What type of world do you like

MPatton · March 31, 2003, 15:48

Do you like archialpago, continents, or Pangea?

MPatton · March 31, 2003, 15:58

I like Pangea the best. With the others you might wind up like Robinsion caruso and have to restart. With the others sometimes you get a big island and sometimes you get alittle one. With Pangea you get a very big one and can begin attacking in the Acient age. Besides you get to use rails, and any continent wonder to its fullest. It usually is not a complete pangea I had a whole civ on an austrailia looking and sized island. However I usaully have to go a long ways to get my iron like next to another Civ to get it

Ephesos · March 31, 2003, 16:20

I personally like achipelagoes, since they're more difficult, and because they offer better defense (I can get pretty paranoid

) Of course, it's always nice to do a continents game. Just recently, as the Babylonians (5 AI's -one dead now- small, warm, temp, raging) I basically got a continent to myself and the Persians (they're dead now

) and it is huge!!! I got a peaceful period of intense expansion, while the other 4 civs tried to kill each other. Now, however, they're trying to move in to my continent...

Catt · March 31, 2003, 18:33

I voted random because I like the excitemtn of not knowing what's out there and then tailoring my game to the circumstances at hand.

Catt

vmxa1 · March 31, 2003, 19:20

Pangea for me, as little water as possible.

badams52 · March 31, 2003, 19:40

I agree with Catt, though if I happen to be an an archipelago, I might restart.

monkeyman · March 31, 2003, 19:46

Random for me too...

Sometimes it's really crazy though. Last game as Celts (Standard,Monarch) I started on a Australian-size, all-tundra island by myself(the rest of the world was two huge continents). It was a struggle get into second place by retirement time. Missed the spaceship launch by 5 turns!!!! Lots of things I should've done differenently, but why repeat a game and all that. This game OTOH, Aztecs (Standard, Monarch), I start on a huge continent (continents map again). Until ~200BC it was Jaguar Warrior insanity, but very easy going warmongering-type action. Now, it's build, secure resources. It's ~1000AD and my score is >double the nearest competitor.

Ok, so both my examples were continents maps, but I think the first game would have been easier if the rest of the world were on islands and if I knew that from the beginning. It's the not knowing that gets ya.

--mm

Nor Me · March 31, 2003, 21:28

Continents. On archipelago, there's no danger of being attacked and on a pangea it's too easy to use diplomacy to win. But random's nice for the start.

Worthingtons · March 31, 2003, 21:46

I always used to be a Continent's person, but I've had a lot of warmongering fun on Pangea. My main problem with Continents is that they are all completly filled out by the time you discover the other ones. I also dont like the difficulty it makes for waging war accross continents - it's basically not remotly feasable until late modern era.

badams52 · March 31, 2003, 23:24

I believe in the real history, when North/South America was found it was already settled/filled too.

And I would beg to differ on that last point. I have used galleys with cavalry to wage war on the other continent. Once you have airports, waging war across continents is easy. BTW, you think it was easy in real life to wage war across continents before the modern era?

epics · April 1, 2003, 01:00

Pangea !!!
I like the hords of my angry soldiers moving across the map waging war on every civ they meet. And after that there is planty of room to expand.
My soldiers don't know how to swim so I avoid archpelago

vmxa1 · April 1, 2003, 01:19

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Originally posted by Nor Me
Continents. On archipelago, there's no danger of being attacked and on a pangea it's too easy to use diplomacy to win. But random's nice for the start.

You could be rigth, but I only enable Dominate and Conquer. No Un, no culture, no space.

yxhuvud · April 1, 2003, 13:17

I always do random.

While I like pangaea really much, the advancement in tech is somewhat too fast for my taste..

.. on deity at least. The problem is not as great at lower difficulties

Cruddy · April 2, 2003, 13:08

Archipelago - Always!

Personally I love building navies and staging invasions - the AI is TERRIBLE at controlling naval forces compared to a human (or even to Civ2, which I found a lot harder).

Haven't got PTW yet, as I don't have broadband and use the net a lot for education - but one day, I'll be out there, looking for my next Trafalgar...

Master Zen · April 2, 2003, 13:33

Pangaea for MP defenitely. Random for SP although I do like continents...

Fosse · April 2, 2003, 20:10

It's almost always continents, unless I decide to start a huge game... then archipelago.

Jethro83 · April 2, 2003, 20:20

I always play on continents. Once I've taken my entire landmass, I'm still left with potential trading partners abroad. And I seem to enjoy being the diplomat in the late game (perhaps because late game wars are so ridiculously easy).

King_Henry · April 2, 2003, 20:35

Pangaea all ways. Continents sometimes, but I might be stuck in a bloodbath with no place to expand. Archpelago will often suck because of no resources, small landmass etc. Often I can get a huge military up in the early game and destroy a few neighbors early. Pangaea hands down.

Konquest02 · April 2, 2003, 20:37

Give me a random start and I'll be happy... I like the joy of discovering in what kind of world I am...

epics · April 3, 2003, 00:55

how do you deal with corruption on archipelagos? islands must be far away from each other so very few cities are productive the rest just useless

bongo · April 3, 2003, 04:59

I choose ranom, like many others I prefer the thrill of not knowing what my game will be like. Finding out is part of the fun

Menlas · April 3, 2003, 05:56

Archipelago, always. With continents or pangea you have to do endless wars, and war in Civ3 is quickly boring IMO.

Ephesos · April 3, 2003, 15:41

Thank you, finally someone agrees with me. I can quite easily bonk some heads in my continents games, except when there's more than three fronts in my war (which actually happened recently).

Archipelago provides a nice challenge, and it also allows you to build up peacefully before you run into the moronic AI (possibly a bad side, I know). The AI really can't seem to handle Archipelagoes occasionally, does anyone elso notice this?

Mountain Sage · April 4, 2003, 04:50

MPatton,

Archialpago, Robinson caruso...

Shouldn't you be smoking and/or drinking only on week-ends???

More seriously: mainly archipelago on a huge map. The early exploration and the logistics are sometimes really challenging (like moving 40+ knights).

Epics: play a commercial civ. Less corruption. Useless cities? Not with the French. For other civs, put a temple, a harbor and let them build naval units.

Wazell · April 4, 2003, 06:55

Random, for the excitement factor, and because all options are very playable.

Quasar1011 · May 3, 2003, 18:33

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Originally posted by Rothy
My main problem with Continents is that they are all completly filled out by the time you discover the other ones.

You should try my Betelgeuse map. I made 2 continents, placing 16 civs on one continent, and none on the other!

Can you say land rush?

It's still in the files section.

PrinceBimz · May 6, 2003, 16:36

I select RANDOM for everything! The nations, the climates and everything else. I am talking every last option I select is set to random. It makes for an extremely different and interesting game everytime. You won't know for a while if you are on an islands map or continents or whatever. Usually I play on standard or large maps but sometimes I will play all the other sizes too. Also I play on either Regent or Monarch levels.

Cort Haus · May 7, 2003, 13:07

Pangea, atm. I like to meet everyone quckly, trade techs and know what's going on everywhere. Used to play Lighthouse-Powered 'pelago games to control the sea.

Blaupanzer · May 7, 2003, 14:57

The Europe map in the PTW scenarios is an excellent map for builders. Lots of luxuries and resources.

Daz · May 8, 2003, 05:04

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Archialpago, Robinson caruso...

rofl

Poll is closed?! Why....?

Anyway, I like archipelago cause I want to keep contact to a minimum as long as possible.