Noob question!

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I finally picked up Civ III and it is interesting. However, I have some questions about it.

1. I was trying to build some wonders and I wanted to switch cities that were making them. The game would not let me do that. How do I switch what kind of wonder a city is working on. example - Change the orcale to the Great Library.

2. How do I speed up production of a Wonder?

3. What are some ideas on how my Civilization should expand & advance?

4. What should I do with my terrain in the beginning?

5. How do I conquor a city by culture?

I am sure that I will have more questions, but those are the main ones. I do appreciate any advice. What is that? You are saying put Civ III down and play Alpha Centauri? No! Get out of my mind! I can resist.....

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Thanks,
Kevin

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Re: Noob question!

1- Well first you have to have no other city building that wonder. So to go from the Oracle to the GL. Look to see that it is not grayed out. That means some other city is building it.

You would have to switch that city to something else. Then change the Oriacle to the GL. Note that a city will not be able to build any wonder if it has tainted shields in the box already.

That means forest chops or disbanded units. Some wonders have requirement, such as a river in that city. so watch out for anything like that.

2- the only way to speed up a great wonder is with a leader. In C3 and PTW they only have one type of leader. In Conquest you have military and scientific leaders. Only SGL can rush great wonders.

3- very much like tell me everything you know. You need to start someplace specific. I would say look at the Strategey forum for the topped threads as a starter.

4- the forum I mentioned should have a link to a thread on another forum called Crackers Opening Moves. This is the bible on what to do with tiles.

Mainly it comes down to irrigate brown and food bonus tiles and mine the rest. Start with the best tiles you have in the town and leave mountains and hills till later.

5- well I would say forget about it. Yes it can be done, but you have so little control over it and it mainly is for lower level games.

What you need to do is to generator more culture in your empire than theirs. Have tiles of yours over lap their 21 tile radius.

This is done mostly by building culture structures in that town. Temples and Libs and wonders are the early buildings.

Flips are not a sure thing as many things can be done to counter culture. You also have to not have uncheck allow culture converstions for the game.