The Civ3 Screenshot of the Day feature showcases only the weirdest, shocking, interesting, and/or unusual Civilization screenshots. If you have a cool screenshot, please submit it to SOTD (full screenshot preferred). We want to see it!
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Monday, September 8, 2003 |
Screenshot of the Day #146: Weight Watchers![]() I guess his resolve to stay on the weight watchers diet was wavering and he felt he needed some support and encouragement. Thanks to Shambolica for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Friday, August 22, 2003 |
Screenshot of the Day #145: Mac Civ3 Conquests
I heard that one of the new Civs are the Mac Users …apparently their default starting position is in the middle of a 20×20 desert with the new Fruit Resource (apple…), and they start the game with 89 Unhappy Citizens and 1 Worker (Brad)… frunobulax first posted this funny "screenshot" about C3C three months ago, in the Civ3 Macintosh forum. Let’s hope Atari and MacSoft announce Civ3 Conquests for the Mac soon… >> Submit a cool screenshot to SOTD
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Saturday, August 9 |
Screenshot of the Day #144: Wonderful Overthrow![]() Now that’s a big WoW!!! Thanks to Andy Theel for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, August 5 |
Screenshot of the Day #143: Steal Plans![]() This option would be very useful in multiplayer if it’s available early in the game… |
Tuesday, July 29 |
Screenshot of the Day #142: Bias Election![]() I had destroyed all other civs except for an Indian settler on a boat. Therefore there was no second largest Civ and I was the only one on the ballot. Also, I was unable to place a spy in India because it thought there already was a spy there. I guess it must go by capital city or something. Thanks to mjanzen for the screenshot. |
Thursday, July 24 |
Screenshot of the Day #141: Bottlenecks
It would take quiet a few of those wooden privateers to destroy a steel battleship… Thanks to Erik Larabie for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, July 16 |
Screenshot of the Day #140: Happy Man
Question: Any idea how they calculate the gender of each citizen ? 50/50 ? Thanks to old_saint_joe for the screenshot. |
Sunday, July 13 |
Screenshot of the Day #139: Cattle Bomber
Thanks to Strobe for the screenshot. |
Monday, July 7 |
Screenshot of the Day #138: The Great Catherine![]() Thanks to Jonny for the screenshot. |
Saturday, July 5 |
Screenshot of the Day #137: Enter the Matrix![]() Thanks to Jay TheSilverCitadel for the screenshot. |
Saturday, June 28 |
Screenshot of the Day #136: Persian Hordes![]() This is my first Deity-level game. On my last turn, I captured a Persian city that covers a strategic chokepoint, with the intention of bottling the Persians up on their peninsula. This will shorten my defensive lines and shield my allies (the Zulu and the Germans) from the wrath of Xerxes…that is, assuming I can survive the onslaught of the Persian hordes that have just arrived on my doorstep. π Apparently, Xerxes wants that city back in the worst way. Thanks to Brooke Wheeler for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, June 24 |
Screenshot of the Day #135: Mined Forest![]() This screenshot was also submitted in September 2002. Thanks to Nick Austin (aka Ex) for the screenshot. |
Monday, June 23 |
Screenshot of the Day #134: Weird River![]() Guess that river dried up, or maybe my map generator should visit the newbie thread in the civ3 forum regarding the functions of rivers in civ3. π Note: This screenshot was submitted in September 2002. Thanks to Kemal for the screenshot. |
Monday, June 16 |
Screenshot of the Day #133: The Smelly Germans
Thanks to Liyun Niu for the screenshot. |
Sunday, June 15 |
Screenshot of the Day #132: Buggy Tribe![]() Thanks to ivory for the screenshot. |
Monday, June 9 |
Screenshot of the Day #131: The Catherine![]() Thanks to Seth Adarion for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, June 4 |
Screenshot of the Day #130: Galley Vision![]() Thanks to Daniel Mathias for the screenshot. |
Sunday, June 1 |
Screenshot of the Day #129: American Worker![]() Thanks to Bolan Longpants for the screenshot. |
Sunday, May 25 |
Screenshot of the Day #128: Mining Town
Thanks to Curtis A. Robinson for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, May 14 |
Screenshot of the Day #127: ‘Friend’ Zulu
Thanks to Stefan Shetty for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, May 13 |
Screenshot of the Day #126: The One![]() Is nuke good or bad? That’s the question… BTW, I did a search for "nuclear" in the PTW text folder and found this funny line in script.txt: #OURNUKEFAILED Has anyone seen the military advisor cursing like this? Thanks to Andrea Visinoni for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, April 29 |
Screenshot of the Day #125: Soccerball![]() It’s nice to know that Osman’s favorite game is soccer… Thanks to Rick Hannigan for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, April 23 |
Screenshot of the Day #124: Fog of War![]() Thanks to DaveMcw for the screenshot. |
Thursday, April 17 |
Screenshot of the Day #123: Time Spent![]() Many RPG games have a timer to record the amount of time you spend playing the game. For example, it took me about 120 (!) hours to complete Final Fantasy X. Now this timer feature is finally part of Civ… I actually suggested this little feature to Firaxis. |
Friday, April 11 |
Screenshot of the Day #122: Rich France!
