Potential Expoilt

[azzaman333]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=191930

Basically, he left the pirate ship in an undefended city, which caused the city to be bombed when another civ tried to bomb the ship.

 

[civ_steve]

azzaman333 - Thank you for bringing this to our attention! I'll refer this to the rest of the staff. In the meantime I would suggest that GOTM players avoid this situation since this appears to be an unintended action due to game logic - you have an unaccompanied Privateer in a port city with no other units, the AI 'sees' the Privateer, is compelled to bombard it, thus causing a war with you, generating reverse War-Weariness.

 

[PaperBeetle]

In the Zulu COTM I kept getting dowed because I had built a privateer and stubbornly kept leaving it in port. Cost me a lot of exposed towns on a foreign continent.
Some time later, I tried to use the same trick to trigger the final war of a diplo game, but the AI wasn't going for it. I had lots of ships out and about, so I could see that when my privateer left port, all the world's AI fleets streamed directly towards it . When they got within one turn of it, I put it back in port, but the AI didn't keep going for it. They just turned their ships around and headed for home... maybe it's a difference in algorithm between the versions.