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Aug 29, 2002, 01:36 PM
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Screenshot of the Day #5: Siberia Expedition
Another day, another Screenshot of the Day...
 The AI in Civ3 sometimes does really smart things, but other times it makes incredibly foolish decisions that no one can understand. What is this large stack of Egyptian veteran knights doing in Siberia anyway??? 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 . Couple of turns later the core of Egypt was history. http://www.civfanatics.com/sotd/sotd05.jpg 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!
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Aug 29, 2002, 01:43 PM
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Chieftain
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This seems so bizarre as the Egyptians would need lots of ships to get there, unless there was a number of ROP's given to cross from Africa to NE Russia.
Must be a computer glitch or something... |
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Aug 29, 2002, 01:52 PM
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Deity
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  What an idiot the AI can be!
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Aug 29, 2002, 02:08 PM
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Aug 29, 2002, 03:06 PM
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King
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I've noticed that the AI seems to know where the barbarian camps pop up on the map, even if they're all the way on the other side of the continent. If the AI has nothing better to do (i.e. not at war with another civ), it seems to send every available offensive unit out to kill the few barbarian camps that pop up. So maybe that's what happened here--the Egyption AI "detected" barbarians up in Siberia and, having nothing better to do, sent every knight in the realm on a barbarian crushing crusade. It's still a stupid thing for the AI to do, as one or two knights could do the job just as well.
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Aug 29, 2002, 04:13 PM
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Prince
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Maybe they just migrate north for the winter
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Aug 29, 2002, 05:41 PM
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Ugh, I hate this thing :crazyeyes:.
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Aug 30, 2002, 02:35 AM
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Prince
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Well it's obvious they are searching for Oil in Siberia and once they find it they will create the OPEC-wonder, link up with other oil states and in the end get very rich of it.
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Aug 30, 2002, 05:34 AM
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Metal head
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Maybe they got lost?
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Aug 30, 2002, 05:39 AM
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That happened to me once, but it was the Germans, chieftain and swordsmen and archers (only about 12, though). But same map.
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Aug 30, 2002, 08:59 AM
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Ed O'War is right. I'd bet they were hunting barbarians. For some (annoying) reason, the AI believes it simply has to send every unit after a single barb camp.
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Aug 30, 2002, 10:43 AM
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You missed the obvious....The antarctic penguins had launched a full scale invasion to siberia. the russians had no units available and asked their egyptians friends to send an expeditionary force to deal with the penguins. The penguins seeing the approaching knights had disappeared into the sea and were swimming back to antarctica. Long live the penguins!!!
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Aug 30, 2002, 12:05 PM
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Prince
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That doesn't look like siberia, its more like Yakutsk or Kamchatka
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Aug 30, 2002, 12:26 PM
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Warlord
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Well if id just taken over from egypt now id attack every town in the area to try and seize a sizeable area, and then build a FP to create a split empire encircling the middle east
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Aug 30, 2002, 12:32 PM
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Warlord
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Re: Screenshot of the Day #5: Siberia Expedition
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Aug 30, 2002, 01:30 PM
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Aug 30, 2002, 02:26 PM
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Master
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All those units for 1 conscript barbarian warrior
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Aug 30, 2002, 02:47 PM
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Deity
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hey, it could've been a 500+ stack of horsemen and the AI was helping itself to some elite units
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Aug 30, 2002, 03:31 PM
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Aug 30, 2002, 10:37 PM
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