Anyone ever wonder why...........

[Cookie Monster]

No one can settle the icy polar regions of the game map in Civ3?


You know what I'm talking about? That strip of white land that runs across the top and bottom portions of the game world. It was possible to settle these areas in Civ2. Just a thought.........

[dunk]

Well, since you can't alter the terrain as in Civ II, the polar regions aren't as viable. IIRC, you couldn't settle glacier tiles in Civ II. Tundra tiles, yes (some of those polar tiles could have cities), but glaciers, no.

[spy14]

Assumeing the world is round its all the same place... bout -40 degrees and swarming with polar bears...

[Cyclotron]

It was a definite exploit that in Civ2 you could walk units around on the icecap, and thus move ships around on the glacial poles... On an earth map, for example, triremes from Greece could easily reach California because you could just hop from Siberia to the icecap's coast, and you had no chance of sinking. Besides, it's the year 2002 and there are still no cities in Antarctica.

[Cyclotron]

btw, sorry for double posting, but you could start cities on glaciers in Civ2. I just tried it.

[Tuberski]

Now you can't even get a unit on the polar icecap.

[Cyclotron]

Is that a big problem? It's not like the Romans ever marched their Legions over Antarctica to get at the Incans, or the English set up a Colony on the icecaps of the North Pole... people weren't even abe to get there and live until a few hundred years ago, imagine trying to build a city or move an army there!

[Tuberski]

No, it's not a problem to me at all. I was just actually suprised that the don't allow it now. I always though, from Civ 1 on, that it should be this way.

[Bella Hella]

i agree; you shouldn't be able to exploit the poles. you could do that with SMAC, too.

[Jawa Jocky]

Remind yourself about how the AI will put cities down on every available space, and ask yourself, "How much fun would it be to have to go raze those cities too?"

IMO the polar caps are as useless as they should be.

[Grrr]

Polar ice caps are actually rich in resources though.

[alva]

that's why they call this civ 3
it ISN'T the same game !!!!

btw, Grrr do you ever leave this place??

maybe you are many, not just one

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Grrr
Polar ice caps are actually rich in resources though.

Care to explain? I don't hear about a lot of missions besides scientific ones going to Antarctica...

[Grrr]

No, there is just one me. I am usually online for about 6 hours per day. I reply to basically every thread.

The only problem with antarctic resources is a) they are protected in international treaties. b) they are difficult to extract in extreme cold ie frozen oil pipeline etc.

[alva]

Originally posted by cyclotron7


Care to explain? I don't hear about a lot of missions besides scientific ones going to Antarctica...

me thinks you answered you're own question