Hey, I don't normally do this, but I would be very grateful if you could leave a like on this video to increase visibility. I realize if you're subscribed to this channel you likely know how to play the game, but there's a lot of people who don't, and it would be nice if they could find this on youtube with a quick search. At the moment there's not a good beginners tutorial available, and I figure this is a good first step. Thanks :)
RE:Suede CivIII. I don't normally do this because I don't like UA-cam tracking me, but I clicked the "I like this" button #764 because this is my favorite game and you have many excellent videos about it so I made an exception.
@@munsters2 I feel you. I use a seperate youtube account and even web browser (cookies!) for this channel. I can like whatever I want and it's not linked to my personal email account.
I can confirm that this is a very good first step. When I first started Civ I had no idea what was going on, and this hands me the basics to figure stuff out from there! Thanks!
All the Civ games are. Actually, all of Sid Meier's games are! Only 3 times have I ever played a game til 5 am! Sid Meier's Civ IV and Pirates, and Minecraft. Love Civ III though. Better mechanics and amazing soundtrack! :D
@@TheDylandProductions I've played this game a few times for probably 16-20 hours continuous (huge maps and lots of tribes) and the game was not over. Came back the next day and the next day and the next day to play many more hours until finishing them.. I do generally micromanage everything. Would be interesting to know what the longest time was for a played game. I guess it would be hard to compare because you can leave the game open and go to the bathroom or go eat dinner or answer the phone and the clock keeps running. I only play single player but I guess you could get a more accurate game time on a multiplayer game.
I see it less like corruption, and more like central control? So it's not like your far away cities are super corrupt and shady. They're just more like vassal states, they don't pay a lot of taxes to the federal government, and don't provide many troops, because they are governed semi-autonomously. Courthouses, government switches, etc, act to bring the city under federal control.
My dad played this game a bunch when I was kid, I’d watch over his shoulder for hours. I’d play whenever he was at work. It brought us closer. I loved this game.
Me too! It's exactly the same, he played this a lot and I watched him for hours while he played. I also played on his saved files even though I did not understand much back then. Here I am, many years later, still playing.
Same for me aswell! My father was rarely home as he was a truck driver, but when he was home me and him would always load a game of civilization together and Id watch him play. Its with this game he taught me a few concepts and birthed my love for history.
This was the first Civ game that I ever played. The one that got me hooked on the series for life. I just reinstalled now, coming back I can say it has a lot of challenges compared to new civ games: managing money, dealing with opponents, managing corruption and waste, keeping citizens happy and productive, and making every production count.
There're many who value older civ versions than you'd think. My brother for example only plays Civ 1 (320x200). Just imagine: each pixel is nearly 3-4mm big on the TV. :D
This game is like the most massive nostalgia trip for me. My friend got a computer at his house once (big deal because we were all poor as dirt back then) and the first ever video game he got was Civ 3. The only games I'd played before that were Goldeneye 64, Mario Party 3, WoW, and Halo CE on my big bro's xbox. It was the introduction to a whole new genre for me and I got addicted too it hard immediately. I remember that I always thought the food icon was a little slice of toast.
Loved Civ 2 (my first on my Dad’s PC!) and then 3 but haven’t played it for years. Just downloaded it off Steam. Completely forgot how much I adored this game. Thanks for the reminder of how it works! Edit: Just realised after watching some vids that it was actually Civ 1 I loved :) I think I was about 8 when I first started playing, so it would have been around 1993. Wow that was some serious nostalgia!
A funny thing is that despite being a gen z person, i also played civ 1 as a kid, i think i just was browsing a list of snes games that were on my XBOX 360 Hard drive and liked the name, tho i was absolutely terrible at the game
Great tutorial. Glad that I find your channel. I just bought civ3 with 5$ on steam and im new to the series so I don't have any knowledge what I'm doing. Your videos are great help and entertainment👍
I am very thankful that you take the time to educate us with what you have learned. I've owned this game for nearly 20 years, and have only just begun to enjoy it. Thanks Suede!
I had no idea this was practically possible but i just got a start location that had 10 cows all within 1 tile away from another cow. I was so amazed! Thats actually hilarious isn't it? Well the capital's starting location was only able to get 3 of them and moving the settler to an ideal location was enough to get 6 cows for one city
I remember playing this game when I was 12 years old. Now I'm 30 and i picked it up along with colonization for a dollar and 50 cents each. So pumped to play again!
Besides your videos being genuinely great, Quality content, which many have mentioned, your voice is really calming, even cool to listen to before bed. Thanks a lot for this content
As I bought this gem on GOG your video was brought to me by YT. So uncanny but yet thanks for the advices. It will be challenging to discovers the older iteration of the civ games.
I used to play Civ III a lot as kid, even though I only ever played on cheiftan. I found it hard to get back into, partly because of all the improvements and quality of life changes in Civ 5 and Civ 6, and the fact I didn't really know what I was doing.
I like this. I just purchased this game on STEAM about 4 hours ago. It's been a very long time and it's nice to find a recent video on an older game. Thank you for posting this. :D
@@suedeciviii7142 I am happy that you're making video's of Civ 3. It's been consuming my time for the past couple of days. I go for large maps, and turn off all the victory settings, max out at 1000 turns and turn AI to least aggressive. Then I build, fortify and grow a very large army. Only to find out that when I'm ready to attack with my very large army, the enemy player seems to have endless waves of many, very large armies to brutally counter attack my Cities. Then I start all over and try it again. Perhaps I will get enough content to post a Highlights video. lol I will eventually get up to 'Demi-God' mode, but I'm having far too much fun trying to establish Germania's 4th Reich as the World's only Power. lol Keep up the great videos. :D
I've been trying to get into Civ6, but I just can't. The game is too boring to me. Went back to the good old Civ2 and loved it! Now I will try to relearn Civ3. Thanks for your videos :)
I got this game on steam many many years ago, but I never was able to have fun with it. It feels overwhelming! Then I got hardcore into Polytopia on mobile and realized that this game while old is much more adbanced than that. So yeah I'm going with this guide for sure.
Oh my gosh, thank you SO much for this vid! I just started playing about 4 days ago, and literally have no idea what I'm doing or what anything means, or any strategy. Games don't seem to save anywhere I can see, so yesterday I had a 16 hour play session through the night (large map) just to see how far I could get til the force end year. This guide of yours has helped soooo much. If I'm going to be addicted to it, I should know what I'm doing probably. The game seems to really dislike modern computers though. I get a lot of freezing and lagginess, way more than on graphic intensive games. Also, is there no way to get it to run in a window? The low resolution of the game spills over onto everything else, so trying to tab out to other screens is awful. Oh and one other question. When you first are setting world guidelines on the first screen, is there actually any difference in 3 billion to 5 billion? It always starts at 4000BC no matter what I pick. What does the age mean even?
