Annoying Arnachy

[wilkie]

First game with conquests, playing on chiefy, huge map and 7 other civs. Managed to wipe Portugal off the map, now working on the annoying, backward Germans. The war is a long and drawn out affair (no direct land route) and Democracy wasn't going to work. I hadn't tried Facist so I authorized a revolt.

I had expected a few turns of arnachy...but I'm on turn eleven. The entire reasoning behind switching governments has only 4 cities left, so this may be a moot point. I don't think eleven turns of arnachy is normal and it's starting to annoy the hell out of me. Any other stories of insane arnachy periods? I've read a little on the forums and it seems going Commie might be better. Thoughts?

 

[Padma]

Depending on how you define "turns of anarchy", you should never see anarchy last for more than 9 turns.

The total length of the anarchy is composed of two separate numbers. The first is a random number between 1 - 5; and the second is between 0 - 3 and depends upon the number of cities in your empire. The combination of the two numbers is the amount of turns in anarchy, meaning a non-religious civ can experience anything from 1 to 8 turns of anarchy at each government switch.


With C3C, Firaxis "corrected" the formula to match the intent. In Vanilla/PTW, you could have "zero-turn" anarchy, which was what you get if Religious: start a Revolution at the end of your turn, and at the beginning of the next, it is over. Now you are forced to be in anarchy for *at least* one full turn, and made all the players swear it was changed to "2 - 9 turns".

Also, Communism would be your best government choice, IMHO.

 

[vmxa]

No what made them say that is when the revolt and go to the advisor it says back in 9 turns.

I cannot swear to it, but I am pretty sure I saw 11 turns. Anywat after to revolt go to the advosro and see what the number is that it gave you.

 

[Evil Tyrant]

If you want to have a short anarchy time, start playing religious civs. They must only endure two turns of anarchy when changing governments.

 

[wilkie]

After posting and loading the save game, the very next turn let me pick a gov. And it was nine turns, not eleven...I blame sleep deprevation for my poor subtraction. Off to crush the Russians under the Sumerian hammer and sickle...

On a side note, I tried Facist and found my income went from +90 to -87...eeek. It seems the 'nusiance' corruption is a very, very, large nusiance. *Runs to the Kremlin*

 

[DBear]

Fascism sucks in C3C. There is no reason to ever use it.

 

[azzaman333]

Fascism sucks in C3C. There is no reason to ever use it.

unless you REALLY need a lot of unit support. 10 per metro...