The only victory condition enabled was Spaceship. Things were going pretty well, but I wasn’t researching 1 tech every 4 turns. However, I did get Superconductor first, and went to France to negotiate. I was expecting a wonderful deal, but nothing like that. I love Joan. She’s so generous. Now I’m researching well and there’s still some money left. Thanks to Pggar for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, April 9 |
Screenshot of the Day #121: Poor France!![]() Just had to make sure Joan and her Scary/Immortal galleons could not escape from her retirement village and cause any injuries to those poor defenseless barbarian galleys. Thanks to Cracker for the screenshot. |
Thursday, April 3 |
Screenshot of the Day #120: Baghdad
Thanks to Sen Sui for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Monday, March 31 |
Screenshot of the Day #119: Embargo![]() Thanks to BobTheTerrible for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Sunday, March 30 |
Screenshot of the Day #118: Confused AI![]() Stupid AI talking… Thanks to MusicLaunch for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Monday, March 24 |
Screenshot of the Day #117: Shrinking Border![]() Thanks to DogBoy for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Wednesday, March 19 |
Screenshot of the Day #116: Musketman
Thanks to Edward Jones for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Friday, March 14 |
Screenshot of the Day #115: Amphibious Tank
Thanks to Terans6 for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Tuesday, March 11 |
Screenshot of the Day #114: Stormy Palace![]() The graphic was not modified in any way. That was the way the sky looked when the "Upgrade Palace" screen appeared. Notice the palace still looks normal. Thanks to Yoshimune for the screenshot. >> Submit a cool screenshot to SOTD
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Monday, March 10 |
Screenshot of the Day #113: AI Cheating?![]() So finally we have evidence of the AI cheating!? Thanks to David Harvey for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Saturday, March 8 |
Screenshot of the Day #112: Worker Ants![]() Multi-figure units can be downloaded in the multi-figure units forum. Thanks to Fr8monkey for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Tuesday, March 4 |
Screenshot of the Day #111: Nuclear Meltdown![]() I thought it was fun to name an (ex) Russian city "Chernobyl" when I built a nuclear plant there. Apparently the city didn’t like my scorn and decided to repeat the history… >_< Thanks to Karri Kahelin for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Sunday, March 2 |
Screenshot of the Day #110: Lots of Coal
Thanks to Chieftess for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Thursday, February 27 |
Screenshot of the Day #109: This is funny![]() I have the City List set so you can understand it, butit is very funny. ‘This’ is a city name for the Egyptians… Another strange city name is the Carthaginian city of "lol". >> Related forum thread
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Monday, February 24 |
Screenshot of the Day #108: 1 + ? = 2![]() Thanks to Lee A. Kendter for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Saturday, February 22 |
Screenshot of the Day #107: Surfing Swordman![]() I tried to separate units from an army as specified somewhere in civfanatics.com But one of my swordmen choosed to stay on the galley and surf as in the "Apocalypse Now" movie. That’s a good way to intimidate your enemies! >> Related forum thread
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Thursday, February 20 |
Screenshot of the Day #106: Overlap![]() Thanks to toh6wy for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Tuesday, February 18 |
Screenshot of the Day #105: Carrot
I must have received half a dozen Carrot IQ SOTD submissions… >> Related forum thread
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Saturday, February 15 |
Screenshot of the Day #104: Invisible Sub![]() Thanks to Frunobulax for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Wednesday, February 12 |
Screenshot of the Day #103: Warmongers![]() I also have experienced similar things in my games. After war is declared some of my cities would start to celebrate "We love the King Day" the next turn. >> Related forum thread
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Tuesday, February 11 |
Screenshot of the Day #102: Revolutionary![]() Whoa, look at all those irons! This is unreal!! >> Related forum thread
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Wednesday, February 5 |
Screenshot of the Day #101: Berserk![]() It’s safe to say that some responses in diplomacy are Civ-specific… >> Related forum thread
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Monday, February 3 |
Screenshot of the Day #100: Exclusive Editor Screenshots![]() A screenshot of my desktop while working on the editor. I was going to post this at some point as an "exclusive editor screenshot" as a joke. π I hope you are not too disappointed. PS: If you missed any SOTD, you can see all of them in the SOTD section. >> Related forum thread
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Sunday, February 2 |
Screenshot of the Day #99: A Connecting Principle![]() This screenshot is dated July 21, 2001 and is submitted by Mike Breitkreutz of Firaxis. I am just glad Firaxis changed the font! PS: The next SOTD will be our 100th SOTD!!! Stay tuned. >> Submit a cool screenshot to SOTD
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Thursday, January 30 |
Screenshot of the Day #98: Civil War![]() This screenshot reminded me of the civil wars in Civ2… Too bad we can’t do that in Civ3. >> Submit a cool screenshot to SOTD
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Tuesday, January 28 |
Screenshot of the Day #97: Poor Gweeto![]() Thanks to Philippe Hollebeke for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Monday, January 27 |
Screenshot of the Day #96: Why wouldn’t they?![]() I guess it’s because the AI doesn’t like to take advantage of you and wants everything to be perfectly fair. Thanks to Cursed_Wolf for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Saturday, January 25 |
Screenshot of the Day #95: Hidden Dragon![]() This is probably a reference to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon… Thanks to Vegeta Saiyan for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Wednesday, January 22 |
Screenshot of the Day #94: Barbarian Worker![]() Thanks to Alexey Grabovskyy for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Sunday, January 19 |
Screenshot of the Day #93: It Rhymes!![]() "Babylon will always triumph, because Egypt is dumb", says the sad looking foreign advisor. Thanks to Dave Tidy for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Saturday, January 18 |