Age affects how "clumpy" the terrain is, and how hilly/mountainous it is. Younger earth = more hills and mountains, and more large patches of single types of terrain. You can make the resolution better. See this video right here. If these don't work (they did on my old computer but not my new one), you can also change your computer's resolution. ua-cam.com/video/njNmtfIPRSE/v-deo.html Games should automatically save. Go to the menu, load game, click "autosaves".
@@suedeciviii7142 The resolution video DID work on my 1 year old gaming computer, I didn't even have the keepres line, so added it.. thanks a bunch. I still don't like fullscreen for any game, but at least now it's not interfering with other windows. You're awesome, thank you for answering that so fast.
I used to play this game as a kid and I finally understood why I never won. I had no idea about food production and never figured out what shields is 😂😅
Great video! I wanted to know if you had any tips for building production for single player. I know every game is unique, but are there buildings you need to complete during different phases of the game, while others you wait to build? A tutorial on that would help a ton!
Hi, nice vid, good to see a tutorial for Civ 3. What I don't get is why did you build Calcutta at 23:02 in the middle of all of those cities. Isn't that too crowded? The borders would have covered that area when the culture in the other cities would've gotten to a certain level no?
This is a common misconception. Just because a tile is within your cultural borders doesn't mean you can actually use that tile. Cities can only use tiles within their big fat cross. Many of the tiles that calcutta can access are inaccessible by the other cities in my empire. If we didn't build Calcutta, we wouldn't be able to access the tile yields from the horse tile for example, even if it's within our cultural borders. 3-4 tiles apart is the ideal distance to plant cities 80% of the time.
@@fallen969 I had some problems when I alt-tabbed when it was loading, but the version on Steam has worked very well for me. Relauched it a couple times and it was fine.
Great tutorials Suede. I picked up Civ3 on steam for about $1.30. I learned a lot from your vids. I have even showed a couple friends that are interested. I'm having a lot of issues as a new player though. Easiest difficulty and lowest AI aggression setting. Whenever I do a 16 player map they team up against me every time. I try to have a very large army built. I refuse most trade deals because they often don't seem worth it. I never give into demands and often it results into them declaring war on me. Then it doesn't take long for every civilization to join them. All the sudden I'm basically North Korea except worse, even China hates me. I know the smaller maps are much easier but I don't find it nearly as fun. The AI never sides with me. Is it always like this on a huge map with easiest difficulty and lowest AI aggression setting?
Commerce. Commerce turns into gold, science beakers, or entertainment. Cities produce commerce (I suppose we can imagine the citizens trading with each other). You can check the city screen also to see the name 'commerce'.
Im currently playing the TET map for the civ 3 ptw expansion. I just finished conquering africa and many small islands around the world that act as forward air bases. Ive got 81 cities and over 3000 units, 800+ of which are bombers and 500+ are fighter jets. Plus I have cruise missiles and transports carrying artillery bombing coasts, before my paratroopers and modern armor arrive. Im locked in war with 8 nations and am actually wining lol.
I wonder if any Civ mod-makers ever thought of creating a funny "Ancient Aliens cheater mod", where we just spectate and let extraterrestrials in flying saucers do all the work LOL!
Does increasing the happiness meter increase the efficiency of cities? That is to say, do cities with more happy people produce more of anything than if they had more unhappy people? And does happiness play into culture, or the likelihood another city will defect to your civilization?
How did you bring up that window at 13:30 ? The Pick Civilization window. Just found your channel and I did subscribe. Also, you seem to view your world very smoothly and effortlessly. How are you moving the view box around. Not talking about the actual unit, but the "eye in the sky". Are you using the directional arrows or mouse?
ctrl-shift-d brings up the diplomacy menu. You can use just "shift-d" too but it doesn't work if you have a worker selected. Try clicking on the minimap to move the camera around. I think you can adjust the sensitivity in the preference menu too.
@@bn5445 I have a tutorial on live MP but it's dated. Making that kind of tutorial isn't on my list, but if you're interested, we organize live MP games on this discord discord.gg/raaPTJz And PBEM on this one discord.gg/rmWZZ8EKbk Live MP: You play the turns simultaneously with up to 7 other people. Typically teams of 3 or 4, with a maximum duration of 3 hours, played in one session. Generally we use mods that allow for satisfying game in 40-70 turns. If the game drops, it's reloaded immediately. PBEM: Turn based civ. When you're done your turn, send the save file to the next player in the chain, they play their turn, etc. A game could take several months, it's a full epic game of civ 3 (hundreds of turns).
Hi I just wondered what you liked about this version over all the other versions? On Steam this seems to have alot of haters. I do prefer the graphis style of this version as it's a nice middle ground between the early pixel art and the later stylized versions.
I'll do a full video essay on why I love Civ 3 at some point. But it has good, clear graphics. Excellent, clean UI with great visual clarity. It has a more plain take on the fundamentally great loop, so you can focus on fundamentals. It's fast, probably almost twice as fast to play through a game than Civ 6 if you have your settings right. And the AI is much better at this game than the other games in the franchise.
Just picked this game up for a buck. I have two questions about your early game build order: The first is about the order you build workers, settlers, and granaries (which I take it are early game priorities). I think you took a garrison troop->settler->worker->granary approach? (I didn’t watch super carefully). Any particular considerations you make considering that ordering (i.e. worker first for access to strategic resources, granary first for poor food supply)? My other question is essentially about rapid expansion. If you have 3 population, a place to settle, and no pressing threats/other priorities (conquering Korea), it basically always pays to build a settler earlier, right? And an unrelated question: What breaks “culturally linked starting locations?” I started my first game as Spain and found it difficult to get food before building a harbor. Is it basically things like that?
There are other considerations. I do workers out of cities with no second shield (or a corrupted second shield) because they'll have happiness issues from growth before they finish a settler otherwise. If I'm desperate for a city spot the AI will take if I don't hurry, I'll skip other things and get a settler out ASAP. Strategic resources are low priority. Luxuries are pretty good early but often they spawn on mountains or jungles, tiles where it takes ages for the roads to complete. So in that case they're not high priority. But having roads leading to the next city spot is a big bonus. I might do worker before settler if I'm missing a road like that. Granaries are a multiplier. So you should actually prioritize them in cities with high food, not with low food. Imagine a tundra city with zero growth past size 2. Doubling 0 growth is still zero! Culturally linked start location won't change where you spawn. It's supposed to make European civs spawn near european civs, asian civs near other asian civs, etc. But instead all it does it make it so all the American civs (which are mostly strong ag civs) are among the AI roster.
Liked and subscribed. Thanks for making this video. Played this so long ago and wanted to learn and properly learn the game. The new graphics just don't do it for me!
Pro-tip: If you hurry production (works in Monarchy, Republic, Democracy) first hurry up worker production than change to building/unit and hurry it also. You will safe half of money needed to hurry that building/unit.
