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Can 2 Different Techs Be Used To Enable The Same Worker Job?

As I've mentioned elsewhere, Terra Fantasia is highly asymmetric. The Culture Groups reflect the different biomes each Civ evolved in, with the individual CGs being scattered across the globe. The 5...

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Changing the time scale during a game

I need the correct English abbreviation for: 2nd half year. Could 2nd HY be correct ?

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Moving a Tech Advance

I am working with the Storm Over the Pacific scenario, and I have a problem with one of the Tech advances. Airborne Warfare, allowing parachute troops, is listed as a 1945+ advance and is at the end of...

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Starting Government changes - early "feudalism"

Hi all. I was thinking of making a change and wanted the opinions of people with more XP. Feudalism is a bit marginal in game, but may be useful at an earlier age. I was thinking of changing the...

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Happy Thanksgiving 2023

Wishing Everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Day 2023

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How to make AI treat Cruise Missiles like nukes?

Hello everyone. Somewhere I seen a post that suggested give both "Tactical Missile" and "Foot unit" flags to Cruise Missile so it would be possible to load them in ships (in my case that would be...

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AI changing strategy Flag?

Recently Ozy made a claim about the AI changing a unit's strategy flag based on its combat values. I would like to dispute that. His point was: "The AI will change a Unit's strategy as it sees fit (and...

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Merry Christmas 2023

Wishing All of you a Merry Christmas 2023 ... remember that kindness and giving a little joy and happiness to others is the Best Gift for yourself

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Trying to remember bug in the original Editor

I've been getting into the game again and wanted to take a crack at a few small edits to scenarios/maps, but there was one question that keeps popping into my head. I seem to recall there was a bug in...

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Computer players DON'T BUILD CITIES!!!

EDIT Hello everyone, I have the following problem: I decided to create a random map for the Swedish Empire mod. Since there are no Settlers in the mod, I had to create them. The problem is... Computer...

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Statue of Zeus and Jungle

The most recent issue of National Geographic History has a well-illustrated article on the Statue of Zeus. After reading it, it would be safe to say that in addition to Ivory being required for its...

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Happy New Year 2024

Wishing All of you a Happy New Year 2024 ...and Good Luck with your New Years Resolutions

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Does Anyone Have The Walls For These 2 City Sets?

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Steph's Expanded Editor questions

Hi all, I'm using Steph's Expanded Editor version 0.8.2 and I have some questions regarding it. I tried checking out his website but my question is not asked there. Basically what does this mean?...

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How to play with Rome in Fall of Rome scenario? Help me, please!

I've been playing civ III for 18 years, but only now discovered this forum. Please, do you know how to unlock Rome in the "Fall of Rome" scenario?

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My custom scenario's map is revealed upon game start - why?

Hello! I do not have 'Reveal Entire Map' on, nor am I playing in 'Debug Mode': I do not possess a technology with 'Reveal Map': Fog is properly applied to the entire map: I also see nothing weird here:...

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Best map size settings for fun

I want to know, what are your best settings for map size to have the most fun with C3C (Worldsize, number of civs, distance between civs, tech rate, optimal number of cities). May be I can include some...

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Can you add more than the original base Ambient sound FX to a mod?

If you go to the ambience sfx folder in Civ 3 you'll find there's only 8 ambient sounds. In mods I've encountered that have had their own custom sounds, they simply replaced these available sounds. Is...

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Does it make sense to add more than one attack to air units?

Many of air units have more than one attack animation (i.e. one animation for gun, one for rockets), but does it make sense to set up ATTACK2 or ATTACK3 in .ini file? Did anyone notice your air units...

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Unit Request Thread 3

If there is a unit you would like to see made for Civ III, this is the place to request it. Make sure you have searched thoroughly first, because we now have a lot of units in the database. You may...

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Modding Storm Over the Pacific

Civinator said: For me the posted scenario is a prototype (especially about the unit stats) that presents a scenario with working scenario mechanisms, created in the first period of Covid 19, that El...

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What say you, can we bring up the contests in 2024?

It was a cool feature of our community, I'd like to see it back Besides, greediness and vanity boosts creation

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Sticky Re-Org

You may have noticed a few fewer sticky threads in the forum tonight. Fear not, these threads still exist. This is part of an effort to make it easier to find relevant information, without being...

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Making research slower by default?

I'd like to have my techs in Civ III develop slower. I know how this can be done by either setting the minimum research turns to another value OR by increasing the cost for each technology by altering...

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Re-Upload Requests

As most of you know, all of CFCs databases were hacked in July 2006, and all earlier entries lost. See this thread for details on the hack. This thread is for anyone who's missing - or even suspects...

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war or air alarm

Hello everyone I bring you this slow air alarm effect audio file to give a third person touch. Ideal for scenarios from World War I onwards. If someone can think of how to make it work automatically in...

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Does anyone have a Malaysia flag leaderhead?

There are a ton of flag leaderheads on this forum but I could not find one for Malaysia. I even have several flag leaderhead packs on my hard drive and not a single one has Malaysia in the pack. Has no...

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Any good concept art (even in other games' gfx) of ancient or medieval mines?

Such is surprisingly difficult to find. Or is hopelessly nondescript (AOEII). I did unearth (sorry) some decent ones for medieval mines, but they have overly elaborate wheels and cogs which look like...

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Player data buttons

Hi guys, I have a simple question about the editor: WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF THE "RESET PLAYER DATA" AND "CUSTOM PLAYER DATA" BUTTONS? The editor's help doesn't start for me at all, so I have to use your...

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Solution: Mod compatibility issues between Steam and other editions of Civ3

After some troubleshooting of LotM, user @DizzKneeLand33 has discovered an important file change in the most recent update of Civilization III Complete on Steam* that has been responsible for breaking...

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Where Can antal1987's "Patched" .exes Be Found?

There are - 3? 4? - of them, & none in the d/l db. (NoRaze, NoCityLimit, etc.)

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Science level problem

Hi guys, I have a strange problem. I play the mod I created and after each turn the level of science expenses automatically returns to 50%. So I set it to the desired value, click end turn and... it's...

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Searching for a missing mod: Modern Start Improved

I'm not sure where to post this but I felt like the this might be the right board. If not then my apologies. But I'm looking for a piece of civ-content I used to play a lot of in the past. When I had...

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Using Midjourney To Generate Isometrics

Examples with prompts. Free (low level) Access ... -z P.S. Sorry; I just saw https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...ics-generated-by-midjourney-ai-modmod.685006/

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C3X: EXE Mod including Bug Fixes, Stack Bombard, and Much More

Update July 21 '22: This mod started as a fix for the submarine bug and since then has evolved into much, much more. See the full feature list on the resource page here:...

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