Screenshot of the Day #92: Free Upgrade![]() Thanks to Alex Ng for the screenshot. EDIT: I showed MikeB of Firaxis this screenshot and he said this is not a bug. If the cost to build the unit >= the cost to build the upgraded unit, then the upgrade is free. Gallic Swordsman costs 50 shields to build while Medieval Infantry costs only 40. Thanks Mike for the info! |
Friday, January 17 |
Screenshot of the Day #91: More Diplomacy
Thanks to Bige1530 for the screenshot. |
Monday, January 13 |
Screenshot of the Day #90: Everlasting Peace![]() Thanks to Hygro for the screenshot. |
Thursday, January 9 |
Screenshot of the Day #89: Stronger than who?![]() Well if we know of no other civilizations, who exactly do we have a strong military against? That’s a nice footprint map you have there, LK. |
Wednesday, January 8 |
Screenshot of the Day #88: AIs Unite!![]() Thanks to Curtis Robinson for the screenshot. |
Monday, January 6 |
Screenshot of the Day #87: Sleep is for the Weak![]() The other time-sensitive easter egg is "Sleep is for the Weak". When you play PTW into the wee hours, there is a chance that your advisor will tell you "Sleep is for the weak"! I found an interesting message from my science advisor tonight. Apparently, they were not getting much sleep as they built the game! Thanks to Jason Crabtree for the screenshot. |
Friday, January 3 |
Screenshot of the Day #86: Dead Paratroopers![]() …and those paratroopers transformed into "dogs" or "monkeys". Can someone explain why those units died? PS: If you haven’t tried it yet, try airdrop a paratrooper into the ocean in the game and see what happens. |
Thursday, January 2 |
Screenshot of the Day #85: Shapeshifter![]() That unload army bug is going to be fixed in the next PTW patch. Thanks to Brooke Wheeler for the screenshot. |
Monday, December 30 |
Screenshot of the Day #84: Unfinished Business![]() So while we were both cursing PTW’s multiplayer stability, and all contact with the game had been lost, my former foreign advisor, apparently not comfortable with leaving his tasks unfinished, somehow found a way to bridge the boundaries of space and time to deliver me this final message…. Very weird, I have no idea why PTW continues its calculations on a game and delivers the results of these calculations in the form of this pop-up while the game itself has already been terminated for some time.
Thanks to Kemal for the screenshot. |
Friday, December 27 |
Screenshot of the Day #83: Barbarian Galley![]() It’s 2034 AD. The Egyptians have been destroyed, with a bit of a nuclear war. Most cities were razed. I was moving settlers to establish cities and whoa! There’s a barbarian galley. The next turn the barbarian galley ambushed my transport. Thanks to hbdragon for the screenshot. |
Thursday, December 26 |
Screenshot of the Day #82: Angry Trade Advisor
I can only guess it was one of the Firaxis people during some overtime crunching ^.^ If anyone has seen a happy Trade Advisor, take a screenshot and send it in! |
Wednesday, December 25 |
Screenshot of the Day #81: Money Grows on Trees
From trees, of course! |
Friday, December 20 |
Screenshot of the Day #80: Zealous Bomber
The bomber apparently thinks war is not over yet and is preparing for more bombing runs. You can never blame a bomber for being overly zealous… |
Thursday, December 19 |
Screenshot of the Day #79: -2 Turns
This is time travel in Civ3! |
Tuesday, December 17 |
Screenshot of the Day #78: Come Closer
The cities in the background don’t have the population numbers. Where did the people go? |
Monday, December 16 |
Screenshot of the Day #77: News Anchor
The domestic advisor never ceases to amaze me. |
Saturday, December 14 |
Screenshot of the Day #76: What’s a Map?
Now that’s weird! I thought Map Making is a prerequisite for map trading… |
Friday, December 13 |
Screenshot of the Day #75: Peaceful War
Thanks to Dragula Dragon for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, December 11 |
Screenshot of the Day #74: Floating Leader![]() Thanks to Lee Kendter for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, December 10 |
Screenshot of the Day #73: Goody Hut![]() Thanks to Boulboul Gadol for the screenshot. |
Monday, December 9 |
Screenshot of the Day #72: ‘Our Workers’![]() OUR workers?? Only, notice those aren’t our workers. The Russians graciously sent them to link up the gems for us. Thanks to Zur for the screenshot. |
Sunday, December 8 |
Screenshot of the Day #71: Teleport![]() Thanks to Richard for the screenshot. |
Thursday, December 5 |
Screenshot of the Day #70: Sword vs. Pen
Playin a diety game and this message showed up next to the colony. …but a closer look reveals that it’s likely because the labels.txt is messed up. Thanks to Tous for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, December 3 |
Screenshot of the Day #69: Cloud Temple
I was playing PTW online with 3 other people in a turnless game. I decided to check out my palace, but I didn’t want to spend too much time there because I would miss some turns. I just started clicking around real fast to make the palace appear and it messed up because the top was just floating there! Thanks to Jake Williams for the screenshot. >> Related forum thread
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Friday, November 29 |
Screenshot of the Day #68: Early Monarchy
Thanks to Bamspeedy for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, November 27 |
Screenshot of the Day #67: Capital-less![]() This was from GOTM XII. I just let my capital get destroyed, and then my people decided to improve my palace. I didn’t have any cities (just a settler). I find it illogical. Thanks to Michael York for the screenshot. |
Monday, November 25 |
Screenshot of the Day #66: Wonder-ful City![]() There is an easy way to make a city like this: just use the editor to give a city everything. |
Friday, November 22 |
Screenshot of the Day #65: Another Elvis Easter Egg![]() Take a look at what the Domestic Advisor is saying. I knew there was a secret Elvis unit, but I’ve never seen this before. I didn’t know he was Japanese… π
If you are playing the German, the advisor probably will say "Hail to the Chancellor, baby!" instead. Thanks to toh6wy and Matrix for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, November 20 |
Screenshot of the Day #64: Mostly Harmless
This is from a generated map I was playing on Regent with the Mac 1.21 patch, as the Americans. It was the Industrial era, and I had been through several wars with a few countries, though none of those wars came to anything but lost units, as I have the oceans and the Indians as buffers. The French had started a few wars by refusing to remove their troops from my territory. When I asked them to cease and desist infringing on my territory with their workers, they declared war on me! Well, no problem, free workers for me. The French have got the bluster and bravery down pat, now all they need is some brains. Thanks to Zach Piper for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, November 19 |
