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Number of units limitation

ionbeam — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:30:03 GMT

Hi guys, I am new to this forum, but not new to CIV games. I was wondering if there is any workaround for the unit limitation in CIVIII. I was playing a game of Conquests with a really huge map and only 2 AI opponents so I had plenty of time to expand and build. Being one who likes to conquer, I was building up my armies for a really big push and suddenly discovered I could not build any more units. After some investigation, I deduced that there must be some kind of limitation on the number of units allowed per player or game. Is there any mod or cheat that anyone knows of that will allow me to dispense with this limitation or is this a hardcoded feature of the game. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Unit creation Help Needed

Fundraiser — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:53:01 GMT

I am reposting this from Tips Section. Any help would be appreciated.

I played III a long time ago and am now returning to it. I have a large printed tutoral from a site called bclay.com on how to add things such as units. I can't log in there anymore and I lost all my old personally created units and need some direction on their creation, not in the editor but in the actual unit file file. Example:

Warrior Notes File:

ATTACK1=WarriorAttackA.flc
ATTACK2=WarriorAttackB.flc
ATTACK3=

As I remember we had to add something to the file to make it work for a newly created unit. I am creating a warrior called a brave.

Brave Notes File:

ATTACK1=/WarriorAttackA.flc/WarriorAttackA.flc

It looked something like this. Any help you could be I would appreciate it.

is there a full guide available for creating historical maps ?

ovilir — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:08:29 GMT

I have seen lots of historical custom made maps around on different forums. I would like to try my hand at dabbling with this, but making a historical map seems to be a big mystery.

Lots of people seem to know how to do this, but so far I have not been able to find any concise information about this subject or even a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this in Civ III.

What I really need to know is how to make a map in such a way that it looks geographically correct. (sea to land ratio / shape of coastal areas / width and height...etc.)

Maybe some of you out there could give me a few pointers on how to do this ?

Many thanx in advance

Unit editor

Enraged Wargamer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:15:51 GMT

Hi everyone! :)

I'm new here but not newbie from civ games. I'm pretty disapointed with the militar side of Civ 3. I think the stats of the units are pretty unrealistic giving room for really weird combats where obsolescent units end victorious, specially from the AI side. After all the weak points of the game I still like it and I reckon it's very adictive :D, so now I'm wondering if there is a unit editor where I can edit unit stats to make them much more realistic and prevent ridiculous situations like last time I've played. Having a veteran Panzer unit destroyed in open plains by 2 Napoleonic era Cavalry units and a guerrilla special elite unit crushed by one of the same Cavalry units is not what I call realism :ermm:.

New to Civ III, need help please

torvansc — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:05:57 GMT

Hello, I am new to Civ III Complete,it's a very enjoyable game but I need assistance with a few things, would really appreciate some help...1.I have created a scenario in the editor but when I start game and go to load I can't find the scenario?.2.How do I delete a saved game?3.When I play on an island map, how do I establish sea trade routes?Thankyou

THE UNITED KINGDOM SCENERIO

ReyMandez — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:16:29 GMT

I don't know if it works for Conquest or PTW, but i know it works will for the original. ANY BUGS OR PROBLEMS, PLEASE TELL ME, I'm already working on the 1.6 patch, and i plan to go to 1.9 then work on something else.

The Scenario is that you can play as either England, France, or one of the 3 nations I edited on a very detailed UK map(with a bit of northern france). The three nations are Scotland, Whales, and Vikings. All the units up until the the Modern age have been customized a bit, some can move further, or not as far, are more expensive or stronger

all the civs can only use certain units. For example. The vikings can't build settlers. They have 4 to begin with, they have to take over enemy cities to expand, but they are the only ones with galley's and they have them available right away, allowing them to get a headstart, but then later, in the middle ages they will be at a disadvantage with less types of units available. Things like that.

To use the map, probably click save, and save it right to your scenerios folder in the Civilization III directory.

Getting Map on the Internet???

ReyMandez — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:18 GMT

So i wanna upload maps somewhere, so ppl can download them. Does anyone know where/how i can do this, for now i'm gonna post one here and i can email the file to you if you want it.

Adding custom city names: possible in Civ3 - impossible in PTW ???

ovilir — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:14:07 GMT

Hi there y'all,

I wondered how to put more city names in the game, because I found it rather stupid that after a while ( when the city list for the different civs is "depleted" ) the same city names again crop up with the prefix "new" attached to them. (Like for instance "New Persepolis" and such...)

