Since I have gotten a bit tired of reading posts about all the negative feelings that seem to be running rampant I thought I would share some of the things I found really cool so far.
1. Comedy: Early on while I was playing as the Iroquois and trying to swindle Honest Abe on a trade (advisor said we were getting close to a deal, sometimes they accept those you know) he replied "That dog won't hunt Hiawatha". I found this very very entertaining, maybe its just cause I'm a displaced redneck.
2. Bribery: I was playing with the standard settings (had bumped up barbarian difficulty one notch) and Warlord with the French, got lucky and was on the huge continent with India, Russia, Germany, and England. After I had killed off the Indians and was taking a few turns to prime the war machine and attack the Russians (they had saltpeter), Russia suddenly attacks me. I wasn't ready yet!!!! I swallowed my pride and gave away some techs and gold and got everybody I had contact with to declare war on Russia. Russia soon asks for peace which I accept so I can oil that war machine up to perfection and make the perfect invasion. This seemed to upset some of the Civs (it should have) but when I got ready and jumped back in the war they seemed to have forgiven me a bit.
3. I got a threat to work! After I had dismanteled the Germans (described above) and had fine tuned the war machine once again I couldn't decide who should feel the wrath next, the Germans and English were pretty much dead even as far as location and ease of victory were concerned. While I was checking out the English I noticed they had somehow managed to get a tech I hadn't gotten yet. This was not acceptable in any way. I demanded Elizabeth give me the tech, she refused (no surprise there). I thought I would try a little convincing so the next turn I moved both my armies to the border of an English city and demanded the tech again, suddenly Elizabeth has a change of heart and gives it to me. I was very surprised and pleased by this.
4. While I was playing around and learning the options for spying I tried to plant a Spy and it failed. Not knowing or caring what I was doing, I tried to plant 4 more, all of which met with the same fate, after the 4th or 5th one, they declared war on me, no big surprise but it was nice to see it work like that.
Just thought I would share, feel free to do the same. While Civ3 is far from perfect, it did hold my attention for 8 to 14 hours a day for 7 days straight
Alantus
1. Comedy: Early on while I was playing as the Iroquois and trying to swindle Honest Abe on a trade (advisor said we were getting close to a deal, sometimes they accept those you know) he replied "That dog won't hunt Hiawatha". I found this very very entertaining, maybe its just cause I'm a displaced redneck.
2. Bribery: I was playing with the standard settings (had bumped up barbarian difficulty one notch) and Warlord with the French, got lucky and was on the huge continent with India, Russia, Germany, and England. After I had killed off the Indians and was taking a few turns to prime the war machine and attack the Russians (they had saltpeter), Russia suddenly attacks me. I wasn't ready yet!!!! I swallowed my pride and gave away some techs and gold and got everybody I had contact with to declare war on Russia. Russia soon asks for peace which I accept so I can oil that war machine up to perfection and make the perfect invasion. This seemed to upset some of the Civs (it should have) but when I got ready and jumped back in the war they seemed to have forgiven me a bit.
3. I got a threat to work! After I had dismanteled the Germans (described above) and had fine tuned the war machine once again I couldn't decide who should feel the wrath next, the Germans and English were pretty much dead even as far as location and ease of victory were concerned. While I was checking out the English I noticed they had somehow managed to get a tech I hadn't gotten yet. This was not acceptable in any way. I demanded Elizabeth give me the tech, she refused (no surprise there). I thought I would try a little convincing so the next turn I moved both my armies to the border of an English city and demanded the tech again, suddenly Elizabeth has a change of heart and gives it to me. I was very surprised and pleased by this.
4. While I was playing around and learning the options for spying I tried to plant a Spy and it failed. Not knowing or caring what I was doing, I tried to plant 4 more, all of which met with the same fate, after the 4th or 5th one, they declared war on me, no big surprise but it was nice to see it work like that.
Just thought I would share, feel free to do the same. While Civ3 is far from perfect, it did hold my attention for 8 to 14 hours a day for 7 days straight
Alantus
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