Not-So-Useful units, buildings, GPs and wonders

[Kark]

Crop Circle (Not-so-useful event)
+1, +1, +1, +1, -100

 

[Pim]

Prostitute(Not-so-useful GP)

When used in city;
+1
+1 because of beavers
-5
-10 when city has Crabs

 

[ICNP]

Resonance Cascade (Not so useful Event)
Requires Fusion
A Gordon Freeman Great Unit spawns in a city with a University
A massive Barbarian Army that has units from the next generation spawns (Use Next War)
Whenever the Barbs conquer a city a Citadel is built
The Game ends in 10 Years with the G-Man Winning

Gordon Freeman (Rather useful Great Unit)
50 Str, 1 Move
Whenever Freeman is defeated in Battle he respawns in the tile he was just at through the power of quicksave

 

[Mallin]

Robert Mugabe (not-so-useful leader)

+25

-100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 per turn

+10 with all other leaders

And...50% loss of all food production leading to mass famine.

The Dark Ages (not so useful time)

-60% of
50% increase of wars.
+5 in all cities.
+3 for all nonstate religions.
Civil wars begin every time a king dies.
Civil wars begin for no reason.
Plague randomly strikes cities.
Barbarians and animals attack!



Unusual things make people afraid.....

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

Creation Science Museum
Not-so-Useful National Wonder

- Requires the Creationism civic
- Costs 1000
- +10 with Christianity as your state religion
- +10 with state religion
- -100%
- -100%
- Double construction speed with Spiritual trait
- +100% per religion other than Christianity in the city it is built in

As you can see, I really, really hate Creationism.

 

[Continental Op]

Master of Sinanju (A very overpowered unique unit)

Unique unit for the Korean Empire
Replaces spy
Can be built only once during a game
-50% Espionage Mission cost
When caught, doesn't die, instead becomes visible to the target civ
Can be used as offensive or defensive unit (50 str)

 

[Bushface]

Mercenary (unreliable unit)
Appears randomly next to one or both of two adjacent units which are at war. Can be hired by first to offer 5 gold per turn: will change sides after each turn if other side offers more gold.
Appears as strongest unit available to both sides: upgrades automatically (max. is Infantry or Cavalry) at usual upgrade cost. Disappears if gold is not available.

 

[Dumanios]

Smilies(Not so useful Tech)
Requires the Internet
Gives every Smilie except for "Whew" which requires Modern Smilies.
(If you don't get it,go to Basket's 1rst Deity game.)

Chuck Norris
10 except in the city with the internet,where it is instantly amped up to 100000000000
1 except in Internet city,where it allows you to go 1000 tiles.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

Gunship (Unit existing in the game)

Can't travel across even the smallest bodies of water.

Gunsip American Unique Unit; replaces Cavalry. A cowboy who is constantly drunk and always misses his target. Consumes all your grain because it has to be turned into whiskey. Reels off in the wrong direction three times out of four. Hogs all your horses and rustles all your cattle, which means that you can't utilize your pig, horse or cow resources either.

 

[Abegweit]

Umm, you realize that the business cycle, inflation, and hyperinflation all existed long before fiat money?

What alternate universe do you live in? In this one, none of these things has ever happened without fiat money.

Just to let you know, speeches by Ron Paul are not a good source for actual history.

Riiight. Speeches from those given prizes by the Swedish central bank are sooo much more accurate.

 

[xchen08]

What alternate universe do you live in? In this one, none of these things has ever happened without fiat money.

Oh for God's sake, this claim is so easy to disprove it's not even funny. Let's see, the Depression of 1873, which may have been the worst nadir of the business cycle the U.S. has ever seen occured after the withdrawal of most of the Greenbacks. The Great Depression occurred shortly before fiat money was permanently imposed in the U.S. There are graphs of the U.S. business cycle easily available, and the fluctuations have been there with and without fiat money. Incidently, the fluctuations have become far milder after the creation of the Federal Reserve. Inflation and hyperinflation both occurred in the Roman Empire with devaluation of gold and silver currencies. Done, claim disproven.

