Most stupid thing you've done

[s.bernbaum]

RE: favorite civics - If you are using BUG Mod, one of the tabs on the diplo advisor is called "Info". It shows you the current civics of all the AIs that you have met, as well as your own. It also shows the favorite civic of each AI. Be aware that in order to get the bonus +diplo for being in the favorite civic of an AI, the AI has to be running that civic as well. So, for example, Saladin's favorite civic is Theocracy. However, if he does not know Theology yet, he will be running some other religion civic, so you won't get the +diplo bonus by being in Theocracy until he discovers it and switches into it.

 

[Manco Capac]

Let my city defended by a couple infantries while forgetting to unload my other infantries in my cities and get all my navy sunk along its soldiers. Screw you Pacal II. *Traumatized eyes*

Bringing a whole fleet to shores without remaining moves and forget one boat has one less movement points and have to delete the boat and soldiers along to avoid losing it to AI war success favor.

Playing all night and not even capable to respond to RL decently the day following the abuse.

 

[nfw]

The few times I build or capture the pyramids in early game, I frequently forget to change into one of the new civics for dozens of turns while my cities languish in unhappiness.

Oh man, that just reminded me I captured the Pyramids a few dozen turns ago.

 

[Sleeping Dragon]

Once, when not really paying attention, the Apostolic Palace box came up with something about a leader. I figured I might as well suck up to Shaka and get the +2 diplo bonus, so I voted for him.

Next turn a box popped up showing Shaka had won a diplomatic victory by a very small number of votes...

I also once planned a chariot rush and went about merrily whipping and chopping to build up my force, until realising with horror that I was planning to use chariots against...the Mayans Fortunately this one worked out as I immediately attacked and Pacal had been on a religious kick so he hadn't researched Bronze Working for his Holkans yet.

 

[Te_Wheki]

Forgetting to upgrade or replace the archers in my border cities, then losing them to a sneak attack by a couple of knights/currs/cavalry - basically a very small force anything that an upgraded defender would've fended off easily - but of course when you see a nearby city defended by 2000 year old archers you'd fancy your chances too.

 

[6K Man]

Forgetting to revolt after getting Pyramids.
Forgetting to revolt out of Pacifism/Caste/Slavery/Nationhood at the end of a GA.

Not defying the AP when asked to return a city to the AI. Thing is, if you go along with this once, you'll be the AP resident's B***h for the rest of the game.

 

[crazyotto65]

I'm with Tachy... The absolute worst bonehead move is when you have 3 transports of amphibious promoted infantry, you sucessfully capture the target city with the 12th and final infantry, but FORGET to then move the transports into the captured city and unload them! Aaaaauuugghhh! The lone injured infantry in the city is immediately killed on the next turn, the city is lost, while the other 11 infantries sit in their stupid transports!!!!

 

[kochman]

What's the most stupid thing you've ever done (in a game of Civ IV obviously...)

I just built Ironworks and National Park in the same city.

I just wanted to thank you for saying "most stupid", which is correct, rather than the colliquially accepted but incorrect "stupid".
Carry on.

 

[vranasm]

there are so many great examples here... brings memories ;-)

I think I once got CS around 100 BC was very content with the way I played and 50 turns later realizing when writing report that I didn't switch into bureau for 50 turns...

but made tons of others...bad wars, bad movement of units, bad timing of whips, bad improvements etc etc

 

[askia53]

hmm for me its a tossup between 2, either signing a defensive pact with asoka, who all my neighbors hated, or declaring war on germany, who i didnt realized had 4 vassals lol
and i hav lost many cities by accidentally sending a unit diagonal, instead of straight.

 

[damerell]

I just wanted to thank you for saying "most stupid", which is correct, rather than the colliquially accepted but incorrect "stupid".

Assuming you mean "stupidest", no. Fowler lists "-er, -est" for "stupid", and there's usage dating back to 1785.

 

[UnforcedError]

Capturing the Mids and forgetting to make a switch (because I'm not SPI and am waiting for the next civ tech to switch with) happens to me fairly often. Misclicks are another source of stupid mistakes, like Alt-clicking the wrong civ, clicking on the wrong tile, etc... also the interface tends to lag sometimes in the late game so the chance for misclicks will increase dramatically...

 

[MilesBeyond]

I am especially embarassed, because this happened several times, sometimes for dozens of turns before I realized it (some time ago, probably on prince level, so it was not fatal): I ran organized religion or some other expensive religious civic, but had forgotten to actually accept a state religion!

This happens to me all the time. Usually because when I get the religion spread to me, I'm at a point where I can't really afford a turn of anarchy right then. Then, when I go to switch civics later on, I only remember intending to adopt a religion, and assume I did it - sometimes even going so far as to check the Religion screen and seeing how many cities a religion is in without noticing the "Convert" button at the bottom.

Otherwise, if I'm isolated, I'll almost always be the first to Philosophy, and so I'll swap into Pacifism as part of a greater civic change, while completely forgetting to adopt Taoism. Oh well.

 

[damerell]

Capturing the Mids and forgetting to make a switch (because I'm not SPI and am waiting for the next civ tech to switch with) happens to me fairly often. Misclicks are another source of stupid mistakes, like Alt-clicking the wrong civ, clicking on the wrong tile, etc... also the interface tends to lag sometimes in the late game so the chance for misclicks will increase dramatically...

I never reload for real, but I'll always reload for simple UI screw. I appreciate enormously the way the game preserves the random seed so I can just play out the moves until the point I misclicked.

 

[UnforcedError]

I never reload for real, but I'll always reload for simple UI screw. I appreciate enormously the way the game preserves the random seed so I can just play out the moves until the point I misclicked.

I'm trying to play some HOF challenge games nowadays so I cannot reload. Not even misclicks.

 

[JBryan314]

I used to automate workers when I was new. That was pretty dumb. Lol.

 

[kochman]

Assuming you mean "stupidest", no. Fowler lists "-er, -est" for "stupid", and there's usage dating back to 1785.

Usage doesn't equal correct usage.
If a word is two or more syllables, with certain, well defined exceptions, it takes the more/most.
Exceptions (that I remember)... words ending in Y, can't remember them all yet, coffee still kicking in.

Top 5 google hits on topic agree...
http://mrc.ltd.free.fr/Superlative.html

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/comp.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/regcom.htm

http://www.grammar.cl/Intermediate/Comparatives_Superlatives.htm

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adjectivesuper.htm (and zee germans do not make technical mistakes, as we all know).

 

[MilesBeyond]

Usage doesn't equal correct usage.

Sure it does. Language is context.

 

[spaced]

Not even going to touch the language debate. I can see where this is going, and prescriptivism vs. descriptivism is just a little bit OT

In my current game, I did this not once, but twice:

Turn starts, game says "the enemy has been spotted near [city]," I look and see there's a barb in my territory, and make a mental note to go kill it. I go through all the pop ups from cities finishing builds, move units around, check advisor screens, etc., hit enter, immediately realize I forgot to take care of the barbs and lose 2 workers. D'oh!

 

[UnforcedError]

^^ Oh yes, sounds familiar... stupid pop-ups.