Goody Huts

[btr214]

I know the practice is probably frowned upon by many, but by following it, I have found what seems to be a time/number/level limit on free advances from goody huts. I usually use goody huts solely for advances. I save right before entering, then reload if I don't get what I want. In doing this in pretty much every game I play, I seem to have stumbled across a limit to advances received this way. I don't know if it is a turned-based limit, a "# of free advances already received" limit, limited by the epoch of advances available, or even by the beakers required, i.e. a goody hut will no longer provide free advances when the cost of the next advance is greater than <X> beakers. I found this peculiarity by the cheating process described above. Up until about A.D.1700 I was still getting free advances from huts, but sometime after that, no matter how many times I reloaded, it would not provide ancient scrolls. I have noticed this behavior in several different games. And while the RNG does provide a statistical possibility that all the times I noticed this behavior was just the game randomly not getting to that "prize", it seems unlikely that after a hundred reloads or so, I never once see a free advance. Can anyone shed some light on this theory of mine? Does anyone know if the huts have a cut-off of any kind for providing free advances?

Thanks,
Bryan

 

[btr214]

I found the answer to my own quesion, thanks to samson --> http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69873

Once Invention has been discovered, the huts no longer give scrolls as a reward.

 

[KnightTemp]

I know the practice is probably frowned upon by many

Hi Bryan

Well, I agree - I think it's a handy way of balancing some of the AI oddities when they cheat with things we can't manage. I'm hoping that one of the GOTM games will allow it sometime!