A Gaming Diary
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Civilization 3
Feb 10th
There is no spoon.
Or rather, there are no naval units. That explains that, then.
And there is no diplomacy. Just war. And there’s only about eight different units ever available. Goes up to cannons and then stops.
Civilization 3
Feb 10th
GOOD – I worked out how to activate fortified units in cities and found that the one square I hadn’t looked at was, indeed, a land bridge.
BAD – There doesn’t seem to be any dimplomacy that I can see, just permanent war.
GOOD – I defeated some enemy units and built a new city.
BAD – The city got killed. It was built between two enemies, it seems. Not a good place. The dark blues came from the west, the light blues from the east. Squish. My settlers got killed. Most of my units got killed.
GOOD – My new chariot seems to be killing stuff.
BAD – There’s a general lack of information that I’ve found so far. I get messages every few turns that the bloody Americans have built yet another wonder, but are they the dark blue or light blue chaps? Dunno. I can’t highlight an enemy unit to get details of it or even see if it’s part of a stack, as far as I can tell. I can see a progress bar telling me how far through production my city is, but not how many turns that equates to. It’s possible this is available somewhere. I need to go online and look for the full instructions. The game gives a web address that I’ll look at later.
GOOD – The enemies fight each other as well as me.
BAD – Given the number of units pouring out of the west and the number of wonders the Americans are producing the AI must be cheating. And this is on Chieftan difficulty, the easiest.
GOOD – It made the bus journey to work absolutely fly by, despite me feeling a bit lost.
BAD – Still can’t seem to build ships.
Civilization 3
Feb 9th
The mobile phone version, you may be surprised to learn. I couldn’t find anything about it online, beyond announcements that it was being developed, so I took a chance. Started it up on the bus about ten minutes before my stop.
No option to start as the English, so I took the Romans. A small map, easiest difficulty, 3 civilizations.
Took a while to get used to the interface, but I’d soon built Rome (no option to rename it) and had some settlers irrigating and building roads. (They seem to do the jobs of workers here.) I seemed to be on a small island, so I was trying to work out how to build boats, but couldn’t remember what technologies I needed. Map-making didn’t help.
As I neared my bus stop a blue unit appeared in the bottom corner of my island and I then realised that there was one square I hadn’t looked at that could be land. Oops. I had a militia unit and a cavalry fortified inside my city and so decided I should get the cavalry out to go meet this new civilization that were trespassing on my turf. Except I couldn’t work out how to activate the cavalry and while I was frowning at the screen it was time to get off the bus.
Hmm.
I’ll have to see if the help, er, helps tomorrow.
