Hey, I realized there's no decent tutorial for actual beginners on youtube, so I thought I'd make on. Link to tutorial playlist: • Civ 3 Single Player Tu...
Hey, I don't normally do this, but I would be very grateful if you could leave a like on this video to increase visibility. I realize if you're subscribed to this channel you likely know how to play the game, but there's a lot of people who don't, and it would be nice if they could find this on youtube with a quick search. At the moment there's not a good beginners tutorial available, and I figure this is a good first step. Thanks :)
RE:Suede CivIII. I don't normally do this because I don't like RU-vid tracking me, but I clicked the "I like this" button #764 because this is my favorite game and you have many excellent videos about it so I made an exception.
@@munsters2 I feel you. I use a seperate youtube account and even web browser (cookies!) for this channel. I can like whatever I want and it's not linked to my personal email account.
I can confirm that this is a very good first step. When I first started Civ I had no idea what was going on, and this hands me the basics to figure stuff out from there! Thanks!
My dad played this game a bunch when I was kid, I’d watch over his shoulder for hours. I’d play whenever he was at work. It brought us closer. I loved this game.
Me too! It's exactly the same, he played this a lot and I watched him for hours while he played. I also played on his saved files even though I did not understand much back then. Here I am, many years later, still playing.
All the Civ games are. Actually, all of Sid Meier's games are! Only 3 times have I ever played a game til 5 am! Sid Meier's Civ IV and Pirates, and Minecraft. Love Civ III though. Better mechanics and amazing soundtrack! :D
@@TheDylandProductions I've played this game a few times for probably 16-20 hours continuous (huge maps and lots of tribes) and the game was not over. Came back the next day and the next day and the next day to play many more hours until finishing them.. I do generally micromanage everything. Would be interesting to know what the longest time was for a played game. I guess it would be hard to compare because you can leave the game open and go to the bathroom or go eat dinner or answer the phone and the clock keeps running. I only play single player but I guess you could get a more accurate game time on a multiplayer game.
I see it less like corruption, and more like central control? So it's not like your far away cities are super corrupt and shady. They're just more like vassal states, they don't pay a lot of taxes to the federal government, and don't provide many troops, because they are governed semi-autonomously. Courthouses, government switches, etc, act to bring the city under federal control.
This was the first Civ game that I ever played. The one that got me hooked on the series for life. I just reinstalled now, coming back I can say it has a lot of challenges compared to new civ games: managing money, dealing with opponents, managing corruption and waste, keeping citizens happy and productive, and making every production count.
There're many who value older civ versions than you'd think. My brother for example only plays Civ 1 (320x200). Just imagine: each pixel is nearly 3-4mm big on the TV. :D
This game is like the most massive nostalgia trip for me. My friend got a computer at his house once (big deal because we were all poor as dirt back then) and the first ever video game he got was Civ 3. The only games I'd played before that were Goldeneye 64, Mario Party 3, WoW, and Halo CE on my big bro's xbox. It was the introduction to a whole new genre for me and I got addicted too it hard immediately. I remember that I always thought the food icon was a little slice of toast.
Loved Civ 2 (my first on my Dad’s PC!) and then 3 but haven’t played it for years. Just downloaded it off Steam. Completely forgot how much I adored this game. Thanks for the reminder of how it works! Edit: Just realised after watching some vids that it was actually Civ 1 I loved :) I think I was about 8 when I first started playing, so it would have been around 1993. Wow that was some serious nostalgia!
A funny thing is that despite being a gen z person, i also played civ 1 as a kid, i think i just was browsing a list of snes games that were on my XBOX 360 Hard drive and liked the name, tho i was absolutely terrible at the game
Great tutorial. Glad that I find your channel. I just bought civ3 with 5$ on steam and im new to the series so I don't have any knowledge what I'm doing. Your videos are great help and entertainment👍
I am very thankful that you take the time to educate us with what you have learned. I've owned this game for nearly 20 years, and have only just begun to enjoy it. Thanks Suede!
