And I thought Sanctuary was annoying...

[deadliver]

Sorry if this has been covered under another thread but DAMN.

Being on the receiving end of Stasis is a game killer for me, I know erase the Illians from the map after only one experience with this. My god, I mean 20 turns of just clicking the end turn?

Now now I know there are strategies out there for turns during the Stasis, what are they?

Failing that, how do I disabled the Illians worldspell (not all worldspells).

 

[orgonebox]

Aw, just suck it up and go on.

Things to do while subject to stasis:

1. Figure out how you're going to kill the Illians

2. Take what troops you have and go kill a weak neighbor.

3. Kill barbs and level up your troops

4. Build roads

5. Go bake a loaf of bread

6. Make lists of things to do during stasis

7. Rub habaneros on your rivals' doorknobs

8. Eat a piece of fruit

9. Clean your keyboard

10. Save the game and pick it up later when you feel less frustrated.

 

[deadliver]

Seriously.

Part of the problem was I was playing Fall Into Revolution so I had revolts out the wazoo as well. Instead I think I'll just hunt down the Illians and rub them out.

It just is kinda hard to plan around...maybe I'll set aside a statis reserve army to lay the smack down on a weakling.

 

[Mailbox]

Stasis is pretty awesome if you have an army (especially of adepts/mages) and declare war because your enemy will not be able rebuild their losses.

 

[Turinturambar]

Failing that, how do I disabled the Illians worldspell (not all worldspells).

Open CvSpellinterface.py in assets/python/entrypoints . Search for stasis until you find:
def spellStasis(caster):

Change the idelay value from 20 to whatever suits you. Ten turns works pretty well for me.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

If he wants to disable the spell instead of just nerf it, then just remove the spell's xml define in CIV4SpellInfos.xml. You could remove the python part too if you like,but it wouldn't hurt anything to leave it.

 

[heisenberg]

to pick up on where orgonebox left off, it has been mentioned before:
11: work every single cottage tile you have, since you don't lose pop from starvation you can actually get your cottages to possibly grow by one size by the end of stasis. Something the AI doesnt know how to do.

 

[deadliver]

Thanks all ya'll.

 

[Amerigo Arturo]

The best is when Illians, Amurites, or Elohim get Minister Koun as a team member then they do their world spell twice and it stacks.

 

[deadliver]

Go away you make me feel depressed.

 

[heisenberg]

kinda reminded me of my last game with my MP buddy when we both decided to play calabim as Flauros/Alexis for fun. (GDI he got the nice red colour whereas I got some ugly green flag!)

The poor AI had their cities knocked back from pop 5 to 1. Thats not the best part, somehow River added 2 pop to BOTH our cities regardless of who casted it. We originally thought it would have cancelled out the effect of the worldspell for us if we casted it back to back, but afterwards we found ourselves with capitals hitting the happiness cap

 

[zup]

So you really pwnt em. You nasty little vampires.

 

[Fafnir13]

And suddenly I have no urge to ever play a game where I set up Alexis and Flauros as a team.

 

[xienwolf]

Rather than delete the XML for the spell, I would advise you set <bAllowAI>1</bAllowAI> to <bAllowAI>0</bAllowAI>. Then you can still use it, but the computer will not.

 

[mahazel]

Stasis is cool Just adopt slavery and kill everything you want, then use slaves to add production.

 

[nealhunt]

Change civics. Anarchy costs you nothing during stasis.

 

[slowcar]

i like stasis - and killing some AI while it lasts