Riiight. Speeches from those given prizes by the Swedish central bank are sooo much more accurate.

Yes. Now, I won't say anymore on the matter to avoid derailing this thread. PM me if you are still unsatisfied.

 

[Abegweit]

Oh for God's sake, this claim is so easy to disprove it's not even funny. Let's see, the Depression of 1873, which may have been the worst nadir of the business cycle the U.S. has ever seen occured after the withdrawal of most of the Greenbacks. The Great Depression occurred shortly before fiat money was permanently imposed in the U.S. There are graphs of the U.S. business cycle easily available, and the fluctuations have been there with and without fiat money. Incidently, the fluctuations have become far milder after the creation of the Federal Reserve. Inflation and hyperinflation both occurred in the Roman Empire with devaluation of gold and silver currencies. Done, claim disproven.

Come back to me when you learn some basic definitions. OK? You seem to suffer from some sort of delusion that there was no fiat currency in the 19th century US or under the Romans. Fiat currency did not appear magically with the creation of the FED. It has been inflicted on mankind at least since the days of King Croesus (there's a reason why he was so rich - the purpose of fiat money is to allow the government to steal from the poor). Your assertion about "fluctuations" before and after the FED is also false but that particular boner pales in the light on your fundamental economic illiteracy.

Now, I won't say anymore on the matter to avoid derailing this thread. PM me if you are still unsatisfied.

I agree here. You should never have brought up the subject, especially since you obviously know nothing about it. PMs are unnecessary.

 

[xchen08]

Come back to me when you learn some basic definitions. OK? You seem to suffer from some sort of delusion that there was no fiat currency in the 19th century US or under the Romans. Fiat currency did not appear magically with the creation of the FED. It has been inflicted on mankind at least since the days of King Croesus (there's a reason why he was so rich - the purpose of fiat money is to allow the government to steal from the poor). Your assertion about "fluctuations" before and after the FED is also false but that particular boner pales in the light on your fundamental economic illiteracy.

Ouch, don't know if it hurts more or less considering it's what my degree is in, and what I do for a living. Probably less since it makes your claims more laughable. I do apologize though for the implied error in claiming fiat money magically appeared with the Fed. Economic fluctuations did not ease with the establishment of the Fed, but rather the abolishing of non-fiat money and centralization of fiat money under the Fed. It doesn't help your point any, but my mistake is still my mistake.

I'll send you a PM later. Don't have much hope of you learning anything, but everyone deserves a chance, right?

 

[Abegweit]

Ouch, don't know if it hurts more or less considering it's what my degree is in, and what I do for a living. Probably less since it makes your claims more laughable. I do apologize though for the implied error in claiming fiat money magically appeared with the Fed. Economic fluctuations did not ease with the establishment of the Fed, but rather the abolishing of non-fiat money and centralization of fiat money under the Fed. It doesn't help your point any, but my mistake is still my mistake.

I thought you weren't coming back to this thread. Couldn't stand it eh? You've now altered your claim to say that there was "some" non-fiat money in the US in 1912. It's still nonsense. Fiat money can never survive in competition with free money. That's why it's issued by fiat. If it could compete, it wouldn't need the force of law behind it.

Then there's this claim that "fluctuations" eased with the centralization of monetary theft. The dollar has lost 95% of its value since the Morgan coup over the money system, compared to perhaps a third in the previous century (that due to fiat currency too). Today we have the spectacle of Bernanke throwing money to his cronies on Wall Street on a scale never before imagined. All this apparently doesn't qualify as "fluctuations". I think I just realized what a "fluctuation" is - that's when a bank goes out of business because of bad lending practices. Can't have that, can we? Well we have the solution. Destroying the currency and wreaking havoc on the economy is infinitely preferable to fat cats losing their shirts.

