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HalfLotus is offline HalfLotus
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Sep 2001
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Originally posted by Blunderdog
I'm at work, so if this is in the manual, shoot me. Is there any way to find out when your trade agreements end? Or when you can end them without starting a war?


Go to bargaining table with another leader.
On the bottom of screen is "clear table", "new", active". Click "active" to see current agreements with leader. I dont recall if it shows # of turns though. Would check if I wasnt at work.

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when you're holdding down mouse1 to make a goto for a unit, you can cancel goto command by clicking mouse2 while you're holdding down mouse1

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Hold down the 'shift' key during computer move phases, and they move at high speed and without sound effects.

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[bump]

Also, Chumley, where are you? Get your finger out and update the list in your first message!

Chow Yun Fat is offline Chow Yun Fat
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Feb 2000
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  Old Post 04-11-2001 22:39
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Lower-right hand corner Infobox

small D button, Conduct diplomacy
small E button, Espionage and establish embassy
small P button, Palace view
small H button, History

Whiplashr is offline Whiplashr
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I remember reading somehwere in the manual that
treaties / agreements automatically come up for
review or renewal after 20 turns.

Jim

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Nov 2001
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New Command For Units!

When you have a Military or any other unit selected that can move of its own free will..

Pree E to Have it explore all black area's.

*works for military and sea units, Trimeirs /sp? will stay close to the land and not get themself automatically killed by traveling to far off coast*

MxM is offline MxM
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  Old Post 05-11-2001 00:26
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quote:
Originally posted by chumly

F4: Foreign Advisor:
Double click on a civ to get info. Use this to plan out your diplomatic alliances against rival civs, or to get advance warning of alliances in place, so you don't find yourself in a 3-1 situation.

Actually double click contacts that civ. I wonder if you can get additional information about civ other then what treaties it has with other civs. The info which I can not find is the relation between other civs (like polite, angry etc.) Also I can not find info on trade between other civs, like what is traded in when will it expire.

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Oct 2001
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  Old Post 05-11-2001 06:28
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quote:
Originally posted by Whiplashr
I remember reading somehwere in the manual that
treaties / agreements automatically come up for
review or renewal after 20 turns.

Jim


Not true. If the AI wants to cancel it, it will call you up. If it likes the deal, it will shut up unless you bring it up. Use the steps mentioned above by HalfLotus, and yes, it shows turns remaining as a (Number) before the deal... if no number, it can be peacefully cancelled by clicking on it. Then saying never mind.

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This one's probably known to everyone but I didn't catch it after reading the manual and discovered it by chance.

If you get approached by another Civ and you say you'll meet with him you get asked a question and have to accept or decline. A lot of times I wished I could get away from the dialog and check some info first before answering. Just click on the foreign advisor's head and you'll get full access to all advisors.

Cool.

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Also, Chumley, where are you?


I'm here, I'm here. Reformatting the thing again, I'm trying to decide if I should put EVERY hotkey, or just the most commonly used ones. Opinions?

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quote:
Originally posted by Peterk
This one's probably known to everyone but I didn't catch it after reading the manual and discovered it by chance.

If you get approached by another Civ and you say you'll meet with him you get asked a question and have to accept or decline. A lot of times I wished I could get away from the dialog and check some info first before answering. Just click on the foreign advisor's head and you'll get full access to all advisors.

Cool.


i dont understand this, can u rephrase it please?

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> i dont understand this, can u rephrase it please?

You can go check up info while another civ is waiting for an answer to a proposal he made by dbl-clicking on the foreign ministers head. In Civ2 you couldn't - you had to answer right away.

SirSebastian is offline SirSebastian
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Ugh.... Also.. my text is messed up and I'm not sure I can cancel these per turn agreements I have... Stuck with -21 per turn... eek... it's been like 50 turns. (Edited: Errr.. woah... it just seemed to be 50 =P)

New/Active/Clear Table are not active things for me to click on... how sad... argh.. need to fix my text somehow

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apparently ctrl-M changes your mobilitzation...whatever that is...I havnt got it to work but its in the manual..

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apparently ctrl-M changes your mobilitzation...whatever that is...I havnt got it to work but its in the manual..


Normal or wartime mobilization. Details in the Civilopedia.

LaRusso is offline LaRusso
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May 2001
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Originally posted by IBNobody
You forgot...

CTRL-E - Establish Embassies
CTRL+SHIFT+E - Plant Spy
SHIFT+E - Conduct Espionage

BTW: The espionage commands are TERRIBLE. If you don't know the hotkey, you can't plant spies. ::grumbles::

- Nobody


um, you just double click on the intelligence agency icon in the city you've built it in, i guess...it took me some time to figure it out

SGB is offline SGB
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will ctrl-N do railroads as well?

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Sep 2001
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Pollutionis wrong it's
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Great thread... I love the Shift-N command (haven't tried it yet)
But why are those commands not in the interfase as in SMAC?

Soren: I visit the cities less and less. Never for changing production. Only for taking a look or changing the work tiles.

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Nov 2001
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It's funny that all of these tips are in the manual...some of the people who started to immediately flame Civ3 and claim it is "broken" because they can't figure out how to do this or that were saying "the manual is crap! completely useless!"

adaMada is offline adaMada
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quote:
Originally posted by Soren Johnson Firaxis


oh, I also wanted to mention that the interface is designed so that you do not have to ever go to the city screen if you don't want to (in fact, that is how I play...) I am curious if anyone has been playing this way, or have the short-cuts been hidden too well?


I've been trying to avoid going into the city screen whenever I can -- now I'm getting into the habit of shift-right clicking (which was covered in the readme, btw ), it's getting a lot better... not to say that is isn't normally a few clicks or look-ups-to-find-key-command's too many, but I'm managing to stay out of the city screen for everything except city-related functions.

-- adaMada

PS: Soren/Firaxis/whoever's idea it was to make the shift-right-click change production command: One word -- Thanks!!!

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I found another hotkey...do not know if someone already mentioned this one....it is used within the diplomacy screen....
someone complained that if you are playing w/all 16 civs or at least more than 8 you cannot view their portrait in the dip. screen therefore you cannot see what peace agreements or wars etc they may have w/other countries...i found that you can change which civs showup in the dip screen by holding down ctrl shift first then right clicing on a the portrait of a civ that you want to change...after that a list will pop up and you pick which civ you want to show on the dip screen....i thought that was pretty handy...however can be very time consuming..i think........but it helps when you are playing agaisnt more than 8 civs...............................GenTomGun

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Great post...I thank you for the tips!

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All I have to say is great job man. This stuff really is usefull. Didnt realize you could disband update units from the Military Advisor screen. This saves so much time.

THANK YOU.

Knasboll is offline Knasboll
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Ctrl-G to revolt. Shift-U (or was that Ctrl-U?) when a unit is active to upgrade all similar units.

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quote:
Originally posted by Knasboll
Ctrl-G to revolt. Shift-U (or was that Ctrl-U?) when a unit is active to upgrade all similar units.


It's shift-U for all units, u for an individual unit.

Keep up the good work all :d: :d:!

-- adaMada

PS: If you're finding a lot of this is all new to you, I highly suggest reading the key-command chart in the manual and also the readme that came with the game -- I did both, and there's only been about one supprise as to what is doable so far for me, though I couldn't always remember the exact keys...

 
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