I really want to go back and play Civ3 again for some reason. Is this a bad idea?
>>2424341You remember it being really good? Why not keep those memories as they are instead of challenging the nostalgia with reality?
>>2424591probably because he wants to play it, and also because realizing a game wasn't as good as you remembered it doesn't retroactively make your memories of it bad
Civ III was a good game. I went back and played it recently because I was fairly young when I played it the first time and didn't understand a lot of the mechanics. For example I always built cities on plains and cut down ever single forest to make farms, then wondered why it took 40 turns to build anything.
>>2424658Well, at least you sort of understood that mass-deforestation is how you win civ. Nature is the enemy. Especially jungles/rainforests.
>>2424591you know, maybe it wasn't so badbetter pop management, ICS (good), being able to bomb tile improvements, climate change are features that newer civs sorely missthe combat system sucks ass though
>>2424658based draftchad
>>2424341depends on if you can get past how utterly awful the corruption mechanic was>not building your cities in two perfectly spaced rings and then icsing everything else
>>2424341>I really want to go back and play Civ3Then just play it? Personally I love the way old Civs are, like easy to play but hard to master. And the historical maps are really cool, I like how so many units have a historical name attached to them. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but they make it feel so much more immersive.
>>2425655doomstacks, ai plopping cities in that 2 small squares and fucking over everything...
>>2424341It's a great idea
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>>2426032>I'm not sure how accurate it isit's not
Civ 3 is great. Has some annoying parts in it but so do all games in the series. It's aged fairly gracefully.
>>2424341https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/c3x.28759/Be sure to get this exe mod that adds a bunch of QOL improvements, like preventing the AI from violating your borders with settler spam.
>>2426249you know you can do the same thing, right?and have you tried bombing doomstacks?
>>2427297>preventing the AI from violating your borders with settler spamDays without anti-Semitism on /vst/: 0
>>2424341its better than anything after VIn some ways, its better than IV and V
>>2424591It still holds up, I quite like it. I’ve always loved this one, played it on launch and still check it out once every year or so.
>>2426249People really exaggerate on doomstacks. I wasn’t a fan myself but they were just annoying, not broken.
>>2424341only if you're too lazy to fix up the UI on a modern machine, last I checked it was fucky I think with diplomacy or notices I forgot what
>>2427297get C3X districts toohttps://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/c3x-districts.700590/
>>2424341No. Play with a few friends if you can, I've had a few entertaining plays with mine just a few years ago.
>>2429665>>2424341There is Discord multiplayer community.https://civplayersciv3league.com/
I remember all the pollution cleanup and desire to replay evaporates
>>2430369I remember having to manage 30+ cities late game and my desire to play evaporates
>>2429603The districts mod is part of C3X. You don't need to download anything separately, just enable it in the configuration file.
>>2427297>preventing the AI from violating your borders with settler spam.Skill issue. Why does everything need to be made easier?>>2429603Why would I want districts? The beauty of Civ3 is that it isn't a bloated mess like subsequent titles in the series
The Heroes 3 and LotR mods are sick, the former in particular really transforms the game. but it's a pain in the ass switching between them. With civ4 thankfully you don't have to swap anything in and out
Well, I went and did it. Even got my first Regent win even if it was kind of a cheap one.
>>2430902>Skill issueyes, the ai is playing poorly in a very annoying manner. it should play well instead.
>>2424663>byzantine city sitting right on top of a major strait>it's named fucking dyrrachiumanon pls
