Pike the Hands
Chieftain
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- Apr 28, 2008
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I'm quite sure, for reasons I will explain shortly, that we've all gotten this event. If you buy the orb, you can choose to add +2 beakers to your library or destroy it for a free tech. It's nice.
Here's the thing, though- its event weight is set to -1. Meaning it will always happen as soon as possible; namely, as soon as you build your first library. Having an event that always triggers given a specific circumstance with such a big possible reward is almost an exploit.
My favorite thing to do so far is wait to complete my library until I have Bronze Working and Archery and use the orb event to get Bowyers for free. Bowyers is an incredibly expensive tech that early in the game, and getting it allows you to spam longbowmen and kill everyone. They can even use bronze weapons! This is even more effective if you're playing the Amurites (or the Elohim with an Amurite city under your control.) A swarm of firebows when your enemies are still relying on archers and axemen is deadly. There might be even better tech catapults available, I haven't messed with this too much yet.
But wait, there's more! If you have a Library in the city with the Mercurian Gate, you immediately get the event again if you switch to Basium. This late in the game, this means you can easily pick up, say, Righteousness instantly and get Sphener in with his angelic brethren almost right from the starting gate.
In the scenarios this event is even more ridiculous, esp. the ones that give you a large number of starting techs (and thus a wider range of expensive techs to select from for free.)
Here's the thing, though- its event weight is set to -1. Meaning it will always happen as soon as possible; namely, as soon as you build your first library. Having an event that always triggers given a specific circumstance with such a big possible reward is almost an exploit.
My favorite thing to do so far is wait to complete my library until I have Bronze Working and Archery and use the orb event to get Bowyers for free. Bowyers is an incredibly expensive tech that early in the game, and getting it allows you to spam longbowmen and kill everyone. They can even use bronze weapons! This is even more effective if you're playing the Amurites (or the Elohim with an Amurite city under your control.) A swarm of firebows when your enemies are still relying on archers and axemen is deadly. There might be even better tech catapults available, I haven't messed with this too much yet.
But wait, there's more! If you have a Library in the city with the Mercurian Gate, you immediately get the event again if you switch to Basium. This late in the game, this means you can easily pick up, say, Righteousness instantly and get Sphener in with his angelic brethren almost right from the starting gate.
In the scenarios this event is even more ridiculous, esp. the ones that give you a large number of starting techs (and thus a wider range of expensive techs to select from for free.)
so if you can spam them, you really don't need this event to win, you just could have build twice as many axemen. You can't even upgrade your highly promoted axemen to longbowmen.
