greatest technology gained from a tribal village?

[catfish99]

Re: popping Great People Techs.

I just popped Music in my current game. Is the right answer here that you can't pop a great person tech unless it has already been discovered by a rival civ?

 

[McThomas]

4000 BC Bronze working

EPIC!

 

[capnvonbaron]

@catfish: I've popped music before, too. So it must be that... to pop that tech, some other civ needs to have discovered it first.

As for me, I had a game as Ramses where I popped AH from a goody hut on about turn 10 and found horses in my BFC. My build order went worker->(chop)barracks->warcha->warcha->warcha....... at Alexander's peril

 

[ICNP]

I once got Future Tech 31 from a hut. There was this 2-tile island with a goody hut, and I never bothered to explore it, but when I needed to expand, Tahiti was just calling out to me...

How did none of the AI get it first?

I still find it funny to get Astronomy from the goodies, if they have it, why not colonize the Old world?

 

[Dr.Null]

I still find it funny to get Astronomy from the goodies, if they have it, why not colonize the Old world?

They tried, but our spearmen killed their tanks.

 

[naterator]

I once got Future Tech 31 from a hut. There was this 2-tile island with a goody hut, and I never bothered to explore it, but when I needed to expand, Tahiti was just calling out to me...

I'll go out on a limb and declare shenanigans on this. Future tech isn't a goodyable tech. You have any screenshots or saves to back this up?

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

No screenshots or saves, sorry. But it was goodyable for me. I'd modified my tech tree so all techs were goodyable - Just so much more fun!

 

[Tristan_C]

In two pages we've managed to really drive home the point that Astronomy is the highest possible tech from a hut; however, for those just tuning in, it's worth repeating that Astronomy is the highest possible tech from a hut.

 

[Kullervo]

One time, I got 6 techs in a row.

Mining -- BW -- IW -- Metal Casting -- Writing -- Compass.
I sold Metal Casting to Giggly for Meditation, Hunting, Horseback Riding, and Polytheism.
One of the best deals I ever got, especially since the turn after Giggly built the Colossus I declared war with Horse Archers... which he never had.

 

[ChihuahuaKing]

once, I got Sailing from a tribe in the middle of the desert.