MOD: Feels like Civ 2

[The Rusty Gamer]

Well, I deleted every cultural opinion except one which I called "not interested in" with a ratio of 1:1 and 0% everywhere. To be honest, I haven't played a game right through, I simply assumed it would work.

As regards to negative culture cancelling out positive culture - that definitely works. It never shrinks (a shame really, that might've given another interesting angle to the game) but it will stop growing.

[whosurdaddy]

Originally posted by The Rusty Gamer
As regards to negative culture cancelling out positive culture - that definitely works. It never shrinks (a shame really, that might've given another interesting angle to the game) but it will stop growing.

Ah, but the problem is if one civ captures the city of another civ, all of the positive culture buildings are automatically destroyed, but the negative culture buildings are not. While a human player may know to delete the negative culture buildings in a conquered city in order to then begin building positive culture buildings in order to expand the city radius, the computer wont know this. Thus, the AI will build a positive culture building in conquered city (in order to expand the city radius to full productiveness), but the pre-existing negative culture buildings which were built by the civ who used to own the city will make sure that the radius of the city never really expands to the full 21 square city radius (in a city the AI has conqured).

I know what I said may sound a little confusing, but if you read it carefully, i think u'll see what i am talking about. If you have a way around this problem, please let me know!

[Kramerman]

The area in which I felt civ iii was really lacking was in air units. But Ive already gonr about fixing this. Good idea though. When I get some time I'll take a look at it

[trevor]

Hey Rusty, the ZoC in the editor just means that units will fire and take off a hp of a passing unit not stop the unit all together.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Originally posted by trevor
Hey Rusty, the ZoC in the editor just means that units will fire and take off a hp of a passing unit not stop the unit all together.

Ah well, never mine. It was a nice try. We'll keep it in just to be different.

The PTW expansion will allow us to switch off culture flipping so we can wait for that since it's only a couple of months away. Hopefully we'll also be able to give a civ the 21 squares automatically if we want.

[Jon Shafer]

AFAIK, the AI will not use unit 'worker actions' unless the unit is actually called 'worker'. That's what I thought I heard Soren say once, at least...

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by Trip
AFAIK, the AI will not use unit 'worker actions' unless the unit is actually called 'worker'. That's what I thought I heard Soren say once, at least...

I hadn't heard that, but I found it to be true. At least, they have to have the "terraform" box checked in AI strategies.

if you have both "settle" and "terraform" checked in AI strategies, they'll sit around not knowing what to do in some cases. I played one game in which ALL the AI settlers just stood there and refused to found the starting cities!


Rusty - In playing a kind of ICS game, where all you build is barracks, do you still get no city defections? in my civ1 mod, i still get the odd defection if I surround a city.

[Jon Shafer]

Ahhhh, I forgot about that flag. But yes, that's right. In Civ 3 they have to be either settlers or workers... not both, sorry.

[Hagbart]

I like civ3's workers. That is a big improvement from civ2.