Yup. You can also disband a unit, chop a forest, sell a building if you've researched recycling. You just need a way to get those shields in the box. Or more likely, just wait a turn.
I have a question about the game balance. I've heard many times that the late game war meta is bombers + cavalry. Are fighter planes a counter to that? Does the IRL meta of air superiority have a place in civ 3?
Hi, I have a somewhat casual question. Since I'm really into Civ 3 nowadays, I was wondering what is the "normal" difficulty. Chieftain is obviously the easiest, and Sid is obviously the hardest, but what difficulty gives the least amount of bonuses or handicap to the AI to consider it the most fair/normal?
Regent is the "fair" difficulty. The AI has no bonuses or penalties. The full breakdown, including all the bonuses, is here: ua-cam.com/video/DNlbpyt0xZg/v-deo.html
Wow I played this game for years and was never this good...I can see some mistakes I made regularly. I love those elephants in civilization...I loved them so much that I usually edited the game so any civ could have them. They really shouldn't have been unique units when you consider that the Romans, Persians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Ptolemy Egyptians also used them.
I just got into Warlord since I can win a domination victory by 1000 AD on chieftain. The two biggest changes I've noticed right off the bat are 1) the AI expands much, much faster than before, at about the same pace I do. 2) There is actually a penalty for running a deficit. This shows me that I developed a very bad habit of not really caring about my treasury since it didn't matter. On warlord, my workers are automatically disbanded if I run a deficit with 0 gold in the treasury. So I have to reduce tech spending and risk falling behind and/or have fewer workers and lose out on roads, mines, and irrigation. I'm at the point where I need to attack in order to expand. The increase in difficulty here worries me for higher levels. I notice you have far fewer workers in this game than me, which makes me think I'm puting too much emphasis on workers in the early game.
I think the higher difficulties reward aggression. I recall watching a video where the guy basically said that after a certain level of difficulty, all you do that point is fight, you cannot win any other way. I reckon it's from the level above monarch.
If you have too many workers and don't need them you can get some of them to join the cities to help out with production, city pop, ect. It's quite useful actually.
What is your guy's most efficient spacing pattern for cities? I generally go three spaces in one direction, and then one further in a diagonal. Most of the time, I would rather overlap my cities than leave blank spaces in my empire.
I started on Civ 1 and then jumped to Civ 3 and then Civ 5. 3 is definitely my favorite. Large maps, at least 6 AI's, and preferably starting on the edge of the tundra. I have put in hundreds if not thousands of hours in my life, enough to get sick of it and stop for years and then come back for days straight. But I have yet to win on Monarch. Question: How do you get the other civs to broker a fair or equal trade with you? My biggest issue is with luxuries; I usually end up with enough land to have two or three luxuries, but after, none of the other civs will trade me one for one. Often, I cannot even get them to agree if I give them two for one. And sometimes, not even three luxuries for one in return. Is there a way to make them more fair?
It might be because you've ruined your trade reputation. But in this case it's likely due to size. If you have more cities, the AI will charge you more for luxuries. The inverse is true for right of passage, if you're bigger than the AI then they'll pay you for an ROP. Just trade away your techs for ROPs.
@@suedeciviii7142 Is there a place to check your current trade reputation? It is likely size, but I also do tend to turn down all tech trades until I am three or four techs ahead of everyone. After watching your early tech trading, I will have to give that a shot.
@@ryanaegis3544 Sometimes the foreign advisor will tell you in diplomacy. You can also see based on how the AI reacts to certain trades. If they'll accept 300 gold for a tech, but will not accept 300 plus 1 gold turn, then your rep is ruined.
Strange question. Can I start with a lower difficulty level, and increase it later? I started several games already, and with lower difficulty it can get boring. If I start with higher difficulty, the AI Civs are usually for more advanced and I am attacked etc.
Hi Suede, I just bought Civ 3 off steam a few days ago and reliving some childhood nostalgia. I have a question, though: Why does your version look different from mine? For example, your minimap has a coordinate grid thing going on; in my case, I don't have that. Cheers and thanks!
it's a mod we use for communication location in multiplayer. I also have the popheads mod for citizens. Aside from that everything else is the same and changeable in the settings menu.
I have a government guide! But TLDR: Republic is by far the best government. It has unrivalled commerce and is a lot more flexible than democracy. But if you need production for the victory condition you're pursuing (ex, 100k culture victory, or domination) communism is better since you have fewer wasted shields in big empires.
This is more of a "first time" guide, it doesn't really get into how everything works. Just how to play. I have another guide that covers the core game mechanics :) ua-cam.com/video/ZO6JFymzjfg/v-deo.html
Wouldn't the second city struggle from diseases with the adjacent jungle? I've had the game for well over a decade now. I have played it on and off but never got enough into it to learn the rules and move beyond low level play. So I'm trying again now that I'm stuck at home with little else to do.
disease only strikes if your citizens are working the tile. The citizens will work the bg/grassland/plains tiles first, they're better tiles. Even if they did, whatever, not the end of the world.
I tend to try building cities so their coverage doesn't overlap at all. Is that a good idea or is it more beneficial to have more cities, but with some slight inefficiency?
Yes, overlap is good. Except on oversized map, you should plant 4 tiles apart (or less, sometimes). It's only inefficient in the way that it's inefficient to buy bread to feed your starving family instead of putting it in an index fund.
Im playing on a 50” tv in my man cave, reso is 😘 amazing. It’s an advantage over mpt because everyone else is playing on a 22” monitor. I’m currently kicking my father in laws ass on a large map, we had 3 AI opponents which I basically eliminated once he weakened one then I took over the most powerful AI south of me and because I expanded immediately there’s little chance he’ll come back. He’s managing a land mas about 1/3 of mine and I have almost all great wonders including pyramids, smiths trade shop, sun tzu, Newton UNi, lighthouse, Magellan voyage, statue of Zeus, crusader wonder, not to mention my current culture is 20k, 1/5 the way to culture victory. Lmao Too much fun
I seem to remember being able to center the mini map on your capital, or otherwise adjust it, but I cannot figure out how to do it my latest few playthroughs. Is that possible in Civ 3, or am I remembering a feature from a different instalment? (I instantly start a new map if my starting location is on the edge on the mini map. I really like my continent and prefer my empire to not be divide on the mini map).
