1000 Unrealistic things about the Civ Games

[Camikaze]

Yes, please.

yep .

I think he's saying that battleships more useful in Civ than IRL.

This. Battleships are the most powerful unit in the game (40 strength, along with Modern Armour), and even when attacked by aircraft, only becomes slightly weaker than a submarine at most.

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

138) Civ III: No matter how weak your nation is in terms of military strength, as long as you have about 100+ batteries of artillery, you can regularly defeat factions that not only vastly outnumber you, but have troops of superior quality as well (see the "Triumph(?) of the Boers" story in Civ III stories and tales for a perfect example.....)

139) Civ III: The best use for Albert Einstein (or any other great Scientist) is overseeing construction of the Hanging Gardens (or any other Great Wonder).

140) Having a giant statue of a Greek God (Zeus) will automatically spawn powerful cavalry units out of thin air every so many years.

141) Similarly, establishing the Knights Templar in one of your cities will conjure up powerful Crusaders every so many years.

142) Civ III: Cultivating fertile grasslands is not worthwhile when your in a despotic form of government, but farming in semi-arid plains and floodplains IS.... (never really understood that myself)

 

[Ramesses]

140) Having a giant statue of a Greek God (Zeus) will automatically spawn powerful cavalry units out of thin air every so many years.

141) Similarly, establishing the Knights Templar in one of your cities will conjure up powerful Crusaders every so many years.

These aren't really that unrealistic. The effect implies that the wonders are so inspiring to your population that they flock to your military camps to train in the art of conquering other lands for the glory of your empire.

Okay, maybe a bit unrealistic, but not as much as your take on it suggested it to be.

 

[toft]

143. If you happen to fish outside the city limits, the fish cannot be eaten because of an invisible forcefield. Somehow it still manages to slip through the forcefield and end up in Sid's Sushi Co. and contributes to the nations health.

 

[Gamemaster77]

144. When You eat lots of food you don't get fat, you just have a baby.

 

[Ferrum Rex]

145- Warfare will never progress beyond Stealth Bombers

146- Technology ends after Fusion

147- Overnight when a new era is reached all cities immediately redesign all building and roads.

148- Chingis Khan and sons conquered the Asia in what about a hundred and fifty years? It takes longer to build a library.
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[Golden Fleece]

Has this been done?

(CIV III)
149. Unless you've signed a treaty allowing movement inside each other's borders, troops from another nation are magically barred from using foreign infrastructure, leaving them to trudge thorugh the terrain (while passing native troops wave happily as they whizz past on those nice paved roads).
(CIV III)
150. It doesn't matter whether you're Chinese or Zulu, you always have the same six advisors, and they're always Chinese, Caucasian, Indian etc. And they only have three facial expressions.

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Good one Golden Fleece....

I've got the biggest offender of them all:

151: You can build up an army consisting of over two million troops despite the fact that your ENTIRE POPULATION is less than 100,000......

 

[Golden Fleece]

152.Cities don't grow gradually, they jump instantenously from one size to the next. But only twice.
153. Ethnic minorities are always barbarians.

 

[LAnkou]

154 - unless you force it, once a single guy in a city follow a religion, no other religion can be followed by all the others in the city...

 

[kochman]

155) When you discover the new world (on Earth maps), there are often already full barbarian cities on it, in medieval europe city set, with greater technology than the neighboring Mayans/Incas/Aztecs... macemen, etc...

 

[Ferrum Rex]

re- golden fleece 152- at least in CIV4 there is an actual population number you can track, and the next number is more a milestone.

156- There's six religions in the entire history of the world

 

[Ramesses]

156- There's six religions in the entire history of the world

Of course. Everyone knows Confucianism isn't a real religion.

 

[Ferrum Rex]

157- Kublai Khan and Qin Shi Hung switch bodies

 

[Black Bart]

158: Once you discover oil you have to wait hundreds or thousands of years to use it because your people never discovered fire o_O

 

[The Rusty Gamer]

159) You can have a "do over day" any time by going back to a previous save.

 

[techathon]

160)if the game crashes, the world goes away.

 

[Gamemaster77]

161) Civ4 - When I UN resolution is passed everyone has to follow it. It is impossible to break it. A law of physics.

 

[Jingo7]

162) World culture, tech, etc. follows the same lines as the real historical world.
What I mean is that feudalism doesnt have to naturally follow on from whatever.
Also the technology model is quite Eurocentric. eg, latter middle ages focuses on exploration, rennaissance etc.

 

[kochman]

Also the technology model is quite Eurocentric. eg, latter middle ages focuses on exploration, rennaissance etc.

Gosh, I wonder why that would be... perhaps because Europe was the center of advance in this time (renaissance plus)?