Is this dirty?

[RedWolf]

I've been playing my first multi-player game with a buddy. (it's his first too)

Our continents are seperarated by a great deal of water. He shares his continent with the aggressive mongols. They're doing horsehockey and only have a few cities but are enough to be a pain in the *** to him.

Now he should be steam rolling over them but for some reason they seem to be able match him technology for technology. He can't figure out how a civ with only 3-4 cities manages to have the same science output as his massive civilization. He'd like to destroy them without completely going into "war mode" but whenever he gets a tech lead they very quickly have the same techs as him so he never really ends up with a military advantage and the aggressive enemy civ continues to be a thorn in his side.

Well I kind of know how those worthless mongols get all those fancy hi-tech advances. You see I am feeding my advances to them whenever I discover something new.

They will never be a serious threat to me because they are too small and too far away.
However they ARE seriosuly annoying my friend and wasting precious resources - a definite plus to me.

Is this a dirty trick? Or am I well within my rights to do this?

 

[Cimfindriel]

I think that what you are doing is justified in that it is an intergral part of the game. Forming secret alliances and using nations to your advantage happens to be one of the most entertaining aspects civ; there is more than one way to defeat your enemies, war just happens to be the most obvious.

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[CornMaster]

In a recent game against Fishheads....I pulled the same trick....Except I gave them better technology. Fish is attacking with Crusaders....and the 1 Aztec city is defending with Riflemen.

Something is fishy here. The one down side is that he had way more units than they did. So he simply outnumbered then and then got my techs when he killed the Aztec.....and the Japanese too. I was feeding both civs. I thought it was a dirty trick.....but it wasn't to tactally sound for me.....Where I was number 1 in techs...I ended up giving away my lead.

Anyway.....I say go for it!!!

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[SunTzu]

Its justified, my friend who i used to play nonstop civ2 with he was always better than me so i feed every other civilization in the game!

He was such a huge empire that he was getting screwed by all the civs

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[RedWolf]

I guess the trick is to find a balance. If you give your techs to a civ that is TOO small the other human opponent will crush them and steal your techs.

However if you give them to a civ that is to big they may end up being a serious opponent in the "space race" (if thats how you choose to win)