Ocean-going Galleys???

[Troyens]

It is 1490 AD, and, as the Egyptians I have built the Lighthouse, Magellan's, and all the civ advances needed for galleons and frigates.

I am playing on a realistic world map, with realistic starting locations.

I finally send a loaded galleon deep into the unexplored blackness of the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to discover the New World.

Two-thirds of the way across the Atlantic Ocean. . . I am amazed to run into a GERMAN GALLEY a thousand miles from home!!! What the ****?!?

I have seen this before: AI galleys seem to have ocean-going capabilities.

This is ridiculous and needs to be patched.

 

[Neo Guderian]

I agree.

You know,, (rant) its sad that with all of our awesome technology we can't make an Artificial Intelligence system that does not have to cheat in a game to win. =(

 

[Buecephalus]

my understanding is that the patch fixes that. I've downloaded it and haven't seen a galley away from the coast since. The patch also takes away the ability of anyone controlling the Lighthouse to traverse ocean squares. Sea and coast tiles only.



"do or do not, there is no try."

 

[docceh]

I think id HAD something to do with how the game determines if a galley will sink (as it will survive a turn or 2 very occasionally).

The problem WAS that the game gave the AI the gift of infinite luck and their Gally's would never sink.

It was fixed in one of the patches tho!

 

[ReallyNiceGuy]

I *think* that when a nation discovers navigation that all their ships can float across the ocean.
(Is is all or just caravels?)
Also, I have been able to cross the Atlantic with a galley and sometimes it sinks just as its leaving shallow water.

 

[Zouave]

I can just see a galley with a bunch of rowers that could often not even handle a small storm in the Aegean Sea taking on the middle of the Atlantic!

I wonder if the Japanese can use them to cross the northern Pacific and settle California!

I've seen an armada of galleys crossing SEA tiles to invade a territory of mine well before anyone discovered the Lighthouse, Magellan, or navigation. I've also seen them all too often on ocean squares, or moving from sea to sea with four or five ocean tiles in between.

Yes, that cheating AI!!

Get real, Sid.