<city> DELENDA EST
Heh! That could quickly become a favorite command…
Exactly!
I’m more of a perfectionist than an expansionist- I like to improve my cities as best I can rather than spread. My ideal circumstance finds me on a small island or continent, so I can peacefully build my cities without interference from other civilizations.
Then, once I’ve built everything, it’s go-time, baby. Shift everything to a war economy and start pumping out those tanks and bombers, and then it’s conquest-of-the-world. However, I hate taking cities! They have few improvements, the terrain has no irrigation or mining, and they’re frequently on the verge of revolt after I conquer them! It would be SO much easier to just wipe them all out.
Why won’t Sid let me fulfill this bloodlust? I mean, I’m already declaring war on the world, and he introduced the concept of ‘Atrocities’ to Alpha Centauri, so JUST LET ME RAZE THE DAMN CITY AND SALT THE EARTH ALREADY.
lno, I firmly believe that we were separated at birth.
My playing style is precisely the same. I like to settle archipelagos and leave conventional warfare to the AI gnomes I play with. I concentrate on science and on creating the most aesthetically perfect cities as possible. I even build a handful of crappy cities with the sole purpose of caravanning my beauties to speed up wonder production.
By the end of the game, I am defending my cities with tanks and my enemies are using riflemen. With a ton of cash in my pocket I switch to fundamentalism. Then the fun begins in earnest.
Now, I’m going to give away too much info with this, but:
I’m a little different. I expand rapidly, consistant with keeping my cities well defended. I build roads. I explore as fast as I can, and establish as many embassies as possible. I let economies of scale rev-up my economic outlook, as my population grows by leaps and bounds, and I concentrate on keeping my folk happy and productive. Once the population is sufficently large, and I have more than a handful of cities cranking out powerful military units, I go Facist, and roll out. I’ve taken the whole world by storm while still using musketeers and facists. I believe in big, fast economies, building my forces, then blitzkrieg. I fuel my expansion by pacifying and incorporating new cities into my structure, so once I get moving, I accellerate quickly.
I build Wonders, but I’m sellective, and I’m perfectly happy capturing someone else’s Wonder. They paid for it, but now I have the benefit! Bwah-hahahaha…!
Never underestimate the power of my diplomats and spies to simply BUY YOUR CITIES! Ah, the benefits of a huge economy.
Me, I’m a Navy guy. I look for a moderate size continent, fight a quick ‘n’ dirty early war if I’m sharing it with someone else, and pump out the science so that my military technology is higher than anyone else’s. I also find a mineral-rich site on a coast and plant a city there. I build Sheakespeare’s Theatre in that city, and make it my naval/military storehouse.
In early times, I buy off potential enemies (with cash, never with tech), or fight defensive actions. Once I get the ironclad, however, it’s fighting time. Out of my Sheakespeare coastal city, I pump out naval units and transports, and take over enemy ports. At first this is primarily defensive - if they don’t have a port, they can’t invade me.
Sua
damn,
the original Civ was probably the first PC game I was really addicted to. I recently started playing CIV 2 again and while looking at sites about it came across the info that CIV 3 was coming out. I haven’t anticipated a game this much since…ok, well since Diablo 2 but still, its not the amount of time that matters. I can’t wait for this game.
As far as general CIV strategy, I always play on real maps. usually the full world map, for me its just not as much fun otherwise. I also never randomize positions, I’m all for realism. I like to choose the Celts and cover the entire British Isles with roads, irrigation and cities(hey just like real life!) that way I can get powerful without competition(after I kill off the English if necessary) and then expand to the continent. Even if I have an unsuccessful continental campaign, I have my base to fall back on. plus my heavily fortified Islands are hard as hell to invade.
Shit, there goes my College GPA.
I’m enamored with trade routes myself, and building missile silos on small islands in the middle of the ocean. God what fun that is.
There was one Civ1 game that was a naval-wargame, with nothing else. It was great. I had a small continent- maybe eight cities max, and at least six of those were ports- and once I hit modern tech I flooded the seas with submarine wolfpacks. The other civs had dozens upon dozens of sails, frigates, and the occasional trireme floating around, and I just had a field day.
I ended up blockading every port with three subs and waiting for them to try to sneak units out- one time, one of them rushed five sails out in one turn, all loaded with units, and one of them slipped past my blockade. I ended up dispatching a carrier with sixteen bombers on it to hunt for it.
(I felt so proud when I figured that out- in Civ1, a carrier could only hold eight units, but bombers had the ability to spend one turn in flight … so I’d cycle the flight groups, launching one, landing the other, moving the carrier, repeating. I wet my pants with the airbase option in Civ2. Loved building one on Corsica and letting dozens of aircraft rain hell on Europe.)
Dear lord, it’s coming! My sleep habits just grew wings and flew away.
Me, I modify my game to the point of unrecognisability. So a huge, online slugfest is out of the question. Unfortunate. Maybe I should scrabble out an organised modpack, so that if I ever have the wish to play against others, I may slaughter them with my crazy, dreamed-up weapons (armoured bears, zeppelins, civilisations I came up with from the top of my head…).
I just hope it has SMAC’s different levels of unit quality, from Very Green up to Elite. SMAC has spoiled me!
Actually, Activision was legally entitled to use the Civilization name from some earlier lawsuits that went around before Hasbro ended up with all the rights. The only trouble Activision got into was having a mediocre game. The full name for Alpha Centauri was actually Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri altough I don’t think he had as much to do with it as the early Civ games, it was mostly Brian Reynolds.
I just wish he would do an update to Railroad Tycoon. That was a great game.
The funny thing about Civ and Civ II, is that they were voyeuristic experiences for me. I never much cared to play them myself, but I’d very happily kibbitz while my GF/housemate/whomever played until dawn. Go figure.
I too have been looking forward to this for months. You guys say you played CivII for years? I still play it. More frequently than any other computer game.
YES YES YES YES!! Count me IN. We may have too many people for 1 game. Perhpas we should just go ahead and suggest to the Mods/Admin that they make another forum for us now…
Coooome to me, Thanksgiving vacation, cooooome…
I think we’re only around 10-ish people who have expressed interest. In the old-fashioned Civs, that’d be too much, true …
…but word on the street is that Civ3 supports up to 16 civs at once.
Boo-fucking-yeah.
::dusting off old war plans::
This is going to be the most twisted, devious, bloody train-wreck of a game, ever.
I can’t wait!
[sub]I wonder if we can record it, so we can play it back, sort of a God’s-eye movie, after the dust settles?[/sub]
Are you aware of Railroad Tycoon II? Sid Meier didn’t do it, but it’s a pretty neat game.
I checked out the CivIII website. Wow. This game is going to kick so much ass. Cultural victories. Vastly expanding diplomacy. Automatic trade routes.
I’m ever so excited.
Another CIV fan here. I’ve invested many many hours, both at home and at work, building and destroying those lovely civilizations…
My biggest complaint with the original game is that it doesn’t work well when run out of a DOS window. The graphics timers aren’t always set correctly when the game starts so animations are painnnnnfffffuuullllyyyyyyy slow. (The game does reset them at the first combat.)
Er… Excuse me but i need to go catch up on my sleep. Perhaps then I’ll be able to stay awake from November 1 through the start of the new year. 
Arrrg… I love playing insular, but why is it that whenever another civilization gets Navigation, they have to plop their sorry ass on my island? Anyone who does this shouldn’t be surprised when I still every last bit of technology I don’t have and then drop nuclear bombs on their largest cities.
I guess I’m a little touchy about the subject.