OT: Civ 3 Complete Edition or Civ 4?

[Kana]

Civ 4 has many fine elements. The multiplay is practically solid, and could only dream that SE4 or SE5 would play as well. There are more mods and such than you can shake a stick at.

[Fyron]

But the mods that are worth looking at can be counted on a hand or two.

[Atrocities]

Civ3 gave me nightmares. Literally, dark depressing horrifying nightmares. I still cannot play it to this day or even think about it without being filled with complete dispair.

[NullAshton]

Civilization 3 is decent if you have nothing else to do. But Civilzation 4 is better, by far.

True 3D! Whooooooooo! And decent AIs...

[vanbeke]

I like Civ 4. WL is a good add-on, but I have only tried it a couple of times.

I would still be playing SMAC, but it stopped working after some Windoze patch. Also, ever since I built my latest dual core 64 bit machine, it tells me that it is not compatible.

[Fyron]

Tried dosbox?

[StarShadow]

That's easy to fix, you should just need to change a number in the ini. Change ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=0 to ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 and it should work.

[Kana]

Turn off the dual core for the program, like some do for SE5...?

I've run SMAC, on a WinXp machine, but no dual core...so...

[frightlever]

I just started playing CIV 4 again a couple of nights ago. Played a fair bit of CIV 3 (bought the complete edition) and it was fine (certainly not as bad as some would make out) but wouldn't go back after playing the latest.

[Spectarofdeath]

I have 3 (not the add ons though) and 4 and I would say go with 4, more options, and hopefully more expansions coming.