Advanced Setup. Bug, feature, or did I screw something up?

[General Tso]

When using Advanced Setup I usually use randomly selected AI civs. After all this time I was just messing around and noticed that if I select which Civs are in the game I can select multiple copies of the same Civ. For example I can make both the 2nd and 3rd civs be Alexander.

Is this normal behavior or did I accidentally mess something up when I was looking at the game files?

 

[cuso210]

I think it's normal. I remember one game where I played with 5 Inca factions to rise in a highland map

 

[General Tso]

Thanks for the answer, it seems kind of strange but I guess it makes sense.

This way a person with the default number of civs (no DLC) could still play a map that requires a larger number of civs.

Still it must be weird having 5 different versions of Pachacuti running around on the same map.

 

[smallfish]

It's pretty normal

That's how I discovered Snake Gandhi

 

[Browd]

Set up a game with random civ vs. 7 Attilas. Hope you get the Mongols.

 

[compwiz1202]

Yea I read once about people playing with a bunch of Swedens for a Great Person game to get a large boost to Great Person creation.

 

[docbud]

I did that once by mistake. I had selected England twice. I was totally scratching my head when England appeared and their color was blue. I thought something went wacky with the game. Then I met the other England, who was red.

At least I was able to differentiate between the two because of the different colors. But it was hard to tell in the diplomacy screen. I was friends with the red one and enemies with the blue one.

 

[cuso210]

Still it must be weird having 5 different versions of Pachacuti running around on the same map.

It was, specially when you discover the Inca city of London

 

[Dr. D]

I played as the Celts with 7 other Celtic civs... got the longest name ever achievement in no time, especially since there was a glitch that you don't even need to found the city to get the achievement... one of the other Boudicas got the achievement for me.

 

[Heerlo]

That's how I discovered Snake Gandhi

I remember that story of yours.It took me a while to finally realize what you meant by "Snake Gandhi", and to realize that there were two India's in the game.

 

[EndoConvert]

When using Advanced Setup I usually use randomly selected AI civs. After all this time I was just messing around and noticed that if I select which Civs are in the game I can select multiple copies of the same Civ. For example I can make both the 2nd and 3rd civs be Alexander.

Is this normal behavior or did I accidentally mess something up when I was looking at the game files?

Nothing weird about this. It's just like in a fighting game how both players can select Ryu or both select Liu Kang or both select Jin Kazama or whichever character and they'll be the same but have a color-differentiated costume/skin. Or like a TvT/ZvZ/PvP mirror match in StarCraft (you can even have 8 Protoss players, for example, on one map).

I remember that story of yours.It took me a while to finally realize what you meant by "Snake Gandhi", and to realize that there were two India's in the game.

Care to share this story after making it sound interesting?

 

[smallfish]

Care to share this story after making it sound interesting?

Start from here

And Merry Xmas yall