dirty trick

[V.O.C.'02]

Just like many other players, i too am a real warmonger. But lately I've been using a trick, whichs works fine for me, but i'm not really proud of it!

When Iám conquering another civ, I take a few cities, ok fair enough, I do not place any units in the city but I go to the diplomatic screen and ask 2 cities and exchange them for the ones I just won. This way you get 2 new cities and the other one is easily taken in because when you sell'em there are no units in them you can do this with the same city for several times.

Okay, it is a rep-hit,l but I do not care about that, kicking his ass is all I think about

I was wondering If someone elese does this to, and an opinion about what you think of it

[aahz_capone]

hmmmm... this is interesting. I myself can't get the coputer to trade any cities to me. What difficulty level do you play on?

[zeh]

You even don't need to exchange cities, they eventually give one or two small cities for a peace treaty, but in your way maybe is possible get some more.
But be carefull: your reputation will be damaged a lot with that. So future deals can be more dificult to be satisfatory enough.

[V.O.C.'02]

This was on monarch.

The trick works pretty often, the one problem is that when he has fast units he takes the city back, which will cost you money.

[WarpStorm]

What patch are you running on VOC2? I think this exploit was fixed long ago.

[V.O.C.'02]

you're right, i'm playing without the new patch, haven't got internet at home (At campus now) I believe 1t's 1.17f

Is that possible?

[zeh]

Now I remember, they have fixed some exploits in one of the patchs.
BTW, you still is able to sign a peace treaty for some cities, fortify the cities and declare war again on the same civ. But, like I've said, your reputation will drop.

[Jaybe]

My fav dirty trick/downright CHEAT:
Save game then Plant Spy.
If Spy is caught & killed, then Reload
Else continue with knowledge of army strength (weakness usually, of course) and spaceship progress.

[FNBrown]

My favorite cheat: CyberMan's Civ3 Trainer

[Ethelred]

Well don't overdo it with the trainer. Some guy was asking for help in the Civ III Help forum because his game was crashing. He had over 3000 units in the game and that was just his units not counting captured workers or any civ's units. I don't know what the limit is but I guess he found it.

[Carver]

IIRC, v1.29 got rid of city selling outright.

[FNBrown]

Originally posted by Ethelred
Well don't overdo it with the trainer. Some guy was asking for help in the Civ III Help forum because his game was crashing. He had over 3000 units in the game and that was just his units not counting captured workers or any civ's units. I don't know what the limit is but I guess he found it.

About the only time I find myself really using it is to allow a rush build of a defensive unit in a city I've just taken, but is still in revolt. Otherwise, it's not really necessary, unless you're playing at Deity level...

[Explorer579]

Originally posted by zeh
You even don't need to exchange cities, they eventually give one or two small cities for a peace treaty, but in your way maybe is possible get some more.
But be carefull: your reputation will be damaged a lot with that. So future deals can be more dificult to be satisfatory enough.

What is that?!

[Explorer579]

Originally posted by FNBrown
My favorite cheat: CyberMan's Civ3 Trainer

What is that? (the Cyberman Civ3 trainer)

[asleepathewheel]

My favorite dirty trick is the ole ROP rape.

especially nice when I've been building for that final killer blitzkrieg, and there are a few cities beyond the squares the MAs can reach. Just move your units next to their cities and crush them. also means multiple attacks from the MAs. cheap, but sweet