Hi there. I played this game as a kid. Now i am a Total war fan but watching your videos i have restarted playing it. Could you please guide me about how to use your airforce especially the role of helicopters. I m asking this because i prefer playing as ottomans or americans and Americans have their F 15 as unique unit. I struggle in information age on what to research first and how to utilize air and naval units
I mention these units in this video ua-cam.com/video/ovXDaURUJZw/v-deo.html Essentially, all of the modern era units are grossly underpowered except the bomber. So battleships, fighters/jet fighters/stealth fighters, helicopters, paratroopers, radar artillery, and cruise missiles. So don't sweat it if you can't figure out how to use them. I wouldn't even recommend stacking F-15s if you're playing as America. Just stack bombers, they are insanely overpowered. If you're really worried about enemy interceptors, you can build like, 85% bombers, 15% fighters/jets/F15s. Position the bombers on airbases, that way if the city they're near flips, the bombers just get teleported back to your capital.
@@suedeciviii7142 Cheers mate. You cleared up the issue. I asked specifically for air and naval units because in the vanilla version many aspects of the game were missing but they tweaked up some features in the conquest version so i was trying to see if they made some improvements to the said units. 0
@@abdulwasey9976 They overbuffed bombers. They buffed land artillery in a way that I think is pretty good/fair though. They used to target buildings usually.
17:50ish. It's a bit far away yes but given the cramped conditions why not plant there and snag all those luxuries away from blue? Aren't they super valuable for keeping folks happy and trade deals later on? Is the iron more important at this point for military? I've been playing forever and still suck compared your level of genius.
Any copy of a luxury past the first is useless for happiness. We secured 1 source of wines in Bangalore, that's all we need for now. Later on they're valuable for trade but at the moment we don't even have a trade route! Iron allowed us to build swordsmen which we used to take rest of the wines! Generally I'd encourage you to plant linearly. Don't leapfrog. Plant cities near your existing cities. See 4:44 of this video ua-cam.com/video/cXZjtYmEsvA/v-deo.html for more info :)
I gave a like but was really only here to try and find that beginning percussive music that would play as I tried running a windows 98 game on windows 10 and the game would crash but the music would play on while I contemplated my next attempt. 5 doll hairs on steam is still too much to pay for a game I already have. I got civ 6 for free through epic games but civ 3 is too good to give up on, maybe you could upload a video of literally the first 5 minutes of a new game with music on?
What is the story with "disease" occurring inside your borders when there's some flood plain tiles! :( Is there anyway to counter this prior to getting to medicine which is light years away.. ???
Is there a way to avoid disease when working floodplain starts? I've found that if the capital only works 1 floodplain tile the odds of losing pop is far lower.
Don't work the tiles. Or keep the city as a worker factory that's usually size one. Oh, usually disease strikes in pairs. You lose 1 pop, couple turns later you lose another. So when you lose the first, work other tiles for 5 turns or something.
Why do you build your cities so close together, ive seen you mention 2 squares in other vids. wouldnt that hurt you later when the cities are bigger and they are competing with each other for tiles?
There's a bunch of benefits to having cities close together, I list them in my city placement video, most importantly lower distance corruption and faster growth. My cities are 3-4 tiles apart, usually closer to 4. That means they get about 15 tiles each. So until sanitation, the "crowding out" thing you mention isn't a factor. So for 2/3 of the game, it's not a problem, and I've usually basically won the game by that point.
Hi! I've bought this on GoG about a year ago but only now I decided to play it. Never played Civ before. One thing I want to know is if there's a way to change the resolution, as everything is too small.
Hey, I don't normally do this, but I would be very grateful if you could leave a like on this video to increase visibility.
I realize if you're subscribed to this channel you likely know how to play the game, but there's a lot of people who don't, and it would be nice if they could find this on youtube with a quick search. At the moment there's not a good beginners tutorial available, and I figure this is a good first step.
Thanks :)
RE:Suede CivIII. I don't normally do this because I don't like UA-cam tracking me, but I clicked the "I like this" button #764 because this is my favorite game and you have many excellent videos about it so I made an exception.
@@munsters2 I feel you. I use a seperate youtube account and even web browser (cookies!) for this channel. I can like whatever I want and it's not linked to my personal email account.
I can confirm that this is a very good first step. When I first started Civ I had no idea what was going on, and this hands me the basics to figure stuff out from there! Thanks!
What's the difference between fortify and sentry?
Bam liked. Is this game still playable you think or civ 4 is the way to go If I'm looking to play an old civ
Warning. Civ 3 is a great time sink.
All the Civ games are. Actually, all of Sid Meier's games are! Only 3 times have I ever played a game til 5 am! Sid Meier's Civ IV and Pirates, and Minecraft. Love Civ III though. Better mechanics and amazing soundtrack! :D
Thanks for the warning haha
@@TheDylandProductions I've played this game a few times for probably 16-20 hours continuous (huge maps and lots of tribes) and the game was not over. Came back the next day and the next day and the next day to play many more hours until finishing them.. I do generally micromanage everything. Would be interesting to know what the longest time was for a played game. I guess it would be hard to compare because you can leave the game open and go to the bathroom or go eat dinner or answer the phone and the clock keeps running. I only play single player but I guess you could get a more accurate game time on a multiplayer game.
I send 120 h on CIV 3 😢
@@TheDylandProductions There needs to be a remaster/remake of Sid Meier's SimGolf! SURELY!
"There's no corruption, since it's the center of your empire."
I wish real empires worked like that.
I see it less like corruption, and more like central control?
So it's not like your far away cities are super corrupt and shady. They're just more like vassal states, they don't pay a lot of taxes to the federal government, and don't provide many troops, because they are governed semi-autonomously. Courthouses, government switches, etc, act to bring the city under federal control.
it seems to be the opposite in washington LOL
@@brianestoll Yeah, ha, ha! The game has it all backwards. In real life most of the corruption takes place in the capital.
At the very edge of your empire in a shack somewhere, peasants are weaving an insane web of intrigue and deceit over a loaf of bread.
talking from the perspective of pleb
from the perspective of ruler, there is no corruption
My dad played this game a bunch when I was kid, I’d watch over his shoulder for hours. I’d play whenever he was at work. It brought us closer. I loved this game.
Me too! It's exactly the same, he played this a lot and I watched him for hours while he played. I also played on his saved files even though I did not understand much back then. Here I am, many years later, still playing.
Same for me aswell! My father was rarely home as he was a truck driver, but when he was home me and him would always load a game of civilization together and Id watch him play. Its with this game he taught me a few concepts and birthed my love for history.
Same bro. To this day whenever I'm playing civ3 he comes into my room and occasionally gives me some advice 🔥
It makes me happy that there’s atleast one person out there that shares my love for this now seemingly forgotten game
You are not alone Bro. My all time Favourite PC Game. :)
This was the first Civ game that I ever played. The one that got me hooked on the series for life. I just reinstalled now, coming back I can say it has a lot of challenges compared to new civ games: managing money, dealing with opponents, managing corruption and waste, keeping citizens happy and productive, and making every production count.
There're many who value older civ versions than you'd think.
My brother for example only plays Civ 1 (320x200).
Just imagine: each pixel is nearly 3-4mm big on the TV. :D
Playing in 2023
This game will never be forgotten.
