These civ3 people will be easy pickings in MP

[Ming]

Until the game is released, who really knows what will and will not work. Playing against humans will be different than playing the AI... that is a fact. We will have to wait and see what strategies work best.

Like Civ II... only time will tell what works and what doesn't.

[deity]

Originally posted by markusf
You have a sence of accomplishment, everything you do matters and has a tangible effect. You have that just one more turn feel to it, in civ 3 you have the one more turn and i will fall asleep feel.

Well said!

I totally agree with this.

Civ2MP allows you to create something within the boundaries of luck. There is just enough randomness to emulate reality but you still feel you can achieve things and compete by improving your skills.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Ming
Until the game is released, who really knows what will and will not work. Playing against humans will be different than playing the AI... that is a fact. We will have to wait and see what strategies work best.

Like Civ II... only time will tell what works and what doesn't.

Now that I can agree with. I guess theres a first time for everything

[rah]

Originally posted by DrFell
if you abandon the city by building a settler the settler contains the unhappiness (so as soon as you build the new city it'll be 100% unhappy). So neither option works. You need to limit pop rushing depending on how many luxuries you have.

What happens if you send off the "unhappy" settler to be killed or captured? That might become a strat if it resolves the problem.

[Frank Johnson]

Just make it a worker instead....

[DrFell]

Then the unhappiness jumps to the nearest city (annoying if you've captured a heavily pop-rushed city and try to disband it).

[DrSpike]

Yes, there is no way to continuously pop rush from one city, until you have lots and lots of luxuries. By that time pop-rushing is not so desirable. This is a good thing though, because with the early versions despotism was way too powerful.

[rah]

I have to laugh. The first game I played at Deity, I rushed to monarchy just to get out of Despotism. After a couple of turns I said, what the **** and went back to despotism. My first (and by no means last) clue that the game was somewhat flawed.

[DrSpike]

To be fair it's not like it was..........despotism blows, like it should. I think Monarchy should be a bit better early on though. A neat way would be to increase the number of free units per town, because support costs more in monarchy till your cities are greater than size 6.

Most games I go despotism - rep; even on deity it is viable. If you aren't religious the anarchy is downright mean.

[rah]

But since I thought it should be bad, I assumed monarchy would be much better

Yes, it was the support cost early that caught me. And yes anarchy sucks.

Rich

[HappySunShine]

haha.. such newbs, all of you. your rush tactics will fail miserably and lose you the rest of the game against an intelligent opponent.

An intelligent opponent such as yourself? You're the ****ing newb. You couldn't do **** in civ2 without massively cheating. You ****ing suck at civ2. Amazing how you went so long without losing and now that you stopped cheating you've gone so long without winning. You should really just keep your ****ing mouth shut.

[rah]

Popcorn, peanuts, beer.

It might be possible to make the same point without using quite so many *****

[Kuja]

dont make me laugh! oh wait, too late

"Amazing how you went so long without losing and now that you stopped cheating you've gone so long without winning."

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If by 'you' you mean yourself, then you are correct. Because as I remember it, you are the one that can't win, not I. And as for being a newb, that's all you. Your civ3 tactics from what I've read are rudimentary at best and wouldn't last you 2000 years against a real player.

[HappySunShine]

Who the **** are you to talk to me? The only games you have ever won against me were when you took my capital in like 3500BC. Who the **** have you beaten without cheating? You aren't ****. You don't even have a ****ing right to even talk. And I haven't played civ2 in like 4 months so I don't know what the **** you're talking about. 52-4 my ass. If you have any legacy at all it's that you proved anything can be done through hex editing.

[Kuja]

Who the **** have you beaten without cheating?

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theburg
jhorsburgh
goodyhut
king maximus
upinflames
kaak
moker guy
wise soun
samson
phatman
mrbigdogpete
simonrobinson
thunder
epyx
phagocitus
fugazi4626
warriorsoflight
methamphetamine
hawkhunter
martinms600
travisjervey
anvil
caveat emptor
galactuslives
booze master
hueristic
asteiozos
general maximus
jes
drfell
esmailian
a-team
bravelaker
redbaren4
spartan
and yes, even you dip#%#@

for you see, while i had the power to hex edit, i didn't need to since i was far superior to you and all of those mentioned above in every way. i took pride in my gameleague history, and never hex editted once during an official game. so go take your jealous ravings back to your PC and learn how to play civ3 since you clearly need some work. i'll be right here when you think of a witty comeback.