Civ3 is Broken

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by LaRusso
CTPI and II were broken and dumb,straight from the start.

A broken game is unlpayable from start to finish. I have played both quite thoroughly, and neither are broken, CtP was fine, CtP2 was merely unfinished.

[Iacca]

Actually, just because you can play a game start to finish does NOT mean it is NOT broken.

Webster's 20th Century Unabridged says:

Broken: 2. uneven; rough
4. utterly disjointed
6. interrupted; discontinous; incomplete

Some things we don't like about the game may be design choices, but MANY of the things are due to an incomplete or poorly tested design.

I have only played the game on REGENT (huge map, all civs, random everything) and have yet to beat it, due to having diplomatic victory checked. I would play Civ II on Diety level, and regent in Civ III seems comparable!! I seem to almost ALWAYS be last....but maybe I should see how I do with a Civ besides the Germans.

The fact that leaving diplomatic victory checked almost assures a diplomatic win (usually at the point where I'm just begining to say, "Things are getting really interesting!") for the AI is particularly vexing, as is the "capture 3 cities and one will depose you and destroy ALL units inside rule!

Some things work REALLY well! Artillery really doesn't have much of a chance in real life of wiping out a bunch of ground units, but it SHOULD be able to punch a BIG HOLE in the battleship and sink it! They should have distiguished between bombarding units that consist of a SINGLE entity, and one in which multiple entities exist!

Still, they really have greatly improved the way units work.