This is probably my favorite of the Civilization series.
This game is like the most massive nostalgia trip for me. My friend got a computer at his house once (big deal because we were all poor as dirt back then) and the first ever video game he got was Civ 3. The only games I'd played before that were Goldeneye 64, Mario Party 3, WoW, and Halo CE on my big bro's xbox. It was the introduction to a whole new genre for me and I got addicted too it hard immediately. I remember that I always thought the food icon was a little slice of toast.
Loved Civ 2 (my first on my Dad’s PC!) and then 3 but haven’t played it for years. Just downloaded it off Steam. Completely forgot how much I adored this game. Thanks for the reminder of how it works! Edit: Just realised after watching some vids that it was actually Civ 1 I loved :) I think I was about 8 when I first started playing, so it would have been around 1993. Wow that was some serious nostalgia!
No problem! Feel free to ask here if you have any questions.
A funny thing is that despite being a gen z person, i also played civ 1 as a kid, i think i just was browsing a list of snes games that were on my XBOX 360 Hard drive and liked the name, tho i was absolutely terrible at the game
Great tutorial. Glad that I find your channel. I just bought civ3 with 5$ on steam and im new to the series so I don't have any knowledge what I'm doing. Your videos are great help and entertainment👍
Welcome to the club, been playing the game since 2003. ^^
I am very thankful that you take the time to educate us with what you have learned. I've owned this game for nearly 20 years, and have only just begun to enjoy it. Thanks Suede!
Same here. ^^
I had no idea this was practically possible but i just got a start location that had 10 cows all within 1 tile away from another cow. I was so amazed! Thats actually hilarious isn't it? Well the capital's starting location was only able to get 3 of them and moving the settler to an ideal location was enough to get 6 cows for one city
I was hoping you'd finally build the palace...
For the kids, ya know? 😂
I remember playing this game when I was 12 years old. Now I'm 30 and i picked it up along with colonization for a dollar and 50 cents each. So pumped to play again!
Awesome! Let me know if you have any questions.
Got this game free on steam. Been playing for a few hours with shit results. Good video. I will continue playing. Thank you
Do you like garlic, or why is your head garlic head?
83 k Views. Thats awesome considering the age of the game. I think that civ 4 corrected some features like the catapult massive exploit
Besides your videos being genuinely great, Quality content, which many have mentioned, your voice is really calming, even cool to listen to before bed. Thanks a lot for this content
Good stuff!
After playing so much civ 5 over the years, going back to 3 and 4(which i love) is hard. Its hard to remember how to play with the stack
One of my main childhood games !! Still playing after all those years ;) Tysm for sharing your knowledge about it, learnt a lot watching your videos
As I bought this gem on GOG your video was brought to me by YT. So uncanny but yet thanks for the advices. It will be challenging to discovers the older iteration of the civ games.
I used to play Civ III a lot as kid, even though I only ever played on cheiftan. I found it hard to get back into, partly because of all the improvements and quality of life changes in Civ 5 and Civ 6, and the fact I didn't really know what I was doing.
I like this. I just purchased this game on STEAM about 4 hours ago. It's been a very long time and it's nice to find a recent video on an older game. Thank you for posting this. :D
Yeah absolutely! It's a fantastic game and it didn't get any proper attention on youtube early on. So someone's gotta do it :)
@@suedeciviii7142 I am happy that you're making video's of Civ 3. It's been consuming my time for the past couple of days.
I go for large maps, and turn off all the victory settings, max out at 1000 turns and turn AI to least aggressive. Then I build, fortify and grow a very large army. Only to find out that when I'm ready to attack with my very large army, the enemy player seems to have endless waves of many, very large armies to brutally counter attack my Cities.
Then I start all over and try it again.
Perhaps I will get enough content to post a Highlights video. lol
I will eventually get up to 'Demi-God' mode, but I'm having far too much fun trying to establish Germania's 4th Reich as the World's only Power. lol
Keep up the great videos. :D
I just bought this game yesterday, my first time giving Civ a go. Thank you for making this tutorial!
Cool that you started with Civ 3! Have fun!
Civ III is the best of the 2D Civilization games, and very, very underrated.
thank you for these tutorials, i forgot how much i loved Civ3
What about "how to play your first game in qc"? It is very relevant nowadays, I think
Sosison13 what is qc
QC is mode quick civ for civilization 3. Haha, Zane, I should to make guide "how to become tier 1 player"))
Man, this video and your channel is simply.. AWESOME!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GREAT JOB!
I've been trying to get into Civ6, but I just can't. The game is too boring to me. Went back to the good old Civ2 and loved it! Now I will try to relearn Civ3. Thanks for your videos :)
Who's here during/after the Steam Winter Sale? $1.25 is a steal for such a classic! Great video sir!
Pretty much the only game that I can run on my laptop 😂😂
Try out blitzkrieg, another awesome game on steam
I haven’t played this in years. Brings back so many memories.
:)
What formative childhood experience reminds you of this game?
You are good at teaching. Appreciate the vids
Simple but well detailed. Good job.
I got this game on steam many many years ago, but I never was able to have fun with it. It feels overwhelming! Then I got hardcore into Polytopia on mobile and realized that this game while old is much more adbanced than that. So yeah I'm going with this guide for sure.
I just tried my first game. Screwed it up royally but just watched this. I did so much wrong. Thanks for video :)
hey thanks for this, I played this game a long time ago and when I downloaded it I completely forgot how this game works so this is really helpful
I recently played civ 3 test of time with starting positions with songhai. This game never gets old!
Oh my gosh, thank you SO much for this vid! I just started playing about 4 days ago, and literally have no idea what I'm doing or what anything means, or any strategy. Games don't seem to save anywhere I can see, so yesterday I had a 16 hour play session through the night (large map) just to see how far I could get til the force end year. This guide of yours has helped soooo much. If I'm going to be addicted to it, I should know what I'm doing probably. The game seems to really dislike modern computers though. I get a lot of freezing and lagginess, way more than on graphic intensive games. Also, is there no way to get it to run in a window? The low resolution of the game spills over onto everything else, so trying to tab out to other screens is awful. Oh and one other question. When you first are setting world guidelines on the first screen, is there actually any difference in 3 billion to 5 billion? It always starts at 4000BC no matter what I pick. What does the age mean even?
Age affects how "clumpy" the terrain is, and how hilly/mountainous it is. Younger earth = more hills and mountains, and more large patches of single types of terrain.
You can make the resolution better. See this video right here. If these don't work (they did on my old computer but not my new one), you can also change your computer's resolution.
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Games should automatically save. Go to the menu, load game, click "autosaves".
@@suedeciviii7142 The resolution video DID work on my 1 year old gaming computer, I didn't even have the keepres line, so added it.. thanks a bunch. I still don't like fullscreen for any game, but at least now it's not interfering with other windows. You're awesome, thank you for answering that so fast.
