Civ I culture flips?

[CivFan91]

Note the city "Aleppo" in the upper right. I am playing the Germans and was at war with the Mongols. I was trying to take a couple of the white cities you see, with no success. A real standoff. They can't reach me, and vice-versa. Then, I get this message that Aleppo revolted, and MY INFLUENCE WAS SUSPECTED. Note the fact my Diplomats can't reach Aleppo, and there is no path of discovered land between that city and the rest of mine. It gave me a free city...

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[Irish Caesar]

This actually happens fairly often (maybe once every half-dozen games or less, but...)

I think we had a thread about this a while back, and nobody could figure out exactly what causes this.

It's not really that convenient, though, because the opposing civ usually takes the city right back, along with one of your technologies.

 

[trada]

Yeah, it happened to me two nights ago in civdos. Except a cp civilization got a city free. AND it didn't tell me where the city actually was.

 

[CivFan91]

Well, I am significantly ahead of my opponents, so I upgraded the phalanxes to Riflemen... and the game just gave me another free city. Two in one game! Sweet! And I've managed to keep both well defended, and to expand from there. The Mongols are almost history...

 

[CivFan91]

Here's proof that I am doing well with that city...

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[krille]

Ok!

This just happened to me in Civ.1.DOS!

I'll try to recreate it and get some screenies.

 

[krille]

It seems to be random... not sure if I can recreate it. However, I can confirm this can happen in Civ.1.DOS too!

 

[Marx]

I've had this a couple (three or four) times. There seems to be no logic explanation for the causes.

I am not sure, but it could be that I've only had mongol cities joining my empire, but it could be there was also a babylonian citiy among the revolting (without incentives) cities.

 

[hannurabi]

This feature is actually quite a funny. I once got enemy city when I was in tiny island and I hadn't even met any other civs. How those citizen knew my little civilization?

 

[krille]

The city I got was the Russian city of Kiev (their next largest), however I had already good relations with the Russians, ie literally thousands of years of peace, trading routes etc (I have both Great Wall and UN). And this little detail would not affect this. However, in a parellell game (using the pre-cultureflip-save) I was not to recreate the above, instead the Russians "sneak attacked" me. (Not sure how this was possible since I had Democracy + UN.)

 

[CivFan91]

A little off-topic, but I thought I'd say this to show the TRUE power of the culture-flip:

After securing those two cities, I used them to expand left and right (and up). The Mongols had no chance, especially after landing a few loaded transports. Then, I got fighters, and blew the heck put of them. Found the English, and destroyed them. The Aztecs were blown away, also. I had just built a Nuclear to finish conquering the world when my game ended. Guess what? If I had 3 more turns, I would have conquered the world. The Chinese were the last ones in the game, and they had ONE city, within range of the culture-flipped city that had just built the Nuclear. I got a 30% lesser score because I didn't have time to launch it... really me off...

 

[krille]

Another culture flip happend to me!

I accidently pressed "Enter" once, so I never got a screen-capture of the first screen... but the two following I got (then DOSBox crashed, for some reason...perhaps Alt+Tab = Illegal?), so I'll have to replay the last ten turns now... Hopefully it'll happen again. Anyway, here goes!

2nd = 2nd image after Culture Flip.
3rd = 3rd -"-

Never captured 1st.

 

[krille]

It sure did happen again (another city this time though). Here's the first screen (after Print Screen and then Alt + Tab, DOSBox crashed again - seems it can't take Alt + Tab).

Edit: Btw, this happend after I put Nuclear weapons in all cities.

I wonder, could you possibly win the game this way? Flippin' all enemies?

 

[CivFan91]

That looks a heckuva lot better than my WinCiv game. *grumble grumble*

 

[krille]

Civ.1.DOS is easily the best looker around. I've tried WinCiv, CivNet - even Civ 2 ... nothing compares to it graphically! Although limited to so few pixels, the graphical experience is immense! So nostalgic!

Anyway, Civ 3 is acceptable... Just played a game, where it at 570 AD just kept crashing for no reason... I could load a game from 560, 530 or 510 - it'd crash at 570 AD just the same! (Wrong forum perhaps though... )

 

[CivFan91]

Just a little off... this is the Civ I forum...

Do you always change eras at 570 AD? Because sometimes that used to happen to me. Half the time, when I changed eras, it would crash. But I always auto-saved.

 

[covok48]

"Civ.1.DOS is easily the best looker around. I've tried WinCiv, CivNet - even Civ 2 ... nothing compares to it graphically! Although limited to so few pixels, the graphical experience is immense! So nostalgic! "

Uhhh yeah....whatever...

 

[trada]

This is a sarcastic free forum.. COVOK48!!