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Yes the AI cheats like hell. And replies to your post saying "use the editor"
arn't really helpfull.
The combat engine (especially Naval combat) is frustrating but Firaxis didn't have time to provide all the necessary units to give realistic combat values to each unit. They were on a time limit and it just ran out, unfortunate, but it can't be helped.
There are lots of missing steps, like missing teeth on a cog wheel, that produce jarring results. [WWII Tank unit looses to a Pikeman unit fortified on a hill etc]
Civ III is using whole intergers, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc to describe attack/defense values - really they should taken to one decimal place i.e. 1.2, 2.7, 3.4, 4.6 etc
If there were more units, with far more choice over attack/defense values
then the weird results would dissappear. There is also a need for a look up table to apply special modification for special units, i.e. tanks v infantry in a city should be under a noticable dissadvantage.
Having said all that, there is no need to use such foul language [even with £$% etc - we can still read it] on a message board. There could be kids reading the CIV III boards - it is just NOT ACCEPTABLE.
If you go on using it, the moderators [I am not one of them] would be quite justified in a ban.
It only distracts from some of the valid points you did make. Nuff said?
arn't really helpfull.
The combat engine (especially Naval combat) is frustrating but Firaxis didn't have time to provide all the necessary units to give realistic combat values to each unit. They were on a time limit and it just ran out, unfortunate, but it can't be helped.
There are lots of missing steps, like missing teeth on a cog wheel, that produce jarring results. [WWII Tank unit looses to a Pikeman unit fortified on a hill etc]
Civ III is using whole intergers, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc to describe attack/defense values - really they should taken to one decimal place i.e. 1.2, 2.7, 3.4, 4.6 etc
If there were more units, with far more choice over attack/defense values
then the weird results would dissappear. There is also a need for a look up table to apply special modification for special units, i.e. tanks v infantry in a city should be under a noticable dissadvantage.
Having said all that, there is no need to use such foul language [even with £$% etc - we can still read it] on a message board. There could be kids reading the CIV III boards - it is just NOT ACCEPTABLE.
If you go on using it, the moderators [I am not one of them] would be quite justified in a ban.
It only distracts from some of the valid points you did make. Nuff said?
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