Interesting Screenshots

[CivRulesAll]

I got another one. WTFBBQ!?!!@!!!!!!!!@%^@$&%^*&#%? Notice it's 3500 B.C.

 

[choxorn]

You must be playing on Sid, and those are their starting units.

 

[CivRulesAll]

I don't think they start with umpteen settlers on Sid, and though i am playing Sid for fun to see how long I last.

 

[choxorn]

Yeah, they start with 4, upon checking the editor, And judging from the borders of that nearby city being unexpanded, have already used two. They also start with 12 Hoplites, and 2 of them are missing, probably defending those two cities.

Where the hell the other 8 Settlers came from is beyond me. Are you using any mods, or anything?

 

[CivRulesAll]

No. Maybe a glitch?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Thats crazy. No way they could have built that many by 3500 BC, even on Sid. Also, I predict you will soon by swallowed up by the Greeks.

 

[Spoonwood]

They start with 3 settlers on Sid. I think 3500 BC is 10 turns in, and the 2nd and 3rd settlers need a few turns to walk before they found a city. It takes the AI 4 food for a city to grow on Sid. That's at least 2 turns until irrigated... unless it's a flood plain wheat, and I don't think workers work faster. They need 12 shields for a settler. Say a city has a plains cow and the AI irrigates it.

4000 BC 1: Capital city founded, other 2 settlers move.

3950 BC 2: Capital gets 2 shields into the box, worker irrigates.

3900 BC 3: Capitol hits size 2, has 6 shields in the box from using forest.

3850 BC 4: Capital gets 4 more shields in the box for 10 shields.

3800 BC 5: Capital grows to size 3 and produces 1st settler. Irrigation completes on interturn.

3750 BC 6: Capital hits size 2 again, has 4 shields in the box.

3700 BC 7: Capital has 8 shields in the box.

3650 BC 8: Capital hits size 3, 4 more shields for another settler.

3600 BC 9: Capital hits size 2 again, 4 shields in the box.

3550 BC 10: Capital gets 8 shields in the box.

3500 BC 11: Capital hits size 3 and another settler produced.

So, 3 settlers from the capital by 3500 BC. For the other settlers one settler each. So, 5 to 7 settlers seems like the maximum number of settlers by 3500 BC, *given* that turns move in 50 year increments at this time, and accelerated production isn't turned on. We have 10 in the screenshot.

 

[madviking]

Relevant.

 

[CivRulesAll]

AP is on.

 

[choxorn]

Well, that sort of explains it, as it means that the AI would only need 6 Shields to build a Settler, and 4 Food to Grow. It still means that they've been building almost nothing but Settlers, though, which doesn't seem like something they'd do.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I sent out my first settler to find a cozy spot on the river, but as the settler drew close, the Americans founded New York there. I grumbled, then told the settler to backtrack and plant near the lake. I got a good laugh when I saw the name.

England has now restored these impudent colonists to the crown, God and King be praised. The Germans are being an ornery lot, though.

 

[CivRulesAll]

lol nice one.

 

[darski]

The game is just going along to its conclusion and you get a good laugh. it was interesting that the two unfortunate civs ended up on the same remote bit of real estate.

 

[GamezRule]

Is that a standard map, Darski?

 

[darski]

Is that a standard map, Darski?

No - it is small.

 

[Aabraxan]

And they will undoubtedly send a trickle of spearmen, one at a time, at each other for the next 1000 years in futile attempts to conquer one another.

 

[dominatr]

Something similar to darski's

 

[GamezRule]

That's gotta be the worlds worst start, at least it eliminates the need to send out land explorers.

 

[darski]

@ GamezRule - I love that avatar and Inigo Montoya would likely agree.

 

[darski]

Something similar to darski's

My guys didn't start there. I assisted the move of their capitols from my crowded lands.

It would do my heart good to see Bizzy in those circumstances.