Now I have been looking at maps on the internet to add more city names in the Civ3 editor, and it seemed to work in Civ3 all right.

But now I have found that the same thing occurs again when I want to play PTW, which I had recently bought. So I figured "let's copy and paste the custom lists I made in the Civ3 editor in the Civ3X editor and all is done".

But when I want to save the changes in the civ3X.bix file, I get a message that I can't save the changes because it is a read-only file. I didn't have that problem when I wanted to save changes in the regular Civ3Edit in the civ3mod.bic file.

So it cannot be done or am I mistaken ?

Many thanx in advance,

Ovilir

Mod install

Civ_3 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:25:31 GMT

Is there any way after you install a mod to uninstall it if you do not like it?

convert saved games to .biq

RTWolfgang — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:18:44 GMT

I just started playing Civ III and want to know if there are any patches availible to convert the game save file to a format that can be loaded into the editor. Ideally the patch could also do the reverse.

Thanks

Rise and Rule Mod

Agamemnon — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:42:04 GMT

Has anyone ever played with the Rise and Rule mod from http://civ3.bernskov.com/RaR/about.asp ?

Graphical Mods question

Agamemnon — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:08:23 GMT

Okay, dudes (and dudettes), what graphical mods do you like for Civ III ? I'm considering reinstalling Civ III (Let's just say I'm becoming disillusioned a little with cIV and want to try C3C again for old time's sake.) and was wondering what you guys like, and why?

Edit: After browsing the files database at Civfanatics, I've gotten a lot of Pounder's work, along with Snoopy's C3C terrain pack. Any others you guys can think of? URL's if you have them, please.

Civ III conquest editor question

magman — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:56:04 GMT

Greeting Warlords,

I have a question about the CIV III conquest editor.

I noticed that on the terrain selection window there are selections for certain terrain features that start with LM. These terrain features seem to be hill, mountains, forest, ect... When I place them on the map the terrain feature has a diamond with a line symbol on the feature itself. Can someone tell me what this feature is/does?

Another question. When I first created my map I put the barbarians on raging mode. Well this did not work out so well since I had mass waves of barbs running amok. So I went back into the editor and reset the barbs to sedintary, but when I restarted the map those blasted hordes of barbs are still showing up. Is there any way to edit the map to stop them showing up.

Thanks for all your help. I am loving Civ III and I really enjoy all the nice info and tips that I have been getting form the community.

TIA,

Dave

#_Re-arranging the tech-Tree_#

Calthabis — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:21:18 GMT

Hi thereIm new to hte C3C-editor but im used to be working with mapeditors so i've figured out most things ¤ THOUGH I cant see any tool for directing the very arrows in the techTree. ¤In the scenario 'Conquest...Middle Earth' it's done so I know its possible :rolleyes: Anyone???

Need help with Leaderheads

Turfcat — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:08:01 GMT

Can anyone help me please?

I often download leaderheads to implement into my mods. If there the ten normal files in a zipped folder .hap .cult .kis etc. I have no problem. However sometimes it's a single file (normally a .rar) Is there anyway I can implement this into a scenario made from civ3 conquests?:ermm:

Civ headshots

Balron1081 — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:15:23 GMT

Is there a way to change the Civ headshots? (like remove Lincoln and add a pic)?:D

ww2Global Scenario - Just finished it

somdnole — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:40:53 GMT

I need to go back and look up who did the scenario, so I know who to thank, but I just finished the WW2 Global scenario - played as the Americans, on wimpy Warlord level. Won a Domination victory on about Turn 340, of 600. (The Japanese couldn't stand up to the British armor, and the Germans couldn't stand up to my heavy bombers.) Fighting a 2-front war as the Americans is definitely interesting....

Two hundred and ten hours out of my life, but it was a helluva lotta fun! Looking forward to trying it as the Axis now - maybe as Japan....

Adjusting units experience lvl

Seared — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:17:58 GMT

Is it possible to make all new units start at conscript experience level? All new units created in a city with a barracks would make Regular units. Veteran and elite would only be obtainable from combat?

Might be a militaristic civ's dream mod though... But I'd like to give that a try. I can make the units have more or less hp, but I can't seem to get them to start as a class lvl lower.

Austria?

lucky_foot — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:47:42 GMT

Hello,

This looked like the best place to put this question. :) I was reading the wikipedia entry about CivIII and I came across an entry that mentions Austria as a bonus Civilization, not included with the CD.

Is this true? And where would I get it to add it to the present civs?

