There exist some writeups of Sid games at civfanatics. There exist some succession game reports. I have some hidden under "Mayan Mayhem: A Huge Deity Histographic" in the Hall of Fame Discussion thread, and in "Spoonwood's Hall of Fame Attempts". There's also a program called "Crp Viewer" available on civfanatics with which you can review games.
I just want to share that to this day, my Dad is still playing completely unpatched vanilla Civ 3 so the Great Lighthouse still lets him cross the entire ocean.
@@t.purkess9682 Oh boy it's complicated. They're just a funny country to be included in the game, and strangely small country to have as much of an impact on global history. There are a lot of memes about them, specifically the Brazilians are always making fun of how incomprehensible they are. Here are two Portugal themed meme subreddits as an example www.reddit.com/r/PORTUGALCARALHO/ www.reddit.com/r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT/ In Civ 3 they are probably a bottom tier civ on a random map, and in theory they should be easy to play against. But they aren't, the AI as Portugal routinely stomps everyone else. It happened in my India Sid game, and a bunch of the AI vs AI battle games. There was also a guy in the discord that was constantly talking about Portugal and trying to win every difficulty as Portugal.
@@suedeciviii7142 I used to play Portugal and post the games on the discord. I added some spice to it. Play Portugal, don’t pick other civs, don’t take your golden age, no exploits or cheats, don’t cheese so no ROP abuse or cutting the road to your capital, Don’t build the GL or use the GL sling, no army pillaging cheese, no city screen exploit, honor all your trade and peace deals, no reloads, standard map, diplo victory is allowed. I’ve won games on deity but I can’t remember if I won a deity game with these conditions. Never won a Sid game. So Suede if you want the true Sid experience, Portugal is waiting for you…
@@suedeciviii7142 thanks for the explanation. That’s really funny and I’ve noticed it with my games as well but haven’t been able to figure out why they do so well. The fact it’s a meme makes me happy
Grassland cow is stronger than plains cow, especially on 60% land coverage. Irrigated it gives enough surplus food to have a city get to 4 food per turn as non-agricultural and 5 food for per turn as agricultural, if all other worked tiles have 2 food. Having production also, that's 5 food per turn for that 4 turn settler factory or 2 turn worker pump with a granary.
Yeah I was talking bs. It's only really true in this case, where I have several cows + the ag bonus already giving a bunch of food. Doubly so if you have few forests.
I've beaten Sid several times without reloading, but ONLY, on archipelago maps, and when I am alone on the island. The bigger the map, the easier it is. Go go Suede, this will be fun to watch! :)
Archipelago is easier at first but harder at the end. With pangea if you establish yourself well at the start, you can just have them all smash each other at the end while you run away with the game. On archi, it can be impossible to stop runaway AI.
This is my second favourite format, just behind recorded single-player games with live commentary (live in the sense of "in the moment" - not livestreams). I'm happy with either
I really loved civ3. I played couple thousand hours of it. And when I looked your opponents, memories started to flood. Aztecs, Zulu and Mongols. Very peaceful life ahead😅😅😅. Great video!
fantasticly fun to watch. i really like this kind of content, having you explain through the decision making helps a lot. not to say that i dont love the live streams but edited post commentary is excellent too.
You were talking about how the Celts have it harder because Iron Working is expensive but it got no trade value because AI always get it quickly BUT you were kind of tempted to get it by bankrupting your empire xD
I know Salamanca is a town in upstate New York but it is a little disconcerting to see it be the default Iroquois capital name. I hope you didn't choose Spain as one of the other civs; that could be weird. But this looks like a strong start and an entertaining game. I love the snowcapped mountain range ... the Civ 3 terrain has a lot of good flavor to it.
@@suedeciviii7142 Oops. I just checked microbe's article, and yes you can redeclare before 20 turns without a reputation hit... provided that you haven't payed gold per turn in the peace treaty deal. My mistake!
Not true i just did that recently where i redeclared pre turn 20 peace deal and i still got rep hit. It was white peace so nothing traded on either side
I do really like seeing this, because I often struggle to handle when the AIs are well ahead of you tech-wise. Don't plan on doing sid any time soon, I'm still getting a handle on demigod lol, but seeing the kind of things you can do to pull ahead against all odds is helpful I think
Great timing on this. I just found your Sid series where you played as India and did the gol per turn trade to AIs and then disconnected your capital so it would cancel. I was curious if you'd be able to do it without that. I'm grabbing some popcorn and going to find out!
