I Received Two Golden Ages

[Tony Graham]

I playing Emperor against 7 Civs. It's a huge landmass and I'm playing Domination only for the win. I took out China, America, India, Russians, Aztecs. It is now 1848. France and Greece are left. Greece is as strong as you can get and France isn't far behind.
I'm a micro-manager player and during the entire game, I have been as extremely generous as I can be with each turn to all civs. And now I'm going to brag.
Germany was the last Civ I took. I had a made diplomatic deals with both remaining civs and both went heavily toward Germany. When I saw them making good on our diplomatic agreements, I strategized a plan to trap both their armies upon a sliver of land where I purposely left one German city--at the top of the land. They all came running for that last remaining city. Once they all slipped in I brought in workers and built fortresses across a 5 block span where that sliver of land narrowed and then I fortified it with a crapload of Mechs. They've been caged up there for 4 turns now and are still gracious toward me (Trapped is around 160 units of mixed tech units and all but me have completed all the modern-day sciences).
Just before I boxed them in, my golden age had ended. Now 5 turns later I started another golden age and a bunch of my major cities went into disorder.
Since 2002 I've played at least 40 games of CIV3 to completion. And a lot more I've started and forgotten about. I have never had two golden ages. One thing that was different in this game was that I've never come being back from over 8,000 points and being way behind like I was but for some gut feeling I thought there was a chance and holy crap look at me now. LOL All my cities that were in disorder? All I had to do was change one Taxman to an Entertainer and suddenly my city is full of nothing but happy citizens like during a Golden Age. Strange. So I thought I'd brag a little and also ask if any of you have ever experienced two golden ages.

 

[Tony Graham]

I'm thinking that it must be my gameplay strategy that broke the game.

 

[justanick]

At Chieftain 2 Golden Ages are possible. At any other setting including Emperor this should not occur.

 

[Buttercup]

If you're playing with any Mods installed, don't forget Mods always have the chance to add unexpected bugs in weird places.

 

[Tony Graham]

If you're playing with any Mods installed, don't forget Mods always have the chance to add unexpected bugs in weird places.

100% Vanilla. I play from the original CD I bought in 2001 on my old Dell OptiPlex GX110.

 

[Tony Graham]

At Chieftain 2 Golden Ages are possible. At any other setting including Emperor this should not occur.

I don't think I've ever played a game on Chieftain. But you just made me go look to see if I am now ...LOL.
That woulda sucked. Thankfully, I'm still on Emperor.

 

[need my speed]

At Chieftain 2 Golden Ages are possible. At any other setting including Emperor this should not occur.

Why so? What does the difficulty setting change that makes this (im)possible?

 

[tjs282]

100% Vanilla. I play from the original CD I bought in 2001 on my old Dell OptiPlex GX110.

Blimey, what patch version? Final patch for the 16-Civ Vanilla version was v1.29, but I could well imagine that a CD published in 2001 (release year) might still have had an earlier version.

e.g. the CD that I bought secondhand (in 2009) installed v1.07, which I think was still the earliest publicly released version of Civ III. And there were still quite a few bugs...

 

[Tony Graham]

Blimey, what patch version? Final patch for the 16-Civ Vanilla version was v1.29, but I could well imagine that a CD published in 2001 (release year) might still have had an earlier version.

e.g. the CD that I bought secondhand (in 2009) installed v1.07, which I think was still the earliest publicly released version of Civ III. And there were still quite a few bugs...

I have never installed a patch. I remember trying a couple of times and was unsuccessful. I don't use hotkeys much except for fortifying and disbanding units. Another thing that happenes it an issue with the respawning of the final civ at the end of the game. I once chased China around the map for 10-12 respawns. This version has its bugs and I have sort of learned how to avoid most of those that affect gameplay. I have found that if I make all commands with the mouse I don't see that many bugs. But the respawn thing is certainly irritating. Maybe 10 games have sent me running around at the end. But only for 3-5 turns. That China bug was by far the most ridiculous. All I wanted was the score and it made me work to get it in the books. lol

 

[Arexander]

Respawning AI is an option you can turn off, isn't it? Unless even that was added by a patch?

 

[tjs282]

Respawning AI is an option you can turn off, isn't it? Unless even that was added by a patch?

You can certainly turn it off in Conquests/Complete, but Vanilla — especially the early versions — had far fewer (if any? It's a looong time since I played v1.07...) "Custom Rules" options.

A lot of those were added for e.g. multiplayer (added in PtW), and the new game modes (e.g. Regicide, VP scoring) added in Conquests.

 

[justanick]

Why so? What does the difficulty setting change that makes this (im)possible?

2 GAs is a special thing for Chieftain. No other setting has this. That is at least for the current patch versions Civ3 1.29 and C3C 1.22.

 

[Bartleby]

How do you trigger a 2nd GA on Chieftain? Is it one from wonders and one from UU, or can you have 2 x either condition?
I don't remember ever getting a 2nd GA, I played quite a few games on Chieftain, mainly for the HoF.