@@Daiska_Plays No problem. Yeah as far as I know there's no way to get it to work windowed, but as you said, it's such a massive improvement.
I used to play this game as a kid and I finally understood why I never won. I had no idea about food production and never figured out what shields is 😂😅
Still playing my original civ3 on CD Rom. It's my favorite game of all time.
Great video! I wanted to know if you had any tips for building production for single player. I know every game is unique, but are there buildings you need to complete during different phases of the game, while others you wait to build? A tutorial on that would help a ton!
Hi, nice vid, good to see a tutorial for Civ 3. What I don't get is why did you build Calcutta at 23:02 in the middle of all of those cities.
Isn't that too crowded? The borders would have covered that area when the culture in the other cities would've gotten to a certain level no?
This is a common misconception. Just because a tile is within your cultural borders doesn't mean you can actually use that tile. Cities can only use tiles within their big fat cross. Many of the tiles that calcutta can access are inaccessible by the other cities in my empire. If we didn't build Calcutta, we wouldn't be able to access the tile yields from the horse tile for example, even if it's within our cultural borders.
3-4 tiles apart is the ideal distance to plant cities 80% of the time.
@@suedeciviii7142 Cool, thanks for the quick answer!
Great tutorial! i know this game for so long and had no clue about the mechanics. thank you!
I played this a ton growing up but I did learn some tips from your video. Great video!
Check out my noob/intermediate tips videos if you want to climb up in difficulty!
Played this a ton as a kid, but only ever on chieftain. I'm wondering what I was missing out on with the higher difficulties.
Lol same
I'm thinking on revisiting this game again but I wonder how it will ruin on WIN 10
@@fallen969 I had some problems when I alt-tabbed when it was loading, but the version on Steam has worked very well for me. Relauched it a couple times and it was fine.
@@flibbernodgets7018 Thanks for the info buddy ^^
Bought the game on on sale for a dollar and was at a complete lost on what i was supposed to do lul
GREAT vidya, it really helped alot!
You can double click to enter the city? I was using “zoom to” from the menu 💀💀💀
Thank you suede! I wanted to play this game because I could afford it and having a guide is perfect!
Great tutorials Suede. I picked up Civ3 on steam for about $1.30. I learned a lot from your vids. I have even showed a couple friends that are interested. I'm having a lot of issues as a new player though. Easiest difficulty and lowest AI aggression setting. Whenever I do a 16 player map they team up against me every time. I try to have a very large army built. I refuse most trade deals because they often don't seem worth it. I never give into demands and often it results into them declaring war on me. Then it doesn't take long for every civilization to join them. All the sudden I'm basically North Korea except worse, even China hates me. I know the smaller maps are much easier but I don't find it nearly as fun. The AI never sides with me. Is it always like this on a huge map with easiest difficulty and lowest AI aggression setting?
You'd have to send the save file (to suedeciviii@Gmail.com) for me to judge. That's not normal but maybe I can say what's up
You're problem is that you shouldn't be rebuffing the extortion demands. Always just pay them and attack them later when you're good and ready.
Felt like I was getting smooched the whole video. Great job!
Best version of them all
Commerce. Commerce turns into gold, science beakers, or entertainment. Cities produce commerce (I suppose we can imagine the citizens trading with each other). You can check the city screen also to see the name 'commerce'.
Oh god what did I say? hahahah
Im currently playing the TET map for the civ 3 ptw expansion. I just finished conquering africa and many small islands around the world that act as forward air bases. Ive got 81 cities and over 3000 units, 800+ of which are bombers and 500+ are fighter jets. Plus I have cruise missiles and transports carrying artillery bombing coasts, before my paratroopers and modern armor arrive. Im locked in war with 8 nations and am actually wining lol.
Just got this game for $1 dollar now. Thanks for the tips.
Is it on sale again?
@alper kaderli Not really. But if you zoom in on your city, or right click on the tile, it tells you the yields.
I still don’t know how the fuck to play this…
Thank you so much for making this video. Now I understand better then before.
I wonder if any Civ mod-makers ever thought of creating a funny "Ancient Aliens cheater mod", where we just spectate and let extraterrestrials in flying saucers do all the work LOL!
How long should a “turn” last? This is my first TBS game.
As long as you want. But if you prefer a faster game experience I'd recommend smaller maps.
Does increasing the happiness meter increase the efficiency of cities? That is to say, do cities with more happy people produce more of anything than if they had more unhappy people? And does happiness play into culture, or the likelihood another city will defect to your civilization?
How did you bring up that window at 13:30 ? The Pick Civilization window. Just found your channel and I did subscribe. Also, you seem to view your world very smoothly and effortlessly. How are you moving the view box around. Not talking about the actual unit, but the "eye in the sky". Are you using the directional arrows or mouse?
ctrl-shift-d brings up the diplomacy menu.
You can use just "shift-d" too but it doesn't work if you have a worker selected.
Try clicking on the minimap to move the camera around. I think you can adjust the sensitivity in the preference menu too.
@@suedeciviii7142 thanks. Subscribed. Can you do a step by step tutorial on how to play multiplayer?
@@bn5445 What type of multiplayer are you interested in playing? Live MP, hotseat, or PBEM?
@@suedeciviii7142 honestly, I don't even know the difference between either of them. If you made a tutorial on each of them I would definitely watch.
@@bn5445 I have a tutorial on live MP but it's dated. Making that kind of tutorial isn't on my list, but if you're interested, we organize live MP games on this discord
discord.gg/raaPTJz
And PBEM on this one
discord.gg/rmWZZ8EKbk
Live MP: You play the turns simultaneously with up to 7 other people. Typically teams of 3 or 4, with a maximum duration of 3 hours, played in one session. Generally we use mods that allow for satisfying game in 40-70 turns. If the game drops, it's reloaded immediately.
PBEM: Turn based civ. When you're done your turn, send the save file to the next player in the chain, they play their turn, etc. A game could take several months, it's a full epic game of civ 3 (hundreds of turns).
Hi I just wondered what you liked about this version over all the other versions? On Steam this seems to have alot of haters. I do prefer the graphis style of this version as it's a nice middle ground between the early pixel art and the later stylized versions.
I'll do a full video essay on why I love Civ 3 at some point. But it has good, clear graphics. Excellent, clean UI with great visual clarity. It has a more plain take on the fundamentally great loop, so you can focus on fundamentals. It's fast, probably almost twice as fast to play through a game than Civ 6 if you have your settings right. And the AI is much better at this game than the other games in the franchise.
I'm not the only one who always thought that on the "Choose your world screen" the Pangaea looks like a creepy face, right? Right?
NEW SUB HERE! :"> THANK YOU FOR THIS TUTORIAL! :) Easy to understand, easy to learn! Just played this way back 2015. hehe
Thanks for the guide, it was immensely helpful.
