Your First Game

[mrmitchell]

So...I decided to ask, what was your first game like? Did you play good, or did you get crushed? Was any aspect of Civilization III difficult to master, or surprising?

If you played Civ2, did you try your same Civ2 strategies? Did they work again, or did you get crushed because of them?

Well, for my first few games I used the editor because I couldn't figure it out . But I've gotten used to Civilization III now.

[vmxa1]

It was a long time ago, but I use mostly civ2 tactics, this was pre patch. They did not work and it was a hard road to hold. Eventually I worked my way up to Deity. Each time a patch came out I stated all over and worked my way up to deity to see how things changed. Did the same with PTW.

[Thrawn05]

I moved up from Civ1 for the SNES to Civ3. Without playing any Civ2.

Needless tos say, all of my tactics failed even on cheiften. Although I can play well on Deity, I get my real Mojo in Regent and Monarch.

I was glad for boarders, because in Civ1 I was so tired of having a dozen enemy knights surrounding my capital and not being able to crush them without switching to Communism.

[Pyrodrew]

My 1st game I started on an island by myself & thought I was doing just super. Then I met the Aztecs who were 3x my size, culture supreme, and far more technologically advanced. When I learned I was the Caveman Civilization compared to all the other Civs, I gave up.

Now I wish I could have continued playing that one since I realize now being the extreme underdog is so scary, it's fun. And what a rush if I made a comeback!

[notyoueither]

I played my first game on Deity. Got crushed in 20 minutes. I watched the replay and saw the AI cities popping up... I realized I was not in Kansas anymore.

[Spiffor]

I played my first game on a huge pangaea map, warlors difficulty. I didn't expect the fast expansion of rival civs (Civ2 experience), and ended up with only a normal sized empire. I didn't have any luxury and was pretty surprised by the importance of it.

I made it to the early industrial era, where all the AIs ganged up on me (the only time it ever happened in all my Civ3 experience : it was really a trauma). Again, it was a surprise : in Civ2, AIs usually ganged up on me because I was the strongest by far. Now, they ganged up because I was weak, and already under attack. Also, I understood it was absolutely necessary to have deals with everyone if you didn't want them to ally against you / do trade emargo.

I quit this game after achieving peace with all these countries, because the waiting between turns became too long. I think I could have won the game, but not bigtime

[Mazarin]

played my first game on Deity. Got crushed in 20 minutes. I watched the replay and saw the AI cities popping up... I realized I was not in Kansas anymore.

my first game was pretty similar..it ended after 10 minutes. So I went back to chieftain and tried again, and again, and again.....

[chairmanmeow]

I played my first game as the Americans on Cheiftain level. I was trapped on a little island, and got into a war with Germany, which was on the island next to me, and about three times my size, but I got all the other countries in the world to declare war on Germany. Auf Weitersen, Bismark (I have no clue if I spelled that right. It's probably wrong). But then India, which was on a giant continent, got everyone to declare war on me, and I gave up.

[Swissy]

My first game was on warlord with the Americans. Pretty much had a nice size peninsula on a hugh continent. Plowed thru the Babalonians and settled down to a tense peace with Russia (hugh), Zulu, and Japan. Russia had taken out Rome and Japan had taken out the Iroquois. I eventualy took the Iroq cities from Japan and was in a hugh war with Russia over what would have been my only source of oil when I got the cultural victory message. I had built the Pyramids, Great Library, Hanging Garden, Bach and Sistine in DC. The eighth civ was France. Joan was on a mountainous tundra rock, and had over half the oil in the whole game

[Mad Bomber]

First game was on Chieftain, pre patch. I did ok, but I quit before winning. My first surprise was the actual need to build collusieums and cathedrals to keep the populace in line. I built these structures in CIV 2, of course, but not really due to need, I just have the desire to build.

Now in CIV 3, I have the desire to dominate, Civ 3 definately has changed me from a builder to a warmonger

[Willem]

Re: Your First Game

Originally posted by mrmitchell
So...I decided to ask, what was your first game like?

I'm still playing my first game!

Everytime there's a new patch or XP, the opportunities available in the editor changes, and I end up having to revamp my mod because of some new idea.

[tinyp3nis]

It was regent, and it went to the latest year I have gotten, somewhere around 1870's I think. I launched shuttle and won, also tested diplo victory in the same game, after that diplomatic box has been unchecked in all my games It was huge earth map, I was the greeks in India. I think I played pretty much the same way I played civ 2, no early rush, just building. I don't play like that anymore.

[Kingof the Apes]

I played as Rome, sharing a continent with egypt..(This is on Cheiftan). I wiped Egypt off the map and soon discovered the continent of the other 6 civs. I had broken pretty much every single agreement I had with Egypt, so of course the rest of the world hated me. I remember landing cavalry on the other continent before I quit.

[Harovan]

I played my first game on a standard map with all settings average, at Chieftain. I did very well, played till I hit the industrial age and was miles ahead in everything. Then I abandoned the game and moved up to Regent, where I finished my first game.

I hadn't played Civ2 for several years, so I don't think my Civ2 approach had any influence to my Civ3 style. I had played CtP and CtP2 the 2 or 3 years before, but since the games are very different, I couldn't get much help for my strategies either. But in some way all 4x games are the same and if one is good in a certain game, he should do well in the other games too.

[bobbo008]

First civ experience ever. No victory conditions except domination, i think. Two good sized continents. Mine was larger and fairly rectangular. Territory-wise, you could divide it into fairly equal horizontal bars. The top third was Egypt, the middle Germany (yay), and the bottom 1/3 was split between me (Rome), and Greece. Greece and I had several wars against Germany which accomplished nothing for either side. Eventually Greece and I had a couple wars and I took all their land. I signed a MPP soon after with Germany, because nobody likes an unhappy bizmarck. I established a good beachhead on the other continent when the game told me the damn manditory retirement message was in 30 turns. I was so infuriated with this I quit that game and never even deleted it or anything.