Cheat or glitch?

[Athenaeum]

I recently played a duel with somebody (where we were both same difficulty) in which there were no barbarians, no ruins, and no city-states.

When I duel I repeatedly watch the demographics like a hawk. I noticed that he had 2 crop yield on turn 1 (so he was stagnating on pop 1), but then on turn 2 he had population 6,000 (meaning his cap had grown a pop on 1 turn) and had 7 crop yield.

Again, there were no ruins in this game whatsoever. He grew to size 2 in the first 2 turns of the game when he was stagnating on turn 1.



In addition, this person was acting particularly odd beforehand. I have dueled several times, but this person (the host) allowed me to choose all the settings, and even said it was ok if I selected the Huns while they chose random.


I know that hacking/cheating is possible in this game. I don't like to throw around accusations, but is there any realistic way that this person honestly grew to population 2 in such a short time? And if not, does somebody know how he accomplished this?



In addition, I should mention that his soldiers demographic was over 16,000 by turn 2. Even if you have 2 warriors, your soldiers demographic is not supposed to be this high.

 

[KingKong76]

Have no idea what is the reason but I know its impossible to grow to 1 pop. to 2 pop. in 1 turn. If no CS, Food TRoutes or Ruins are involved in the process. Even Isabella with Lake Victoria would need 2 or 3 turns.

You are facing 3 Possibilities :
1. glitch of the game itself... Very unlikely We would have heard about that before.
2. glitch of the demographics... Never heard of that, but it a bit more subtile and if it happen once in a while, its possible no one really noticed that one. Possible I guess.
3. The host was cheating... I dont understand why would he do that, what would he gain from it, but it seem to be your most likely explanation here.

 

[komodowaran]

If there was a resync ever 2-3 turns then he was cheating
otherwise just play the auto save as his civ (u can enable autosaves as non host) and see if it was somthing like eldrado Rng

 

[ferenginar]

Is it possible that he popped an ancient ruins, that gave him a plus one population outcome.

 

[Athenaeum]

If there was a resync ever 2-3 turns then he was cheating
otherwise just play the auto save as his civ (u can enable autosaves as non host) and see if it was somthing like eldrado Rng

I don't remember if there was a resync. Unfortunately I played a few games after that so the autosave might be lost but I'll check when I get home.


I guess my main concern is to prevent or detect this type of thing in the future, and also to know how he achieved this out of curiosity.

 

[docbud]

Is it possible that he popped an ancient ruins, that gave him a plus one population outcome.

Ruins were turned off per the OP.

 

[Browd]

The OP indicated that the "no ruins" option was enabled.

EDIT: Ninja'd

 

[ferenginar]

Sorry, missed that one.