Besides your videos being genuinely great, Quality content, which many have mentioned, your voice is really calming, even cool to listen to before bed. Thanks a lot for this content
As I bought this gem on GOG your video was brought to me by YT. So uncanny but yet thanks for the advices. It will be challenging to discovers the older iteration of the civ games.
Great video! I wanted to know if you had any tips for building production for single player. I know every game is unique, but are there buildings you need to complete during different phases of the game, while others you wait to build? A tutorial on that would help a ton!
I like this. I just purchased this game on STEAM about 4 hours ago. It's been a very long time and it's nice to find a recent video on an older game. Thank you for posting this. :D
@@suedeciviii7142 I am happy that you're making video's of Civ 3. It's been consuming my time for the past couple of days. I go for large maps, and turn off all the victory settings, max out at 1000 turns and turn AI to least aggressive. Then I build, fortify and grow a very large army. Only to find out that when I'm ready to attack with my very large army, the enemy player seems to have endless waves of many, very large armies to brutally counter attack my Cities. Then I start all over and try it again. Perhaps I will get enough content to post a Highlights video. lol I will eventually get up to 'Demi-God' mode, but I'm having far too much fun trying to establish Germania's 4th Reich as the World's only Power. lol Keep up the great videos. :D
I remember playing this game when I was 12 years old. Now I'm 30 and i picked it up along with colonization for a dollar and 50 cents each. So pumped to play again!
I've been trying to get into Civ6, but I just can't. The game is too boring to me. Went back to the good old Civ2 and loved it! Now I will try to relearn Civ3. Thanks for your videos :)
I used to play this game as a kid and I finally understood why I never won. I had no idea about food production and never figured out what shields is 😂😅
I had no idea this was practically possible but i just got a start location that had 10 cows all within 1 tile away from another cow. I was so amazed! Thats actually hilarious isn't it? Well the capital's starting location was only able to get 3 of them and moving the settler to an ideal location was enough to get 6 cows for one city
Hi, nice vid, good to see a tutorial for Civ 3. What I don't get is why did you build Calcutta at 23:02 in the middle of all of those cities. Isn't that too crowded? The borders would have covered that area when the culture in the other cities would've gotten to a certain level no?
This is a common misconception. Just because a tile is within your cultural borders doesn't mean you can actually use that tile. Cities can only use tiles within their big fat cross. Many of the tiles that calcutta can access are inaccessible by the other cities in my empire. If we didn't build Calcutta, we wouldn't be able to access the tile yields from the horse tile for example, even if it's within our cultural borders. 3-4 tiles apart is the ideal distance to plant cities 80% of the time.
I got this game on steam many many years ago, but I never was able to have fun with it. It feels overwhelming! Then I got hardcore into Polytopia on mobile and realized that this game while old is much more adbanced than that. So yeah I'm going with this guide for sure.
I used to play Civ III a lot as kid, even though I only ever played on cheiftan. I found it hard to get back into, partly because of all the improvements and quality of life changes in Civ 5 and Civ 6, and the fact I didn't really know what I was doing.
Oh my gosh, thank you SO much for this vid! I just started playing about 4 days ago, and literally have no idea what I'm doing or what anything means, or any strategy. Games don't seem to save anywhere I can see, so yesterday I had a 16 hour play session through the night (large map) just to see how far I could get til the force end year. This guide of yours has helped soooo much. If I'm going to be addicted to it, I should know what I'm doing probably. The game seems to really dislike modern computers though. I get a lot of freezing and lagginess, way more than on graphic intensive games. Also, is there no way to get it to run in a window? The low resolution of the game spills over onto everything else, so trying to tab out to other screens is awful. Oh and one other question. When you first are setting world guidelines on the first screen, is there actually any difference in 3 billion to 5 billion? It always starts at 4000BC no matter what I pick. What does the age mean even?
Age affects how "clumpy" the terrain is, and how hilly/mountainous it is. Younger earth = more hills and mountains, and more large patches of single types of terrain. You can make the resolution better. See this video right here. If these don't work (they did on my old computer but not my new one), you can also change your computer's resolution. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-njNmtfIPRSE.html Games should automatically save. Go to the menu, load game, click "autosaves".
