civ 3 - conquests using TML3
 

Greatest game ever made?


Mod makes it better?


Just wondering what you all thought...

I don't know what TML3 is but I recently got back into playing CIV III. I'm now looking to pick up Conquests as it should add a bit.

It's old hat, but it's the best tried and true computer strategy game of all time.

I still love it, I'm still addicted, and mostly I'm afraid to start it up because then the "One more turn.....one more turn.....okay, as soon as the enemy is defeated...." syndrome starts.

http://www.ccj39.com/civ3modpacks.php


It is a completed mod, which adds a TON of new civs. If you pick huge world you can play against a TON of other civs. A TON of new units, ie. Suicide Bombers (yuck). But it made the game even better.

You'll swear by it.

Wow, thanks for the link. I think it may be time to reinstall Conquests...

Conquests is great. It makes Civ III what it should have been all along.

there are new resources like Cannabis, new gov'ts. Islamic republic, for example....its pretty awesome, but look out for prophets and monks or youll be starting the first civ over in no time.

Interesting. I just completed a game a couple of weeks ago, i guess I will have try out this mod and report back.

I just played again as well. The whole corruption/waste issue is still a big turn-off for me. I hate cities with one shield that could produce twenty. Even with courthouses and police stations they still are at 95% corruption/waste. It's impossible to create large empires in this game.

I tried to get into Civ II but it kept conspiring against me.

1. Like JPhillips, the corruption just killed any empire-buiding I may have wanted to do. I just never understood the logic of having that much corruption in the game for that long of a time period.

2. It kept crashing to the desktop, usually once I got to around 1700. Two versions. I never have figured it out. No warnings, nothing. And I never could get a response out of Firaxis. Nothing else does it, either. I finally threw my Collector's Set in the trash out of frustration.

I still prefer Alpha Centauri, though I don't have a copy anymore and I can't find it in stores. Or Call to Power II. Does anyone have either one they want to send me? :)

Best Buy here had a copy of SMAC (possibly the planetary pack with SMAC-X, don't know) as part of a "laptop pack" of games to play "on the go".

Edit: I think the biggest question with corruption in Civ3 is whether it's set at the right point for the map sizes and number of opponents. I think it's meant to be a balancing mechanism to keep civs from getting too big.

What form of government do you use? Communism really cuts corruption down a lot. I think democracy may cut it down some, too, but it's been a while so I don't remember.