I am going to TRY to make Civped entries

Kavukamari — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:44:54 GMT

I am going to try to make some Civilopedia entries for any new units or resources that you ppl make BUT Don't make me do any techs or new civs because I'm new at this

Creating & Editing Maps

Roger9 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:06:45 GMT

Hi Everyone-- it's been awhile since I've played Civ. I have Civ4 Conquests loaded now. The problem is, I used to be able to make my own maps using an Editor facility. Maps from scratch. Now I can't find an Editor button anywhere. In the game or in the the cotents or in the Program Files of C drive. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance for reading this. Roger9.

Changing the terrian graphics

Thendash — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:14:19 GMT

I downloaded a scenario recently and it uses the water colours terrain set and I was just woundering how to change it back to the normal terrain because I don't realy like the water colour set. If anyone could help me it'd be most appreciated. Thanks.

Age of Discovery mod

Bela — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:15:07 GMT

I'm not an expert, but surely you are. I want to use the Napoleonic Europe musketman as upgrade for the normal musketman in the Age of Discovery conquest. How can I do?

Civ III Conquests, Middle Ages

Scotty — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:15:35 GMT

I am playing my first Conquests, Middle Ages and I thought of a use for the Kings. As of the basic game they are only negative- if they get killed, the culture vanishes. But what if they had the power of a Palace? Instead of having a single Palace, have the Palace effect local to each King (that is the way it worked in the real Middle Ages). That way you could move Kings around to improve your production- it would also encourage you to risk your kings nearer enemies. In otherwords, you would have a reward/risk condition. Now that I have mentioned it, does anyone have an idea how to customize the game for that effect?

Diplomacy Edit

cartographer — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:08:45 GMT

I'm trying to create a WWII scenario and was wondering if there's a way I can edit certain civilizations to be allied.

Age of Shoguns (a new Civ3 Conquest!)

Shay — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:23:44 GMT

If Samurai combat is your thing, check out the new Age of Shoguns modpack at http://civmods.com/aosdemo.htm

Description from the website: Put on your samurai armor and lead your loyal troops into battle! You are about to enter the Golden Age of Shoguns. Honor and glory await you on the fields of war! Will you become the ultimate Shogun? Age of Shoguns (AOS), written by Shay Yates Roberts, is a dramatic expansion of the excellent Conquests Sengoku scenario written by Michael Fetterman at Firaxis Games. Age of Shoguns can be played solo or multiplayer, on land or at sea. Choose from six major Japanese clans to play. All tribes have distinct personalities, special abilities, and unique units.

Age of Piracy (a new Civ3 Conquest!)

Shay — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:20:39 GMT

If you like pirates, you might want to check out Age of Piracy, available now at http://civmods.com/aopdemo.htm

Description from the website: Run up the jolly roger and set sail for a life of infamy! You are about to enter the Golden Age of Piracy. A king's ransom awaits you on the high seas, if you're bold enough to claim it! Age of Piracy 3.0, written by Shay Yates Roberts, is unlike any mod pack you have experienced. It contains 74 new units, 46 new technologies, 26 new city improvements and 13 new wonders. It can be played solo or multiplayer, on land or at sea. Choose from eight civilizations to play, including two ruthless pirate clans. All civs have distinct personalities, special abilities, and unique units.

ok, my mod, in its baby steps

USA F-15 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:08:31 GMT

well im having some pritty bad troubles with this baby...i believe the folder is properly tied to the .biq file since my ciliopedia entery for "inn" shows on the main but not in the game, nor do the art for the civilopedia, also my new terrain for volcano which should look like a gray forest is named like one and has everything working for it is... well... still a volcano,so if anyone has any ideas, or hopefully *crosses fingers* solution,can u plz help me? :) P.S.I hope the rar. file includs both the folder and the .biqI think it does...

Terrain graphics?

USA F-15 — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:39:40 GMT

Well is there a way to acctuly change a terrains apearence on the map?anyone have any clues?

map creation

krantzbucks — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:42:25 GMT

I have been toying around with making a map of the area where I live. I have used an actual map to try to create it. The problem is that in Florida, there are no mountains, deserts, etc. (my map is really localized to the county where I live.) My real problem is trying to place resources. Whenever I try to have the computer place them for me, the editor goes to "not responding."

