[NFP] Are Barbarians Spawning Faster?

[GunsGermsandSteel]

Hard for me to say for sure, but I definitely feel like barbs are spawning faster than they were before the last patch. Two games now I've watched a barb encampment spit out 3-4 units in a few turns. Fairly early on in the game too. I've seen a couple other mentions in threads that barbs are harder after patch. Is this true?

 

[azmundai]

They "fixed" something .. apparently this is working as intended now .. of course they probalby only tested the"fix" on prince or something .. pretty terrible.

Just the other day I had 3 scouts at my cap on turn 12, and a barb camp spawned 6 tiles from my cap 3 turns later. easily 50% of my game time is restarting out of crap like this now.

 

[ThorRex]

I have been surprised to see Barb boats in sets of three coming to attack cities placed on the coast. No hard data but I seem to see this.

 

[bengalryan9]

I have been surprised to see Barb boats in sets of three coming to attack cities placed on the coast. No hard data but I seem to see this.

I also think I've seen more ships since the patch.

 

[Lupine]

I have been wanting g to post about this for awhile now. I have noticed an increase as well.

I placed a new city near Germanys border. Had a barb camp spawn. Never got a notice until 3 barb swords and an archer started hitting it.

I lost the city and it took me considerable time to remove the camp.

I play on diety and in another camp I noticed the surprise proof Canadians getting rocked by barbs.

They don't just spit out one scout and you kill and its all good. I have watched them spit out several along with their horsemen. Only saving grace was they were on a peninsula and I kept them contained.

 

[Bibor]

I took another approach to dealing with barbarians: diplomacy.

First I build three warrior envoys and send them to the closest camps to negotiate treaties.
If we can't agree on terms, I send archers with additional gifts.

By the time I'm done, I amass quite an experienced diplomatic choir that I proceed to send to my friendly neighbors.
I find that gifts of iron, horse and niter are quite irressistible.

 

[AriochIV]

I find that the frequency of barbarian spawns seems to vary widely according to the geographic happenstances of the map. On some starts I rarely see them at all, and in others I'm swimming in them. But as far as I can tell, that hasn't changed since the patch.

 

[Pietato]

I love sailing my boat around a blind corner into 6 barb quads.

 

[AriochIV]

I love sailing my boat around a blind corner into 6 barb quads.

Yeah, there's the inevitable "Barbarian Island" where no other civs or city-states have spawned.