Civ3 is great ... but I refuse to play it more until the patch comes out. There's too many issues that I just don't want to deal with (and don't want to remember such a good game by).
How about the fact that in every game I have not been able to contact one civilization from the diplomacy screen?
Actually, what bugs me most is the balance between difficulty levels. It doesn't exist.
My first game was on Cheiftan simply to learn the game - never again. My cities grew too fast, meaning they produced too fast, meaning they had nothing to produce (yay fun! doing wealth for half the game!). Another byproduct of this was pollution - horrible, horrible pollution. My average turn halfway through the industrial era left me with 4 squares of pollution to clean up (I had over 25 workers just for pollution!). That was just sickening, considering I had the problem throughout the entire Industrial Age, and much of the Modern Age (even with all the pollution reductions every one of my cities still had chances to produce pollution).
It's horrible how broken the difference b/w tech advance and city growth is at Chieftan level. If I ever play on that level again I've decided not to build any granaries or the Pyramids.  |