Really. Honestly. Deep, deep down

[notyoueither]

Yes, HD. Pride has it's price, especially when Monte comes calling.

I really like how he calls you *Weak One*. Hmmm memories like that really add to the enjoyment when we roast marsh mallows in the bon fire that was his capital.

Salve

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Yes, HD. Pride has it's price, especially when Monte comes calling.

I really like how he calls you *Weak One*. Hmmm memories like that really add to the enjoyment when we roast marsh mallows in the bon fire that was his capital.

Salve

It's because of this that I don't feel sorry even when I "roast" an allys' capital!

[Thrawn05]

Bananas are good for you when your playing civ3 for 8 hours straight.

[notyoueither]

Bananas are good for you under almost any circumstances.

Salve

[bogatir]

The whoopin' that ticked me off the most was entirely my own fault. I was playing the Aztecs and had gotten into the Modern Age in pretty good shape. I was getting ready to start the 'spaceship' series of techs and building when I thought I'd try something different.

"How about a diplomatic victory this time?" I thought. Heck, everybody liked us. I hadn't had a war in 100 years. I try to keep a city building a palace around somewhere so I can quick-switch to a wonder as I research the techs -- so I figured I switch my 'palace' city over to build the UN instead of the Apollo Program.

A few turns later, the "vote for General Secretary" message shows up when I finish the UN, and, being a big dumb butt, I clicked "yes."

Firking Americans. Glorious Azteckia got two votes. The firking Americans got three. Crap. I've never tried for a diplomatic victory again. Crap.

Lesson: Build the UN, but never hold a vote. What a putz...

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by bogatir
Firking Americans. Glorious Azteckia got two votes. The firking Americans got three. Crap. I've never tried for a diplomatic victory again. Crap.

What you want to do, if right before you build it, or the turn before the vote, give all the other civs free cash, and I mean every civ and not just here is 100 free gold coins. I'm talking 1000s. If you can't do that, give them all free techs (two or three will do). Usualy if I can't win at space race and/or I'm in a middle of a war I can't win, the UN is my cheap way out.

[Harovan]

A few days ago I played the shortest real game I ever had, not even 25 turns long. I was the Iroquois, founded Salamanca, built an extra scout and a regular warrior as first defender and was 2 turns apart from building my first settler, when a German elite archer came. Game over.

[Aeson]

I once had the Aztec's attack me around turn 30. The Germans are the only ones who have ever hit me before that. They can really be mean sometimes. With the free units the AI gets on higher difficulties, it's game over.

[civman2000]

I'm godlike--I quit before I lose

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by civman2000
I'm godlike--I quit before I lose

Yes, considering you have the ability to destroy the world by pressing the ESC key a couple of times.

[Kingof the Apes]

I was playing as the Americans. I was doing pretty well, most powerful on my continent, when after a war with egypt (late ancient age) greece, aztecs, iroqois, and egyptions started sending settler/spearmen (or hoplite) across my entire empire to get to a small jungle area on the coastline i had not bothered to settle. pretty soon, they all declared war on me because i asked them to leave. hoplites pilaging, swordsmen capturing and razing... they all went phsyco over a jungle space that could fit around two cities. my large army of swordsmen and a few knights at this point were slaughtered. I had to give awaytechs, lots of money and one city so all but egypt declared peace. then greece broke the treaty, signed a MA with iroqois, and i quit.

[Dapper Gent]

I'm not the greatest at Civ3, I'd have to put myself down in the plenty of losses category. My most miserable defeat came when I was playing as the chinese and got a start in a desert, went south and found a wide miserable expanse of jungle and the Japanese. I had a short war with them and wiped them out. I'm great! I was thinking. I found myself bordered on one side by the Indians and on the other by the Egytians. I thought I was so great I decided to attack the indians with my shiny new riders. By this stage I had been warring since the start of the game like a bloodthirsty maggot and so had pisspoor culture. The final straw came when the Indians beat me back then took about 4 cities with those dang war elephants and at around the same time on the other side two of my cities in quick succesion decided to walk like Egyptians. The really embarrasing thing about this was that they were both only about 3 squares away from my expressly Forbidden Palace. At this point the Egytians decided they liked the taste of China and wanted a bit more and piled over the border. I then quit like a good communist.

As bad as that may seem I was in an Internet Cafe last week playing CounterStrike (great bandwidth) when I heard a guy a couple of seats over shouting "Thats not fair!" continually and not ironically at his PC. I craned my neck a bit a saw he was playing Civ3. He was shouting... at an AI player... in public. Now that must have been one miserable defeat or else he was crazy like a loon.

[Kingof the Apes]

Originally posted by Dapper Gent
As bad as that may seem I was in an Internet Cafe last week playing CounterStrike (great bandwidth) when I heard a guy a couple of seats over shouting "Thats not fair!" continually and not ironically at his PC. I craned my neck a bit a saw he was playing Civ3. He was shouting... at an AI player... in public. Now that must have been one miserable defeat or else he was crazy like a loon.

I do that sometimes, I hate it when the AI gets lucky.

[Giovanni August]

I lost a few times, because I don't like is that whole concept of "grab terrain as fast as you can" and I generally end up in the Ancient era with a small Empire and I am forced to declare war on somebody. Sometimes i just overextend myself and attack more than one civ at a time, at that point my slow decline start!

I have to calm down a bit during the ancient era.... I can not attack all the world with Legions (even if the Roman did that)!

Saluti

[notyoueither]

The lesson there Giovanni...

One at a time.

Even Rome did not try to conquer Carthage and the Gauls at the same time.