What would ya build first?

Asesino_Virtual · September 29, 2001, 12:23

Hi. When i begin to build a city, first of all i would build a temple, to get a cool age bonus later in the game and to see those wonderful border lines. Then, a couple of phalanx (if i dont have the tech, ill wait until develope it), then a worker, and at last, some city walls, and a ganary (if i couldnt build the pyramids).
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Inverse Icarus · September 29, 2001, 12:44

ahhh i love this Apolyton Civ3-Strategy foru... oh... my mistake...

anyway, first thing i'll build is a warrior to scout for a new city, then a settler (at this time my worker is building a road to the new city). when the settleris done, i will buiuld another warrior, and then a temple.

i will probably use my ONE WORKER until i have about 5 cities... but hey, i never played the game before and that might not work.

jdd2007 · September 29, 2001, 19:32

ill get a scout, warrior, settler, city, worker, temple, wonder, some kind of defensive unit and then some kind of offensive unit...

splangy · September 29, 2001, 19:39

Probably a warrior, temple, settler and go on as events permit.

EnochF · September 29, 2001, 19:44

You may not be able to build a Temple right at the very beginning of the game, unless you are playing a Religious civ, in which case you'll start out with Ceremonial Burial.

KrazyHorse · September 29, 2001, 19:55

Settler, because I'll already have gotten a free chariot out of a hut.

Asesino_Virtual · September 29, 2001, 20:04

Dammit EnochF, u are right. U have ruined my conquer plans! ur puny civilization will perish!

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aebbeka · September 29, 2001, 20:07

This is crazy! The game won't even be out for a month and you guys are already making detailed plans about your first game!

Maybe I should start making my plans so I don't fall behind....

Inverse Icarus · September 29, 2001, 20:22

... and then on my 183rd turn i will goto Rome and build a musketman, and found a new city on the third island of my empire and name it "The Zulu Suck A$$" just to mock them. then i will...

PGM · September 29, 2001, 20:27

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Originally posted by UberKruX
... and then on my 183rd turn i will goto Rome and build a musketman, and found a new city on the third island of my empire and name it "The Zulu Suck A$$" just to mock them. then i will...

Now you're just being ridiculous, everybody knows your empire has only two islands.

Shiva · September 29, 2001, 21:24

Just remember if you check the "Flat Earth" box to be careful not to fall off the side

KrazyHorse · September 29, 2001, 22:34

Ignore my earlier post; there are no huts!

Mongoloid Cow · September 29, 2001, 23:24

Don't huts sprout barbarians until you destroy them and then get the free settler / unit / city / nothing / gold / tech / enemy barbarian horde or something like that, and then a new hut appears in the fog of war? I thought someone from Firaxis said that...

Mongoloid Cow · September 29, 2001, 23:26

On the topic, I would prabably build a few scouting and attacking units straight off, destroy those nearby civs and enslave their workers to connect my empire together, then I would work on culture, trade and diplomacy.

Sarxis · September 29, 2001, 23:27

It really just depends on too many factors to state a simple answer to this question.

I just don't know.

KrazyHorse · September 29, 2001, 23:28

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Originally posted by Mongoloid Cow
Don't huts sprout barbarians until you destroy them and then get the free settler / unit / city / nothing / gold / tech / enemy barbarian horde or something like that, and then a new hut appears in the fog of war? I thought someone from Firaxis said that...

Well, I knew about "barbarian encampments", but I didn't realise that it had been stated that they gave you something for destroying them.

Mongoloid Cow · September 29, 2001, 23:31

I saw it on one of these forums over about the past fortnight, I can't remember idf it was a Firaxian or not.

September 30, 2001, 03:48

A recurring 'goodie' hut doesn't exist and won't exist. The 'barbarian encampment' does, but you'll not find any goodies there. It wouldn't make any sense to have it that way, a botomless well of goodies just waiting to be had!

KrazyHorse · September 30, 2001, 03:51

Why would it be a bottomless well of goodies?

I know that if you manage to enter a barb encampment, it's destroyed forever.

This info was handed out by a firaxian a couple of weeks ago.

I don't see the major problem with being given a bonus for killing off a tribe of barbs. Maybe you should be given a settler or worker for doing so.

Stuie · September 30, 2001, 08:30

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Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Well, I knew about "barbarian encampments", but I didn't realise that it had been stated that they gave you something for destroying them.

If you look at the civ specific abilities table (http://www.civ3.com/devupdate_civspecific.cfm) Effect 1 for Expansionist is "Better stuff from barbarian villages." This implies that you get "stuff" from barbarian villages. However, that means you have to attack the barbarians. No more freebies! I like this MUCH better than the old "goodie huts".

Skanky Burns · September 30, 2001, 09:10

It makes sense too. If there are barbarian tribes around, they'd be off pillaging and looting all day long, and bringing that loot back to their village. Then, when you destroy their village, you discover all the loot they've gathered

HalfLotus · September 30, 2001, 14:05

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Originally posted by aebbeka
This is crazy! The game won't even be out for a month and you guys are already making detailed plans about your first game!

I second that.

manofthehour · September 30, 2001, 14:34

Do you start with 2 settlers or 1?

Sava · September 30, 2001, 14:39

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Originally posted by UberKruX
... and then on my 183rd turn i will goto Rome and build a musketman, and found a new city on the third island of my empire and name it "The Zulu Suck A$$" just to mock them. then i will...

LOL Uber

I'll probably go phalanx/warrior, phalanx/warrior, settlers, worker, phalanx/warrior, settler, wonder, temple, granary(or Pyramids). I like to build 2 cities from each city so that I expand exponentially. After the wonder, I'd go with an offensive unit and I would start wreaking havoc. The first game of Civ 3 I play is going to be a pure conquering-fest. F#$% all this wussy diplomatic/cultural hippy crap.

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Xmudder · September 30, 2001, 15:19

Well, I intend to play expansionist, so I'll start out with pottery. It takes 20 food (10 turns at 2 shields/turn) to grow to size to, and another 20 food (10 turns at 3 shields / turn) to grow to size 3 (Washington in the Civ 3 video is size 2 and had a 20 food growth box).

So the only way to get my granary (60 shields) before size 3 is to rush-buy it or play industrious (probably +1 shield in home square; commercial doubles commerce in home square). Then I'll build a temple, and then workers and settlers, with the odd military unit or city improvement thrown in.

Another issue is that if you build a settler and drop your cities size down to a 1 or 2, and have a granary, you will immediately jump up a size (your granary will always have at least 20 food in it).

There are still goddie huts, now called barbarian villiages. I saw a unit enter one in the video, and a Firaxian talked about finding metallurgy in one. I think that a goddie hut may well turn into a barbarian settlement from time to time, which must be smashed militarily... and will then re-spawn somewhere in the fog of war.

It will be my scout's job to recruit my army. I just wonder if the expansionist advantage is as useful as making Ponce De Leon one of my founding fathers was in Colonization.