Guys, I recently changed my mainboard and now my civ3 is stretched, even the city menu fills out the whole screen. Anyone got an idea how I can get the black bars at the sides back?
100% it's the UU. The Mayan UU is basically useless in combat (for conquest, certainly). The MW is the best UU in the game. For context when I played Mayans in my Deity bad land stream, I used horsemen to conquer. Imagine horsemen with a +50% attack bonus. It's just bananas. The Iroq also start with Alphabet which is fantastic. But Masonry is a half decent imitation of Alphabet, so in that department the Mayans don't lose too many points.
@@suedeciviii7142 Makes sense. I could win on diety with no exploits except save scumming (which is a big one lol), but i'm trying on demigod with none. Rolling with the maya because i LOVE the ind. trait for worker speed.. but the UU is definitely garbage. the MW having 2 moves for covering defenses and retreat is absolutely monumental. Especially because on levels above emperor you're almost guaranteed to be forced into 1-2 ancient era wars for land/resource potential. swords take longer to build stacks up and move, and i was trying to use them. I do like to use the GL still.. so starting with alphabet would definitely be better. love your videos. goodluck on a 0 exploit sid game! glad you're doing it legit on pangea and not island bs :)
If you dont have exprience, you are wasting your time. Network your way into a job first and if you still want the degree go for it otherwise do not get a Master. I would even argue against a Bachelors. I recommend a two year degree and Networkinh your way into a job. In the end, B A and higher are only good when you want to leave your country of orgin otherwise don't become a debt slave. Lucky for me, I found a affordable University and my circumstances allowed me to pay my entire 4 year degree off.
Not really, in my experience. Fewer enemies means that current enemies will have much more lands to spread out, becoming insanely powerful after some time, and it also mean you have less variations to trade. Your best bet is to have as many enemies as possible, and as equal in strength.
It depends on the map, and on how you play. On Sid the AI really struggles if they have few cities. But on the flip side, they will plant next to your capital from 2 sides and box you in. You also have more people to trade with.
Don’t know u caught a break I guess mongols settle the second city you settle in your game with there third settler. I literally can’t even walk the 1 settled to the location before they grab it lol rip
I remember googling a Civ 3 Sid game on TH-cam and not finding anything satisfactory: finally, many years after that you are doing the impossible!
There exist some writeups of Sid games at civfanatics. There exist some succession game reports. I have some hidden under "Mayan Mayhem: A Huge Deity Histographic" in the Hall of Fame Discussion thread, and in "Spoonwood's Hall of Fame Attempts". There's also a program called "Crp Viewer" available on civfanatics with which you can review games.
I'm a fan of this format - I'd like to see more of it if possible :)
Nice! It works great for Sid because I don't have to record a bunch of useless takes. I can also listen to music while I play.
Yea agree this is a very good video
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@@suedeciviii7142That was a brilliant video sued well done I look forward to seeing more like this💪
@@suedeciviii7142 Yes, keep doing these! I'd binge watch them
I just want to share that to this day, my Dad is still playing completely unpatched vanilla Civ 3 so the Great Lighthouse still lets him cross the entire ocean.
Ah yes! Just as the ancient Irish crossed the Atlantic in cowhide boats after being taught at the Alexandrian lighthouse 🤣
There is something other than vanilla?
No reloads...ooh okay
No exploits...oh yeah nice, interesting
No Portugal...LETS GOOOOOO
Why no Portugal? Is there a game winning glitch that only applies to them?
@@t.purkess9682 Oh boy it's complicated.
They're just a funny country to be included in the game, and strangely small country to have as much of an impact on global history. There are a lot of memes about them, specifically the Brazilians are always making fun of how incomprehensible they are. Here are two Portugal themed meme subreddits as an example
www.reddit.com/r/PORTUGALCARALHO/
www.reddit.com/r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT/
In Civ 3 they are probably a bottom tier civ on a random map, and in theory they should be easy to play against. But they aren't, the AI as Portugal routinely stomps everyone else. It happened in my India Sid game, and a bunch of the AI vs AI battle games.
