no tutorial?

[tfenn1975]

I am disgusted by the complete lack of a tutorial on this game,

[tfenn1975]

while i understand the concept of the game i have no idea concerning the mechanics to accomplish this, even such basics as how to read the capital city page elude me completely

[Rincewind]

In "Preference" there is an option "Tutorial Mode" to enable.

[BigTiddyShoggothGF]

I too, was bothered a bit when I saw the lack of a proper tutorial. But the "tutorial mode" (which seems to be more about tooltips/extra confimations) and the lowest difficulty level seem to work just fine to introduce you to the game.

[Onigiri.Eater]

You can browse the Civilopedia. It has a good amount of informations. And yes, there is no tutorial to guide step by step. Call it a challange (?). Hope it help.

[The Flying Claw]

Originally posted by Dim Avantasia:

In "Preference" there is an option "Tutorial Mode" to enable.

But once you enable this in preferences and save it, come back and it isn't checked anymore. Anyone have this problem?

[Rincewind]

nope, It's working for me. sorry I can't help you.
Anyway the "tutorial mode" is only tooltips and advice, you can learn easily without.
And you can lso try to get tutorials on google or on youtube.

[Helmut Schlachtenburg]

Back in the day, the player would read the manual. This one was quite thick.

http://storefront.steampowered.com/Manuals/3910/manual.pdf?l=english&cc=AU&os=windows

[lootpig irrationale]

My father actually printed out the entire manual and read it - it's quite a pain, but he's able to play on deity with a bit of save game load game cheating...

[Onigiri.Eater]

Well, at high levels you need to "buy" techs from other civilizations, because they have HUGE bonus over you. Also you need to master the luxury stuff or it is over.
Basically: you need to expand very quickly at the beginning and continue to produce cities following a scheme (example, EVERY 2 or 3 squares). When you have a strong economy and basic defense you need to check almost every turn what techs every civs have. Then trading them making a HUGE profit. With that money you can afford a HUGE army to crush anything will get on your path.

Or expand yourself + build several swordsmen/iroquis/whatever to annihilate the enemy.

Hope it help. Also, sorry for my bad english.

[Smoking Tiger.]

i dont wanne talk down to any body but when i was 12 i learnd to play this game without any tutorial what so ever (granted that i was oone patiant kid ^^)

[Death_bat00]

I was bothred by this too.

[johnny5]

really annoying that there is no intro guide

[Helmut Schlachtenburg]

Originally posted by johnny5:

really annoying that there is no intro guide

Originally posted by Conan:

Back in the day, the player would read the manual. This one was quite thick.

http://storefront.steampowered.com/Manuals/3910/manual.pdf?l=english&cc=AU&os=windows

Get reading johnny5.

[Doug]

Tons of info, tips, etc. here: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3

The left column Civilization 3 section links to guides of all kinds.

[Rmanwide]

Que the "TL:DR" posts. I still have my manual from the disc version I bought years ago. It's pretty worn out.