@@suedeciviii7142 The resolution video DID work on my 1 year old gaming computer, I didn't even have the keepres line, so added it.. thanks a bunch. I still don't like fullscreen for any game, but at least now it's not interfering with other windows. You're awesome, thank you for answering that so fast.
How did you bring up that window at 13:30 ? The Pick Civilization window. Just found your channel and I did subscribe. Also, you seem to view your world very smoothly and effortlessly. How are you moving the view box around. Not talking about the actual unit, but the "eye in the sky". Are you using the directional arrows or mouse?
ctrl-shift-d brings up the diplomacy menu. You can use just "shift-d" too but it doesn't work if you have a worker selected. Try clicking on the minimap to move the camera around. I think you can adjust the sensitivity in the preference menu too.
@@bn5445 I have a tutorial on live MP but it's dated. Making that kind of tutorial isn't on my list, but if you're interested, we organize live MP games on this discord discord.gg/raaPTJz And PBEM on this one discord.gg/rmWZZ8EKbk Live MP: You play the turns simultaneously with up to 7 other people. Typically teams of 3 or 4, with a maximum duration of 3 hours, played in one session. Generally we use mods that allow for satisfying game in 40-70 turns. If the game drops, it's reloaded immediately. PBEM: Turn based civ. When you're done your turn, send the save file to the next player in the chain, they play their turn, etc. A game could take several months, it's a full epic game of civ 3 (hundreds of turns).
Great tutorials Suede. I picked up Civ3 on steam for about $1.30. I learned a lot from your vids. I have even showed a couple friends that are interested. I'm having a lot of issues as a new player though. Easiest difficulty and lowest AI aggression setting. Whenever I do a 16 player map they team up against me every time. I try to have a very large army built. I refuse most trade deals because they often don't seem worth it. I never give into demands and often it results into them declaring war on me. Then it doesn't take long for every civilization to join them. All the sudden I'm basically North Korea except worse, even China hates me. I know the smaller maps are much easier but I don't find it nearly as fun. The AI never sides with me. Is it always like this on a huge map with easiest difficulty and lowest AI aggression setting?
Hi Suede, I just bought Civ 3 off steam a few days ago and reliving some childhood nostalgia. I have a question, though: Why does your version look different from mine? For example, your minimap has a coordinate grid thing going on; in my case, I don't have that. Cheers and thanks!
it's a mod we use for communication location in multiplayer. I also have the popheads mod for citizens. Aside from that everything else is the same and changeable in the settings menu.
I have a question about the game balance. I've heard many times that the late game war meta is bombers + cavalry. Are fighter planes a counter to that? Does the IRL meta of air superiority have a place in civ 3?
Strange question. Can I start with a lower difficulty level, and increase it later? I started several games already, and with lower difficulty it can get boring. If I start with higher difficulty, the AI Civs are usually for more advanced and I am attacked etc.
Liked and subscribed. Thanks for making this video. Played this so long ago and wanted to learn and properly learn the game. The new graphics just don't do it for me!
I seem to remember being able to center the mini map on your capital, or otherwise adjust it, but I cannot figure out how to do it my latest few playthroughs. Is that possible in Civ 3, or am I remembering a feature from a different instalment? (I instantly start a new map if my starting location is on the edge on the mini map. I really like my continent and prefer my empire to not be divide on the mini map).
Just picked this game up for a buck. I have two questions about your early game build order: The first is about the order you build workers, settlers, and granaries (which I take it are early game priorities). I think you took a garrison troop->settler->worker->granary approach? (I didn’t watch super carefully). Any particular considerations you make considering that ordering (i.e. worker first for access to strategic resources, granary first for poor food supply)? My other question is essentially about rapid expansion. If you have 3 population, a place to settle, and no pressing threats/other priorities (conquering Korea), it basically always pays to build a settler earlier, right? And an unrelated question: What breaks “culturally linked starting locations?” I started my first game as Spain and found it difficult to get food before building a harbor. Is it basically things like that?