There was also a guy in the discord that was constantly talking about Portugal and trying to win every difficulty as Portugal.
@@suedeciviii7142 Thank you for the explanation!
@@suedeciviii7142
I used to play Portugal and post the games on the discord. I added some spice to it. Play Portugal, don’t pick other civs, don’t take your golden age, no exploits or cheats, don’t cheese so no ROP abuse or cutting the road to your capital, Don’t build the GL or use the GL sling, no army pillaging cheese, no city screen exploit, honor all your trade and peace deals, no reloads, standard map, diplo victory is allowed. I’ve won games on deity but I can’t remember if I won a deity game with these conditions. Never won a Sid game.
So Suede if you want the true Sid experience, Portugal is waiting for you…
@@suedeciviii7142 thanks for the explanation. That’s really funny and I’ve noticed it with my games as well but haven’t been able to figure out why they do so well. The fact it’s a meme makes me happy
Grassland cow is stronger than plains cow, especially on 60% land coverage. Irrigated it gives enough surplus food to have a city get to 4 food per turn as non-agricultural and 5 food for per turn as agricultural, if all other worked tiles have 2 food. Having production also, that's 5 food per turn for that 4 turn settler factory or 2 turn worker pump with a granary.
Yeah I was talking bs. It's only really true in this case, where I have several cows + the ag bonus already giving a bunch of food. Doubly so if you have few forests.
I've beaten Sid several times without reloading, but ONLY, on archipelago maps, and when I am alone on the island.
The bigger the map, the easier it is.
Go go Suede, this will be fun to watch! :)
Archipelago is easier at first but harder at the end.
With pangea if you establish yourself well at the start, you can just have them all smash each other at the end while you run away with the game. On archi, it can be impossible to stop runaway AI.
Like this style of game play with your commentary
This is my second favourite format, just behind recorded single-player games with live commentary (live in the sense of "in the moment" - not livestreams). I'm happy with either
I really loved civ3. I played couple thousand hours of it. And when I looked your opponents, memories started to flood. Aztecs, Zulu and Mongols. Very peaceful life ahead😅😅😅. Great video!
fantasticly fun to watch. i really like this kind of content, having you explain through the decision making helps a lot. not to say that i dont love the live streams but edited post commentary is excellent too.
yes more single player please !!
Amazing! Playing Civ3 again after years because of your videos ❤
Just listening to you speak I can tell how intelligent you are. Thank you for this guide I have been struggling so much. Love your channel. ❤
I like this format! Either way though, I enjoy your videos. If they’re longer it’ll give me something to put on while I work lol
Love to see more high difficulty gameplay, been a couple years since I last played this game but it's always fun to watch your playthroughs!
Thanks!
This is awesome!! I usually miss the live streams and love seeing the condensed format. I'd love to see more content like this
It also allows me to speed up later parts in the series! One issue I have is that 5 part are really tedious to watch by the final part.
been starting to play this again and found your old videos which are great. Nice to know that you're still here!
Love this format. Eagerly awaiting the next episode!
It's always great seeing Sid difficulty done legitimately.
Great game. Single player games are the best to watch. Great commentary, too.
You were talking about how the Celts have it harder because Iron Working is expensive but it got no trade value because AI always get it quickly BUT you were kind of tempted to get it by bankrupting your empire xD
Nice game! Thank you. To me playing at demigod this looks like magic
This was very fun to watch!
"done right" should include upgrading the palace
your post commentary was great btw !
Great video! I'd love it if the challenges returned in this format
On-point thumbnail, Suede. I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣
This format is just great!
Love the format! Would watch more
I know Salamanca is a town in upstate New York but it is a little disconcerting to see it be the default Iroquois capital name. I hope you didn't choose Spain as one of the other civs; that could be weird. But this looks like a strong start and an entertaining game. I love the snowcapped mountain range ... the Civ 3 terrain has a lot of good flavor to it.
No matter what you give or get in a peace deal, if you redeclare before the initial 20 turns expires, you take a reputation hit.
Just AI opinion, no? You won't take ruin your trade rep by doing it.
@@suedeciviii7142 Oops. I just checked microbe's article, and yes you can redeclare before 20 turns without a reputation hit... provided that you haven't payed gold per turn in the peace treaty deal. My mistake!
