Pop rushing trick

[DaveMcW]

There is a bug when you pop rush in a city with a Forge. I want to make sure everyone is equally able to (ab)use it, if we decide not to ban it.

1. Build a forge
2. Wait until you have between 31 and 37 left on your project.
3. Pop rush to gain 60 and lose 1 pop.

The bug is that you are supposed to gain 37, but the game rounds up to 60.

If you pop rush with less than 30 you gain 30 and lose 1 pop. Obviously this makes Forges less useful because they give no bonus. But maybe bugged +0% is better than bugged +100%, if we can enforce it...

 

[robboo]

Wow..some of us might have done it without even knowing in other games...

 

[Karl Townsend]

yea i ahave noticed this sometimes when playing quick games on tiny maps somehow i was building jaguars in 1 turn

 

[Vind2]

Now is this a trick or an exploit?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

So does this happen just with a forge and not another improvement?

 

[DaveMcW]

It also happens with Organized Religion and Bureaucracy, anything that gives a bonus that is not a multiple of 100%.

If you are running Bureaucracy and Forge (+75%), you get:
1-30 left = +30 -1 pop
31-52 left = +60 -1 pop
53-60 left = +60 -2 pop

If you run all three (+100%), you get:
1-30 left = +30 -1 pop
31-60 left = +60 -1 pop

 

[robboo]

So how should we approach this. Allow it or try to craft a rule, like I said you might do it and not know it.

Seems almost impossible to enforce unless you trust all the teams to go by the honor system