There are other considerations. I do workers out of cities with no second shield (or a corrupted second shield) because they'll have happiness issues from growth before they finish a settler otherwise. If I'm desperate for a city spot the AI will take if I don't hurry, I'll skip other things and get a settler out ASAP. Strategic resources are low priority. Luxuries are pretty good early but often they spawn on mountains or jungles, tiles where it takes ages for the roads to complete. So in that case they're not high priority. But having roads leading to the next city spot is a big bonus. I might do worker before settler if I'm missing a road like that. Granaries are a multiplier. So you should actually prioritize them in cities with high food, not with low food. Imagine a tundra city with zero growth past size 2. Doubling 0 growth is still zero! Culturally linked start location won't change where you spawn. It's supposed to make European civs spawn near european civs, asian civs near other asian civs, etc. But instead all it does it make it so all the American civs (which are mostly strong ag civs) are among the AI roster.
Im currently playing the TET map for the civ 3 ptw expansion. I just finished conquering africa and many small islands around the world that act as forward air bases. Ive got 81 cities and over 3000 units, 800+ of which are bombers and 500+ are fighter jets. Plus I have cruise missiles and transports carrying artillery bombing coasts, before my paratroopers and modern armor arrive. Im locked in war with 8 nations and am actually wining lol.
Commerce. Commerce turns into gold, science beakers, or entertainment. Cities produce commerce (I suppose we can imagine the citizens trading with each other). You can check the city screen also to see the name 'commerce'.
@@fallen969 I had some problems when I alt-tabbed when it was loading, but the version on Steam has worked very well for me. Relauched it a couple times and it was fine.
Hi! I've bought this on GoG about a year ago but only now I decided to play it. Never played Civ before. One thing I want to know is if there's a way to change the resolution, as everything is too small.
Is there a way to avoid disease when working floodplain starts? I've found that if the capital only works 1 floodplain tile the odds of losing pop is far lower.
Don't work the tiles. Or keep the city as a worker factory that's usually size one. Oh, usually disease strikes in pairs. You lose 1 pop, couple turns later you lose another. So when you lose the first, work other tiles for 5 turns or something.
This is more of a "first time" guide, it doesn't really get into how everything works. Just how to play. I have another guide that covers the core game mechanics :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZO6JFymzjfg.html
Wouldn't the second city struggle from diseases with the adjacent jungle? I've had the game for well over a decade now. I have played it on and off but never got enough into it to learn the rules and move beyond low level play. So I'm trying again now that I'm stuck at home with little else to do.
disease only strikes if your citizens are working the tile. The citizens will work the bg/grassland/plains tiles first, they're better tiles. Even if they did, whatever, not the end of the world.
Does increasing the happiness meter increase the efficiency of cities? That is to say, do cities with more happy people produce more of anything than if they had more unhappy people? And does happiness play into culture, or the likelihood another city will defect to your civilization?
I tend to try building cities so their coverage doesn't overlap at all. Is that a good idea or is it more beneficial to have more cities, but with some slight inefficiency?
Yes, overlap is good. Except on oversized map, you should plant 4 tiles apart (or less, sometimes). It's only inefficient in the way that it's inefficient to buy bread to feed your starving family instead of putting it in an index fund.
See this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-njNmtfIPRSE.html It will fix things sometimes, but not always. I just reduced my resolution.
What is your guy's most efficient spacing pattern for cities? I generally go three spaces in one direction, and then one further in a diagonal. Most of the time, I would rather overlap my cities than leave blank spaces in my empire.
Ik this video is old but I need to ask, is there any way to completely remove the turn limit ? I tried 3 playthroughs and I always run out of turns and It's super annoying. Ik that you can continue playing but I don't think there is a point of you can't win. Is it forced on the player in Civ 4 as well or is there a way to turn it off in that game ?
You can just play on past the turn limit no? Say "I'm not done yet"? Otherwise, yeah, it'd be pretty trivial in the editor. You can find the editor C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete\Conquests\civ3conquestedit
I wonder if any Civ mod-makers ever thought of creating a funny "Ancient Aliens cheater mod", where we just spectate and let extraterrestrials in flying saucers do all the work LOL!
