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I am late in joining the Civ3 group, and I just learned that Civ4 is
coming out Real Soon Now. And I'm sure this issue is, by now, a Dead
Horse here, but I just had to ask.
I recently bought an inexpensive legitimate (boxed and everything) of

First some background.  I'm playing Conquests at Sid Level with 16 civs on a
huge map with all parameters random.  What I got was continents, but it
appeared at first to be islands, because it just happens that my local
neighbourhood is three very small continents/very large islands ...

Been around for a while, mostly picking up hints and ideas and not
posting too much.
Just had a question: I`m playing "conquest" and I recently made a map of
16 nations, 250x250 (huge) with lots of islands. I`ve been trying with

I often wonder the causes behind once great civs that seem to stagnate
and stall in tech.  Sometimes long wars are the cause.  In a recent
game I attacked a remote but fairly large size island.  Early in the
game they had been powerful and had the Pyramids to show for it.  My

If you're in the UK, Atari have recently re-released Conquests on their
Best of Atari label. There's no manual (not that that matters), but
it's good news for people like me who missed out the first time.
At the time of typing, play.com have it for £4.99 (GBP) delivered.

I've built a few of these barricades (I tend to go heavy on workers and
they ran out of stuff to do), and I'm wondering...  If the other civ
sits in it, do they get the defense bonus?
I was building them mainly to stop them twice so I can bombard the heck

I have two questions, actually...
1) I have a great leader, but he doesn't seem to be able to rush a
great wonder.  It worked on the "Gold" version, but now that I have the
full set-up, no go.

My apologies if this was already posted. My news reader crashed right
when I sent the first one. Anyway....
1. Does the Great Library work for civs I have not made contact with?
(It seems like the civilopedia says no, but I want to make sure.)

I'm far too new to civ3 to be able to say anything much, but one thing
strikes me as obvious: In civ3, the Veteran status given to military
ground uits from Barracks is much less important than in civ2. Therefore
I should try to give up my habit of always building Barracks.

Looking around, Play.com has Civ4 for preorder at £24.99 delivered. Cheaper
than Amazon. They say it is due for release 18th November 2005. We will see!
They have a little trailer to whet your appetite. Mostly about how addictive
the game is, but Sid appears at the end.

What is the rule for city square productivity?
In Civ2, a city built on a terrain type giving no shields would get a
bonus of 2 shield.
Is that still the case in civ3 (vanilla civ3, latest patch)?

I am sure I am not the only one to be eagerly awaiting Civ 4. It is now
available for preorder from Amazon, at least in the UK. Released 30th
September. I have ordered my copy already. Have you?

So it does. Curses! They did this with the Blakes 7 DVDs. Back to the
stalwart Civ 3 for another few months then!

I have just moved up to Monarch level.
I even got a high score (for me) - but the frustration continues.
Plainly the AI is much better than me than getting tech advances, and I'll
have to work on that, but it also seems to be able to build Wonders very