The Capital Of A Civilization

[[Shane Hodgson]]

I have noticed something very interesting regarding the capital of my civilizations every time I play Civilization III Gold.

Sometimes the star next to the name of the city will be white, and other times it will be yellowish-gold. What does this change in color mean?

I cannot seem to find any documentation on the feature anywhere on the web. Any help is appreciated.

[MattPilot]

probably means if there is an embassy or not. Also, once a shield is behind the star, it means you got your intelligence agency in that city.

[PeaSoup]

Matt is right, a yellow star in your oppoent's capital means there's currently an embassy setup.

A white star in your own capital means you haven't researched writing and cannot setup embassies.

Going to war with every known civ after writing may also cause the star to go white since you can't establish embassies when at war.

[Kuciwalker]

Also, a grey pentagon in a capital indicates that you've planted a spy in that civ (in one of your own cities it indicates that that city has the espionage center or whatever it's called).

[steven8r]

Star = Capital
Star + Dot = Embassy
Star (+Dot) + grey pentagon = Intellegence Agency.

Originally posted by skywalker
...it indicates that that city has the espionage center or whatever it's called).

the Intelligence Agency.

Steven

[Theseus]

Not to be a spelling nazi, but the capital of a civilization is it's gold supply.

[Kuciwalker]

AND the seat of its government

Washington DC is the capital of the US. Congress meets in the Capitol building (the only instance I know of where it's spelled that way).

[Theseus]

Holy cr*p, you are right! I just looked both up, and realized I've had it wrong forever.

My apologies to all, and thanks for the correction, sw.

[Kuciwalker]

I had the same problem. I was disillusioned in a similar manner

[asleepathewheel]

/me points at Theseus

[Plotinus]

Yup, I had been getting very annoyed by the constant misspelling of "capital" in these threads, but I was too polite to mention it! As bad as "Napolean", "facism", and "raising cities", all of which I've seen depressingly often too...

Oh, and when he was being a spelling Nazi, Theseus said "it's" when he meant "its". Pronouns never take an apostrophe in the genitive. So there!

[MattPilot]

Originally posted by Plotinus

Oh, and when he was being a spelling Nazi, Theseus said "it's" when he meant "its". Pronouns never take an apostrophe in the genitive. So there!

so i guess that makes you the punctuation nazi?

[steven8r]

Thanks Skywalker. And thank you Theseus for the attempt. At least I know you're not .
perhaps even , but not


Here's what one of my teachers told the class many years ago about "Capital/Capitol":
'Capital' is money, or the seat of government.
'CapitOl' is a Building w/ a dOme. (note the 'O' in each).
(of course this analogy is totally lost on any 'civ' that doesn't use a Classical Archetectural Style)

Oh, and when he was being a spelling Nazi, Theseus said "it's" when he meant "its". Pronouns never take an apostrophe in the genitive. So there!

Another word from that same teacher:
"it's" ALWAYS means, "it is".


Steven

[steven8r]

Originally posted by skywalker
AND the seat of its government

Or the 'Head' of a government.

The 'Head' of government, and the 'Seat' of government are actually One And The SAME!!!
That explains much!!!

Steven

[Plotinus]

[steven8r] Really? I'm intrigued. A glance at Collins English Dictionary reveals that "Capitol" means either another name for the Capitolene (one of the Seven Hills of Rome) or the main building of the US Congress, or of any of the US state congresses. Would you call St Paul's Cathedral in London, or St Sophia in Istanbul, a capitol?