Civ3 Patch Readme

this game to me, is like crack to an addict. I built my first icmb nuke today too! I decided Moscow was a good testing ground. heh russia is going to war with me but this battle is over before it even started. i already had battle ships waiting at the sea borders and bombers waiting in nearby cities, not to mention some tanks and mech soldiers. omg I love this game.

The latest nVidia drivers fix the scrolling problem, so why do they also need a fix in the patch?? Were they both broken or something?

Last night was my first re-acquitance with CSDS (Civilization sleepless disorder symptom). Boy oh boy once you mobilize for war time REALLY flies in this game.

Man, playing on the harder difficulties is nasty! I pretty much walk over the computer on easiest (duh), but crank the difficulty up only 2 levels and the computer kicks my ass. I dont know if its cheating or what, but I simply CANT keep up with it both technologically, culturally, or land wise.

so then i drop back down back to easy and pummel the aztecs, russians and babylonians until I feel better

So they're releasing a patch for Civ III? Because, you know, there really hasn't been enough info about it this past week.

;)

Wow...some feature-by-feature commentary, including some Jack didn't mention:

* There is now a text prompt on using the production queue in the City Display screen.
Would have been nice BEFORE I figured out how to use it by trial and error...

* Added "Always Start Building Previously Built Unit" pref (cities always start building the last built unit).
Thank you thank you thank you, now it won't start building a longbowman after it finishes building a Knight...

* Added "Culturally Linked Starting Locations" (civs are placed on maps in close proximity to other civs of the same culture; please note that not using this pref can lead to sub-optimal arrangements of civ colors)
Hmmm, I'm not sure what a 'sub-optimal arrangement of civ colors' is.

* Corruption effects have been reduced.
SO QUIT YOUR BITCHING

* Privateer now has an offense value of 2.
Privateer is now, maybe, worth actually building.

* Borders now draw over forest and jungle.
That was annoying.

* Shield bonus from clearing forest can only be received once per game.
I assume they mean once per tile per game...I suppose it eliminates the lumberjack strategy/exploit (get enough workers together, you can plant and clear in 1 turn, and get the 10 shields each time -- good for building in corrupt cities). A very tedious way to get a slight game advantage, so I'm glad they eliminated it. Playing at all competitively would suck if they left this in.

* Improved City Governor Performance.
Performance? In terms of CPU cycle use, or in terms of governing ability? If the latter, how?

* Police Stations now reduce corruption in the city they are built in.
Good, good good good. Otherwise, a modern empire is just as corrupt as a medieval one of the same size, which doesn't make sense.

* Sorting columns on the Domestic advisor screen now stay sorted.
Good. That big spreadsheet is actually useful now.

* The AI no longer reacts to submarines that it cannot see.
I suppose that's a plus. ;)

* Modified advance trees now load correctly.
So THAT's why my mod didn't work...

* Air superiority missions work as intended.
As opposed to not working at all. Now fighters are worth building...

* Governors no longer build privateers when set to build no units.
I'd wondered about that.

* Fixed AI bug allowing the user to infinitely postpone invasions by shuffling units around.
You can do that?

* Corrected punctuation error in (all sorts of stuff)
Lemme tell ya, the punctuation errors were pissing me off more than anything.

Anyway, looks like a good patch, fixes a lot of the major issues.

Wow, apolyton.net has LOTS of whiners and bashers..

Gee I really need to play this game.

ugh, just stayed up all night playing the pre-patch version...

now i'm too tired to play this new one...

but the hopefuly non-astronomical corruption rates will please me.

This game is a fscking blast, even before being patched... I'm really looking forward to the improvements! :D

if you look in the forums, 90% of the posts are bitching rants by venger...heh..

Is this the patch that will make it fun?

Sorry...had to...I think it's tradition

2 words:

Kick ass!

hopefully this will fix the annoyances I've been having with Civ3...

yeah interesting

i am the winner