Solver's Unofficial BtS Patch
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It appears auto-explorers have stopped healing. I'm pretty sure Bhruic's fix solved that one. Sorry for my apparent vagueness; I'm trying to be as definite as I can be without explicitly being definite. 
I'm pretty sure the Bhruic fix made auto explorers wait to heal before exploring again. Whatever the case, my auto-exploring warrior isn't doing it now.
I'm pretty sure the Bhruic fix made auto explorers wait to heal before exploring again. Whatever the case, my auto-exploring warrior isn't doing it now.DrJambo
Crash-test dummy
Bizarre indeed. Well, there have been 3 AI civs in my current game who've created colonies, and each one of their colonies has now gone it alone...
I found something, maybe for Blake, don't know:
I played a Monarch game and found out, Louis is going for a cultural win. I was able to capture one of his 3 culture cities and hoped to prevent it this way, but i was wrong. He had a replacement city with 26k culture and started to push this one further. I tried to wage some more war against him and bribed other AIs into it, but since he had mighty friends, i wasn't able to stop him, but at least slowed him down by a large margin since i forced him to tech again and so release the culture slider. He still won, but that's because i played crappy.
So much for the story, the point is that his 3rd culture city gained only 96 culture per turn once the slider was set to 0 and he did not push the slider to earn his win and so needed 12 turns to get from 48900 to 50k, 10 of them simply wasted (none of his culture cities was in danger). Also his capital had 120k culture when the game ended, that's maybe a bit overdone.
I have seen 5 culture wins by AIs so far and altogether they were played quite decent (fastest one was 1904 AD, not too shabby), but the AI does a quite bad job in evening out culture between the 3 cities and also in the endgame to claim the victory. I also observed that they always use the culture slider (until threatened) and don't concentrate too much on artists.
I played a Monarch game and found out, Louis is going for a cultural win. I was able to capture one of his 3 culture cities and hoped to prevent it this way, but i was wrong. He had a replacement city with 26k culture and started to push this one further. I tried to wage some more war against him and bribed other AIs into it, but since he had mighty friends, i wasn't able to stop him, but at least slowed him down by a large margin since i forced him to tech again and so release the culture slider. He still won, but that's because i played crappy.
So much for the story, the point is that his 3rd culture city gained only 96 culture per turn once the slider was set to 0 and he did not push the slider to earn his win and so needed 12 turns to get from 48900 to 50k, 10 of them simply wasted (none of his culture cities was in danger). Also his capital had 120k culture when the game ended, that's maybe a bit overdone.
I have seen 5 culture wins by AIs so far and altogether they were played quite decent (fastest one was 1904 AD, not too shabby), but the AI does a quite bad job in evening out culture between the 3 cities and also in the endgame to claim the victory. I also observed that they always use the culture slider (until threatened) and don't concentrate too much on artists.
Updated
Changes as follows...
Note on the last item. It doesn't mean you'll never split off the same civ, of course, but the game will now try to avoid these situations instead of actually favoring them.
And yes indeed, this is safe to use if you update to 3.03.
Changes as follows...
- Destroying Towns through espionage will turn them into Villages, etc.
- Slight tweak to the AI selection of HQ city when founding a corp
- Splitting off a colony no longer tends to create the same civilization
Note on the last item. It doesn't mean you'll never split off the same civ, of course, but the game will now try to avoid these situations instead of actually favoring them.
And yes indeed, this is safe to use if you update to 3.03.
Dearest Solver, regarding my recent reporting of exploring issues, I believe that I was wrong to attribute them to your latest version of the .dll fix. I'd forgotten that I had started my two games today using a mod, and it seems to come with its own version of the .dll file. Please accept my humble apologies. 
Wodan
Deity
I've noticed that Barb galleys do not appear to want to attack unescorted work boats. Anyone else have that happen?
Wodan
Wodan
Kilim
Chieftain
Noticed the new v3.03 patch just went live.
Does this mean we do not need to DL Solver's Fixes? or we still should still use Solver's Fixes?
Does this mean we do not need to DL Solver's Fixes? or we still should still use Solver's Fixes?
vilemerchant
Prince
50_dollar_bag
Imitation Louis Vuitton
popejubal
Emperor
Hi, Solver. Thanks for this patch and thanks for putting the CFC link in your sig and in the first post here for all to see. I was delighted when I saw that you had made a patch that fixed all of the problems that I was encountering and I was then horrified to see that I couldn't connect to Apolyton to actually get it.
Thanks again!
Lars_Domus
Say No 2 Net Validations
Hmm, it's a new sadistic idea I like... put a nice changelist up, a very promising patch, and a broken download link. Bwahhaaa!
You really are the Cigarette Smoking Man, aren't you?