I'll send you a PM later.

Don't bother. It doesn't surprise me to find that you apparently have an economics degree. You clearly have spent far too many years beating common sense out of your thinking for me to change anything. Maybe you should spend some time reading a Ron Paul speech (or better, his new book) instead of the atrocious crud inflicted on freshmen by that other Paul. You know the one I mean. Samuelson. Oh, then there's that other Paul. You know that one too. Krugman. Yeah, the guy who just received a million dollars stolen from the Swedish taxpayer by the Swedish Central Bank, and given for years of yeoman service to the bankers and the state, impuning the good name of Alfred Nobel in the process. What's a million after all? It's just a tiny fraction of the money stolen by Central Banks each and every hour of the day.

Since you bring it up, I am curious to know what you do for, as you put it, a living. Undoubtedly you're in the employ of some part of the machine. Whether that be the state, the financial institutions or academia is the only real question. My cousin works for the Bank of Canada. He has strong libertarian principles and believes that the state should be slashed back enormously. According to him, one of the few things it does need to do is to manage the money supply. He's quite sincere about this. It's funny how people can make themselves believe falsehoods which are in their own self-interest. Isn't it?

This all is way off-topic and so is my last post about the subject even if you break your promise to quit yet again.

 

[Mallin]

Lava Lamp Corporation (not so useful corporation)

+1 in all cities it is present in.
-5% in all cities it is in.
+30% for the 60s, 70s, & 80s.
Causes time to go by faster than it seems.
Effects end after 1990 and it becomes like other corporations.
Effects may randomly come beck in certain cities for a short period.

Argument over fiat money (not so useful posts)

+6
+6 and from other posters
-6 spots for other (on topic) post
+6 for no aparent reason other than Im for no aparent reason...

 

[Öjevind Lång]

Argument over fiat money (not so useful posts)
+6
+6 and from other posters
-6 spots for other (on topic) post
+6 for no aparent reason other than Im for no aparent reason...

Bravo!

Buffalo wings (Not-so-useful resource)
+ 10 in every city
+ 15 in very city
- 15 in every city
- 100% and in your entire civilization
All your military units move one step slower because of obesity, the cavalry units turn into foot soldiers because the backbones of the horses broke under the weight of their monstrously fat riders, and all your naval units sink for similar reasons. And you can build aerial units, but they are unable to take off from the ground.

 

[Rosebud]

General Strike (Not-so-useful event)

"Sir, our entire population has stopped working ! They demand higher wages and social security !"

1. "We have no time for such nonsense. GUARDS ! Whip their sorry little hides back to work !"
- No , , produced this turn
- +5 in all cities

2. "OMG we're gonna lose their votes ! Let's cave in to their demands !"
- Your entire vanishes
- Only 90% of produced next turn because everyone is out on holidays thanks to the new paid vacation legislation

For most civilizations this is a one-time event, but if you're France you get this every 5 turns

 

[Flying Pig]

French Worker (Not-so-useful unit)

Cannot improve tiles
Causes +1 if stationed in a city

 

[Hsinchu]

California Legislator (Not so useful Specialist)
-3
-3
-2
-3 GPP

California Legislature (Not so useful Unique Building for Ahnald S.)
-2 -10
10 Free California Legislators. ENJOY!

JUST TRY AND KEEP YOUR ECONOMY FROM CRASHING!

 

[Mallin]

Hummer (not so useful brand of car)

+1 for ten turns.
+5 when gas prices start to rise.
+1 from every enviromentalist in your civ.
Speeds up the effects of global warming.
-50 every turn when they become too expensive to operate and no one will buy them due to the fuel economy.
+5 when this happens.
Causes General Motors corporation to go bankrupt causing +1 in every city it is in.
Production line finally stoped in your civ by the government.
+1 from enviromentalist.
+5 from Japan and Europe.