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Extremerly large world map?

texico11 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:11:24 GMT

Hey. Has anybody tried/bothered to make a civ3PTW custom map of the entire world on a massive scale? There are a few in the scenerios section, but there all so small that, due to the scale, the uk and other islands are simply to small. I'm looking for a super world map of some sort with everyone in the right place so i can take my own jab at the history of the world.

load multiplayer LAN game

lilkel33 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:56:04 GMT

Hello! We are trying to load a saved LAN multiplayer game in CIV 3 Conquests. We are playing v1.22 and started a LAN game through the GasmeSpy lobby thing. My husband is on a laptop on our network and I am on the desktop. We only have one copy of the game, but were able to start a LAN network game last night because we can remove the disc once the game starts up and play without the disc. Anyway, we played for a little and then I, as the host, saved the game and we quit. Now we can't seem to find a way to load the game to continue it? Is this even an option in Conquests? We've tried going through the multiplayer screen and there is no option to load a saved game. We've tried just loading the saved game from the main screen but it loads as a single player game.

If this is not an option in Conquests, is it an option in Civ 4? These games take so long that it would be insane to not be able to save and continue a game later.

help please

queen val — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:07:15 GMT

I need help if anyone can.

My computer is in 2 parts. The first part i have no problem with it is the Control side. to fix things. But the side i sign on is my problem .

I want to delete MySpace IM, that my daughter put on but i can not do it on my side. Can anyone tell me how take of the thing from the Control Side. Black Owl set it up but I haven't seen him to ask. Any help will do thank

Queen val

vista font error trying to load civ 3

ebp6977 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:06:51 GMT

i cant load civ3 on my new computer

Can't get Civ3 complete to run

wankmilk — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:02:06 GMT

I've recently bought and tried to install civ 3 complete edition on my pc. I surpass all the system requirements, so that should be no problem.
I have followed the installl procedure, and it installs from disc1, 2 and 3 then asks for disc 1 again and nothing happens. I then try and run the game, but it comes up with an error message: "a required security module can not be activated. This program can not be executed" what does this mean and is there anything I can do to get this game up and running.

Civ III error

yourweb — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:27:46 GMT

I am in the year 1796 and when I get done with my update of the city production it kicks me out of the game. Any ideas as to what I can do to get around this or fix this?

I have close to 200 cities and run the usual production and before I can play it kicks me out of the game. I have to reboot the game to start at that year. This is done when I click on the last city just before it is my turn to play.

Been checking this site out to see if any more patches are available but have not found any.

Think I mad everyone mad

raynkel — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:54:37 GMT

Was playing along, minding my own business. I saw an open spot of land so decided to settle it. I am at year 1930 or so.

Well I must have done something cause England (not their area I settled near) tried to blackmail me and I said no way. Was in a short war against them a while back. All of the sudden England and all their allies start war with me.

How do you make alliances?

Screen Font

tmhm11 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:17:41 GMT

All of a sudden my CivIII Conquests developed a screen font problem. Within the game the fonts are not smooth and crisp. Worse, most things are double spaced so stuff doesn't fit in the dialog boxes. The game is barely playable because all the options don't appear in the boxes. I've installed the latest video card drivers. I've deleted and completely reinstalled the game (Conquests portion only) including the patch. I can find nothing in windows or the game itself that would cause this. I make my own maps abd nids and have installed a number of custom units, but it doesn't matter whether it's my mod or map I load or a standard game one, it's the same problem. No other program has the problem, it's unique to Conquests. I'm running an Athlon 64 X2 4200 with 2 gig Ram and a Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS with 512 M Ram. What's going on??? If I can't fix it I'll have to move to another game because I'm sure not playing that awful CivIV!

tmhm11, a Civ III addict who can't stand Civ IV

Home network playing

Luffchylde — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:10:58 GMT

My husband got me started playing CIVIII Conquests, and we are trying to play through our home network. We are able to get started on one computer, but can't ever seem to connect. We've tried doing it online, and through direct IP as well. Can someone please walk me through this? Any instructions that might show us what we're doing wrong? Thanks so much for your time.
Sunnie

CPTW : suddenly lost ability to build railroads ???

ovilir — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:57:41 GMT

Hi there ,

I had a bit of a problem when I was playing Civ III : Play The World.

