I discovered a rather annoying bug that happens when you launch a Golden Age when you have more Great People than is required. I had 5 Great People, 1 Merchant, 2 Scientists, 1 Spy, and 1 Prophet sitting in cities (just got the spy, saving the GM and GS for corps) and went to launch my second golden age. Clearly the game says "Will consume two great people," so I shift-clicked the Great Spy and Great Prophet and initated the Golden Age. Low and behold, all 5 great people disapeared. Save is attached. Just observe that its my 2nd golden age by looking at the great people consumed on mouseover, then launch the Golden Age and observe all 5 great people disapear.
Great Person Golden Age BUG!
- Thread starter hoopsnerd
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I'd wager that what happened is you got TWO golden ages for your efforts, one costing 2 GP, the other costing 3. Your error was in selecting 2 GP. I have not downloaded the save.
There is (unfortunately) no mechanic for choosing WHICH great people will be used for a golden age. You pick one, the game picks the others; though I have read that the nearest one(s) to the one you chose will be used.
There is (unfortunately) no mechanic for choosing WHICH great people will be used for a golden age. You pick one, the game picks the others; though I have read that the nearest one(s) to the one you chose will be used.
namliaM
Deity
Indeed not a bug, works as intended.
No, it is not working as intended, as it should only consume the Great Persons you have selected. If you have 5 Great Persons in the same tile and you select two of them and press to start the golden age they (2) should disappear, the three left untouched and you should get one golden age. Instead the game assumes you want to blast all five away just because they happen to stand in the same tile even when they're not selected and you get two golden ages. How it's supposed to work is if you wanted to start two golden ages at once you should select all five great persons before pressing the golden age button.
Definitely a bug, I can confirm it.
I have always selected the ones I want to consume and have never had any others consumed by accident until now when I had all five standing in the same tile (similar to the OP).
NO.
You selected two Great People, therefore you get two golden ages. That just happened to come out to 2+3=5 Great People.
Working as intended, please practice your reading comprehension before posting.
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You selected two Great People, therefore you get two golden ages. That just happened to come out to 2+3=5 Great People.
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It might be a bug, however, if I was a "Great Person" and a couple of other "Great People" in my city started a Golden age then I wouldnt stand aside, I would join in, and then my name would also be assioated with the great age.
So maybe a bug, or maybe the program saying "Hangon" what Great person could stand back and not want to join in their nations Goldern age.
I would suggest some research with a less condesceding tone.
I always select both Great Persons when I start a golden age requiring two GP and only the two get consumed and only one golden age gets started, no matter how many GP I have running around my empire at the moment. All five only get consumed by accident when they happen to stand in the same tile and that's the bug.
It's not a big deal since you can just take the two GP you want, move them one tile out of the city, select them and start the golden age and you will only get that one age you wanted. It is infinitely annoying though if you don't know how it works beforehand.
This is not how it works on my game! I can select two great people and only one golden age will resolve, only the two get consumed and there's no danger to my other GP as long as they're not standing in the same tile.
Understand it yet?
Thalassicus
Bytes and Nibblers
Wow QBurrito, erm... try not to attack people... especially if you don't know you're right. :\
The game should be fun and easy to understand, and like any other computer application it should follow a predictable method of execution. If a golden age states it requires 2 great people, and you select 2 great people, it should use those 2 great people to initiate 1 golden age. The current behavior is ambiguous, and thus poor programming.
Requiring the user to understand how a system works without properly documenting it to remove ambiguity, in this case in the tooltip, is akin to expecting them to read minds. The tooltip should be clarified, or the system changed.
It should easily be fixable by checking for other selected units when a golden age is initiated by one Great Person, or changing the wording of the tooltip to specify exactly how it works.
The game should be fun and easy to understand, and like any other computer application it should follow a predictable method of execution. If a golden age states it requires 2 great people, and you select 2 great people, it should use those 2 great people to initiate 1 golden age. The current behavior is ambiguous, and thus poor programming.
Requiring the user to understand how a system works without properly documenting it to remove ambiguity, in this case in the tooltip, is akin to expecting them to read minds. The tooltip should be clarified, or the system changed.
It should easily be fixable by checking for other selected units when a golden age is initiated by one Great Person, or changing the wording of the tooltip to specify exactly how it works.
Oh, yes. As your word is completely reliable. What I understand is that people will do things in certain circumstances an presume the behaviour extrapolates to all other situations. As it turns out, after experimenting in word builder, your description of the games behaviour was accurate. So, I give my apologies to the OP.
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Umm, why dont you guys download the damn game instead of speculating about what happens? Jesus... One of my GPs is in a totally different tile... Furthermore, in warlords, selecting two distinct GPs would let you spawn the golden age with those particular GPs.
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LEARN TO READ, JACKASS
I just tested this in my game! Now shut up and go back to preschool.
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I just tested this in my game! Now shut up and go back to preschool.
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IBTl. who actually cares enough about this to start attacking people.
Trolling? WTH? Sorry Qburrito I wasn't talking to you I was refering to the first 2 replies... I should have specified. Anyways, I wasn't trying to instigate I was just appalled at the first 2 replies "wagering" about what happens without downloading the game 
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