Culture Flips in Civ 1

[civ2]

Game is not the life.
And I mean that this disaster is caused by things not supported by the Civ.
Walls prevent floods; aqueducts prevent fires; happiness prevents revoults - but NOTHING prevents earthquakes!!!
And BTW I had long-range city flips several times in Civ1.

 

[GoldBerg]

Game is not the life.
... ...

... ... ... in life too. it's usually called "FATE".

games are always kind of simulations of life. little children play as well to train as to relax.
civ is not just a relaxation - look for example at your reactions (maybe in earlier times when you did start play civilization) when barbarians took a big city of yours (f. e.).

And I mean that this disaster is caused by things not supported by the Civ.
Walls prevent floods; aqueducts prevent fires; happiness prevents revoults - but NOTHING prevents earthquakes!

well ONE event that you have no prevention for. i think it's o.k. - others would be an epidemia to decrease population, locust invasions to decrease food
like earthquakes destroy city improvements.
perhaps a switch is in need:
no negative random events.

And BTW I had long-range city flips several times in Civ1.

was it at empereor level?

 

[covok48]

More I play civ, the closer I can point my finger to it:

A) Your civ (as a whole) needs to be large and prosperous
B) Thier [flipping city] has had a period of constant disorder
C) One or more negative random events has happened in their [flipping city]

They even warned in the manual that if your city is in disorder for too long, they might even switch to another civ. So it definately happens in civ1, civ 3 took it to an extreme.

 

[Bultro]

Never happened to me (I guess I kick their ass before anyone can prosper), but I saw it happen between two computer civs. One civ had a big city, but overall they weren't powerful; they were stuck with no room for expansion and probably that was their only city, stacking money for centuries. They took over a nearby city from another computer. I always thought they had used a diplomat, until I read this thread