I started on Civ 1 and then jumped to Civ 3 and then Civ 5. 3 is definitely my favorite. Large maps, at least 6 AI's, and preferably starting on the edge of the tundra. I have put in hundreds if not thousands of hours in my life, enough to get sick of it and stop for years and then come back for days straight. But I have yet to win on Monarch. Question: How do you get the other civs to broker a fair or equal trade with you? My biggest issue is with luxuries; I usually end up with enough land to have two or three luxuries, but after, none of the other civs will trade me one for one. Often, I cannot even get them to agree if I give them two for one. And sometimes, not even three luxuries for one in return. Is there a way to make them more fair?
It might be because you've ruined your trade reputation. But in this case it's likely due to size. If you have more cities, the AI will charge you more for luxuries. The inverse is true for right of passage, if you're bigger than the AI then they'll pay you for an ROP. Just trade away your techs for ROPs.
@@suedeciviii7142 Is there a place to check your current trade reputation? It is likely size, but I also do tend to turn down all tech trades until I am three or four techs ahead of everyone. After watching your early tech trading, I will have to give that a shot.
@@ryanaegis3544 Sometimes the foreign advisor will tell you in diplomacy. You can also see based on how the AI reacts to certain trades. If they'll accept 300 gold for a tech, but will not accept 300 plus 1 gold turn, then your rep is ruined.
Hi there. I played this game as a kid. Now i am a Total war fan but watching your videos i have restarted playing it. Could you please guide me about how to use your airforce especially the role of helicopters. I m asking this because i prefer playing as ottomans or americans and Americans have their F 15 as unique unit. I struggle in information age on what to research first and how to utilize air and naval units
I mention these units in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ovXDaURUJZw.html Essentially, all of the modern era units are grossly underpowered except the bomber. So battleships, fighters/jet fighters/stealth fighters, helicopters, paratroopers, radar artillery, and cruise missiles. So don't sweat it if you can't figure out how to use them. I wouldn't even recommend stacking F-15s if you're playing as America. Just stack bombers, they are insanely overpowered. If you're really worried about enemy interceptors, you can build like, 85% bombers, 15% fighters/jets/F15s. Position the bombers on airbases, that way if the city they're near flips, the bombers just get teleported back to your capital.
@@suedeciviii7142 Cheers mate. You cleared up the issue. I asked specifically for air and naval units because in the vanilla version many aspects of the game were missing but they tweaked up some features in the conquest version so i was trying to see if they made some improvements to the said units. 0
@@abdulwasey9976 They overbuffed bombers. They buffed land artillery in a way that I think is pretty good/fair though. They used to target buildings usually.
I play kinda frequently but i normally mess with the settings a lot and i dont have the huts what do i need to turn on to get those back (i do have barbarians off) and that could be it
It's after they introduced all the key features (in Civ 2 and 1 you can't even see your nations borders on the maps) but before things got too gimmicky. The graphics are fantastic, everything is very clearly displayed on the map without getting too cluttered. The combat system is great as long as you don't mind how frustratingly random it can be. And it's quite hard! The AI is programmed well so winning at even the even difficulty (regent) can be challenging.
What is the story with "disease" occurring inside your borders when there's some flood plain tiles! :( Is there anyway to counter this prior to getting to medicine which is light years away.. ???
17:50ish. It's a bit far away yes but given the cramped conditions why not plant there and snag all those luxuries away from blue? Aren't they super valuable for keeping folks happy and trade deals later on? Is the iron more important at this point for military? I've been playing forever and still suck compared your level of genius.
Any copy of a luxury past the first is useless for happiness. We secured 1 source of wines in Bangalore, that's all we need for now. Later on they're valuable for trade but at the moment we don't even have a trade route! Iron allowed us to build swordsmen which we used to take rest of the wines! Generally I'd encourage you to plant linearly. Don't leapfrog. Plant cities near your existing cities. See 4:44 of this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cXZjtYmEsvA.html for more info :)
Pro-tip: If you hurry production (works in Monarchy, Republic, Democracy) first hurry up worker production than change to building/unit and hurry it also. You will safe half of money needed to hurry that building/unit.