Just picked this game up for a buck.
I have two questions about your early game build order:
The first is about the order you build workers, settlers, and granaries (which I take it are early game priorities). I think you took a garrison troop->settler->worker->granary approach? (I didn’t watch super carefully). Any particular considerations you make considering that ordering (i.e. worker first for access to strategic resources, granary first for poor food supply)?
My other question is essentially about rapid expansion. If you have 3 population, a place to settle, and no pressing threats/other priorities (conquering Korea), it basically always pays to build a settler earlier, right?
And an unrelated question: What breaks “culturally linked starting locations?” I started my first game as Spain and found it difficult to get food before building a harbor. Is it basically things like that?
There are other considerations. I do workers out of cities with no second shield (or a corrupted second shield) because they'll have happiness issues from growth before they finish a settler otherwise. If I'm desperate for a city spot the AI will take if I don't hurry, I'll skip other things and get a settler out ASAP.
Strategic resources are low priority. Luxuries are pretty good early but often they spawn on mountains or jungles, tiles where it takes ages for the roads to complete. So in that case they're not high priority. But having roads leading to the next city spot is a big bonus. I might do worker before settler if I'm missing a road like that.
Granaries are a multiplier. So you should actually prioritize them in cities with high food, not with low food. Imagine a tundra city with zero growth past size 2. Doubling 0 growth is still zero!
Culturally linked start location won't change where you spawn. It's supposed to make European civs spawn near european civs, asian civs near other asian civs, etc. But instead all it does it make it so all the American civs (which are mostly strong ag civs) are among the AI roster.
Liked and subscribed. Thanks for making this video. Played this so long ago and wanted to learn and properly learn the game. The new graphics just don't do it for me!
Pro-tip: If you hurry production (works in Monarchy, Republic, Democracy) first hurry up worker production than change to building/unit and hurry it also. You will safe half of money needed to hurry that building/unit.
Yup. You can also disband a unit, chop a forest, sell a building if you've researched recycling. You just need a way to get those shields in the box.
Or more likely, just wait a turn.
I have a question about the game balance. I've heard many times that the late game war meta is bombers + cavalry. Are fighter planes a counter to that? Does the IRL meta of air superiority have a place in civ 3?
Hi, I have a somewhat casual question. Since I'm really into Civ 3 nowadays, I was wondering what is the "normal" difficulty. Chieftain is obviously the easiest, and Sid is obviously the hardest, but what difficulty gives the least amount of bonuses or handicap to the AI to consider it the most fair/normal?
Regent is the "fair" difficulty. The AI has no bonuses or penalties.
The full breakdown, including all the bonuses, is here:
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Wow I played this game for years and was never this good...I can see some mistakes I made regularly. I love those elephants in civilization...I loved them so much that I usually edited the game so any civ could have them. They really shouldn't have been unique units when you consider that the Romans, Persians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Ptolemy Egyptians also used them.
I just got into Warlord since I can win a domination victory by 1000 AD on chieftain. The two biggest changes I've noticed right off the bat are
1) the AI expands much, much faster than before, at about the same pace I do.
2) There is actually a penalty for running a deficit. This shows me that I developed a very bad habit of not really caring about my treasury since it didn't matter. On warlord, my workers are automatically disbanded if I run a deficit with 0 gold in the treasury.
So I have to reduce tech spending and risk falling behind and/or have fewer workers and lose out on roads, mines, and irrigation. I'm at the point where I need to attack in order to expand. The increase in difficulty here worries me for higher levels. I notice you have far fewer workers in this game than me, which makes me think I'm puting too much emphasis on workers in the early game.
I think the higher difficulties reward aggression. I recall watching a video where the guy basically said that after a certain level of difficulty, all you do that point is fight, you cannot win any other way. I reckon it's from the level above monarch.
Edited to say Monarch. At that difficulty level you literally have to fight almost all the time only pausing to consolidate your resources.
If you have too many workers and don't need them you can get some of them to join the cities to help out with production, city pop, ect. It's quite useful actually.
@@99oildrops yeah, it's like an artificial way to "grow" a city. :)
What is your guy's most efficient spacing pattern for cities? I generally go three spaces in one direction, and then one further in a diagonal. Most of the time, I would rather overlap my cities than leave blank spaces in my empire.
on smaller maps even closer together than that is usually best.
I always go for pottery first to get the granary and speed up population growth.
Granaries are good!
I started on Civ 1 and then jumped to Civ 3 and then Civ 5. 3 is definitely my favorite. Large maps, at least 6 AI's, and preferably starting on the edge of the tundra. I have put in hundreds if not thousands of hours in my life, enough to get sick of it and stop for years and then come back for days straight. But I have yet to win on Monarch.
Question: How do you get the other civs to broker a fair or equal trade with you? My biggest issue is with luxuries; I usually end up with enough land to have two or three luxuries, but after, none of the other civs will trade me one for one. Often, I cannot even get them to agree if I give them two for one. And sometimes, not even three luxuries for one in return. Is there a way to make them more fair?
It might be because you've ruined your trade reputation. But in this case it's likely due to size. If you have more cities, the AI will charge you more for luxuries. The inverse is true for right of passage, if you're bigger than the AI then they'll pay you for an ROP.
Just trade away your techs for ROPs.
@@suedeciviii7142 Is there a place to check your current trade reputation?
It is likely size, but I also do tend to turn down all tech trades until I am three or four techs ahead of everyone. After watching your early tech trading, I will have to give that a shot.
@@ryanaegis3544 Sometimes the foreign advisor will tell you in diplomacy. You can also see based on how the AI reacts to certain trades. If they'll accept 300 gold for a tech, but will not accept 300 plus 1 gold turn, then your rep is ruined.
Strange question. Can I start with a lower difficulty level, and increase it later? I started several games already, and with lower difficulty it can get boring. If I start with higher difficulty, the AI Civs are usually for more advanced and I am attacked etc.
Not within the same game no.
You might appreciate the conquest scenarios, many of which start with the expansion phase already done.
Hi Suede,
I just bought Civ 3 off steam a few days ago and reliving some childhood nostalgia. I have a question, though: Why does your version look different from mine? For example, your minimap has a coordinate grid thing going on; in my case, I don't have that.
Cheers and thanks!
it's a mod we use for communication location in multiplayer. I also have the popheads mod for citizens. Aside from that everything else is the same and changeable in the settings menu.
When is it better to change to democracy or communist system? And which one is better among these
I have a government guide! But TLDR: Republic is by far the best government. It has unrivalled commerce and is a lot more flexible than democracy. But if you need production for the victory condition you're pursuing (ex, 100k culture victory, or domination) communism is better since you have fewer wasted shields in big empires.
What version of the game are you playing? I'm seeing differences between my version and yours.
