You can both win and loose the same game

[sparkyal]

So, I just finished the same game...twice. I was playing as France for the first time (king, huge map, normal number of players and CS, continents) and I lost a science victory to Greece. Well, I was going for domination and i could not get'my troops accross the ocean in enough time to kill his capital, the only one left besides mine.

So, after Greece won the space race I still wanted to test my strategy: ally with a CS right next to him, and dump all of my troops there and come in with like 15 nukes and just nuke my way to Athens. So it took quite a few more turns to get everything in place, and i attacked...in three turns I was happily in Athens...and...the game told me I won!!!!!!! I checked in the hall of fame and sure enough, my defeat in the same a me was there as well as my victory!!!! How strange :-) :-) :-) :-)

Has this happened to others? What do you think of this...feature????

By the way...did you kno that a CS will crowd its territory with units in this situation...it was very very hard to load units onto their land.....of the 25 land units I brought...I really only needed 2 helo's 3 modern armor, and a mech inf. And....12 nukes (3 missles and 9 bombs)

[Shurdus]

Yes you can reload and repair mistakes of the past and the game will record it. With all due respect, but this is old news. Afaik, this had always been in civ. I cannot recall a civ game where this was not possible.

And yes, the carpet of doom you describe in the behavior of the city state is also a well known phenomenon.

[sparkyal]

Yeah, I knew of course you could reload. And I remember if you retired from a game and did not finish it, it was counted as a loss. But when the AI won, I was not aware that Yu could do the one more turn and then later win the game. And my points continued to increase.....I seem to recall a statement in some of the other CIV games that no further points would be recorded once the game was won by the AI.

[sparkyal]

Oh, by win I don't mean that Yu lost, but that AI actually achieved one of the victory c onditions...not that you simply quit

[Shurdus]

Oh so you mean you continued playing after the AI won by clicking the one more turn option, rather than reloading... I did not know you could still record a win that way. That is rather stupid.

[sparkyal]

Yes, exactly :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

[ense7en]

Yeah sometimes it's fun to continue playing after you've won or lost.
I find you never get to do much in the modern era otherwise.