Yup. You can also disband a unit, chop a forest, sell a building if you've researched recycling. You just need a way to get those shields in the box. Or more likely, just wait a turn.
Why do you build your cities so close together, ive seen you mention 2 squares in other vids. wouldnt that hurt you later when the cities are bigger and they are competing with each other for tiles?
There's a bunch of benefits to having cities close together, I list them in my city placement video, most importantly lower distance corruption and faster growth. My cities are 3-4 tiles apart, usually closer to 4. That means they get about 15 tiles each. So until sanitation, the "crowding out" thing you mention isn't a factor. So for 2/3 of the game, it's not a problem, and I've usually basically won the game by that point.
Yeah, so what? What's inherently wrong with one city not having access to a particular tile? The bigger risk is a tile not being accessible to any city. If we didn't build Calcutta, no city would be able to access the horse tile, meaning we'd never get the shields/commerce/food that it provides. Same with a few other tiles. For a detailed breakdown of the pros and cons of loose vs tight city placement, see this video here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OG_2naVzzDs.html
@@suedeciviii7142 I think your a great player and have enjoyed some of your vids etc thankyou. But I'm not convinced to change my game all that much. There are some good things to know, but there is also some work arounds that are not really intended and this goes to an underlying rp element that gets undercut where you end up mirroring the computer to much beat it, In other words a more mechanical exercise. When you 'rp' it a little then have to deal with the outcome, there is some fun to be had in that.
@@Nonreligeousthiestic Agreed! Honestly that's why I like multiplayer. Single player feels too gamey, it loses that free-flowing element before you understand the game and how to exploit the AI fully.
Hey Suede, I you want to check out the mod I made, let me know. It's not very invasive to the game play. If you're not into mods, then that's cool too.
I know its an older video and maybe im watching them in the wrong order but didn't u say build your city 4-5 tiles away from each other? If so why did u build bombay 2 tiles away?
That's 3 tiles away. 3 tiles away, not 3 between. I generally think 3 to 5 tiles away is a good general recommendation. Some other setups can be strong too if you know what you're doing.
Yes absolutely. Generally, dense city placement, is better early game, loose placement is better late game. But just don't waste tiles (aka, having tiles that are not within the usable range of any city)
I gave a like but was really only here to try and find that beginning percussive music that would play as I tried running a windows 98 game on windows 10 and the game would crash but the music would play on while I contemplated my next attempt. 5 doll hairs on steam is still too much to pay for a game I already have. I got civ 6 for free through epic games but civ 3 is too good to give up on, maybe you could upload a video of literally the first 5 minutes of a new game with music on?
Wow I played this game for years and was never this good...I can see some mistakes I made regularly. I love those elephants in civilization...I loved them so much that I usually edited the game so any civ could have them. They really shouldn't have been unique units when you consider that the Romans, Persians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Ptolemy Egyptians also used them.
As many as possible. So 7 enemies on a standard map, 5 on a small map. You can maybe substract 1 enemy if you play 80% water. If you play fewer there'll be a lot of empty land. And typically the AI are a lot better at expansion than new players in Civ 3. So playing with fewer enemies will paradoxically make the game harder.
How you have so many action buttons, like you press build road button and he builds the whole road to the spot you highlighted, theres no options for me like that. HELP. (sorry for bad English)
You can enable additional unit actions in the preferences menu. See here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X1M4Piblfg0.html ctrl r is "road to"
@@suedeciviii7142 oh thank you very much, you are a very nice person, hope You know that. I played this game when i was like 8, and im feeling so nostalgic, and for real... i suck at this game, i watch your video and they really help me alot :D. Mostly every game everyone have better tech, more soldiers and More land. And every like 5th turn some of the civ leaders give me a trade where they want me to give them gold or if i dont they declare war on me. Its just pain. But your videos are amazing, I'm getting better. Thank you.
Okay, so where does the game get off saying that someone with an attack rating of 2 loses combat to someone with a defense rating of 1? How does that work?
