02-11-2003 12:13									#1
	Very Confused Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

just picked up MOO3 not too long ago, but i can't make heads or tails of it. the tutorial is entirely greek to me, and i can't be assed to suffer through a few games to figure things out. can someone direct me a tutorial in plain english?

	02-11-2003 22:33									#2
	Get a bigger avatar today!

http://www.ina-community.com/forums...php?forumid=278

read whichever thread you feel you need, one tip, don't play humans, they suck baddly.

	02-11-2003 23:54									#3
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

well there was my first mistake.

	03-11-2003 03:46									#4
	Put an end to popups!

Same here.

Once you get better you will be able to win with their limited point selection, but it requires tricking the ai into actually building warships, getting just the right techs,etc.

You need to build ships 3 hull sizes less then the biggest hull size you can build, you need to select orignal creativity and even then you might not get the techs you need. Terraforming,industry overdriving, and science overdriving techs are critical as are industry and research techs. These groups of techs are ALWAYS the ones that get cut from the tree, be assured that you will get crap beam 1, crap beam 2, ... crap beam 100, but you'll likely not get all the terraforming or industry techs.

On the other hand you could pick evon with superior manufacturing,superior research,superior environment,natural engineering,tolerant,etc,etc,etc and not worry about what techs you get from creativity(evon can only select adaptive).

	03-11-2003 04:23									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Another thing about ship building, The ai doesn't see the big picture and will only choose the cheapest warship(recon,pd most likely), so what I do is just design one ship type(Recon), and put missiles,fighters,and beam weapons on that ship. This also eliminates the cat herding feeling of trying to move IF,Carrier,SR & LR fleets in step(the IF & Carrier's run away despite the presence of escort ships while the SR and LR bravely charge into the line of fire,very difficult to stop.).