Really nice game. I really got motivated to play myself again. Did not play for years and most of the time I simply conquered the world in Despotism with Chariots. I did not win a space race for a very long time. If you want to speed up your city growth in Republic or Democracy, you can increase the luxury rate for some turns to get a "we love the president"-day in every city. Then they grow automatically after every turn by one. This also saves all the granaries, but maybe you consider it as bug abuse? If you want to know where the Germans are, you could use the Map-Function in the conquered cities which had a trade route to Berlin.
Edit: Getting feudalism for free at minute 58 is actually bad. The more technologies you have, the longer it takes to research new ones. You should actually never get "dead end" technologies like monarchy or pottery (at least if you don't play with granaries) or the whole horseback riding, feudalism and chivalry - complex.
Wow, thanks Peter, I can tell you are a knowledge and experienced player of Civ1! I do know about the We love President day and pretty sure I used it in this game play, I do not consider that as a bug abuse at all. I did not know about the Map trick to find cities! NICE one, thanks a lot! I agree about knowledge, I do know that the more you got the longer it takes, and also a HUGE change at 1AD when all takes longer. And you are right, there a few dead end techs, Feudalism... who wants Knights? they are 1 better in defend than chariots and when you advance and reach Armor/Tanks and stuff you never need it again. Very good advice, the map one is one I'm going to use in next game, thanks!
Recently I put together an old PC running DOS. I started testing things and made the mistake of launching this game, so I didn't get much sleep that night. 13:00 Isn't there a way to rename cities in this game? Or was that just in Civ 2? 17:00 When an enemy Civ in this game changes to Republic, does that prevent them from declaring war on you? It was interesting when one of your cities was destroyed and then a unit who was supported by that city immediately disappeared. I didn't know that would happen. If it didn't disappear, I guess players could use it as an exploit to get their military units supported by "NONE". This would eliminate the upkeep cost and the happiness penalty. It would have been difficult/costly for people to use that exploit though, because they'd have to get a city destroyed to accomplish it.
Cool :) I use DosBOX to not have to install DOS on a PC. 1. The original version you could not rename a city, unsure with some patches maybe you could. You could for sure on Civ1 for Windows (and Civ2 as mentioned) and you could also play multiplayer on the Windows version, I remember playing with a friend and I renamed all my cities to my capital so he thought each time he saw my city it was my capital LOL :) but it always crashed and came out of syn so never finished that game. 2. (good question, not entirely sure myself) Enemies in Republic should be limited to not declare war, but I have seen them attack and even declare war by pressing F3 embassy even before they did it! :) so I don't know if the computer explains that by change to something else and then change back to Republic. What I do know for sure is that after 1AD, if you are the strongest nation, all Computer AI will break peace with you and attack. I think you are totally right, if you take the city that support the units, the units are gone, with exceptions for building a Settler on a city that is size 1 and no city close to it, then the city is gone and the settler is NONE :) which is super nice of course
@IntuneVitaDoctrina @yorgle11 There are different versions of Civ1 for DOS. He is using the original one, but in .03 you can rename cities, and is harder to play with depotism-chariots rush (barracks I are not free, etc.). It is equivalent to Win version. For me, .03 is the standard.
Really nice game. I really got motivated to play myself again. Did not play for years and most of the time I simply conquered the world in Despotism with Chariots. I did not win a space race for a very long time.
If you want to speed up your city growth in Republic or Democracy, you can increase the luxury rate for some turns to get a "we love the president"-day in every city. Then they grow automatically after every turn by one. This also saves all the granaries, but maybe you consider it as bug abuse?
If you want to know where the Germans are, you could use the Map-Function in the conquered cities which had a trade route to Berlin.
Edit: Getting feudalism for free at minute 58 is actually bad. The more technologies you have, the longer it takes to research new ones. You should actually never get "dead end" technologies like monarchy or pottery (at least if you don't play with granaries) or the whole horseback riding, feudalism and chivalry - complex.
Wow, thanks Peter, I can tell you are a knowledge and experienced player of Civ1!
I do know about the We love President day and pretty sure I used it in this game play, I do not consider that as a bug abuse at all.
I did not know about the Map trick to find cities! NICE one, thanks a lot!
I agree about knowledge, I do know that the more you got the longer it takes, and also a HUGE change at 1AD when all takes longer. And you are right, there a few dead end techs, Feudalism... who wants Knights? they are 1 better in defend than chariots and when you advance and reach Armor/Tanks and stuff you never need it again.
Very good advice, the map one is one I'm going to use in next game, thanks!
Recently I put together an old PC running DOS. I started testing things and made the mistake of launching this game, so I didn't get much sleep that night.
13:00 Isn't there a way to rename cities in this game? Or was that just in Civ 2?
17:00 When an enemy Civ in this game changes to Republic, does that prevent them from declaring war on you?
It was interesting when one of your cities was destroyed and then a unit who was supported by that city immediately disappeared. I didn't know that would happen. If it didn't disappear, I guess players could use it as an exploit to get their military units supported by "NONE". This would eliminate the upkeep cost and the happiness penalty. It would have been difficult/costly for people to use that exploit though, because they'd have to get a city destroyed to accomplish it.
Cool :) I use DosBOX to not have to install DOS on a PC.
1. The original version you could not rename a city, unsure with some patches maybe you could. You could for sure on Civ1 for Windows (and Civ2 as mentioned) and you could also play multiplayer on the Windows version, I remember playing with a friend and I renamed all my cities to my capital so he thought each time he saw my city it was my capital LOL :) but it always crashed and came out of syn so never finished that game.
2. (good question, not entirely sure myself) Enemies in Republic should be limited to not declare war, but I have seen them attack and even declare war by pressing F3 embassy even before they did it! :) so I don't know if the computer explains that by change to something else and then change back to Republic. What I do know for sure is that after 1AD, if you are the strongest nation, all Computer AI will break peace with you and attack.
I think you are totally right, if you take the city that support the units, the units are gone, with exceptions for building a Settler on a city that is size 1 and no city close to it, then the city is gone and the settler is NONE :) which is super nice of course
@IntuneVitaDoctrina @yorgle11 There are different versions of Civ1 for DOS. He is using the original one, but in .03 you can rename cities, and is harder to play with depotism-chariots rush (barracks I are not free, etc.). It is equivalent to Win version. For me, .03 is the standard.