Screenshot of the Day #63: Elvis & JAIMO Easter Eggs
Change the date on your PC to Jan 8th 2004 (someone’s birthday), and start a regicide game (or mass regicide for extra fun) and you will get a nice surprise. Now for even more amusement, look in your "extras" folder and you will find a "mystery unit" that wasnt there before…"JAIMO!" π
Firaxis really knows how to hide easter eggs! >> Related forum thread
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Saturday, November 16 |
Screenshot of the Day #62: Debug Punishment
I was using the DEBUG mode to test out some new units. After seeing they all worked properly, I decided to abandon all of them, since I was done. I disbanded my settler, also. Conquest defeat at 4000 B.C. for -50,000 pts!! I guess they really penalize you if you can’t win in the ‘cheat mode’. π When it gets to the screen for the ‘historical ranking’, I don’t even get the ‘worthless’ title because the game crashes. Got any titles that are worse than worthless? Thanks to Bryan Mathison for the screenshot. |
Thursday, November 14 |
Screenshot of the Day #61: English x2
While playing one day, after destroying the English (who were oddly in the place of the Indians, though I had not selected Indians for the game) I suddenly met up with….the English. But not the same English. This was an ENTIRELY different civilization with a different color and everything. The only thing that was the same was the fact it was the English. I even gave the English communications with the English. Here is a shot of my foreign advisor screen and of "The Most Powerful Nations of the World" thing (respectively.)
Thanks to Becka for the screenshot. |
Wednesday, November 13 |
Screenshot of the Day #60: Wildfire![]() I was playing another game as the Greeks, and was at war, but this time with China, Babylon, India and England (Destroyed). I captured many of the Indian cities, and they went into civil disorder and rioting. I cleared the map (Ctrl+Shift+M) and this is what I saw!! Looks like they’ve set fire to more than just cities. (That might be an interesting idea for a disaster in CIV4!)
Thanks to JamesDS for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, November 12 |
Screenshot of the Day #59: Cloaking![]() It is a peninsula and when I ordered my nuclear submarine to go from one side of the peninsula to another it took a "shortcut" and went right through the island. About halfway thru the island it stopped, waited for a second and sunk, I was able to get a screenshot before it dived into the "wattery grassplains". This map does not have modified rules either. Submitted by Alric. [This screenshot is found to be a fake. ] |
Monday, November 11 |
Screenshot of the Day #58: The King in exile…![]() Civ3 PTW game, normal rules plus regicide. After the Ottomans attacked me for the third time I’d had enough. I was pressing near his capital so he promptly nuked mine. The next turn I flung everything I had at his, and about 40 smoking hulks of modern armor and 20 mech inf later, I got the satisfaction of watching his king die. Except he didn’t. A new city popped up nearby, and the next turn another city.. both of which I destroyed again. Still no message about defeating the Ottomans, and my citizens are getting very war weary. I finally found him down at the south pole, going for a cold swim to relax from the pressures of office apparently. The destroyers can’t attack him, they can bombard but it does no damage. The marine can’t attack him either. I’d really like to hit him on the head with an ICBM, but that isn’t going to happen. He’s invincible, and he knows it too. He won’t give me anything for a peace treaty, and what’s this? I can assure you that he had neither of those techs when I took him out. I guess when you are stuck at the south pole you have nothing better to do than research. Thanks to Leuf for the screenshot. |
Friday, November 8 |
Screenshot of the Day #57: Occupied Territory![]() I can’t remember seeing any zoom screenshots in the SOTD, so here is one from GOTM12. You can use the z hotkey to zoom in and out from your map for a larger perspective. Don’t try what this screenshot shows at home, because it does nothing to improve your game score and actually takes away your ability to farm barbarians and have some limited late game fun. I was bored and had way too much cash, so I decided to build as many Modern Armor units as possible and then just upholster the entire world map with tanks to see what it would look like. Remember that all these modern armor units (over 1300 of them) where actually built in the game and not just artificially created with a magic wand. In the last turn of the game, I completed over 80 new modern Armor units just to make sure I used up the shields and as much cash as possible.
This amazing screenshot was submitted by Cracker. |
Thursday, November 7 |
Screenshot of the Day #56: Negative Production![]() It says the city is producing -3 production. I know the city is far from the capitol, but this is pushing it. Thanks to Curtis Robinson for the screenshot. |
Tuesday, November 5 |
Screenshot of the Day #55: Pathfinding
Thanks to Marzipan for the screenshot. |
Monday, November 4 |
Screenshot of the Day #54: Resource Depletion
What a joke! |
Sunday, November 3 |
Screenshot of the Day #53: Thunderfall
Thanks to tcjsavannah for the in-game screenshot, King of Camelot for the editor screenshot, and of course a big thanks to FIRAXIS for this easter egg! >> Related discussion thread |
Saturday, November 2 |
Screenshot of the Day #52: Jerkses
First, look at the upper right hand corner of the screen and see that Jerkses is trembling at the thought of our musketmen even though we have two elite infantrymen, two elite samurais, and two WWI style artillery pieces fortified on the chokepoint that restricts him to his lonely peninsula. Second, you can look at the composite of four different screen shots in the center dialog boxes that summarize Jerkses great trading skills. First he tries to trade us the military tradition tech that is now virtually worthless to us plus he wants our whole treasury worth of cash. Yeah, right!!! Then I ask Jerkses what he wants in trade for his world map, only to find to my surprise that he refuses to ask for anything and says the trade is not possible in two different ways. I can’t quite figure that one out because his map is virtually worthless and I was just offering to trade him some mere pittance to be nice. I then demand that Jerkses give me the map since it can’t possibly make him any more furious and what is he going to do to me anyway when I have Infantry and he is isolated onto a resource-less peninsula. He might spit at me and one of my infantry could be injured when he slips in the spit and hurts himself while falling down laughing. So the mighty Xerxes has to give me that map that he refused to let me buy even for cold hard cash.