@@Spoonwood Hold up what? It's just me paying gold per turn?
So like, if I get a tech in the peace deal I can just re-declare?
Not true i just did that recently where i redeclared pre turn 20 peace deal and i still got rep hit. It was white peace so nothing traded on either side
I do really like seeing this, because I often struggle to handle when the AIs are well ahead of you tech-wise. Don't plan on doing sid any time soon, I'm still getting a handle on demigod lol, but seeing the kind of things you can do to pull ahead against all odds is helpful I think
Great timing on this. I just found your Sid series where you played as India and did the gol per turn trade to AIs and then disconnected your capital so it would cancel. I was curious if you'd be able to do it without that. I'm grabbing some popcorn and going to find out!
Love this format. More, please :)
nice playtrough !
NO PORTUGAL! (that made me laugh)
Good to see a single player no live stream game.
FYI your playlist is missing the 2nd episode
17:04 population is love, population is life
what's the reason behind "no portugal"? it's an OP Civ?
Sweet can’t wait for this
what mod are you using, because you play in widescreen and I recognized the little smileys in the city screen which are not there by default
are you uploading the rest of the game?
Yes of course!
you get a like just for the thumbnail, now maybe watch LMAO
Why don't you use garrisoned units for happiness?
Guys, I recently changed my mainboard and now my civ3 is stretched, even the city menu fills out the whole screen. Anyone got an idea how I can get the black bars at the sides back?
why are the iroquios better than the maya? besides the UU (or is it the UU only that makes them so much better,)
100% it's the UU. The Mayan UU is basically useless in combat (for conquest, certainly). The MW is the best UU in the game.
For context when I played Mayans in my Deity bad land stream, I used horsemen to conquer. Imagine horsemen with a +50% attack bonus. It's just bananas.
The Iroq also start with Alphabet which is fantastic. But Masonry is a half decent imitation of Alphabet, so in that department the Mayans don't lose too many points.
@@suedeciviii7142 Makes sense. I could win on diety with no exploits except save scumming (which is a big one lol), but i'm trying on demigod with none. Rolling with the maya because i LOVE the ind. trait for worker speed.. but the UU is definitely garbage. the MW having 2 moves for covering defenses and retreat is absolutely monumental. Especially because on levels above emperor you're almost guaranteed to be forced into 1-2 ancient era wars for land/resource potential. swords take longer to build stacks up and move, and i was trying to use them.
I do like to use the GL still.. so starting with alphabet would definitely be better.
love your videos. goodluck on a 0 exploit sid game! glad you're doing it legit on pangea and not island bs :)
@@Cygnus__X1 It's humbling but liberating. It's nice knowing you don't have to waste time loading the game
@@Cygnus__X1 And you're gonna see Pang is just as BS in different ways hahah.
If you dont have exprience, you are wasting your time. Network your way into a job first and if you still want the degree go for it otherwise do not get a Master. I would even argue against a Bachelors. I recommend a two year degree and Networkinh your way into a job. In the end, B A and higher are only good when you want to leave your country of orgin otherwise don't become a debt slave. Lucky for me, I found a affordable University and my circumstances allowed me to pay my entire 4 year degree off.
Did you found your capital without sea access but with numerous sea squares in the city screen!?
Um...bad.
Isn't it easier to play against fewer enemies so they don't have any friends to trade with?
Not really, in my experience.
Fewer enemies means that current enemies will have much more lands to spread out, becoming insanely powerful after some time, and it also mean you have less variations to trade. Your best bet is to have as many enemies as possible, and as equal in strength.
It depends on the map, and on how you play. On Sid the AI really struggles if they have few cities. But on the flip side, they will plant next to your capital from 2 sides and box you in. You also have more people to trade with.
@@bobankrsmanovic9398 Thanks.
@@suedeciviii7142 Thanks.
holyshit my man your still playing this? Thanks for still doing playthroughs of my favorite game of all time.
Hey, can you share seed?
3198127
Can you post turn 1 save ???
3198127 is the seed
Thanks
Don’t know u caught a break I guess mongols settle the second city you settle in your game with there third settler. I literally can’t even walk the 1 settled to the location before they grab it lol rip
@@wiktormytych9881 Damn. Maybe reroll.
Portuguese bros, it's so over.