The "OMG! Look what happened in DoC!" Thread

[Fresol]

In my India game the Persians founded Catholicism before 400BC(probably bulbing with a GP).

 

[The Diocletian]

You know who's overpowered in SVN?

Moors. They tech way too fast. In my Portugal game they built the Topkapi Palace in Cordoba a few turns after my spawn. Not complaining about that one , but why the fast tech rate.

 

[Fresol]

There's a bug that makes a city get a huge amount of food, production and commerce(sometimes positive, sometimes negative). It might be the cause.

 

[Chep]

the Moors are weak and unless your game is bugged they often fail to achieve much.

their tech speed is usually rather slow (if you don't believe me, just try playing them) and so far Spain conquered Cordoba in every game I've played so far (except those where I played the Moors or Arabia).

What one really has to be afraid of though are the huge empires.
In the above game Persia had Gunpowder, Patronage and maybe even Cuirassiers when the Seljuks spawned, which let Persia just shrug them off. Also Rome was pretty strong which led to France having Astronomy sometime before 1200 AD. Fortunately I got a great spy to steal some techs from China (Gunpowder, Military Science, Chemistry in 3-4 turns) to be able to keep up. With their strength I suppose that China will even survive the Mongols...Initially I wanted to go for a domination victory, but now I think I can be happy if I make it a UHV -.-

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

The AI's tech should be a lot more constrained to time than the player's.

 

[NKN]

Do these super-powerful mega-empires form all the time, or just occasionally? Or are they only on the SVN (which I've heard is terribly unbalanced)? Because I'm playing standard 1.11 and have never seen something like this.

 

[Chep]

I'd say just occasionally, the player obviously often creates super-empires but that's nothing new

I wouldn't say that the SVN is terribly unbalanced, it's just that sometimes a civ manages to reach a bigger size/higher techlevel than usual and the snowball-effect just makes them stronger and stronger...untill they collapse^^

1.11 might be more "robust" concerning these things but I think the SVN is still worth a look (I've only played 1 game on 1.11 and then moved on to the SVN so I can't really compare them)

 

[youtien]

Before anybody discovers astronomy, my vassal French flipped Guangzhou after I collapsed China by gifting them literature (how sad, Chinese lost the most precious literature tradition after Mongol invasion).

 

[merijn_v1]

It seems there is also a small bug in the name of your empire.

 

[Lone Wolf]

It seems there is also a small bug in the name of your empire.

That's what happens with diacritical characters on some non-English language systems.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Why is it called Caliphate anyway when the state religion is Catholicism?

 

[Mouthwash]

Why is it called Caliphate anyway when the state religion is Catholicism?

Because Leoreth has a social life?

 

[Sanguivorant]

Well Caliph in Arabic literally means Representative in English, so...

 

[The Diocletian]

the Moors are weak and unless your game is bugged they often fail to achieve much.

Maybe it has something to do with me loading from 3000BC, as I have exclusively done for a while.

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

I can confirm that France gets Macao for whatever reason.
In this instance, Mongolia suffered a Chinese rebirth, but I ended up with a beach head in southern China as a result.

Also, OMG contribution: Zoroastrian Russia.

 

[pole475]

I love when Portugal is the "Portuguese Government in Exile"

 

[Sanguivorant]

A few weird things from my attempt at Egyptian domination (Which is failing epicly so far, but anyhow):

Gallic empire ftw? And a Christian one as well.

An independent merchant. I don't think I've ever seen those before.

Looks like Persia is preparing for the Arabian swarm, with its little (And useless might I add) fortification.

"And when the nasty Khmer decide to invade us, they'll find out that they're trapped in our Great Wall! Bottleneck ftw!"

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Because Leoreth has a social life?

Screenshot or it didn´t happen.

Well Caliph in Arabic literally means Representative in English, so...

I thought it meant 'successor'. Huh, you learn something new every day.

 

[Sanguivorant]

I thought it meant 'successor'. Huh, you learn something new every day.

It depends on the context. Most Arabic words have more than one meaning depending on the context of the situation, so one word cannot have an absolute definition.

Abu Bakr was known as 'Khalifat Rasul-Illah', which literally means, "Successor of the messenger of God" . This was because he was the person that ruled after the death of the messenger, so it makes sense for Caliph to mean successor.

He was also known as "Khalifat al-Mu'mineen", which literally means, "Representative of the Believers". In this context, the Believers are not being succeeded by this man, rather this man is succeeding the will and aspirations of the Muslim community, which makes him a representative of that community.

Hope that clears things up

 

[merijn_v1]

Soldier: What are we going to attack?
Suleiman: Vienna.
Soldier: Are you sure? We will loose.
Suleiman: Do you have a better idea?
Soldier: Why not attack Scandinavia?
Suleiman: , that might not be a bad idea at all...

Result:
(NOTE: They had Olso too 1 turn before this. But because of a congress, they lost it. Without the congress, I wouldn't have noticed it)

Spoiler :

Also, the British East India Company does a very well job too.