# New Terraintype #

Calthabis — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:05:57 GMT

Hi fella'sI need another type of mountain... which is impassable by all units. (i noticed the flag in the editor)My questions are:1 Where do I put the nice pcxfile of the mountain?2 Do there have to be the same number of defferent looks as the regular terrains?3 How do i finallt use them in my conquest?Many Thanks in advance =]

Answers to Editor Headaches

Pegasus — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:34:46 GMT

I recently, probrably just like alot of you, have been delving into the Editors of CivilizationlllComplete. This can be a real nightmare if not a down right pain in the ***!! without a road map. Up till this point at least Atari and Firaxis are not much help on the questions these Critters (Editors) raise. Seems to me a seperate Manual is required but not very likely to appear. The closest thing I've found, and indeed is very informative and detailed, is Clay's Site. www.bclay.com/tutorialsYou can also vist my Posting-"New to Civlll/Editor Problems. Where Clay posted some helpful suggestions and active links to more help.I consider the Editors Games in their own rights. Figure out how somthing works in the Editors and move to the next level. YEAH! :) Screw somthing up and start all over again. :mad: The added challenge is in not having a seperate manual just to begin! Don't get me wrong. I consider Sid and his team Geniuses, but geeeessh! How can one create such a great game, and then leave their fans to muddle thru the added Editor's on their own? I love the Challenge of getting a created Scenario or Unit, or Civ, to run smoothly. But not all of us want to, or are capable of finding files let alone create whole new files without some intelligent guidance. I think Atari, Firaxis would do well to take the time Clay obviuosly did to supply atleast a "Getting Started" manual for the varied Editors. In anycase, I'm suggesting beginners who have CivilizationlllComplete Gold start with the Civlll Editor, and procede cautiously when Editing the rules. You'll definitly need to learn how to create, move, and save files on your system. Editing Scenarios and Maps is pretty straight forward and enough of a challenge for any "average" PC user. When you start messing with customizing rules..., well, thats when the demons rear there ugly heads and say, "File could not be found...Blah, Blah,Blah." as Scipio stated so well in response to my posting. So, if your like most and are frustrated by the lack of info, check the sight out above. You'll be glad you did. I was elated by the amount of information contained there. "Throw me a bone people! I'm the Boss! I need the info!"

New To CivlllComplete/Editor Problems

Pegasus — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:34:42 GMT

Greetings to all. I've just joined this Community. I'm a proffesional Artist with "above normal Windows skills", yet what little hair I have left is being lost to figuring out how to make the various editors work! I have managed to figure out Civlll's Editor and the need to go into files and create a shortcut. And all seems well there. Playing those Scenarios I created there without much fuss and gnashing of teeth. But what perplexes me is PTW's and Conquests Editor's refusals to respond. I get the same "Blue Screen" error saying they should be run from the folder where Civlll was installed. I create shortcuts to them from the C:/Programs/Atari/CivilizationIIIComplete Folder. Then their windows open only to display a black screen. Does anyone know of a way to tame these beasts, that I'm obviously missing? Running Windows 98SE. :confused:

Merging two conquests/scenarios?

Alf — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:58:35 GMT

Hi all,Just got Civ3 complete and finished a couple of games with Conquest and now trying my hand at some modding.I am trying to edit a conquest by adding some additional civilisation advances (and their associated units + improvements) to it and I'm finding it very annoying to have to import everything I want by hand.I've tried the import feature but whatever I import [B]overwrites[/B] the original data. I'm looking for something that will [B]merge[/B] the data instead. Is there a way to do that? i.e. add some normal units from Civ3 conquest into the WW2 pacific conquest.TIA,Alf

Map Making

krantzbucks — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:43:23 GMT

How do you create a map like the scenarios in Conquests? I would like to make a map like Europe where you cannot wander from russia to spain. A map with finite boundaries on east-west as well as north-south. Is there a trick to this?

Changing the timeline

Rhyus — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:04:13 GMT

Ok. I have been playing Civ for many many years now. One of my pet-pevs about the game is how the timeline moves so quickly in the beginning and then slows down around 1900 or so. I've always wanted to set the timeline up so that it moves slower throughout the entire game, instead of just at the beginning. Is there a way to change the timeline so that it does move slower?

Head Animations

USA F-15 — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:44:49 GMT

Or not...In the Scenrios it only has a flag sometimes. I'd like to try that, do I simply put the pic of the flag instead of the animations?

Conquests Additions

Maccabeus — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:36:19 GMT

I was finally able to order Conquests today and I was thinking about all those extra tech levels and such...Would it be possible (and practical), I wonder, to create a mod that allowed you to play regular games with those extras included?