I was playing with the Persians in a highly advanced civilization. At one point I could build railroads, but suddenly, after about 10 turns, I could no longer build them.

I don't understand why this happened. I still can't build railroads, while all the other civs I am playing against still can.

What is going on here, I wonder ???

I could do whit some help.

Many thanx in advance,

Ovilir

Civ III : not a lot of useful custom made maps !

ovilir — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:30:46 GMT

Hi there,

I was thinking about creating credible historic scenarios in Civ III, but I encountered the following problem :

As far as I could see, there are not a lot of interesting or useful custom made maps available on the civ III community fan sites.

Now, I remember that most civ II fansites had loads of different custom made maps available, of about nearly any place on earth or subcontinent you could think of. On civ III fansites all I could find was a few USA / North America / Eurasia / world maps, and a few rather "wacky" fantasy-type maps ( the latter I found rather worthless )

I did not find a tutorial about making more or less realistic maps in civ III, either.

I was wondering : is it possible to convert a civ II map to a civ III map in the editor to use in a custom made civ III scenario ? That would be a neat idea, I thought.

Many thanx in advance,

Ovilir

Intelligence agency + espionage doesn't seem to work ???

ovilir — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:18:33 GMT

Hey everyone,

I have been reading documentation on Espionage and the use of the Intelligence agency. I have acquired both of them in my game. But still I can't find out how I am supposed to start an espionage mission in my game.

First of all, I have established Democracy. Second of all, ( for some reason I don't understand ), I can contact all the other civs on the map, but I don't have seem to have established an embassy in those civs either.

I have built an Intelligence Agency but there seems to be no way that I can start an espionage mission. I thought you were supposed to have a separate "espionage screen" somewhere as soon as you have built an IA, but I can't find it under the different advisor screens.

I have had a close look at the right side of the military screen, and I can choose another opponent from the dropdown list, but that doesn't mean a thing, since I can't view other civs' cities.

To cut a long story short : I don't understand how Espionage works in CPTW or CIVIII for that matter.

1) It seems odd to me that you can have no embassies in a highly civilized tribe and still make contact with other civs ( and still be in the dark as to how establish embassies )

2) It seems even more strange that you can research Espionage AND build an Intelligence agency, and have NO spy units and NO way to start an espionage mission.

I really don't understand how CIVIII and CPTW deal with the Espionage concept, it doesn't seem to work for me.

Any help on the subject would be very much appreciated.

Many thanx in advance,

Ovilir

what is the newest civ3 expansion i hav play the world.

friar_floyd — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:28:57 GMT

Play the world is alright but theres one out there that sounds better.

U can hav feudilism and fascism as your gvnmts. wuts it called

Vair khun meinself aquire dis marvel???

(All wars are civil wars, for all men are brothers)

-some famouse guy -

Space Race

OldFatGuy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:30:55 GMT

Hi all, new to the forums. Purchased Civ III Complete, I had owned and played Civ III and PTW for a couple of years. I loved it, BUT, when I won the space race, and clicked on LAUNCH, my game crashes every single time. I've checked drivers, scanned for viruses, don't get crashes on other games/software, and didn't have the problem in Civ III (from what I can remember anyway, it's been awhile since I played it and I guess I won by space race before, and I KNOW it never crashed before). Anyway, if I go on and continue the game to 2050 it does give me a score victory. Has anyone heard of this???

I just looked through the forums and found something similar where if your hof file was read only it would cause crashes in the campaign, but this was just a regular game, and it didn't crash after score victory.

Anyways, thanks for any help.

EDIT: WHoops, I just noticed I'm in the OFF-Topic thread, sorry I must have clicked the wrong thing after registering.

Uranium

jordanmc109 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:58:40 GMT

Uranium is in the boundaries of one of my cities but it won't show up as one of my resources. I have a mine one the square and a worker on it but it still wont show up. Does anyone have any tips?

War time mobilization

jordanmc109 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:51:30 GMT

Is there anyway to get out of war time mobilization without going to war? I got into it by accident and it really sucks!

civ 3 locking up on new machine

Supermarioman — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:03:15 GMT

hi all.

im having a problem with civ 3, the game locks up after varying amounts of time and only ctrl-alt-del will shut it down. the computer carries on working fine and i can load up other things and even restart the game without restarting the computer.

i have updated all the drivers and bios but it still locks up, it isn't overheating as i have added 2 140mm fans and it runs lovely. i have no problems with any other game i have including Civ4. the only thing i can think of is that its the graphics drivers. this is my favorite of the civ games and its driving me mad that i cant play it.

my computer spec

intel core duo 6600, nvidia8800gtx, 2 gig geil ram, asus p5n32e sli motherboard, creative x-fi fatality soundcard, coolermaster realpower 550 psu. win xp.

any help or even things to try would be appreciated.

