Tacgnol
Warlord
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- Aug 15, 2008
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So I just finished a successful game, my first on Deity, it was quite fun other than the AI's complete inability to wage war, but there were a few issues.
One was with the map, I played on a huge Island Plates map for the achievement, however the map that got produced as a Fractal map. There were 3 civs that started on very small islands, and a couple others that got our own larger islands, but there was one huge, snaky continent that most of the civs started out on. More of an issue than that the continent divided the ocean into several, I think 4 separate oceans that could not access each other. This really screwed up my strategy as I'd invested heavily into my navy and had to park my ships and reinvest in land forces about 2/3 of the way through my conquest, I was not expecting this to be an issue on an islands map. I usually play on Fractal and this was pretty much the same thing, one huge, weird continent with a large ocean and several smaller ones cut off from it, only difference was the tininess of some of the islands.
Second was city names, I was playing as Spain, founded a lot of cities, and after running through Spain's names, I founded Washington, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Cincinnati... For some reason I guess I started using Roosevelt's name list? Next alphabetical after Philip? It was actually kind of cool but what happened to just getting New Madrid etc?
Third wasn't a bug, just a glaring example of AI incompetence...Arabia, of course, got the last GP, but they never built a Holy Site and never attempted to use it. There were only 6 religions founded in the game, and when I invaded in the 1890s Francis of Assisi was just sitting in Baghdad, unused, doing nothing.
Also I'm not sure if this is as intended - the victory conditions page was showing 0 progress towards a science victory even when the AI was 1 turn from finishing. If it's not going to show % of techs for victory progress it should at least show the % of the space projects they have completed, I had a spy and could see their spaceport, it's not like I didn't know.
So I just finished a successful game, my first on Deity, it was quite fun other than the AI's complete inability to wage war, but there were a few issues.
One was with the map, I played on a huge Island Plates map for the achievement, however the map that got produced as a Fractal map. There were 3 civs that started on very small islands, and a couple others that got our own larger islands, but there was one huge, snaky continent that most of the civs started out on. More of an issue than that the continent divided the ocean into several, I think 4 separate oceans that could not access each other. This really screwed up my strategy as I'd invested heavily into my navy and had to park my ships and reinvest in land forces about 2/3 of the way through my conquest, I was not expecting this to be an issue on an islands map. I usually play on Fractal and this was pretty much the same thing, one huge, weird continent with a large ocean and several smaller ones cut off from it, only difference was the tininess of some of the islands.
Second was city names, I was playing as Spain, founded a lot of cities, and after running through Spain's names, I founded Washington, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Cincinnati... For some reason I guess I started using Roosevelt's name list? Next alphabetical after Philip? It was actually kind of cool but what happened to just getting New Madrid etc?
Third wasn't a bug, just a glaring example of AI incompetence...Arabia, of course, got the last GP, but they never built a Holy Site and never attempted to use it. There were only 6 religions founded in the game, and when I invaded in the 1890s Francis of Assisi was just sitting in Baghdad, unused, doing nothing.
Also I'm not sure if this is as intended - the victory conditions page was showing 0 progress towards a science victory even when the AI was 1 turn from finishing. If it's not going to show % of techs for victory progress it should at least show the % of the space projects they have completed, I had a spy and could see their spaceport, it's not like I didn't know.
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