World Conquest

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Owen
I would say that the dependence of technology cost on size, and the importance of neighbour bonus mean that wc doesn't become like CIV in any way, at least until you have almost destroyed all of Europe and all European colonies. ...

Not really sure what you mean here. Civ3 does have a sort of neighbour bonus for tech.

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Eddie Teach
I never got into Civ 3 either. I always liked playing on Earth or parts of it, and the one Earth map they had didn't have civilizations starting in the right place(and there was no way to set starting place for a particular player in the editor).

Think this is the first time I've seen a thread started with a quote...

That's because it was a split thread.
The was a patch that fixed the start location for earth as well.

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Owen

Although I can't comment on Civ directly, I assume that jacob-Lundgren's comments about Nukes and muskets shows that a much greater military tech gap is still achievable in Civ than in EU. In my current WC game, I am still only about 5 levels (about 30 years at most) ahead of the other Europeans. That they are so close is mostly down to my neighbour bonus, since this also puts them ahead of the tech curve. Of course if this game was 6000 years then the gap would be greater. But I'd have aimed to kick off the BB wars in 2000BC.

The best thing to do about neighbour bonus is to take out everyone in your tech group first. That way no one gets a neighbour bonus from you!