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[julian barker]

Just a thought but could Barbarians be useful.
If you let them capture a city and let them keep it, would you be able to destroy all the remaining civilisations and thus ensure that you get your 3 points per turn guaranteed for keeping peace, when you are amassing points scoring.

To stop the Barbarians wandering you just surround the city with a few tanks.

 

[Thunderfall]

Originally posted by julian barker:
Just a thought but could Barbarians be useful.
If you let them capture a city and let them keep it, would you be able to destroy all the remaining civilisations and thus ensure that you get your 3 points per turn guaranteed for keeping peace, when you are amassing points scoring.

To stop the Barbarians wandering you just surround the city with a few tanks.

No, that's not possible. Once you have killed all other Civilizations, the game is over.

 

[CornMaster]

Originally posted by Thunderfall:
No, that's not possible. Once you have killed all other Civilizations, the game is over.

Actually, not to say your wrong but it will sometimes ask you if you want to continue playing even though everyone is dead/go to AC/reach 2020AD and your score won't count.

I've done it anyway but it's boring.

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[shadowdale]

Yes, but who on earth would want to continue playing after the game is finished??
I know I never do, game over is game over - period.

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[julian barker]

Ok

I read what has been said above, BUT is it proven?


If in 1800(any year will do) you did this and you wiped out all other Civ's would the game end.

Yours in Civ

 

[Andu Indorin]

Yep, you'll be told conquered the world, and get some amusing graphics, and would you like to continue playing, and the score doesn't count.

 

[Cedric Greene]

Yes if the last opposing city is barbarian the game is over. I wanted to do the same thing but unfortunately the game just ended. Speaking of Barbarian cities, I was just going through my city.txt for spell check and remembered at the bottom that they have their own list. Can the Barbarians build cities? What if I purposely setup a city to be taken that is producing settlers, will they then produce settlers? I remeber a patch that allowed play of hotseat multiplayer on classic civ2 and you could be the Barbarians but when you took over a city you couldn't change what the city was producing or the game would crash. Does anyone still have a copy of this patch/hack?

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[VanillaCube]

Many times I play after the game is already won (via spacemisson)
what I was wondering is what happens when your civ is totally wiped out its never happend to me.

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[Algernon Pondlife]

from Vanillacube:

Many times I play after the game is already won (via spacemisson) what I was wondering is what happens when your civ is totally wiped out its never happend to me.

suck it and see

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[Pedro]

I was just going through my city.txt for spell check and remembered at the bottom that they have their own list. Can the Barbarians build cities?

No, they spend all their shield on building military units. I think the names are used when a Barbarian unit stumbles upon one of your undefended units. Then it says something like:

Barbarian leader Atilla of the Huns: "Give us 50 gold or we we mercilessly crush Townsville"

Reminds me of another question: does the AI ever do anything with those barbarian diplomats?


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[vladmir_illych_lenin]

No, they're just brainless mimes who give money when they are mutilated.

 

[Leowind]

Barbie has dips?? I"ve never seen a barbarian diplomat. Is this what you meant?

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

The barbarian "leaders" the guys with the horned helmet and spear are actually a nodified diplomat unit, thus they pay 1/3 movement point per square and have only a .125 combat value. They do not appear to make any diplomat type missions, nor do the barbs have a treasury to pay for any missions.

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

I actually gave the barbarians a plethora of Engineers in one scenario I created, but they disappeared for some reason.

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

barbarian leaders usually disappear after awhile, so I guess enginneers would too.

 

[Pedro]

Yes, those barbarian leaders are dips. It was really evident in CIV1, where the barabarian leader was represented by a moron in a suit and a high hat.

 

[hgengstrom]

If the barbarian leader has a combat value does that mean he could capture a deserted city. I think he's probably too dumb to try.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

The combat value may be defense only.

 

[JTKirk of the Federation]

Proof that barb leader is a dip: I once bribed one rather than kill it, and it turned into a diplomat. I then used it to bribe barb military units. (Multiple shiploads kept landing to harrass an isolated city with moderate defenses that couldn't kill them all, so I bribed a bunch and then built a city where they were landing to stop them.)

 

[MrLeN]

This is a reply to many posts above.

No point qoting them all.

The game is over when all the the civs are dead, even if the barbs are in the game.

There is no point playing after the game has ended, because there is no score, and that SUCKS!!!

Yes the barbarian dimplomats are the guys with the horned helmets.

If you want to continue the game... instead of leaving a barbarian city, why can't you just leave one opposition city? That would do just the same thing that you are querying, no?

MrLeN

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