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       OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization
       III
        
       Author : klaussilveira
       Score  : 112 points
       Date   : 2026-02-06 21:51 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (openciv3.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (openciv3.org)
        
       | bigstrat2003 wrote:
       | I love that the community is doing this, though I'm curious why
       | Civ 3 in particular. My understanding was that "classic" (for
       | lack of a better term) Civ fans tend to prefer either 2 or 4, and
       | that 3 was considered to be not as good. But perhaps I was
       | mistaken as to the community's opinions on the games.
        
         | toast0 wrote:
         | FreeCiv covers civ 1 and 2 more or less.
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         | Personally, I didn't play much of 2 or 3, so I don't have
         | strong feelings either way.
        
           | zozbot234 wrote:
           | Freeciv's point of interest is that it's not trying to
           | exactly replicate any one of the original Civs: it has its
           | default ruleset plus others that are closer to the original
           | games, but it's very easy to make your own.
        
         | warmwaffles wrote:
         | I actually preferred Civ 3 to 2 and 4. It scratched a certain
         | itch.
        
           | data-ottawa wrote:
           | 3 is still my favourite of the series. 5 was good too, but 3
           | overall feels complete and had great graphics.
        
         | afavour wrote:
         | > with capabilities inspired by the best of the 4X genre and
         | lessons learned from modding Civ3. Our vision is to make Civ3
         | as it could have been
         | 
         | Looks to not be a straight remake. I wonder whether 3 is a
         | preferable target because things like graphical complexity in
         | >= 4 is too much.
        
         | JumpCrisscross wrote:
         | Is 3 the one with forced retirement?
        
           | bigstrat2003 wrote:
           | Not sure, I only started the series with 4.
        
         | TheRealPomax wrote:
         | Civ 1 and 2 have already been done, so if you want to play
         | those, hit up freeciv.
        
           | bigstrat2003 wrote:
           | I'm aware. But why rebuild 3 rather than 4, in that case?
        
       | tfehring wrote:
       | Civ III is still my go-to activity for long flights with no
       | internet - I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel
       | forward 12 hours.
       | 
       | I haven't tried OpenCiv3, but I'm glad it exists - getting
       | vanilla Civ III running on MacOS is a hassle and still has issues
       | with e.g. audio and cutscenes. I also hope it leads to a way to
       | improve worker automation. Managing your workers well is
       | important, doing it manually is tedious, and the built-in
       | Automate feature is really bad.
        
       | JumpCrisscross wrote:
       | Any chance the AIs will be easily extensible?
        
       | Joel_Mckay wrote:
       | How does this compare with https://freeciv.org for game play =3
        
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