What i can see this is NOT allowed and still this game was accepted

[pagh80]

Today i looked at the previous GOTM games to see how people have placed their cities. One player i really liked to learn from was CB. I opened his GOTM7 game and looked at his cities and then i found a strange thing. His city called delhi 3 was at size 1271
What i know of that could only have been done by adding workers to the city.
This is a quote from the rules:
"Worker dogpile
Let all your workers join a city with a hospital and continue to build workers and let them join that city. There's no size limit so your city will become huge and you loose only one population per turn. All the workers become specialists and add to your score."

What i can see is that this are NOT allowed but still he was accepted by matrix.
I know he are much better than me but by adding all these workers his score was increased alot.
If i knew that, i could increase my score quite a bit actually

I dont have a picture of it(cant get it to post it here ) but i really like to get a comment from matrix about this issue... or from CB

 

[Cartouche Bee]

Hi pagh80,

That rule dogpile rule was implemented in time for GOTM09. I think the game your looking at was GOTM06 (the warlord game), this was back when we were first starting to discover this exploit and I was trying to draw some attention to it. That attempt to get some action did not work so in GOTM08 I have a city with over 7000 in it, that seemed to do the trick in getting the exploit banned. Even Firaxis changed the city size limit down to 255 in Patch 1.29. I know it was unfair but it seems that until someone actually demonstrates an issue it is hard for everyone to see the problem. I had hoped that they would limit us to adding just 1 worker to a city per turn but... So, starting in GOTM09 you should see results without this and other major known exploits. Too bad Firaxis did not stop the resource denial exploits but we can't have everything I guess.

CB

 

[pagh80]

Cartouche Bee:

If that exploid was allowed at that time it is quite allright. I also thought it might be alloved before but i just wanted to be sure about it
And i have to say that i IS a very big exploid eventhough they have decreased the citylimit to 255. In GOTM X i was finish expanding in 1200 AD and by producing workers instead of wealth i could maximise my score quite a bit.

I see this thread as closed... looking forward to see your score in GOTM X(first time i participate since GOTM 1 )

 

[Matrix]

I'm glad some people check other savegames now and then. I don't always check savegames, but CB's score was so big, you weren't the first who noticed that, pagh80.

 

[pagh80]

Originally posted by Matrix
I'm glad some people check other savegames now and then. I don't always check savegames, but CB's score was so big, you weren't the first who noticed that, pagh80.

I really didnt opened his game to check for cheats. I just wanted to see how quick he attacked how many cities he placed, how close they were places and so on... maybe i could learn a bit from him. And then i scrolled over his city at size 1271

Hopping you have got my contribution in this month GOTM.
By the way... great map