Civ3 Preview in Aussie mag - new screens and info

[star mouse]

The 16 leader pics appear to be, from left to right:

? - Iroquois
Hammurabi - Babylonians
Ghandhi - Indians
Cleopatra - Egyptians
Abraham Lincoln - Americans
Alexander - Greeks
Caesar? - Romans
Catherine the Great? - Russians
? - Persians
Joan of arc - French
? - Japanese
Shaka - Zulus
Elizabeth I - English
Mao Tse Tung - Chinese
? - Aztecs
Otto von Bismarck - Germans

[Alex 14]

If anyone wants i could scan the pics from the magazine through a high quality scanner. Its actually quite a long preview...

[star mouse]

Originally posted by Alex 14
If anyone wants i could scan the pics from the magazine through a high quality scanner.

That would be a great idea

[sekong]

One settler cost 2 populations...

If a new city will only have 1 square, what is the another one doing? I think a city begin with 9 square
is just making sence. 1 square is for clony.. I have played CIV for too long. I know what sid's thinking...
My last guess about the army system was right..I bet I'll be right this time as well. Oops, I can't bet...anyway

Originally posted by Haphazard
Size 1 = 0 = no radius (1 square)
Size 2 = 10 = 1 radius (9 square)
Size 3 = 100 = 'usual' radius
Size 4 = 1000
Size 5 = 10000
Size 6 = 100000 = win

Any more than 100000 culture points for a win (ie 1million) would be a bit hard as an 'old' wonder was quoted as giving 50 per turn for at most about 500 turns. You'd need 4+ of those for a win at 100000 and 40+(!) for 1million!

[The Rusty Gamer]

Originally posted by Haphazard
Size 3 = 100 = 'usual' radius

Ah, but is it really the 'usual' radius, or does each size now encompass a complete square? That is, do we also get the corners or diagonal squares now?

[Sarxis]

Thanx for the info and shots

And the map setup screen is just like the one from the pre-order video.

[star mouse]

Originally posted by Russell
Ah, but is it really the 'usual' radius, or does each size now encompass a complete square? That is, do we also get the corners or diagonal squares now?

A size 2 radius looks like this:

= out
= in







In other words, it's the familiar 21-tile city radius. Larger cultural radii have more tiles missing from the corners.

In addition, there appears to be a system where tiles that lie just outside the cultural influence of 2 or more cities are sometimes included within the empire's cultural borders.