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Abusable, but in SP it's not like it really matters. I tried looking for a place to submit this as a bug on the Civ 3 page but I guess they don't want any e-mail, so maybe they'll read it here...
If this has been posted already then I apologize in advance.
So anyways, here I was, after having half my empire snatched away by the Chinese/French/English during the Feudal Age I bide my time and through some crafty trading I manage to build every scientific wonder (among others) and am fairly far ahead of every other Civ in terms of tech by the Modern Age.
I build up my armed forces to the point where there's quite simply no way I could lose to anybody, with the huge tech advantage and overwhelming numbers I intended to get revenge on the Chinese.
I just needed to start a war. I liked my reputation. I liked the fact that I can make an agreement with an AI Civ and he'll generally respect it. So I had to incite the Chinese into declaring war on me without doing something that would damage my rep. After trying various things I just decided to threaten them with a completely ludicrous tribute demand a bunch of times to get them really pissed at me, then wait until one of their ships happened to stroll through my coastal waters so I could demand they "withdraw or decalre war". That seemed like a good plan to me. Sounds good in theory right?
Well, much to my surprise the Chinese realized I would have crushed them like twigs and gave in to my demands...
Yes, I did actually get that amount of money each turn.
A couple turns later, I got _really_ greedy (not like I could have spent what I was getting already) and demanded 9999999999999999999999999 (whatever the maximum I could fit into the dialog box asking how much) and much to my surprise (or not) the Chinese agreed. Of course, the next turn I took in more money than the long integer variable used to store the monetary value could hold and it went into the negatives, so I went from more money than I could spent to negative 47392847329743242 trillion.
Anyways, still a bug. Exploitable.
If this has been posted already then I apologize in advance.
So anyways, here I was, after having half my empire snatched away by the Chinese/French/English during the Feudal Age I bide my time and through some crafty trading I manage to build every scientific wonder (among others) and am fairly far ahead of every other Civ in terms of tech by the Modern Age.
I build up my armed forces to the point where there's quite simply no way I could lose to anybody, with the huge tech advantage and overwhelming numbers I intended to get revenge on the Chinese.
I just needed to start a war. I liked my reputation. I liked the fact that I can make an agreement with an AI Civ and he'll generally respect it. So I had to incite the Chinese into declaring war on me without doing something that would damage my rep. After trying various things I just decided to threaten them with a completely ludicrous tribute demand a bunch of times to get them really pissed at me, then wait until one of their ships happened to stroll through my coastal waters so I could demand they "withdraw or decalre war". That seemed like a good plan to me. Sounds good in theory right?
Well, much to my surprise the Chinese realized I would have crushed them like twigs and gave in to my demands...
Yes, I did actually get that amount of money each turn.
A couple turns later, I got _really_ greedy (not like I could have spent what I was getting already) and demanded 9999999999999999999999999 (whatever the maximum I could fit into the dialog box asking how much) and much to my surprise (or not) the Chinese agreed. Of course, the next turn I took in more money than the long integer variable used to store the monetary value could hold and it went into the negatives, so I went from more money than I could spent to negative 47392847329743242 trillion.
Anyways, still a bug. Exploitable.
I hitted this kind of "huge numbers roll into negative" bugs in Sid's Railroad Tycoon, and they are still around. Unbelievable!
I've since stopped and now play Civ III the 'clean' way (and still get whipped).
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