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Settler
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I'm playing Civ 3 with Conquests loaded. During a turn, the turn begins with a unit highlighted. Now, of course I can choose instead to scroll around the map, and select a different unit to give orders to. But as soon as I do, the map "snaps" to that unit it began with. The game seems to have in mind some kind of list, and it wants to force me to give orders to the units in this list. However, if I go with the flow, and accept what the computer shoves at me, this is what happens: the computer begins the turn with a unit highlighted. I look at the immediate vicinity, my goals in that area of the map, my units, including those stacked with the currently-highlighted-unit. I then give orders to the unit accordingly. The unit performs the orders. Now, at this point, I'd like to give similar orders to units NEAR this one. But instead of letting me do that, the computer SNAP JUMPS the map focus to a unit far away.....first, it is extremely disorienting, after having spent three or four minutes studying a specific map region, to suddenly be looking at a totally different area. Second, I don't want to have to remember my earlier plans and considerations.....I want to execute orders in the area I STARTED in, with all the units in that area, usually units that are stacked with the one the computer selected to begin the turn. If I take things in the order that the computer selects them, I'm going to forget things, and make mistakes. I've also noticed that this list the computer has is limited. If I go with the flow, and give orders to the units in the list, the computer will suddenly shift over to the enemies turn, BEFORE I am able to give orders to my OTHER units. So, my simple question is, how do I completely shut off this feature of the game? I want to spend a turn selecting as I choose, not as the computer chooses. And don't tell me to select as I wish by scrolling around the map! The game will allow you to select a unit, execute orders....and then will STILL snap you to the next unit in the list it has selected!
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Wibble!
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And don't tell me to select as I wish by scrolling around the map! In which case you're screwed, as that's the only option 
But seriously, units tend to go in roughly the order they were used the previous turn I find, at least large groups do. It's something you just have to live with. I don't know if it's just the way you play, but I know roughly what I have where and what my aims are, so I know what I'm trying to achieve with any of my units anywhere on the map, so I'm not that bothered about which unit the AI think I should be moving next.
I suppose what you can do is press 'w' [wait] on any unit that isn't in the area you're currently trying to organise. This throws it to the end of the unit queue and just issue orders to the units in the area, then go on to a different area. You can press 'w' for any unit as many times as you want.
Edit: If you are at war, marching on a city and have a large stack of units, press Ctl and J [I think that's it] and you'll be able to move the whole stack as one. This saves you going back to the same spot to tell units to do the same thing.
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