View Poll Results: What should I do with my new Civ 3 and C3C??
Play Civ 3 without C3C first. 3 8.11%
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Old February 22, 2004, 05:44   #1
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Civ 3 with or without CSC?
I'm curious as of to your opinion. I brought Civ 3 and C3C and haven't opened those yet. Which I will do so very soon.

Should I play Civ 3 alone first or go ahead and install C3C?

Thanks!
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Old February 22, 2004, 05:51   #2
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you haven't played civ3? what are you waiting for?

I suggest playing with C3C. but that's just me.
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Old February 22, 2004, 06:19   #3
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Graduate School applications. I'm a chronic prostincator (sp) and I know that once I open Civ 3, I'd never get anything done until I finish a game which would take me forever since I don't have that much spare time.
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Old February 22, 2004, 07:40   #4
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You can play PtW, which is the last, finished, Civ3 and you can play C3C after installing both.

Try both, they each have a particular flavour. C3C has higher corruption and harder maps due to resources, but it has more toys.
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You can play PtW, which is the last, finished, Civ3 and you can play C3C after installing both.
I'm not sure what NYE means... PTW requires that Civ3 has already been installed.

To your question: I'd say install both - that way you get the most balanced gaming experience with the most options to explore.

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...but I voted for the bananas of course
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Yeah that was what I was thinking - go ahead and play the complete 'set' but then it occured to me would I be missing anything by skipping the orginial version.
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What on earth would you be missing by playing the original version? Conquests is the original version, with extra bits. You will, of course, want the Conquests patch, otherwise you will indeed be missing the bits that were all right in the original, messed up in Conquests, and then sorted out in the patch, just about.
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C3C has some improved interface features that make playing with more than 8 civs a bit easier.
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Definately install both. I would suggest playing a few epic games first before you try the conquests, just to get a feel for the general gameplay.

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Install both, on a friday night when not doing anything, and play until your heart's content (or you fall alsleep and drool on the keyboard).
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That certainly sounds good, Krill!
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I'd recommend just going with C3C from the get-go. Then you won't have a reason to scream when you go to C3C and get a weaker Forbidden Palace and higher upgrade costs.

That said, as others have mentioned, resources are scarcer on C3C's maps.
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Play C3C - Vanilla Civ3 won't teach you anything that C3C won't (apart from bad habits that may no longer work with C3C). C3C has a lot more features, the "feel" of the game has changed a lot from the first release and the AI now does a much better job of keeping you honest. You won't find many people on these boards who still play vanilla Civ. Most of the forum advice will apply mainly to C3C, or at least, to PTW.

But you definitely must install the latest patch, 1.15.
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C3C 1.15.

Get going, man!!
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C3C is the way you want C3 to be anyway.
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You can't go wrong either way. But most players can barely remember the original stuff now.
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Install both, on a friday night when not doing anything, and play until your heart's content (or you fall alsleep and drool on the keyboard).
OT: My record is 10 straight hours at C3C.
Overall record is 13 hours at C+C: red alert.
I really need to get a life.
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Nay that is not enough to bother mentioning. I was snowed in once in NY and played about 30 hours of civ2.
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C3C

1.15 beta patch, no less.

It's basicall Civ3, plus balanced units, in-depth scenarios (sans scripting, of course), and more options. True, you can't go wrong either way, but C3C is more right than Civ3...
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i think that DataAeolus probably have followed the consensus here and is now having a lot of fun, given that he haven't returned here to show us the spoils of war.
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Alex, you are right! He read vmxa1's post about playing 30 hours straight and is trying to beat the record!
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