First-Turn Research

[Sodfather]

Perhaps this has already been mentioned somewhere and I missed it. I'll post anyway.

At 4000 B.C., if you've already settled your city, Civ does not prompt you to select which tech you'd like to research; it does so on the next turn.

The way it went on my first turn was like this: I usually select what I'd like to research before entering the next turn (3950 B.C.?). This time I forgot, and into the next turn it prompted me which tech I'd like to research. I selected Iron Working. It said it'd take 36 turns. So, at 3950 it'd take 36 turns.

Now, I restarted the game at 4000 B.C. to see if selecting before hitting Enter would have made a difference. I settled my city, selected the tech I wanted to research, and entered the next turn.Now it was 3950 B.C. and Iron WOrking would take 35, not 36, turns to research because the last turn counted as researched.

So I guess the bug would be that the research prompt comes too late; when it pops up, you've already lost the opportunity to be 1 turn up in research.

Am I right?

 

[Catt]

You're correct, but it's been this way since the first release of Civ vanilla. It certainly would be better if the pop-up came before science commerce was allocated.

 

[Commander Bello]

Strange enough, but if you go to the Science Advisor at the first turn and check some advances [I did so in some of the new conquests to learn about the new advances], but don't select one, you are informed that you have to do that before you may leave....

 

[Gogf]

I once tried to steal a tech (not in Conquests, but I've never heard of this bug, so it may not have been fixed), and found out I knew more techs than the other player. In fact, I knew all of his techs. So, I couldn't select anything to steal. When I clicked on the "X" button, my science advisor had some pop-up message that said I couldn't leave without choosing a tech. I eventually have to Ctrl-Alt-Delete End Task it, and lost a lot playing. I'm not reporting this as a bug (it has probably been fixed), but just as a story because of the "You must select research" comment above.

 

[Mazarin]

Gogf, there probably was an undiscovered optional tech from an earlier age that you could have chosen

 

[Gogf]

Probably .