Unable to allocate draw buffer

BeneScot — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:55:14 GMT

Hi all

I get this crash regularly Unable to allocate draw buffer. Anyone got a clue how i fix it?

Thx in advance for bestowing your wisdom.

Civilization 3 Complete - Video Issue

Gahr — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:30:17 GMT

Hello,

Just reloaded Civ 3 to my system, and for whatever reason the game screen, for lack of a better word, has "drifted" to the left side of my monitor. This leaves a black bar on the right side of the screen, and obviously makes the game unplayable due to parts of the left side not being visible. Any advice?

Thanks in advance. :)

embassies

Noob idiot — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:05:59 GMT

How do i get other nations to install embassies in mine?....or is it possbile for Me to install embassies.

All this cuz i wanna have a military alliances

thanks!

Artillery & Bombing woes

billduke — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:25:25 GMT

I am ready to walk away from my current game for a week or so. I am currently being murdered by the all loving and peaceful Ghandi of India. He has the ground troops to eat me alive but I have an incredibly large air force with Stealth bombers for days and jets patrolling my skies. The problem is: my bombers are either constantly missing, being shot down or just killing citizens. Although, I have air superiority, which doesn't compare to ground forces BUT my bombers should be able to do something. Needless to say, the stealth bombers are pretty much foolishness...the stealth fighters...PATHETIC AND WORTHLESS. Am I the only one who is experiecing this or is there something I am doing wrong. Same can be said of artillery...Radar Artillery isn't all that bad but I read in one of the threads that artillery is 'good'. I would never call my artillery good, mediocre at best but good?!

Help in the Air Farce

A few questions for my first Regent game

Vindogo — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:38:26 GMT

Right, I've started a game on Regent level with the Vikings. I'm sharing a continent with the Celts and the Ottomans. After an interesting but pretty catastrophic war with the Celts, they and the Ottomans have begun to send settlers through my territory to any old uninhabited piece of desert between my towns. So, my questions:

1. What can they hope to do with all these towns? Will they use them to capture my towns or will they be on the defense in case of another war?

2. The Celts have made it to the middle ages, I'm close behind. What is a good strategy for defense at this point?

3. Why do my archers seem to have two attack values, one in parenthesis?

embassies

flurrybear — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:35:47 GMT

I have an embassy in one of my oponets citys, but I don't understand what they are supposed to do?

Vikings..

nickbroken — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:14:54 GMT

So yeah...Just bought civ 3 complete, and decided to play the Vikings, and was wondering, why do I have like 7 kings?

Passive enemies

ComicBookGuy — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:52:50 GMT

For some reason on a scenario I created, nobody ever declares war. The computer is very passive and the only time somebody enters war is if I declare it. I've moved the A.I. aggression slider when starting the scenario to see if making them more aggressive would work but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Does anybody know if there is something I turned on/off or any ideas?

switching to democracy spells disaster ????

ovilir — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:49:20 GMT

Hi there y'all,

I am playing with the japanese, and at one point I decided to switch to a democracy from a monarchy. But at that point, I had an all-out general civil uprising on my hands. I have tried to remedy this by converting unhappy citizens, but the uprising goes on and on...

To make matters worse, I tried switching to a republic next, but that didn't seem to remedy the problem at all.

What can I do to remedy this ??

Many thanx in advance.

Why can't I Build an Army ?

island_hopper — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:36:23 GMT

My Army, which I got from a GL, was victorious in combat which allowed me to build Military Academy.If i'm not mistaken, I should now be able to build Armies in the city which has the Military Academy without needing a GL.Long story short ... I can't.Can anyone help with this please ???

I need help!

