The 999 "Trick"

[Azrune]

mmmm interesting, so with the trick and an investigation of a city you can figure their actual gpt and sci funding per turn, now wheres me calculator.

 

[sandmandh]

actually SirPleb mentioned this in his epic Sid game, you actually need to type in 9999 just in case the AI is making more than 999

 

[danirus]

i can you havent figured yet, any number you enter wich is larger than their income gives you their actual income not only 999 or 9999.

 

[Nobody]

Chieftess, is your exploit giving a freind in mp about 999999 gpt for 20 turns, losing a few units improvements what ever then after 20 turns shareing half the money and rebuliding the units/improments back with a large profit? if it is iv used it on single player two giving the ai 9999999per turn then after 20 turns (or less if you want) in invadeing and takeing all this money with the city. even after you bulid back what you lost you make a huge profit.

It dosent work on C3C because you can't give more than yourve got (not much more anyway) and you can't give if your in the negatives.

 

[Chieftess]

I'm not going to confirm anything at the moment since several PTW MP demogame teams could exploit that (and probably will) if they find out how. And yes, I know all too well that it was fixed in C3C.

(I was the tester that found it)

 

[Geofflightning]

I usually just find out how much their gpt is by selling techs...and then all that gpt is my gpt, hehehehehe.

 

[Smartsquid399]

Does this work on any other versions of Civ3?

 

[JaseEmtP]

cool trick thanks for sharing

 

[Kuningas]

I want to hear what's the exploit, Chieftess mentioned.

 

[Crimso]

Well she is not going to tell you! Stop bumping ppl.

 

[General Joey]

Chieftess, does it involve giving GPT for GPT?

 

[Chieftess]

Now that the PTW MSDG is over (dead rather), I will announce the exploit:

It was this:

In vanilla Civ3, and PTW, you could gift the AI 9,999,999 gpt. Sure, you'd lose a unit or something every turn, but...

For each turn you wait, the AI gets that much more gpt. The trick is, (especially early on, or with their last city), declare war on them (perhaps even after the GPT deal expires, or before they contact another civ), and take their cities. You'll be getting hundreds of thousands of gold, if not millions.

Inflation.
This was fixed in C3C.

Nobody (the user) guessed it earlier in this thread. I just didn't want to confirm it right then and there.