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Civilization III: Gameplay, features, rules, tips What are the benefits of a expansionist civ? Are there nukes in CivIII? What are the effects of a nuclear hit? I know I need a wonder before making nukes, the Manhattan Project. Is it a major or minor wonder? Can I load nukes into subs? Do I need special resources for building nukes? Is there any way to prevent a nuclear attack on my cities? Is MAD (cold war Mutual Assured Destruction) implemented? Are nukes underpowered or just right? What good are the cruise missles if they are an air unit and you can't put them on ships? Has firepower really been taken out of Civ3? Why can't I disband cities with settlers like Civ 2? Why doesn't a World Wonder in conquered city produce any culture for my civ after I conquered it even though in the manual it say's that I should get the benefits now? How do I make Great Leaders come about? I just got a Great Leader(GL). Now what am I supposed to do with him/her?? I have an army, but no ones in it?? What do I do?? I have 3 units in my army, but I have seen the enemy with a 4 unit army. How do I get that many in my army? Can I upgrade units in my army? If I build an army, can I move it to another city before loading units into it? If I build an army, use it, and then build the Pentagon, can I add a fourth unit to it? Civ-A has a Mutual Protection Pact with Civ-B, and Civ-A attacks you. Is Civ-B going to automatically going to go to war with you? When I'm talking to some countries I get more options on the diplomacy screen, like signing mutual defence policies, than with other countries. Why? Wonders like Bach's Cathedral are supposed to cover the entire continent but it doesn't. Why? How can I build up a new town infrastructure really fast without spending lots of money? Settlers from powers I do not want to go to war with keep invading "my" territory to plant new settlements. How do I stop them? Help, half my Civ 2 terraforming options have disappeared! Where are they? Will resources change or disappear if I cut down these trees or jungle? Does it matter what sort of tile I found my city on? What can I do when a belligerent civ demands ridiculous things from me like all my gold or my territory map. If I refuse they'll declare war on me and I can't afford to go to war right now. The computer always makes unreasonable demands for its tech or luxuries. How can I get my own back? Once you've started trading a resource, can you stop the trade or does it go for all time? Is there any way to build an improvement while a city is in revolt or disorder? I can’t ever seem to trade for an important resource like oil. Why? Is this a bug? Engineers were in Civ 2, but now it seems im stuck with those Skanky workers. Why?? I'm power-hungry. I want to increase the speed of my workers even more. How can I?? What is REXing? What is pop-rushing? Do fresh water squares exist? All I see are coastal squares. I just saw a civ with an irrigated square with no water next to it, and before electricity! How is this possible? I'm investing all into Tech, how the heck is the AI keeping up with me so well? No matter how high I set my research rate, I can't discover new techs in any faster than 4 turns, or any slower than 32 turns [40 post-patch]. What's going on? Why can't I destroy units with bombardment? Why is corruption so high? How can I counter this corruption? Why can't I build Wonder X in my city? It's greyed out in the pop-up. How can I get a fully-improved city with an odd number of food to stop going through annoying periods of growth/starvation? How is this one coastal square producing one extra commerce? How can I cut off an enemy civ's strategic resource supply? When you defeat an enemy city, do you still steal a tech improvement like in Civ2? My people are unhappy, the ungrateful scum. How do i find out why? What does each reasoning mean? How do you stop people from being unhappy?? Can you have a naval blockade? Can you blockade by blocking roads? Why do small, weak civilizations attack me randomly? Why is there no culture, or cultural buildings in cities i'v conquered? Do you have any advice on hostile barbarian tribes? What exactly is a "Golden Age?" and what am I supposed to do about it? I've conquered all civilizations but for some reason I can not find the last city of the final civ. I have gone over the entire map with a microscope but I can not find the Persians. I can have a dialog with them but they are nowhere to be found. How do I prevent a City from flipping to control of another civ, and what is the formula for determining the chance this will occur?

Civilization III: Interface Where is a list of all keyboard shortcuts? Where can I find a manual online? How does one upgrade a unit? How does one upgrade all the units of one type? I didn't change governments when I was offered the chance after researching it, now I can't. Why? I'm sick of going into the city screen to change a city's production! I'm playing a game with sixteen civs. I can't see all the civs faces in the Foreign Advisor. What to do? Did they take the goto city command out of Civ 3? I've got blue sparks and explosions above some of my cities. What is going on?? I've got orange stuff on the ground near my city. What is it?? How do i speed up my allies movements between turns?? How do I get to the Preferences menu?? Why aren't the people building my palace for me? I am doing great in this game. How do I contact Civs which I can't see on the map, but I have been introduced to by other Civs? How do you establish an embassy with another civ? How do you place a spy into an embassy? How do you check embassies after you build them? Next to my city name, there is the population number. It is sometimes red, sometimes yellow, and sometimes red. What does this mean? Also, there is sometimes a white rectangle surrounding said number. What does IT mean? How do I create a building queue in a city? Is there a way to "wake" all units of a kind. Say, I am at peace, I fortify my tanks. War breaks out, I want to wake them. Do I have to wake each one of them? How can I see other civs in the Foreign Advisor screen? I'm tired of clicking on the "GoTo" command for my units and/or click/mouse-dragging the unit to it's destination. Is there a faster way to contact another civ than using the foreign advisor screen? Can workers be put on pollution clean-up duty only? Is there a keystroke equivalent to clicking the "next city" and "previous city" buttons from the City Screen?

Civilization III: Customization Why do the changes I make in the editor not work when I start a new game? How do i get 16 civs in a smaller map? The Editor seems crippled! There is pollution everywhere! I there any way to make a map flat? How do I add more units to the game?

Civilization III: Bugs, technical questions How do I change my resolution to remain constantly parallel to my desktop resolution? Why do I see these strange lines flicking on my monitor when I play civ 3 or "out of scan frequency monitor error"? This doesn’t happen with any other game? The music sounds funny The music is too repetitive I want to listen to CDs but Civilization CD is in there One of my workers tried to enter one of my cities and was attacked and killed by the troops garrisoned there. I'm taking friendly fire! What gives?