How offen do you reload?
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Blitzer
Chieftain
what if it was like diablo, and you cant just load, and when you exit it saves automatically?
bobgote
Trousers
I don't reload if i make stupid mistakes. I don't make so many stupid mistakes anymore. I try to think of my people as exactly that, and their lives depending on me. I do my best by them.
I have reloaded for experimental purposes tho - ie to test effectiveness of communism etc. (not as bad as you think - when in certain circumstances). But that's the only time i do it anymore
I have reloaded for experimental purposes tho - ie to test effectiveness of communism etc. (not as bad as you think - when in certain circumstances). But that's the only time i do it anymore
Scientia
Warlord
Sometimes, just for experimentation, to see if I could have accomplished something differently.
Once, when the AI built a wonder 1 turn before me, I reloaded about 10 turns back, and flocked workers to my city building the wonder to mine every possible square to boost production.
I ended up knocking 2 or 3 turns off of the total time needed to build the wonder. . . and you know what?
the AI still built the wonder 1 turn before me . . . . .<sigh>
Once, when the AI built a wonder 1 turn before me, I reloaded about 10 turns back, and flocked workers to my city building the wonder to mine every possible square to boost production.
I ended up knocking 2 or 3 turns off of the total time needed to build the wonder. . . and you know what?
the AI still built the wonder 1 turn before me . . . . .<sigh>
bobgote
Trousers
Scientia:
lol! so that's why all these people are talking about the AI cheating!! When it is really them who are cheating to be able to know that the AI is cheating!!!!1 What irony
lol! so that's why all these people are talking about the AI cheating!! When it is really them who are cheating to be able to know that the AI is cheating!!!!1 What irony
Scientia
Warlord
Originally posted by bobgote
Scientia:
lol! so that's why all these people are talking about the AI cheating!! When it is really them who are cheating to be able to know that the AI is cheating!!!!1 What irony
Somehow the old saying "ignorance is bliss" seems to fall short here.
bobgote
Trousers
Why don't you try to take longer to build your wonder and see if they then take longer to do it? Might actually be a useful tactic (ie research a new tech to give you a better wonder when you switch)
Portuguese
Vassalising Spain
I don't like to reload, but sometimes I can't help it, when several armies fall against conscripts!!!
well i am playing my first GOTM now and i reloaded a LOT. But only in the early start of the game. when I finally reached the middle of the middle ages, I checked back on the GOTM rules and really felt down when i read the "no reloading at all cept mistakes" part. but i did expect that. still, i continued with the game but i won't be posting that game ever. i will restart the GOTM (nothing in the rules about that, is there?) and I promise not to reload at all. as of now I'll finish this "ex-GOTM" just for the learning part of it. I am still on the learning curve so forgive me.
Portuguese
Vassalising Spain
GOTM are to be followed... or you can't participate in the contest. Be fair: if you reload, don't send your GOTM!!!
algonacy
Chieftain
I often reload in order to plant spies. 
I don't like the ineffectiveness of the espoinage aspect of the game and don't reload for other espionage missions. But I do think that it should be easier to plant spies without starting wars.
So I guess I'm guilty.
I don't like the ineffectiveness of the espoinage aspect of the game and don't reload for other espionage missions. But I do think that it should be easier to plant spies without starting wars.
So I guess I'm guilty.
Lt. 'Killer' M.
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murewa: no restarting GOTm either - after all you then know where he enemy is! 
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
Only when the confounded game crashes or some glitch shows up like my guys fire on themselves, my units are invisible, or I can't build a unit even though I have the resources, tech, etc.
dunk
Warlord
I'll reload only in the beginning of the game. I find the coast, then reload and put my city there. 90% of the time, I get started 1 tile away from the shore. I hate that. And I have to be on the ocean, not on a lake (pangea maps excepted). Other than that, I never reload. I have autosave turned off.
I only reload when taking a break with very few exceptions.
Once I did when a city four squares from the capital built the Forbidden Palace and I didn't catch it in time.
Another time I accidentally moved all of the pikemen from my capital using the J-command when I only wanted to move one. The enemy was due to attack with only two swordsmen so I would have easily defended against them with six pikemen had I not made the mistake.
Once I did when a city four squares from the capital built the Forbidden Palace and I didn't catch it in time.
Another time I accidentally moved all of the pikemen from my capital using the J-command when I only wanted to move one. The enemy was due to attack with only two swordsmen so I would have easily defended against them with six pikemen had I not made the mistake.
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
Beware dunk, I used to play with autosave turned off, then one day I lost fifty years of cavalry combat. I had to reload from fifty years back now knowing when my enemies wanted to go to war, now knowing where the rubber and oil were going to turn up, and ABSOLUTELY POWERLESS TO KEEP MYSELF FROM EXPLOITING THAT INFORMATION.
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