Unit limits?

[Capt Dizle]

I never thought I'd have to ask. But I am playing this Sid level game and there are 2 AI civs with over one thousand units.

Is there a limit?
What kind of problems will I face?
Is there a workaround?
Should I just quit?

Feed back appreciated.

[vmxa1]

4096 total for the whole game.

[Switch]

You won't create any more units once that limit has been reached. You will 'produce' them, but they won't actually be created. The best option is simply to hope that the AI right before you loses some wars, so you can make some more of your own. Other than that I don't believe there is any work around.

[Capt Dizle]

I can't see any reason to continue my Sid level attempt given these facts.

I can't see any reason to keep Civ3 on my computer given these facts.

I could understand having some limitation that might cause a problem if I were playing a 32 civ game on a huge map at a high level after 2000 ad.

But playing a Sid level game with only 12 civs (3 dead) on only a large map and to be staring down the barrel of a unit limit in 1390 AD?

This is only 268 turns into a 540 turn game. Less than half.

Gross design error Firaxis. Once again, those folks are lucky I am not a wealthy man or I would surely buy the company and fire the design team. They have wasted my time. No more.

[Jaybe]

JT, How in the 'BLEEP' could you allow a game to get to such a state!

(Oh, you are playing at Sid. I am playing my first Monarch game)

Oh well, if you have to cease and desist with Civ3, we will miss your rants, trolls, ... and even attempts at humor.

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
I can't see any reason to keep Civ3 on my computer given these facts.

I agree JT....do it!

[Capt Dizle]

Spies report 3,020 units in game at 1390AD not counting I suppose captured workers and artillery.

Hitittes 1180
Dutch 950
Germany 270
Sumeria 249 (me)
Zulu 209 (including over 100 impi)
Celts 115
Portugal 44
Russia 23

Thats a nice distribution of units.

Well, whether or not I play or uninstall, you may count on me continuing to point out the utter failures of Firaxis as they continue to singlehandedly destroy the pc gaming industry with their incompetant work.

[Antrine]

Let's see jimmytrick, in Civ II I hit the game unit limit 'every game' and often long before 268 turns egags, that is a lot of turns! The main difference is I would access the 'cheat/editor' and eliminate outright one or two faraway offending AI civs and carry on until the limit got hit again. Here your spies are counting them for you, how nice.

You still have over a thousand units before the game limit is reached, quit complaining and get on with it.

I recommend a new strategy or call it 'emergency game plan one'. Knock off all the lesser AI's and sieze their unit quota's.

Or quit screwing around and declare war immediately against the Hitittes and Dutch, oh well throw in Germany too, since you let them get ahead of you like that. This niffty plan will insure that you not get to the game quota before you are neatly wiped off the planet.

And who says Firaxis did not have you in mind when they arranged all these things. The Firaxis smile.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
"I can't see any reason to continue my Sid level attempt given these facts."

"I can't see any reason to keep Civ3 on my computer given these facts. "

I would think these should work in your favor. The AI cannot make more units, but will probably keep trying. You can set your econ to research and luxs with no cost, except for replacement units.

"I could understand having some limitation that might cause a problem if I were playing a 32 civ game on a huge map at a high level after 2000 ad."

The limit if used for the same reason at this point as it is for any earlier occurence.

"But playing a Sid level game with only 12 civs (3 dead) on only a large map and to be staring down the barrel of a unit limit in 1390 AD? "

They want to be able to state the game will run on some system specs that do not require the best available. In truth, the game can bogged down even on the fastest systems. I have played the game on extra hige maps, on all levels and never ran into the limit, so it is not a big problem.



"Gross design error Firaxis. Once again, those folks are lucky I am not a wealthy man or I would surely buy the company and fire the design team. They have wasted my time. No more. "

Can you give us some slack on this crap. Two years now you have been whinning about this.

[Drachen]

Does thinking outside of the box necessarily mean choosing a different game?


Brothers in Arms


These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Dire Straits

[Fatwreck]

oh please, why are you still playing the game if you think it´s so bad?

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by jimmytrick Well, whether or not I play or uninstall, you may count on me continuing to point out the utter failures of Firaxis as they continue to singlehandedly destroy the pc gaming industry with their incompetant work.

Sad. Such vitriol

Constructive criticism is a good thing and educational. It's a pity you don't agree.

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by Drachen
Does thinking outside of the box necessarily mean choosing a different game?

Dire Straits --> awesome group, awesome man.

[Plotinus]

Originally posted by jimmytrick I can't see any reason to keep Civ3 on my computer given these facts.

So you won't play a game that is less than perfect? You think that programmers should be able to ignore limitations of memory and processor speed? I'd be interested to know what games you *do* keep on your computer. Failing that, if you're going to wipe Civ3 because of a minor problem on the highest difficulty level, can you guarantee that you will clear off and stop leaving your bizarrely unpleasant posts littering these boards? Does it occur to you that Firaxis' programmers are actually people, who might be doing their best within the limitations they are given, and that this is a public forum which anyone can see, and that your ill-thought out and misspelt comments might therefore cause considerable offence?

[Harovan]

I thought jt was back from ranting to constructive criticism. This thread proves the opposite.