaker with some VERY BASIC knowledge of italian (probably the same that i have of portuguese)... i can understand what an italian guy is saying better than what a portuguese guy says.
Here with the Mercosur, it is really easy to find brazilian people that doesn't know spanish... and unless they say something in spanish, you usually do not understand very well what they are saying... part of the problem is that many words have completelly different meanings... so, you think you "are understanding"... but they are saying a completelly different thing.
It is far easier for me to read portuguese... i will surelly understand more... but again, the misunderstandings will surelly appear.
On the other hand, i have read some romanian and i have managed to understand most of it... sadly, i never heard it, so i can't tell you if i can understand what a romanian guy says...
Abouth french... i do not understand a word of it... nada de nada...