Thanks to cracker for the submission. >> Related discussion thread |
Thursday, October 31 |
Screenshot of the Day #51: Brave Ruler![]() I made a little test scenario using the editor and found that it IS possible for king units to generate great leaders. This is funny because unlike other units, king unit represents a single individual. It’s weird to see Lincoln "produce" Washington. >> Related discussion thread |
Monday, October 28 |
Screenshot of the Day #50: Best Unit is…
I thought this was pretty amusing. I was playing on a large map, emperor difficulty as the greeks. The Japanese were on another continent, and are now at war with everyone… and their best unit is the worker. I know this is based on what units I’ve seen but it still was funny to see with them in the industrial ages. The foreign advisor should be fired for giving misleading information. Use some common sense, for crying out loud! >> Related discussion thread |
Saturday, October 26 |
Screenshot of the Day #49: Desert Iron
After a large nuclear war, and all effected grasslands since converted to desert, I noticed something peculiar around my former French capital, Paris. Could it be? Is that Iron on that flood plain tile??? How can that be??? The before pic shows that the Iron used to be on the hills but somehow the hills got transformed. None of the other hills in the game changed. Must be a bug of somekind. Thanks to Barry Adams for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread
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Friday, October 25 |
Screenshot of the Day #48: Two Years Ago Today![]() October 2000 was a time when we were still posting those colorful poll results, when the Civ1 section on this site was launched, when the Civ2 Scenario Hall of Fame was opened… and most importantly, the CivFanatics forum was born two years ago today! We have a special SOTD for this special day: a screenshot of the grand opening forum post taken by shabbaman. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the visitors for the continued support and all the staff members for their hard work. Keep on Civing everyone! >> Related discussion thread |
Wednesday, October 23 |
Screenshot of the Day #47: ‘Negative’ Attitude![]() That’s one scary Sid Meier! >> Related discussion thread
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Tuesday, October 22 |
Screenshot of the Day #46: Soldier for Life![]() It would be great if Firaxians can reveal how those stats on the F11 screen are calculated. >> Related discussion thread
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Monday, October 21 |
Screenshot of the Day #45: Make more friends!![]() Thanks to Cracker for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Saturday, October 19 |
Screenshot of the Day #44: Yellow Roman Warrior![]() I was playing as the Romans, a game like any other else, with unmodded rules. My domestic advisor told me that Cumae had produced a warrior. Nothing strange at first but…look at the colour of the warrior!! it is yellow! Cumae just produced a Zulu warrior?? :D. Not really, the warrior was red as it should, but still, curious colour bug. Thanks to Evincar for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Thursday, October 17 |
Screenshot of the Day #43: Crazy Science Advisor
I got this message when I chose to research Nationalism right after I had discovered Theory of Gravity, and because I was scientifc I got Nationalism for free. Just another sign that the advisors are little crazy sometimes. Good news: I forwarded those screenshots to Firaxis a week ago and they told me this bug is fixed in Play the World. >> Related discussion thread |
Wednesday, October 16 |
Screenshot of the Day #42: Oil
Why would China settle on this island, Refining is far away in future. There are plenty better spots to settle. but they decided to settle on 100 percent icy island. Because they know oil will come. (Warlord level) Oh well, at least the AIs pretend they don’t know the map and are willing to pay big bucks for your map. >> Related discussion thread |
Monday, October 14 |
Screenshot of the Day #41: We Surrender!