Play the Community Diplomacy.txt

Clay — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:34:11 GMT

For those interested in the Play the Community mod I've set up the following file in an effort to create a Custom diplomacy.txt so that your responses in the game can truely be your own:). The file is a word document and contains examples for each situation you'll need an answer for. You can fill out the doc and email it to me or just post it back here. If you have any questions let me know.-Clay

The Best C3C Mod Ever (based on RAR 1.0)

Scipio Africanus — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:58:50 GMT

I can't take credit for the lionshare of this mod, it is simply my own VERY slight modifications to the Rise and Rule (RAR) 1.00 mod, but for whatever reason, Kal-El and his gang had not yet activated the treasure shipments facet. In the interest of more interesting game play, I've done so in this "Scipio's Mod (Smod). I call it such simply to note that it is slightly different than the RAR, which is really what the "best ever" part is mostly attributable to (NOT me :) ). In their description, Kal-El mention this treasure shipment stuff, but it appears they had not yet figured out how to make them work properly in this version. I imagine that they will soon be putting out a RAR 1.1 version for download at their site, and that it will include these changes I've made, and probably even other amazingly great additions to the game. I have greate admiration for the awesome work they did putting together DYP and RAR, and the last thing I would ever want to do is take credit for their hard work. But in the interim, I've created a version of RAR that has treasure shipments activated and (apparently) working properly.First you'll need to download and install the RAR 1.00 mod, just go the page below and follow the instructions.[URL=http://civ3.bernskov.com/RaR/download.asp]Double Your Pleasure, Rise and Rule Page[/URL]Then simply download the .biq I've uploaded to this note, and put it in your Scenario's folder. It should work fine then (as long as you've first downloaded RAR 1.00 and made sure that IT is working). In the next note, I'll post a map "Dark Continent" which is designed to try to foster a Rennaissance Earth, Euro colonization phenomenon in which overseas trade, piracy, etc. are a key.So why did I do this?Lots of us have complained that there is no need to build a navy except for the need to escourt troop transports, and even then, it is often almost unnecessary.One solution I perceived to this, was to make the Treasure Shipment units, as in the Age of Discovery mod, a standard part of the Tech tree. Kal-El and his gang who made the Rise and Rule Mod (RAR) had evidently already beat me to this idea. That mod includes lot more strategic and/or luxury resources (tea, sugar, coffee, silver, etc.), and they had included in the 1.00 version, all the specific production buildings for producing treasure shipments based on most of these scarce resources. A city can build a production facility (e.g., Tea Growers, or Winery, or Cotton Mill) ONLY if the resource is within its radius, but you still get the general trade network-wide luxury benefit, as well as any tile-bonuses.All treasure units yield 100 gold, the greater or lesser value of the commodity is reflected in the number of turns between auto-production of a unit of that type, once the production facility is finished.More or less in historical order, I've set the Techs required to build the production facilities as follows (the Tech that causes the resource to appear is listed in parentheses [current settings on turns b/w treasure unit production is in brackets]):Gem Mine [8] requires Construction (Bronze Working)Winery [14] requires Trade (Fermentation)Fur Traders [16] requires Drama (auto)Gold Mine [16] requires Currency (Bronze Working)Coffee Growers [14] requires Crop Rotation (Wheel)Cotton Growers [12] requires Guilds (Dynasticism)Tobacco Plantation [10] requires Mercantilism (Mysticism)Spice Farm [12] requires Astronomy (Cultivation)Tea Growers [9] requires Absolutism (Aristocracy)The turns between treasure production were already set in the RAR mod.I'm keen to get suggestions from others about how badly this unbalances the game, and what additional changes could be made to fix it. The Techs requires to cause each resource to appear were already set in the RAR mod. I selected the Techs to allow the production facilities with a cursory sense for the role that these resources played in human trade throughout history, not necessarily to reflect a specific technological need to allow the production. For example, while the know-how to do large-scale Fur Trading has been part of human culture from the beginning, the requisite social milieu in which Fur Trading would become a profitable enterprise depended (one might argue?) on their being a middle class of sorts. As such, I've set Fur Trader production facility to depend on the Tech Drama, which one might argue represents a watershed point in ancient history at which point, sufficient surplus production capacity existed that effort could be expended on artistic activities that a kind of middle class would would participate in. Similar thing for Spice Farm. Obviously, a knowledge of Astronomy is not necessary for large-scale spice growing, but the point is to link spice to the Rennaissance, as it was on Earth. Spice was the PRIMARY motive for overseas exploration by the European kingdoms. In the other instances where the requisite tech seems odd, I've made similar determinations, but I'm open to suggestions about how to make it better.I suspect that some of the prodution times need to be slowed down quite a bit so as not to upset game balance.