I feel like going back to this game ive played but never really understoond the mechanics i just went with the flow. Hoping this tutorial helps
This is more of a "first time" guide, it doesn't really get into how everything works. Just how to play.
I have another guide that covers the core game mechanics :)
ua-cam.com/video/ZO6JFymzjfg/v-deo.html
Wouldn't the second city struggle from diseases with the adjacent jungle?
I've had the game for well over a decade now. I have played it on and off but never got enough into it to learn the rules and move beyond low level play. So I'm trying again now that I'm stuck at home with little else to do.
disease only strikes if your citizens are working the tile. The citizens will work the bg/grassland/plains tiles first, they're better tiles.
Even if they did, whatever, not the end of the world.
Very well explained, good job!
God...I trained so many spearmen. So many. And I was so confident, I tried to attack China. They all (20 of them) lost
- ...then you have less cities, less units...
- Fewer.
- What?
- Nothing.
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I tend to try building cities so their coverage doesn't overlap at all. Is that a good idea or is it more beneficial to have more cities, but with some slight inefficiency?
Yes, overlap is good. Except on oversized map, you should plant 4 tiles apart (or less, sometimes). It's only inefficient in the way that it's inefficient to buy bread to feed your starving family instead of putting it in an index fund.
@@suedeciviii7142 Ok, thank you!
Im playing on a 50” tv in my man cave, reso is 😘 amazing.
It’s an advantage over mpt because everyone else is playing on a 22” monitor.
I’m currently kicking my father in laws ass on a large map, we had 3 AI opponents which I basically eliminated once he weakened one then I took over the most powerful AI south of me and because I expanded immediately there’s little chance he’ll come back. He’s managing a land mas about 1/3 of mine and I have almost all great wonders including pyramids, smiths trade shop, sun tzu, Newton UNi, lighthouse, Magellan voyage, statue of Zeus, crusader wonder, not to mention my current culture is 20k, 1/5 the way to culture victory.
Lmao
Too much fun
I seem to remember being able to center the mini map on your capital, or otherwise adjust it, but I cannot figure out how to do it my latest few playthroughs. Is that possible in Civ 3, or am I remembering a feature from a different instalment?
(I instantly start a new map if my starting location is on the edge on the mini map. I really like my continent and prefer my empire to not be divide on the mini map).
Space bar? I might be thinking of league of legends
Hi there. I played this game as a kid. Now i am a Total war fan but watching your videos i have restarted playing it. Could you please guide me about how to use your airforce especially the role of helicopters. I m asking this because i prefer playing as ottomans or americans and Americans have their F 15 as unique unit. I struggle in information age on what to research first and how to utilize air and naval units
I mention these units in this video
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Essentially, all of the modern era units are grossly underpowered except the bomber. So battleships, fighters/jet fighters/stealth fighters, helicopters, paratroopers, radar artillery, and cruise missiles.
So don't sweat it if you can't figure out how to use them. I wouldn't even recommend stacking F-15s if you're playing as America. Just stack bombers, they are insanely overpowered. If you're really worried about enemy interceptors, you can build like, 85% bombers, 15% fighters/jets/F15s.
Position the bombers on airbases, that way if the city they're near flips, the bombers just get teleported back to your capital.
@@suedeciviii7142 Cheers mate. You cleared up the issue. I asked specifically for air and naval units because in the vanilla version many aspects of the game were missing but they tweaked up some features in the conquest version so i was trying to see if they made some improvements to the said units. 0
@@abdulwasey9976 They overbuffed bombers. They buffed land artillery in a way that I think is pretty good/fair though. They used to target buildings usually.
17:50ish. It's a bit far away yes but given the cramped conditions why not plant there and snag all those luxuries away from blue? Aren't they super valuable for keeping folks happy and trade deals later on? Is the iron more important at this point for military? I've been playing forever and still suck compared your level of genius.
Any copy of a luxury past the first is useless for happiness. We secured 1 source of wines in Bangalore, that's all we need for now. Later on they're valuable for trade but at the moment we don't even have a trade route!
Iron allowed us to build swordsmen which we used to take rest of the wines!
Generally I'd encourage you to plant linearly. Don't leapfrog. Plant cities near your existing cities. See 4:44 of this video ua-cam.com/video/cXZjtYmEsvA/v-deo.html
for more info :)
I gave a like but was really only here to try and find that beginning percussive music that would play as I tried running a windows 98 game on windows 10 and the game would crash but the music would play on while I contemplated my next attempt. 5 doll hairs on steam is still too much to pay for a game I already have.
I got civ 6 for free through epic games but civ 3 is too good to give up on, maybe you could upload a video of literally the first 5 minutes of a new game with music on?
Is it this one?
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thanks for making this beginner guide
Amazing video, thank you very much :)
What is the story with "disease" occurring inside your borders when there's some flood plain tiles! :( Is there anyway to counter this prior to getting to medicine which is light years away.. ???
Is there a way to avoid disease when working floodplain starts? I've found that if the capital only works 1 floodplain tile the odds of losing pop is far lower.
Don't work the tiles. Or keep the city as a worker factory that's usually size one.
Oh, usually disease strikes in pairs. You lose 1 pop, couple turns later you lose another. So when you lose the first, work other tiles for 5 turns or something.
@@suedeciviii7142 Thanks guys!! That helps a ton. I just ran into that issue and couldn't build jack. It ruined the game for me. 😫
builders are better than workers
I Comment cuz I heard youtube estimates comments at the moment of suggesting a video or not 😎
weird game (or rather series). I don't get yet what's supposed to be so great about it.
my favourite wouldn't would be civ 2 but since I can't find it anywhere I play this one after this the games change and I don't understand them
It should be pretty easy to pirate Civ 2. Or you can play Freeciv! An open source version of it.
Have to ask, what version of the game do you have? Been playing for quite a while and don't recognize some of the options your units have.
civ 3 complete. AKA civ 3 + Play the world + conquests.
Do you mean the advanced worker actions? Those can be enabled in the settings menu.
Great tutorial. Thanks man.
Why do you build your cities so close together, ive seen you mention 2 squares in other vids. wouldnt that hurt you later when the cities are bigger and they are competing with each other for tiles?
There's a bunch of benefits to having cities close together, I list them in my city placement video, most importantly lower distance corruption and faster growth.
My cities are 3-4 tiles apart, usually closer to 4.
That means they get about 15 tiles each. So until sanitation, the "crowding out" thing you mention isn't a factor. So for 2/3 of the game, it's not a problem, and I've usually basically won the game by that point.
Makes sense. Ima check out the other video!
Hi! I've bought this on GoG about a year ago but only now I decided to play it. Never played Civ before. One thing I want to know is if there's a way to change the resolution, as everything is too small.
Yes, see this video.
ua-cam.com/video/njNmtfIPRSE/v-deo.html