Do your politics influence your game?

[Bella Hella]

i meant to add that i, too, feel guilty when i declare war needlessly or use nukes. i like a good war, but i bring myself to randomly call somebody out. in my current game i have NEVER been at war with any of the other civs. i had a lot of flood plains and did a good job of early REXing, so no territory wars, and i just haven't needed to go to war for any other reason. no one has even tried any border violations (not since i set up the "roadblock" ), and when i violate THEIR borders, they ring me up and politely request that i leave. but i need to kill the persians, and SOON, and i need a reason!

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Bella Hella your more whacko than I am but I agree with you Persia are a pain in the ass and deserve to be put to the sword,Im going to try that intergration idea of yours sounds like a real laugh.

[Bella Hella]

Originally posted by ChrisiusMaximus
Bella Hella your more whacko than I am but I agree with you Persia are a pain in the ass and deserve to be put to the sword,Im going to try that intergration idea of yours sounds like a real laugh.

well, i'm a chick - i take things more personally!!

[gsmoove23]

Traelin, I'm glad you stopped by and I think your the first warmonger here! Honestly, I wasn't expecting you to be exactly what I expected. You're right about the AI though, with its constant warfare, infighting and pollution. If they don't know how to live on the planet peacefully they deserve to be wiped off the planet forcefully

Bella, I'm sorry for the Persians in your game, I wonder do you have a special fate planned for the slaves you capture or do you just blame the leaders? I know what you mean about the beautifying the cities. I absolutely hate putting railroads everywhere but I still do.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Talking about politics there was a sketch I saw years ago on the Alexae Sayle Show where he said that voting in an election was as futile as sticking your head in a bucket of something nasty.
The next scene was a man standing on his hands with his head in a bucket,it was black and white and made to look like an old photo and Alexae says "weve always been staunch creosote in our family in fact my grandfather stood with his head a bucket of coaltar for thirty years"
Then it skips to an exit poll outside a polling station in an election where the choices are Creosote,Whitewash,Horse**** or used engine oil,anyway this bloke comes out dripping in whitewash and the girl with the microphone gets him in front of the camera and asks which way he voted,he says to her in a very British middle class snooty way "young lady thats between me and the bucket"

[vmxa1]

Only logic, ok maybe an ocassional tantrum.

[Athitis]

Personally I am a left-winger in real life, against all forms of violence and abusements. In the game I am a peacekeeper-most of time, conquering when I need a resource or when I feel like "expanding a city or two", exploiting my land to the last square mile and bargaining hard with the AI. I despise excessive warmongering, prefering precision attacks and rarely using nukes, unless I am a victim of a nuclear attack myself. I have come to the conclusion that this is the opinion of using nukes most players have.

PtW will level warmongering. Massive alliances will be formed to face the one with most ICBM missiles and greater potential to conquer his neightbours, or even the world (and monopolize resources! )

[Arrian]

No. Not in the slightest.

IRL I'm a moderate, perhaps a tad to the left, and I am certainly no "hawk."

In CivIII, I like to have the largest, happiest, richest, smartest and most wonderous empire on the planet. I also like to play Monarch or Emperor levels. Therefore, I am a psychotic warmongering bastard. Oh, I forgot genocidal (late in the game, core AI cities w/o wonders I want go bye-bye). I attack people because they're there. I view AI units as training tools and potential GL-generating battles. I view AI cities as... my cities, just not yet. I usually act "honorably" in the sense that I do not break deals, but not always (if I think I can wipe out my neighbors before making overseas contact, on boy does the fit hit the shan). I rarely see the modern age.

I'm a builder at heart who has discovered the Power of the Dark Side, and can't go back.

The one thing I won't do is use nukes. I hate nukes. This goes back to CivII. The AI has always been nuke-happy, and they just HAVE to screw up the world with them. I hate that, because then I have to clean it up. It was worse in CivII, because global warming was actually painful, but it still sucks in CivIII. Happily, since my games are usually decided by the Industrial Age, I haven't had to deal with it much.

-Arrian

[Theseus]

Arrian, you crack me up.

My answer?

Any early nearby AI civ above a 5 on the STCOMOM? Crush, kill, maim, destroy.

Every shield, every piece of gold, every bit of research that AI civs generate... MINE! MINE! MINE!

Their military units... equivalent to the training dummies that recruits bayonet in boot camp. WAIT, that recruit just became a 5 star general!!

Nukes... if the pay-off is good enough, sure, what the heck.

My empire... productive, happy, educated, clean, orderly.

Singapore at home, and Russia everywhere else (best analogy I could think of). Those are my "Civ3 politics" and have nothing whatsoever to do with RL.

[vmxa1]

Athitis, watch out for those allies, they may do as they do in real life and back stab you.

[Hail Caesar!]

Ha ha I'm a big wussy but I really hope to have all you "Nation builders" as my neighbors in multi-player!

And that's how I play too usually, building and peace, but strong military for defense only. However there are sometimes exceptions. I usually play as America and, well the Iroquois... Nothing against them but... Manifest Destiny... ya know.



Once the Zulu attacked me, unprovoked, as they always do early in the game. I had swordsmen so I was able to reduce them to one city with an alliance with England and then I felt so bad for them that I gave them my island, which was halfway across the world, before England took their last city. They hated me all the way into the modern age and voted against me in the UN!!!!

OOoooh I hate the Zulus

I'm never as merciful with them anymore.

[Iron Chancellor]

Haha, I am the true imperialist in Civ 3. Nothing better that exploiting, I mean, educated and civilizing the smaller nations of the world. I always leave the world a better place for me, and to hell with those other guys. If they want a clean, safe world, they should do so themselves. I never the Manhattan Project, and only build nukes if someone else builds the MP. I enforce a severe Pax Teutonica/Romana (depending on how I feel). If there is some pointless little war I sell weapons to both sides. If there is a valuable resource, I grab as many as I can and sell it to only a few nations. I like to have about 3-5 oils, and sell it to one other nation. I keep my own country clean, but the other countries can clean up after themselves. I only get involved (invade) defensively, although I define "defensively" as I see fit, i.e. to defend German business, we must seize the Chinese stockpiles of silk to, uh, prevent them from flooding the market, right.

The world runs my way, and whenever some little hell-hole like Babylon, Zululand, or Russia starts to act impudent, I squash them with my Modern Armor, which they defend against with riflemen. Ha ha.

BTW I hate Xerxes, I kill him no matter what.

[Kingof the Apes]

I am a complete phsyco in my games. Nukes? Sure, why not? especially if those are cities far away and unwanted by me. I am like the AI; I can hold a grudge a very long time, until I can take it out on them with nukes. Sometimes I refrain from conquering some civs that are at a distance from me just so they can experiance a more painful death by nukes. Plus, the desert takes care of my worries of them rebuilding!

If I am in a foul mood I nuke their capital and then raze it

[Changmai Beagle]

I like to culture bomb, but when there is something at stake I am always ready to attack and destroy. So don't get in between my cities and the only source of iron around or a good pinch point. I generally go with large numbers and pull back once the objective is achieved. Then I build for the next one. I often raze foreign cities (or starve them) just because of all the good strategic locations I've lost through post bellum culture flips. So - I guess Warmonger by necessity, but not necessarily warmongering.

[Hail Caesar!]

Just a quick question, but how would you peaceful builders and diplomats deal with King of the Apes in MP?