The situation:
Started a game on noble, 17 civs (I never play with civ #13), raging barbarians, all victories except time enabled. World is snaky continents.
I start off as Japan by sending my warrior out to explore and begin work on a worker. When the worker comes out I take a gamble and que up a barracks without making a warrior to protect my undefended capital. I figure since my traits are aggressive and organized the barracks might pay off.
Anyway, I do a bit of exploring, crank out the barracks, 2 warriors and a settler. I have both horses and stone within my city radius so I build stonehenge as well. It's starting out to be a pretty good game.
Then I run across a location not to far from my first expansion city with 5 gems and 2 dye ALONG a river that would be perfect for my next city. I also run across a greek settler accompanied by 2 warriors.
I think to myself, "self, aren't you glad you built that barracks and researched the technologies early that allow you to build chariots?"
"Absolutely." I respond to myself.
So I put building of the pyramids on hold (after all I had stone in my capital city's radius) and crank out 6 chariots. That should be more than enough. I'm not really a war-like player so I had no intentions of knocking Greece out of the game. I just wanted that one city so I could have all those gems. Cha-ching!
Here's where the cheating kicks in. Remember this is on NOBLE difficulty. I pull my chariots up to his city and find that there are only two warriors defending it. I figured that so I hit the next turn button. As soon as I hit the button I see his two warriors become two axemen. Wha? Axemen seem kind of advanced for so early in the game especially considering he would need copper or iron to make them, have it mined already AND have found enough gold from goodie huts to even afford the upgrades.
I go through with the plan and take the city. With Flanking I (love my barracks) it's easy as cake.
Remember my original plan was just to take this city then try for peace but these axemen seemed a little suspicious so I uncover all the fog of war around his capital city. If he really does have copper or iron, I want it.
But alas there is none to be found.
So the question is how the hell did the computer upgrade those units? He cheated, it's the only explanation. I tried to put some pictures on putfile.com as proof but it's not cooperating right now. I even went back and replayed the scenario to get some screenshots.
This is what put me off of Civ 3. I'm not the best player in the world which is why I play on noble. I just want a fun challenging game. It's hard enough when I get into the later ages and have to figure out ways to stop the more advanced AI opponents. It's disheartening to know that the AI pulls this crap.
-E
Started a game on noble, 17 civs (I never play with civ #13), raging barbarians, all victories except time enabled. World is snaky continents.
I start off as Japan by sending my warrior out to explore and begin work on a worker. When the worker comes out I take a gamble and que up a barracks without making a warrior to protect my undefended capital. I figure since my traits are aggressive and organized the barracks might pay off.
Anyway, I do a bit of exploring, crank out the barracks, 2 warriors and a settler. I have both horses and stone within my city radius so I build stonehenge as well. It's starting out to be a pretty good game.
Then I run across a location not to far from my first expansion city with 5 gems and 2 dye ALONG a river that would be perfect for my next city. I also run across a greek settler accompanied by 2 warriors.
I think to myself, "self, aren't you glad you built that barracks and researched the technologies early that allow you to build chariots?"
"Absolutely." I respond to myself.
So I put building of the pyramids on hold (after all I had stone in my capital city's radius) and crank out 6 chariots. That should be more than enough. I'm not really a war-like player so I had no intentions of knocking Greece out of the game. I just wanted that one city so I could have all those gems. Cha-ching!
Here's where the cheating kicks in. Remember this is on NOBLE difficulty. I pull my chariots up to his city and find that there are only two warriors defending it. I figured that so I hit the next turn button. As soon as I hit the button I see his two warriors become two axemen. Wha? Axemen seem kind of advanced for so early in the game especially considering he would need copper or iron to make them, have it mined already AND have found enough gold from goodie huts to even afford the upgrades.
I go through with the plan and take the city. With Flanking I (love my barracks) it's easy as cake.
Remember my original plan was just to take this city then try for peace but these axemen seemed a little suspicious so I uncover all the fog of war around his capital city. If he really does have copper or iron, I want it.
But alas there is none to be found.
So the question is how the hell did the computer upgrade those units? He cheated, it's the only explanation. I tried to put some pictures on putfile.com as proof but it's not cooperating right now. I even went back and replayed the scenario to get some screenshots.
This is what put me off of Civ 3. I'm not the best player in the world which is why I play on noble. I just want a fun challenging game. It's hard enough when I get into the later ages and have to figure out ways to stop the more advanced AI opponents. It's disheartening to know that the AI pulls this crap.
-E
I still have to wonder where he got the money for the upgrades though. When I went into the world builder he had 41 gold. How much does it cost to upgrade 2 warriors to axemen?
