Are you happy with the demise or Radio?

[Last Conformist]

Presumably, the aims where to a) make the Age of Sail longer (plenty of people were complaining it was too short) and b) make the Steam Power tech somewhat less powerful.

They undeniably succeeded with a), altho at the cost of making Ironclads close to irrelevant. As for the second, well, it still gives RRs, which is enough to make it a top priority, and should you want the Ironclads, you'll need it anyway.

[spy14]

Good point, still Ironclad tech has a bit of a pointless feeling to it. Mind i've never worked out why you get aircraft carriers before aircraft

[conmcb25]

Yes, I am. It irritated me to have to research it and not do anything for me but help me get into the next age.

Good riddance.

[Xorbon]

But, Radio only gave nothing in the original (vanilla) version of Civ 3. PtW fixed that by allowing radar towers and civil defense (or whatever it's called) with Radio.

[Last Conformist]

I never saw much point in those, frankly. At least not in SP.

[pedrojedi]

I miss Radio. Not for its utility, but because its symbolic value for the 20th century man.

Oh, I use Radar Towers - I hate those slave workers that always did half-jobs!

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Dissident
I'm not a big fan of removing techs. This seems to go with their method of making less of things to make the game simpler. I like more of everything . Even if the tech does not offer a unit or facility to build.

Damn straight!

Don't remove radio, add radio stations!

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by Xorbon
But, Radio only gave nothing in the original (vanilla) version of Civ 3. PtW fixed that by allowing radar towers and civil defense (or whatever it's called) with Radio.

True, I had a mometary memory lapse.

OK I miss radio then. Now I haven't followed 1.22 much at all since most of my PBEMs and demo games are still 1.15.

Where did the radar towers and Civil Defense go to? Which tech (s) is (are) the prereq?

[Solomwi]

Umm, pedrojedi... those slave workers doing half a job cost you zero maintenance. This means it's a no-brainer to only use native workers for radar towers, if you insist on building them at all.

The most efficient workforce possible is comprised entirely of slave workers doing half-jobs.

[The Mad Monk]

Only if you are looking at in-game costs, and not the extra time you have so spend ordering twice the number of workers around.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by conmcb25


Where did the radar towers and Civil Defense go to? Which tech (s) is (are) the prereq?

Radar Towers went to Adv Flight, Civil Defense to Electronics.

[Solomwi]

Mad Monk, that's why it's best to use them in pairs. An extra click on the same button takes negligibly more time.

[Blademun]

It does when you have dozens of them. Its even worse when you have nothing for them to do.

[Solomwi]

I typically have a hundred or so. With stack movement, the only extra work is clicking "mine" or any other action button twice. That doesn't take a significant amount of time. When you have nothing for them to do, automate them. That eliminates the problem altogether.

[pedrojedi]

I don't like to auto-mate (hmmm...) workers - they have the tendency to go to places I'd rather not send them.

I hate lots of slaves because they take longer to do anything, and you have to move a much larger group of them to make anything. And I try to keep them to a minimum, so they don't "pollute" my screen.

Yeah, I put money away - that's my style. Stupid, sometimes, but this is one of those things that tipically can't be changed. Oh, I like to make other things to them, like outposts or airfields, which I like the most.

In the end, I still like a more efficient, faster worker.