I am new, and need tips

[Ethelred]

One important sugestion for all that are just beginning.

Get the latest patch and install it.

http://www.civ3.com/patches.cfm

Then post a save of your game and we then can rip i--- critique it anyway.

Just save manualy and it will be compressed by the game. A save from the original version of the game will not be compressed nor will autosaves be compressed with the 1.29f patch. You could zip the save yourself of course. Once you have the save and know where it is on your hard drive click on the browse button near the Attach File part of the reply form.

[Moonsinger]

Re: I am new, and need tips

Originally posted by Foolishman
Good day, this is my first time playing a civilization game, I have tried the first difficulty and failed miserably at it, the AI computers walked all over me, what do I do?!?!

The first difficulty level is Chieftan, right? I'm sorry to hear that because I haven't known anyone who lost the Chieftan level before. If you post screen shots of your empire and the inside view of your Capital around 1000 BC or 10 AD, we may be able to tell you exactly on what you need to improve upon.

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by Foolishman
Oh, another thing, my Science Advisor said to me, " our scientific progress is barly moving, we should increase funding." when I saw that, I went to DOmestic Advisor and chnaged science to 60%, but, it made a good portion fo my gold disappear, it was only 1+, and thoughts on how to increase science and gold at the same time?

What civ are you playing anyway? The most important thing in the game is to get to know your civ better first then make plan accordingly. For example, if you play an expansion civ, you should set your research to zero or the lowest level and build a lot of scouts to search for the goodie huts...and so on.

[Ethelred]

Well now you can know another person that lost on Chieftan. I lost my first game. The tutorial. 2000 years of war with ALL the other civs tends to do that even on chieftan. Lost on score in 2050. Not sure what I did wrong as that was the first week the game was out.

I won my next game on Warlord, the one after that on Regent and then lost three in row on Monarch before I got the hang of that level.

Most people that lose on chieftan, especially after their first game, aren't building enough cities and they aren't using their workers properly.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Foolishman
If one could dominate the AI and take all their cities, wouldn't the other AIs want to be your friends rather then enemies, because when I tried, they all attacked me and I died fast, and it was in the cheiften I think, my foreign advisor said they "allied" against me, can I do the same against one of them?

Diplomacy is very important in the game. Don't even think that you can take out all the other civs, or stand alone. You'll have to try and make friends with at least some of them. Having a few allies of your own when you go to war can make a huge difference, especially in a war you didn't realy want to get into. And just being powerful isn't enough, you'll have to make the effort through contacting them. Even then there's no guarantee that they'll be nice to you.

[Ksim3000]

Also always make friends with the stronger oppoments. I usaully do that and when a war breaks out between me and another Civ.

[Edrix]

As it was said in the annoying Civ2 tutorial pop up boxes, "Make peace with your stronger neighbors. Isolate and conquer your weaker neighbors."

[JohnM2433]

Originally posted by Edrix
As it was said in the annoying Civ2 tutorial pop up boxes, "Make peace with your stronger neighbors. Isolate and conquer your weaker neighbors."

My brother didn't like that strategy. He said that it's smarter to ally with your weaker neighbors to take out your stronger neighbor, who is a bigger competitor and threat than smaller civs.

I have to agree with him on this.

[JohnM2433]

Oh, and read the thread "Winning Early: What do YOU do?", also in the General forum. It's specifically for tips on the early game, which of course is very important.

[planetfall]

Best way to learn:


1. save games regularly.

2. When something turns sour, post problem on forum along with at least 2 .SAV files and a statement of what question you have-- is it strategy, tactics, different alternatives, why you played the way you did and questions about facing same situation again, etc. Keep the questions to the point, pick one item from this game for forum to focus on and leave rest for another time.

3. Here is what I would like:

I. Save file of current sour year
II. Save file at least 10 turns before sour year
III. What your goal was at SourYear -10 turns.

If you supply this, often someone will play 10 turns of your game using a different approach and then you can examine the differences between Your Sour Year and Forum Advisor Sour Year Alternative.

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by JohnM2433 My brother didn't like that strategy. He said that it's smarter to ally with your weaker neighbors to take out your stronger neighbor, who is a bigger competitor and threat than smaller civs.

I have to agree with him on this.

Me too! I have to agree with him on that also.

[Ethelred]

That depends who can reach what. You may want to take out a weakling so you can reach Mr. Strong later. Or get an important resource.

I just allied with the second strongest to take out my neighbor Germany. I did it because I knew I could nearly all of Germany before France could take anything. This way I didn't have to worry about France allieing with Germany which is what Joan really needed to do at that point.

Now its time to consolidate but just for for a few turns and prepare for France. Before she too has tanks.