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I bought Civilization III several months ago when I found it for ten dollars, but I just got around to installing it a couple days ago. My first game, I was stupid and trusted the manual for traits, when it had two of the tribes switched. So I was playing as the militaristic, industrious Chinese when I wanted to be the SCIENTIFIC, industrious Persians. So I wound up losing at mandatory retirement. It didn't help that I started at the south of a continent with two other tribes right near me, so my early expansion was limited.

I also took FOREVER to find a source of iron. I had the technology for railroads, but I couldn't BUILD them. So I found a source JUST inside enemy territory, built a city right outside the borders, speed built a temple and then waited for my cultural influence to do the rest. :P Cultural influence is definitely the coolest thing in this game. :p

When you lose, there's a screen where all the other leaders (even the one's you scored higher than, no fair!) make fun of you. INcluing informing you that "All your base are belong to us". I was amused. :p

This time I'm the Persians on a huge map. Hopefully it'll go better. I'm going for either cultural or spaceship victory. I was CLOSE to having enough tech for the spaceship victory last time, but not quite.

I also had lots of *look at clock* "How does this game DO that?" moments where I realized how absurdly late it had gotten while I played. :p

Packing suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks, why do I have so much stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuff?