Civ 3 Strategy guide is out!

[Acemo]

Re: Re: Civ 3 Strategy guide is out!

Originally posted by Andrew1999


I'll take questions from the floor...

Is this thing worth buying?
I know that's a tough question, but does the guide offer more than should be included in the manual.

Who am I kidding? I'll probably buy the thing too, at least it will give me something to do for the next three days.

[Gintautas]

more likely to break a deal once made.

Something familiar..

[Andrew1999]

Wonder list:

Colossus
Copernicus' Observatory
Cure for Cancer
Great Library
Great Lighthouse
Great Wall
Hanging Gardens
Hoover Dam
Bach's Cathedral
Leonardo's Workshop
Longevity
Magellan's Voyage
Manhattan Project
Newtons University
Oracle
Pyramids
SETI Program
Shakespeare's Theater
Sistine Chapel
Smith's Trading Company
Sun Tzu's Art of War
Theory of Evolution
United Nations
Universal Suffrage

Small wonders:
Apollo Program
Battlefields Medicine
Forbidden Palace
Heroic Epic
Intelligence Agency
Iron Works
Military Academy
Pentagon
SDI

[Gintautas]

Type type type

[albiedamned]

Longevity?! Did you throw that one in to make sure we're paying attention, or is that for real? There was Longevity Vaccine in SMAC. . .

[Andrew1999]

Re: Re: Re: Civ 3 Strategy guide is out!

Originally posted by Acemo


Is this thing worth buying?
I know that's a tough question, but does the guide offer more than should be included in the manual.

Who am I kidding? I'll probably buy the thing too, at least it will give me something to do for the next three days.

There are a few things that wouldn't be in the manual/Civilopedia (like the chances of success for various spy missions) but most of it you can proabably live without. Or just wait for some poor sap to buy the guide and then spend all weekend transcribing it to a forum.

[Faeelin]

Does the editor let us create new technologies, or at least modify old ones? (so I remoe the ancient techs, put middle techs in their place, put modern in middle's place, and add the next era).

Also, whaat exactly does seti do? A culture bonus or research?

[Andrew1999]

Originally posted by albiedamned
Longevity?! Did you throw that one in to make sure we're paying attention, or is that for real? There was Longevity Vaccine in SMAC. . .

Longevity is allowed by Genetics. It gives you two new population points when you fill your food window instead of one. Pretty nice if you haven't already maxed out your cities by then.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by albiedamned
Longevity?! Did you throw that one in to make sure we're paying attention, or is that for real? There was Longevity Vaccine in SMAC. . .

Mike from Firaxis confirmed this one a few weeks ago. It was in a thread called "We Love the King Day sucks" or some such. It increases population growth in your cities, whereas WLTKDs now give you some other bonus - I think reduced corruption.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

you the man, andrew

[Acemo]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Civ 3 Strategy guide is out!

Originally posted by Andrew1999


Or just wait for some poor sap to buy the guide and then spend all weekend transcribing it to a forum.

Well? Get on with it

[Stuie]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Civ 3 Strategy guide is out!

Originally posted by Andrew1999


There are a few things that wouldn't be in the manual/Civilopedia (like the chances of success for various spy missions) but most of it you can proabably live without. Or just wait for some poor sap to buy the guide and then spend all weekend transcribing it to a forum.

But we really, really, really appreciate your efforts, ya poor sap.

[lockstep]

Originally posted by Andrew1999
Longevity is allowed by Genetics. It gives you two new population points when you fill your food window instead of one.

No stupid population boom anymore even with this new wonder!

[Andrew1999]

Originally posted by Faeelin
Does the editor let us create new technologies, or at least modify old ones? (so I remoe the ancient techs, put middle techs in their place, put modern in middle's place, and add the next era).

Also, whaat exactly does seti do? A culture bonus or research?

The guide seems to imply that you can only modify the existing techs, units, buildings, etc. but I'm not sure that's right. Remember this guide was printed a little while ago, and we've seen things change recently like the Civ attributes. Anyway, you can edit the era of a tech, its prerequisites, whether it's required for that era (and some more flags it doesn't go into detail on.) You can also edit a lot of the little things, like the names of the eras.

SETI doubles research in its city. All Great and Small Wonders product culture, from 1 to 5 points per turn depending on how cultural it is (i.e. 1 for Military academy, 5 for Bach's Cathedral.)

[Asesino_Virtual]

Keep working slave!