Dennis Raider — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:59:26 GMT

I am not new to the Editor. But I cannot figure out how to make new units! Help?

isaac newton??

surfergirl602 — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:03:19 GMT

I don't know why, but a little Isaac Newton has graced me with his presence in my game. Can anyone tell me why and what I'm supposed to do with him? Never seen this before!
Thanks!

isaac Newton???

surfergirl602 — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:10:21 GMT

I don't know why, but a little Isaac Newton has graced me with his presence in my game. Can anyone tell me why and what I'm supposed to do with him? Never seen this before!
Thanks!

I can't irrigate a city zone from the seashore ????

ovilir — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:42:14 GMT

Hi there y'all,

I have a problem with irrigating cities.

At one point I built two cities in Civ 3 on a peninsula with no rivers running through it or lakes. Plus, both cities are surrounded by plains and the peninsula is "locked off" from the mainland by hills and montains.

I used to play civ 2 and civ 2 seemed to have a more "flexible" irrigation system. Because I know in civ 2 you could irrigate a city by starting to irrigate a square near the sea. Which basically meant that you could irrigate any city zone as soon as you could irrigate a square near the sea and started irrigating towards your city zone. So in civ 2 you didn't need a city near a lake or a river per se in order to be able to irrigate it.

What happens in this case is : I can't irrigate two cities on a peninsula in Civ 3, because Civ 3 doesn't seem to allow irrigating a city from a square next to the sea ?? And because my peninsula is locked off from the mainland I can't irrigate those two cities from an irrigated square on the mainland either.

In civ 2 you could always irrigate a city from any square near water, and it didn't matter if this square was near a lake, a river or the sea. So I don't understand why I can't irrigate a peninsula from the seashore towards my city zone in civ 3 like you could in civ 2 ??? Strikes me as odd : you can't irrigate a peninsula but you're still surrounded by water ???

Can anybody explain this to me ???

Creating spies???

MsSyntax — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:33:59 GMT

Help! I have had espionage for a long time now...I have embassies in each of my opponents capitals....but how do I create spies??? I'm trying to use propoganda to persuade an opposing city next to me to join my illustrious cause, but I can't figure out how to plant a spy there.....

Thanks for the help! :D

Expelling Units

Viresse — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:53:56 GMT

In Sid Meier's Civilization III I can't figure out how to expel other civilizations' units from my territory. Can anyone help me?

Chatting in multiplayer

hodea — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:21:03 GMT

I can't seem to find how to chat in-game with your opponents. Is there a way to do it? If not, is there a way to make civ in a window so that you can still see your desktop? Thanks so much.

Difference in sentry actions

lreeder — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:45:00 GMT

What's the difference between Sentry and Sentry (enemy only)?

Catapults - noob question

lreeder — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:12:41 GMT

What are you supposed to do with catapults? I can't get them to attack anything.

How to recover a saved mutleplayer game(LAN)?

eyas — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:26:30 GMT

Hello everyone.After I entered the multiplay mode and create a host, I can't find any option or button to reload the game, so my friend and I cannot continue the saved game.

Civilization3 gold edition,1.27f

hurry city production (all)

pictish — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:30:40 GMT

great game im hooked again,but how do you hurry city production, playing a civil war senario with about 1000 cities!!!!can you rush production in all cities all at once one button please help!

Where do I find the mod tool?

Dfdk — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:08:54 GMT

Hi, before hand I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, but I didn't see a section about mods in Civ3... so anyway.

I want to find a modding tool for civ3, because I want to make some interesting maps for myself... (yeah, yeah, greedy, I know) but I haven't been able to find a download for the program. A tutorial I looked at said to look in the civ 3 folder under start, but I don't have it... is there anywhere I can find a download for it? Thanks in advance...

Little proble has become a BIG problem!

Gen. white — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:29:46 GMT

Ok here is the low down, i just entered the modern area and i hv all their units but none of the modern ones. I am at war with China(as part of my "Opperation NO Communism"("ONC")(basically another excuse to go to war hehe)) and they are land locked, now the countries around them all hate me for ONC because i go to war with their allies anyway, i can get to them with my huge fleet because they are land locked. My airforce is steadly growing but my bombers are constently shot down when bombing. I cant move troops in because the other conuntries are to strong for me to be at war with as well so i cant get troops in. I cant use nukes because i dont want to be at war. Thus im at a stand still. I nd to stay at war with them and WIN but what should i do? PLZ TELL ME SOMEONE HAS BEEN AT THIS STAND STILL BEFORE AND WON! OR CAN HELP IN ANYWAY!