I was playing a game a few days ago and fighting a war w/ the Greeks and I’ve gotten them down to one city that’s been there for a while. When my troops gain sight of it, there is a spearman in it. On the next turn, when my troops are in striking distance, the city is abandoned and the Greeks just let me walk in and finish them off. I’ve never seen the computer surrender like this before. It really took all the joy out of victory. It’s probably a smart thing to do… If you can’t win, the least you can do is annoy your enemy. >> Related discussion thread |
Sunday, October 13 |
Screenshot of the Day #40: Slave Trade
We all get the chance to buy a foreign worker on occasion. However, how many can buy SIX in one turn? Funny thing, they we 5 French and 1 Babylon worker. Did Germany just capture a large bunch? Using slaves doesn’t seem to have any significant impact on happiness, even though the Civilopedia says citizens of Republics and Democracies don’t like the slaving of Workers. I usually buy as many slaves as possible in my games. >> Related discussion thread |
Saturday, October 12 |
Screenshot of the Day #39: Monster Production
I think this is about the maximum production a city can have. It’s in war-time mobilization and GA. Iron Works, Manufacturing Plant, Nuclear Plant. I’d like to have such a city in my next (real) game π Please keep taking those cool screenshots and keep them coming! Thanks to NativeOne for the submission. >> Related discussion thread |
Friday, October 11 |
Screenshot of the Day #38: Ghost Culture
Upon making first contact with the English in occupied American territory, I aquired their world map. About 30 turns earlier, the advisor informed me that "The Americans have been destroyed!". Now I know by who. π Then I noticed something weird. The former American cultural borders still appeared on the mini-map, even though they were gone! Ha! I’ve never seen that bug before. Thanks to joespaniel for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Thursday, October 10 |
Screenshot of the Day #37: Utopia
Well the people in this civ live 99 years and their families have 21 children each… now thats a utopia!;) I suppose some people would say this is hell with so many people on earth. >> Related discussion thread |
Wednesday, October 9 |
Screenshot of the Day #36: All Your Base![]() The quote is from an old, poorly translated Japanese console game called Zero Wing. In recent years, "all your base are belong to us" spread like wildfire and has infiltrated the entire planet. Civilization III is no exception. Many of you have probably seen this before, but of all the funny one liners in the game (You say you want a revolution?) this has to be the funniest. I was at war with Japan and was trying to talk peace and this is what I am greeted by… Thanks to jaroslav for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Tuesday, October 8 |
Screenshot of the Day #35: Ancient Railroads![]() I recently started a game where I am the Greeks, and I am up against the Egyptians, Germans, and Romans. The map size was set to Tiny since I have yet to play a map this small. Anyway, it is still the "Ancient Era" and, as you can see from the screenshot, I am researching Monarchy. I can assure you that no one else has Monarchy and everyone else is still in the Ancient Era. The Romans and the Egyptians are at war, and the Egyptians just razed a Roman city. The funny thing is that the city left a spot of railroads behind! This is very odd as railroads are two eras away, and although I’ve seen funnier SOTD, this one was quite surprising. Thanks to Blesser for the screenshot. |
Monday, October 7 |
Screenshot of the Day #34: Free Electricity![]() I decreased the amount of resources to Science in order to get more money. And … I got Electricity free. Thanks to DanBDD for the submission. |
Friday, October 4 |
Screenshot of the Day #33: Clash of the Titans![]() Thanks to Warpstorm for the submission. >> Related discussion thread |
Thursday, October 3 |
Screenshot of the Day #32: Historians![]() I began playing and as the Iroquois. I began exploring and found the Japanese. Ok.. that’s great, but a few turns later the ‘History of the World’ dialog appears. Well I mean….. I’ve nothing against the Japanese but….aaah! (at least I made it to the top of the list…) Thanks to Shinyglasses for the submission. |
Wednesday, October 2 |
Screenshot of the Day #31: Spy Captured![]() Thanks to RufRydyr for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Tuesday, October 1 |
Screenshot of the Day #30: Zero Pop City![]() My system was getting bogged down enough to show the stuff normally unnoticed. thought this zero population city in the making would give everybody a chuckle. This stayed on for about 3 minutes so I grabbed it. Thanks to Stanley Rexwinkle for the submission. >> Related discussion thread |
Monday, September 30 |
Screenshot of the Day #29: Unluckiest Scout
While exploring with my scout early in a game I walked through a small peninsula (to see how much water there actually is). The next turn when I wanted to go back I was suddenly blocked by a barbarian camp which appeared at the opening. Two turns later the scout was killed. The screenshot was submitted by Matrix and it was actually taken from Civ3 GOTM XII which will be posted tomorrow. Thanks Matrix for the submission. |
Friday, September 27 |
Screenshot of the Day #28: Nuclear Party![]() Near the end of a rather short and easy war with the Iroquois, I was preparing to take Salamanca. I rolled my Modern Armour through the mess created by someone else’s nuke, and up to the gates of the town to watch their units get destroyed by my artillery. I was about to bombard them when I noticed the strangest thing. Fireworks! This city just got nuked and it’s citizens were happy??? WTF are they smoking? Radioactive Reefer? Thanks to General Nuker for the screenshot. |
Thursday, September 26 |
Screenshot of the Day #27: Barbarian Camp![]() During a recent war with England, I had captured a few workers. On their way home, one of them ran into an undefended barbarian camp, something rare in itself. I tried to disperse the camp with the worker, but I was prevented from doing so, and got an interesting message. It called the camp a city, some akin to when barbarians could capture cities in CivII… Thanks to Octavian X for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Wednesday, September 25 |
Screenshot of the Day #26: Let’s Trade!![]() Queen Elizabeth made me a deal that I could not refuse. This came after the Zulu sacked their capital. (I accepted, and nothing happened, fyi…) Thanks to Ben deGonzague for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Tuesday, September 24 |
Screenshot of the Day #25: The Delete Key![]() Hitting the "Delete" key in Civ3 will hide all the menu boxes and buttons on the map. This includes the 3 buttons at top left, the minimap, and the info box at lower right. Hitting the Delete key again will make the interface re-appear. It’s pretty nifty. |
Monday, September 23 |
