Anyone know when they stop respawning?

[Jason Fox]

I know it's an option in game set up now, but I didn't turn it off and I don't want to start another game.

However, I've "eliminated" Egypt twice and they just settled again right by my capital. It's only around 600 BC at this point and I was wondering if anyone knew the cut off date for civs respawning.

Thanks.

 

[cracker]

They will respawn forever, if there is some open land for the program to stick them back into.

I chased the Japanese and the Americans all the across the expanses of a V shaped continent. The Japanese respawned 4 times and then respawned onto an island where I left them. The Americans respawned 4 times as well with the last respawn truning them into boat people that never could land. They only had a Galley with a settler and a spear inside. No capital city; no City at all in fact. Just a leader who kept wanting to trade a territory map for techs. (yeah, what territory abo ole buddy).

The respawning thing is buggy and one of the biggest examples of flawed logic in the Firaxis releases of late.

Turn it off permanently. Hopefully Firaxis will make that the default setting in the next release, before more people get frustrated.

If you want more civ opponents, up the count in the editor. If you want more combatant opponents up the barbs level. Watch out for barbs though, because that software is buggy as well and an idiot programming mistake has the barb villages programmed to go mental all in the same turn, of higher barb levels with explorer games and lots of open space, the barb bug mean that you can get 30 or 40 raging horsemen screaming out of the boonies from different directions all in one turn.

Good luck

 

[Jason Fox]

Thanks, I didn't know that. I guess I'll play with it off.

I'm on a huge map, all civs, and routinely play with raging barbs. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's had stacks of 30+ barb horsemen attack two different cities within a couple turns of each other. They were probably generated in the same turn but had different distances to travel to reach their target.

Thinking about starting a new game 'cause I'm tired of fighting the same civ for the same land, since they get all their units again when they settle the one city. Afterall, it's only around 600 BC, though my start was awesome (good land and two settlers from goody huts, one of them in 3900 right by my capital.)

 

[alpha wolf 64]

I once had 3 uprisings of 20+ coming at my border towns. i managed to lead 2 of the stacks into my good friends the greeks, and managed to reinforce my town enough to hold it (barely). the poor greeks lost a ton of units.