schizerbone
Chieftain
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This question is a bit off topic (ok, it's totally off-topic), but I saw that you said you moved your capital. Do you high level players do this often, sometimes, or rarely?
ROP raped!
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capnvonbaron
Democratia gladii
rarely. I only moved it in this game because:
A) it was only a regent game, and I was the three-legged man in the ass-kicking contest
B) my original capital was so close to my FB that the FB was able to take care of the corruption load in my core cities enough that I could move the palace and not lose massive income
C) the bulk of my IA-aquired empire was costing me money by being just a bit too far away, and was so substantially large that I could benifit from building it into a secondary industrial base
D) I was popping GLs left and right from my military victories, ran out of wonders to hurry, so I used one to hurry a palace in a city about five cities east of my original capital (that otherwise would have taken some 100+ turns to build a new palace from scratch)
Without at least three of those four criteria, I don't think I would've moved the capital. It worked out b/c at the point the Aztecs sneak attacked me, I only had a dozen or so modern armor to rush in, and many of those were destroyed in the first wave of attacks against vet inf fortified in metros. Having the secondary industrial core allowed me to replace all those lost and add dozens more in three or four turns, not allowing me to ever weaken to the point where a couple of more powerful neighbor civs got any ideas about hitting me while I was weakened.
A) it was only a regent game, and I was the three-legged man in the ass-kicking contest
B) my original capital was so close to my FB that the FB was able to take care of the corruption load in my core cities enough that I could move the palace and not lose massive income
C) the bulk of my IA-aquired empire was costing me money by being just a bit too far away, and was so substantially large that I could benifit from building it into a secondary industrial base
D) I was popping GLs left and right from my military victories, ran out of wonders to hurry, so I used one to hurry a palace in a city about five cities east of my original capital (that otherwise would have taken some 100+ turns to build a new palace from scratch)
Without at least three of those four criteria, I don't think I would've moved the capital. It worked out b/c at the point the Aztecs sneak attacked me, I only had a dozen or so modern armor to rush in, and many of those were destroyed in the first wave of attacks against vet inf fortified in metros. Having the secondary industrial core allowed me to replace all those lost and add dozens more in three or four turns, not allowing me to ever weaken to the point where a couple of more powerful neighbor civs got any ideas about hitting me while I was weakened.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
There's plenty of good reasons to move your capital. One is to move it to a more potentially productive area, for example a newly conquered territory with great industrial strength, but high corruption. Another reason, one I don't suggest you do unless you really know want you're doing, is to move your capital to the front lines, so that your newly captured cities don't flip back to the enemy. There's loads of reasons why moving your capital can be a good idea.
AutomatedTeller
Frequent poster
I just had an AI declare war on me with 2 longbows... vs. 2 mech infantry in a metro. They didn't do so well.
darski
Regent in Training
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Just pray they don't send any spearmen at you. The last thing you want is this situation.
Optional
Deity
Well, it happened twice to me, so it does happen! I really need to take more care.
The second time I got really annoyed, because I also got struck by something which I would call a bug: I had an RoP with India, who had a Mutual Protection Pact with Babylon. Now when Gandhi raped me, he also attacked a vessel of mine that was crossing their waters. This set off the MPP with Babylon. Well, that really ticked me off; I was not the aggressor, I was the victim! that MPP should never have been triggered this way, but it did! Probably because the attack happened in their waters, I was seen as the aggressor, and the fact there had been an RoP was not considered by the game.
TheOverseer714
Overseer
In a recent game, I triggered an MPP by retaking a city grabbed by a country that sneak attacked me. Suffice it to say, that really ticked me off. I warred continuously on both parties until they were eliminated, despite extreme WW. Quote from "The Hulk": You wouldnt like me when I'm angry.
capnvonbaron
Democratia gladii
Yeah, thats a real pisser about the MPPs.
My favorite is how I always manage to attack the one civ that I don't have an embassy with that has an MPP with another civ that is MPP'd with 3 other civs. And on come the embargos. All of a sudden I'm essentially at war with 5 AI instead of just 1
Gotta love paper wars.
