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[dchenes]

Call me a throwback, but I actually like Civ II better than Civ III. The reason I know this is because my cable modem service, although not the modem itself, went pfft for most of the afternoon, and therefore I spent most of the afternoon playing Civ III. The game is more militaristic than I am; every time I leave a city alone, it goes off and builds umpteen more military units than it needs. The game also likes to pile everybody up on the same continent to begin with, regardless of how many land masses there are in the whole map, so you either have to keep telling your cities to build settlers instead of military units, or you end up very well fortified but squeezed into the smallest amount of territory among the various nations. (I did like the fact that cities from other nations kept defecting to mine, though. That was amusing.)

Anyway, I'm still waiting for a thunderstorm. Apparently they all start in Pennsylvania and move east these days, or they start west of here and move north. Mostly I'm waiting for a thunderstorm because that usually means the wind kicks up, and we could really use some moving air here. If there was any breeze at all, I'd turn off the A/C and open the windows.

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Ok, you're a throwback. :)

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Civ. I really like the way in Civ III players control more territory than just the squares covered by their cities. It always irked me in I and II when other players could legally create cities on that ONE square somewhere between two of my cities that didn't get covered. Besides, all that piling up on one continent means that sending out a boat really early basically guarantees you an unmolested spot somewhere else on the map.
In civ III, when you right-click on a city and choose "contact governor", you can toggle to a 'production' screen from the general screen by clicking on 'production' in the upper left of the menu, and there you can prioritize (often/sometimes/never) what units get built. Personally, I disable governors until very late in the game.