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What kind of world do you like
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| archialago |
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5 |
15.15% |
| Continents |
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15 |
45.45% |
| Pangea |
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18.18% |
| random |
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7 |
21.21% |
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33 voters |
100% |
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MPatton
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Houston,TX
Mar 2003
time: 05:27
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Do you like archialpago, continents, or Pangea?
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MPatton
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Houston,TX
Mar 2003
time: 05:27
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I like Pangea the best. With the others you might wind up like Robinsion caruso and have to restart. With the others sometimes you get a big island and sometimes you get alittle one. With Pangea you get a very big one and can begin attacking in the Acient age. Besides you get to use rails, and any continent wonder to its fullest. It usually is not a complete pangea I had a whole civ on an austrailia looking and sized island. However I usaully have to go a long ways to get my iron like next to another Civ to get it
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Ephesos
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I personally like achipelagoes, since they're more difficult, and because they offer better defense (I can get pretty paranoid  ) Of course, it's always nice to do a continents game. Just recently, as the Babylonians (5 AI's -one dead now- small, warm, temp, raging) I basically got a continent to myself and the Persians (they're dead now  ) and it is huge!!! I got a peaceful period of intense expansion, while the other 4 civs tried to kill each other. Now, however, they're trying to move in to my continent...
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monkeyman
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Monkeysville, USA
Sep 2001
time: 23:27
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Random for me too...
Sometimes it's really crazy though. Last game as Celts (Standard,Monarch) I started on a Australian-size, all-tundra island by myself(the rest of the world was two huge continents). It was a struggle get into second place by retirement time. Missed the spaceship launch by 5 turns!!!! Lots of things I should've done differenently, but why repeat a game and all that. This game OTOH, Aztecs (Standard, Monarch), I start on a huge continent (continents map again). Until ~200BC it was Jaguar Warrior insanity, but very easy going warmongering-type action. Now, it's build, secure resources. It's ~1000AD and my score is >double the nearest competitor.
Ok, so both my examples were continents maps, but I think the first game would have been easier if the rest of the world were on islands and if I knew that from the beginning. It's the not knowing that gets ya.
--mm
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Nor Me
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Continents. On archipelago, there's no danger of being attacked and on a pangea it's too easy to use diplomacy to win. But random's nice for the start.
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Worthingtons
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Pride Park,Derby
Jan 2002
time: 05:27
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I always used to be a Continent's person, but I've had a lot of warmongering fun on Pangea. My main problem with Continents is that they are all completly filled out by the time you discover the other ones. I also dont like the difficulty it makes for waging war accross continents - it's basically not remotly feasable until late modern era.
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Cruddy
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Archipelago - Always!
Personally I love building navies and staging invasions - the AI is TERRIBLE at controlling naval forces compared to a human (or even to Civ2, which I found a lot harder).
Haven't got PTW yet, as I don't have broadband and use the net a lot for education - but one day, I'll be out there, looking for my next Trafalgar...
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Fosse
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U.S.A.
Mar 2002
time: 23:27
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It's almost always continents, unless I decide to start a huge game... then archipelago.
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Jethro83
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Newcastle, Australia
Mar 2002
time: 15:27
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I always play on continents. Once I've taken my entire landmass, I'm still left with potential trading partners abroad. And I seem to enjoy being the diplomat in the late game (perhaps because late game wars are so ridiculously easy).
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King_Henry
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Auburn Correctional Facility
Nov 2002
time: 00:27
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Pangaea all ways. Continents sometimes, but I might be stuck in a bloodbath with no place to expand. Archpelago will often suck because of no resources, small landmass etc. Often I can get a huge military up in the early game and destroy a few neighbors early. Pangaea hands down.
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epics
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how do you deal with corruption on archipelagos? islands must be far away from each other so very few cities are productive the rest just useless
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Menlas
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Archipelago, always. With continents or pangea you have to do endless wars, and war in Civ3 is quickly boring IMO.
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Ephesos
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Thank you, finally someone agrees with me. I can quite easily bonk some heads in my continents games, except when there's more than three fronts in my war (which actually happened recently).
Archipelago provides a nice challenge, and it also allows you to build up peacefully before you run into the moronic AI (possibly a bad side, I know). The AI really can't seem to handle Archipelagoes occasionally, does anyone elso notice this?
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PrinceBimz
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I select RANDOM for everything! The nations, the climates and everything else. I am talking every last option I select is set to random. It makes for an extremely different and interesting game everytime. You won't know for a while if you are on an islands map or continents or whatever. Usually I play on standard or large maps but sometimes I will play all the other sizes too. Also I play on either Regent or Monarch levels.
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01-04-2003 00:48
Can you say land rush?
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