Screenshot of the Day #24: Suicide![]() In this game, I am Mao, benevolent leader of the Chinese people and all others who have sworn fealty to us over the centuries. We have just recently concluded our war with the Americans in which the French and Romans assisted us in repelling their unprovoked invasion into our Aztec holdings in the north. Our Persian neighbors have now taken up a rather hostile posture and it seems likely that the Chinese military will once again be called upon to bring peace to a violent world. We have just renegotiated our Mutual Protection Pact with France when Joan d’Arc’s response leaves me somewhat speechless, but none-the-less armed with an ally in the upcoming war. Thanks to Hunt Davis for the screenshot. |
Saturday, September 21 |
Screenshot of the Day #23: Hiding in the Dark![]() Nothing out of the ordinary about this one. Lizzy, CΓ¦sar, Hammurabi, Bismarck and Catherine all beaten. And it is a cultural victory. But wait! There are some black pictures. They both love me, but maybe they’re afraid to come forward and tell the world about their admiration. (The two hidden in the dark are Gandhi and Alex btw) Thanks to Paalikles for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Friday, September 20 |
Screenshot of the Day #22: Saltpeter![]() I was looking for saltpeter, and I found it but I realized that there is no way to get it! Oh map generator, why do you mock me? I recommend dropping of couple of nukes on that little island. π Thanks to Curtis A Robinson for the submission. >> Related discussion thread |
Wednesday, September 18 |
Screenshot of the Day #21: Eye of the Magi![]() Look at my screenshot. I don’t know why some areas are visibile to me but I haven’t explored it yet (as you can see from the minimap). You can see an irrigated grassland but when I right click it, it said "no information available"! Surprisingly I can see units when they come to that area, and even make contact with their leader! Thanks to Lau Frederick for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Tuesday, September 17 |
Screenshot of the Day #20: Irresistible
I was playing the Greeks, and I was in the middle of changing goverments, and even in anarchy they want to join me!!! lol Thanks to AndyH for the screenshot. |
Monday, September 16 |
Screenshot of the Day #19: Go Away, Picnic Ants!![]() During a very long game as the Japanese (1st) without hardly any wars worth talking about China(2nd) who had a MPP with me and India (4th) declared war on the Iroquois (9th) for some strange reason. No One had ROP aggreements with me because apparently I invaided Greece under this agreement, although China was very happy with me helping them with there war against Iroquois and trade deals. So while moving my naval forces into position next of the northern cities of the Iroquois I had to pass through China’s sea (Yellow Sea in real life). This came up and I thought it was damn funny! You can visit this 11-page long forum thread for lots of other funny things the AIs said during negotiation. Thanks to Overlag for the screenshot. |
Sunday, September 15 |
Screenshot of the Day #18: Desert Fish Phenomenon![]() I wiped out all the opponents and used about 30 nukes on the last one, so the global warming went to crazy levels. Then everywhere started to turn to deserts and etc. Then, at an insignificant moment, I spotted something weird. A resource on grasslands that I have never seen before. Fish! Oh yeah the scientists had researched future tech 20 and they should have genetically modified fish to live on land, right? π I think the water level went down so the shore fish decided to take a walk to the beach π The screenshot is from a later phase, and the terrain turned to desert. Wow, desert fish! π We had pond fish, and now we have a desert fish phenomenon. What’s next? π Thanks Vuralr for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Screenshot of the Day #17: Epic Battlefield![]() This is a classic screenshot of what it means to survive in a Deity game, in which the Persians and Chinese fight a war against one another with tons of units in my territory. For the curious, I should mention that I destroyed the Persians about 50 turns later. You can find the full story of this game on my website. "Our words are backed with nuclear weapons" is the way you should conduct your diplomacy. π Thanks Sullla for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Thursday, September 12 |
Screenshot of the Day #16: Zimbabwe Under Siege![]() A cooperative war is taking its course as Germany, England, Babylon and France (me) are punishing the Zulu. Of course it’s helpful to have a mutual protection pact with all "war-buddies". As you can see, we are able to inflict serious damage, and the war will end soon. The lesson: It pays to listen to your foreign advisor and "make more friends"! |
Tuesday, September 10 |
Screenshot of the Day #15: MPP![]() Abe and I are the only ones left on the planet. He hates me, yet still wants a Mutual Protection Pact. Maybe he’s worried about aliens? Or barbarian tribes? Pretty stupid, don’t you think? >> Related discussion thread |
Monday, September 9 |
Screenshot of the Day #14: Crazy Domestic![]() I was playing today and had just discovered democracy so while still in the science screen I quickly switch over and went into anarchy. Well I pressed enter and since I had just discovered democracy it ask if I wanted to change governments, I said yes and this is what came up, I thought it was quite hillarious. Thanks to Gojkyfor this crazy screenshot. π >> Related discussion thread |
Saturday, September 7 |
Screenshot of the Day #13: Glorious Barbarians![]() What in the wide world of sports is going on? I know I am at the very start of a 1-on1 game; but has anyone ever seen this in a "Great Book"? Thanks to Fr8monkey for the screenshot. >> Related discussion thread
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Friday, September 6 |
Screenshot of the Day #12: George Bush
I’ve modified my version of Civ 3 and sometimes the results of such can bring about some rather shocking stuff. Please have a gawk at this picture and I want to bring your attention to both the contents of the deal as well as the comment made by my advisor in the top right corner. It’s obvious that the americans have control of the Columbian area. Please enjoy this one. LOL Thanks to unscratchedfoot for this hilarious screenshot. PS: You can get new Civ3 graphics in the Graphics Modpacks forum. >> Related discussion thread |
Thursday, September 5 |
Screenshot of the Day #11: Spider Web![]() Do you know this trick? I can’t be the only one who didn’t know about it! |
Wednesday, September 4 |
Screenshot of the Day #10: Polar City
