Recent Idiot moves you've made

[Cannon Fodder]

I was playing as Asoka and shared a continent with Nappy and Hatty. Got rid of Nappy first and then Hatty and expanded to fill the continent. When I completed Optics I went exploring and found that Mehmed, Pacal, Justinian and Monty shared the other continent. They were solid Bhuddist and I was Hindi so they were all annoyed with me except Pacal who was cautious.

I had a slight tech lead so decided to go for a spaceship win but after a while I noticed that my top three cities were well placed for a culture win. I have never had a culture win so decided to go for it. I took the first opportunity to switch to Free religion but Monty still dowed me. His first attack was 1 galleon with 2 trebuchets and a longbow which my cavalry polished off quite comfortably. After another couple of similar attempts he gave up and some time later I got 200 GP from him for a peace treaty.

When I built UN they all voted for Mehmed but I had enough votes to stop a diplo win.

Then for some strange reason Pacal switched to Islam. At the next election he voted for me and I got in. My first motion was to ban nuclear testing as I was within sight of a win. The only other motion which hadn't been passed
was free religion so I proposed that and it was passed.

Then I thought "Bad move as that will put Pacal back in with Mehmed"

When the next motion came up I thought I would propose a diplomatic election to see if this happened or if he would stay with me. He did stay with me and Justinian voted for me as well and I got a diplomatic victory when I was about 20 turns away from my first Culture victory.

I reloaded and went on for the CV. I then got a GA which put my last city over the top. I had a CV but it wasn't the same as it would have been if I hadn't been tempted into proposing that DV.

 

[warpstorm]

I accidentally gifted my spies to my enemy.

 

[Zello]

1. I took the Thebes, it had about 10 workers sitting there. mid-late game, so nothing really for the workers to do until Thebes came out of revolt, so I left them there with my stack. next turn Genghis DoW. So...click Thebes units, select all, deselect the riflemen, and away we go. about 10 turns later I started wondering whatever happened to my new workers...

They were halfway across the continent getting a quick and bloody tour of Genghis's soon to be former territory....

2. DoW without checking whether they had defensive pacts with any (or more commonly, all) other civs.

3. Last game I was 22 turns into building the religious civics wonder (Shama-something Paya?), before I realised I wasn't building the AP

4. Pillaging towns to the ground before realising my stack was only one turn away from taking that city, and I had already decided to keep the city

 

[djvandrake]

I burned a great prophet to advance my research into divine right. Working on a cultural win and that additional religion would be a big help. Well I forget to max out the science slider and take a few turns of negative cash flow only to have Ragnar, mr financial, found Islam 4 turns before I did. 4 LOUSY TURNS!!!!!!

 

[CaesarCS]

My two favorite Idiot moves I make are these:

Hitting the auto-explore button when I want to move a unit to a certain spot, usually in relation to an attack I want to make.

Getting the "such and such city wants to join such and such civ" message and clicking the "yes" button.

Sometimes when I move a stack to attack I push the wrong direction on the keyboard and they end up sitting on a mountain where I can't move them again. I've done this to whole garrisons and lost cities because of it.

Okay those are three are my favorite idiotic moves I make!

 

[Simple Simon]

In fact, if you edit the *.ini file, you can set it to save every turn! (And even to retain all of the saves)

I am using a mod that includes an edited *.ini file. Autosaves are off

 

[lsgag]

twice already i voted the AI into a diplomatic victory.

I usually vote for the AI when it comes to the apostolic palace to gain the You Vote for us bonus.

And i am addicted to civ, so it sometimes gets late and i dont pay attention

 

[Pir Lan Tota]

in co-op multi, a friend of mine was playing with rome and his attack stack of Prets had done a good job in kicking the computers ass, but was in need of healing. Instead of moving the entire stack onto the forested hill next to the enemy city, he aimed to low and his less then healthy stack bravely launched an attack against the enemy town

 

[Lord_Zath]

How bout recent idiot moves your teammate made?

Playing w/the gf, we'd both be peacefully teching and building. She runs out of things to build. She then starts building units. Guess what she does with those units? DoW's on the nearest enemy. Guess who's now sucked into a war with minimal defenses? Yeah. Yeah.

 

[Pir Lan Tota]

LoL I know that one Lord....Or the, hey my neighbor is fighting 300km away from his lands lets invade...so while my budy has an easy time kicking that civs ass, that civs army starts its long march back home, THROUGH my lands...very annoying since my army was supporting the attack...on the other hand, does make for interresting fights

ps. wish I could get my gf to play civ

 

[catfish99]

I was getting a ton of "city X is a center of scholarship, do you want to build an observ" messages as I was just finishing up securing my continent. Since I was going back into build mode, I was simply saying "yes" to all of them. Persia had been my rival, and I had vassalized him a few turns before, since he was isolated on a tiny island off the coast. Didn't want to bother with finishing him with bigger fish to fry.
A few turns later I started to wonder what the big blue spot at the bottom of the map was doing there. Of course, I had hit "OK" when the good folks of that wonder-filled city had "rightfully" requested a return to Persia.

 

[LendMeYourTeeth]

Getting involved in this bloody game in the first place.

 

[6K Man]

I was getting a ton of "city X is a center of scholarship, do you want to build an observ" messages as I was just finishing up securing my continent. Since I was going back into build mode, I was simply saying "yes" to all of them. Persia had been my rival, and I had vassalized him a few turns before, since he was isolated on a tiny island off the coast. Didn't want to bother with finishing him with bigger fish to fry.
A few turns later I started to wonder what the big blue spot at the bottom of the map was doing there. Of course, I had hit "OK" when the good folks of that wonder-filled city had "rightfully" requested a return to Persia.

Given the number of times I've seen this situation cited along with the number of times I've almost given a city away, I think this is actually an idiot move by the designers of BtS, not by the players.

This is one of those rare situations that calls for an "Are you sure?" popup.

 

[ICNP]

Trying to Stop Shaka from winning a Domination win by going to war. Even tech but about a third of the units.

Only reason I felt the need was that I didn't realize how close he was and then bribed him to attack. Realizing my mistake as he overan the poor civ I had sicked him I decided to commit suicide by DoW. Wound up just winning Diplo in the end by voting for himself.

 

[Ekmek]

This is one of those rare situations that calls for an "Are you sure?" popup.

seriously. How many players intentionally say yes. If i'm going to give a city it'll be through diplomacy so I can get a regard bump.


all my idiot moves have been covered

 

[MrCynical]

I've lost count of the number of times I've gone to great lengths to capture or build the Pyramids and forgotten to switch civics.

After that, I think the time I saved an engineer for ages to found Mining Inc, came back to the game after a few days break, and spent him on a random wonder. I never got another engineer and the AI eventually bagged Mining Inc.

I suppose there was also the time when I unthinkingly accepted when a civ came asking to be my vassal - and only then remembered the civ in question was at war with every other civ on the planet but me. At least it made the space race more interesting...

 

[Bushface]

Accepting an offer of vassalage and instantly getting a message "You have declared war on . . ." because my new vassal made the same declaration in the same turn, before offering vassalage to me. Of course I was not informed of this until too late.

 

[kniteowl]

Building the Pyramids and not switching to Representation until I researched Monarchy. (I Stopped playing Civ for a Long time before returning lol)