I was playing the 180 X 180 World map for the DyP mod and I saw an island that was way up north of Russia, near the North Pole. Part of the city would be off the screen, so I went to go settle there and see what would happen. As you can see in the screenshot, it is all screwed up, but still works properly. I later settled on Antarctica and the screen wasn’t split like this, but you couldn’t micromanage the city as anytime you tried to, you would leave the city view and go back to the map screen. BTW, do you know it’s not allowed to build cities on polar caps in Civ3, unlike in Civ2. I don’t think you can build a global railroad system there also. This is probably a good change, otherwise the AIs would waste lots of resource building a "Great Wall" on polar caps. π >> Related discussion thread |
Tuesday, September 3 |
Screenshot of the Day #9: Gift from Greece![]() Gen was pleasantly surprised when his Greek friend Alexander "sold" him oil for a symbolic amount of 1 gold piece: I played India (purple) and I was at war with Egypt (yellow). I DESPERATELY needed oil for my ships, tanks and aircraft (last two of these a bit later, as you can see I was still researching steel) so I supposed that Greek oil will be veeeery expensive. First, I asked Alex if he can sell me some and got expected reply which you can still see at the screenshot. Hell, there MUST be anything I could buy that liquid for, I thought! I tried 500 gold. "This deal will probably be acceptable". What? Not bad, really! 400? 300? 100? Of course. Wow! Last shot just for laugh: 1 gold. Answer the same. Unbelievable, they are giving extremely valuable strategic resource FOR FREE! I have never seen that behaviour before! Of course I bought it and used with great pleasure heheheh π Really unbelievable indeed. I hope the AI leaders in my game are this generous. π Thanks to Gen for this screenshot. >> Related discussion thread |
Monday, September 2 |
Screenshot of the Day #8: Pond Fish
In Civ3, the "pond fish phenomenon" is a little different. Check out today’s Screenshot of the Day submitted by Octavian X: The AI surprised me by landing two swordsmen next to a city with only a spearman. I also had a galley in the city, so I retreated it into the small body of water next to the city, so it wouldn’t be attacked by another galley, nor sunk in the sea, since I was sure they would capture the city. I though I would eventually recaputre the city. So you will imagine my surprise my when they razed the city, leaving my galley stuck in the pond. If you have witnessed any other pond fish phenomenon in Civ3, please let me know. >> Related discussion thread |
Sunday, September 1 |
Screenshot of the Day #7: Anarchy Rulez!![]() |
Saturday, August 31 |
Screenshot of the Day #6: Port Visit![]() I was playing with the Greeks and was allied with Japanese against China. I’m moving my units to the transporter with goto-command while suddenly one unit, when passing Sparta, attacks the defenders there and gets killed. I’m like WTF, have my troops gone crazy? Well, it must’ve been some random bug. I’m sending another unit and… it also attacks Sparta, this time killing the defender and getting upgraded to Elite. I see the units in Sparta to find the possible reason: a Japanese Battleship has parked itself to my city! I couldn’t do anything about it, it just floated there as if it wasn’t anything special. It left when I installed the 1.29f patch. Thanks to ZeroOne for this cool screenshot. If you have a cool screenshot, please submit it to SOTD. |
Thursday, August 29 |
Screenshot of the Day #5: Siberia Expedition![]() While playing Marla’s Map as the Indians I was of course exploring the continent for goody huts. My dear scout in Siberia encountered this Egyptian Stack of Doom. Far away from home (see the minimap bottom left. Egyptian is yellow) they seemed to be afraid of all the moose and rendeer. Why go there if your main threat comes from Europe, the Zulu’s and the Indians π . Couple of turns later the core of Egypt was history. Thanks to Beammeuppy for the screenshot. If you have a cool screenshot, please submit it to SOTD so we can have Screenshot of the Day feature often! |
Wednesday, August 28 |
Screenshot of the Day #4: Allegiance Denied![]() I was in a race with the Japanese over a tight peninsula to get there and managed to get some Iroquois cities just before the Japanese did. They went for culture on their cities and the sad thing happened. Culture flip. Well did it? Check the pic! The big question now is what should you do with those traitors. Disband the city, use them to rush projects, or enslave them? |
Tuesday, August 27 |
Screenshot of the Day #3: Global Warming![]() Look at this strange screenshot. I had a fairly high level of pollution in this civ game and suddenly and without warning a desert tile rose out of the water to seal in the city of Eridu, prohibiting it from ever making naval units again. Before this happened, however, I had built a harbor (as you can see by the icon) and an offshore platform in the city. They both continued to work on the remaining water squares in the city’s reach. I went back one autosave to move my ships from the city out to the tile of desert to see what would happen. The thing still rose out of the water and enclosed my ships as you can see. They could still move out from the desert square into the ocean but not back in of course. By the way, there is a simple explanation for that weird culture square in the previous Screenshot of the Day. Apparently it was because ocean squares can’t be owned and so it skipped to that lonely sea square… Thanks to everyone who posted comments for that screenshot. If you have a cool screenshot, please submit it to SOTD. Check out the Civ3 FAQ if you don’t know how to take screenshots. |
Sunday, August 25 |
Screenshot of the Day #2: Culture Square![]() Today we have a new screenshot of the day submitted by Scotty Ford. Check it out:
The weird thing I found was that square of culture right off my culture barrier, owned by me. It’s near Syracuse. How can that square be there? It doesn’t make sense to me how that one block of culture could appear there. It just doesnt make sense =p. Have a look. If you have an unusual Civ3 screenshot, submit it to Screenshot of the Day and we will post it. |
Friday, July 26 |
36000 Points in 1 Minute (SOTD #1b)![]() Do you know you can get a score of 36,000 in Civilization III without building anything (i.e. no cities, no units, no wonders)? Here’s how!
Give it a try! You will get a histograph that looks like this one. |
Screenshot of the Day #1![]() There has been some controversy as to whether the AI will always gang up on the human player. Though on higher levels the human’s "worth" is somewhat devalued by the AI Civs, they do not necessarily gang up on the human player. Here is an example of a true tour de force by Sullla. Notice how everyone is at war, except RBCiv-4 (Caesar), who rises above the chaos around him, smirking. Click the thumbnail at the right to see the full image… This screenshot was taken from the "Realms Beyond Epic 4: Ad Aeturnum! For the Glory of Rome" game and a detailed timeline of the game is available here on Sulla’s homepage. If there is a sufficient supply of funny, interesting, strange, or shocking screenshots, maybe we can have a regular Screenshot of the Day/Week feature. |