The "OMG! Look what happened!" Thread

[apenpaap]

Maybe the culture of nearby cities stole all their tiles? (Though that begs the question: how do you manage to produce so much culture to rob a holy city founded at 3000 BC from all its tiles?)

 

[Linkman226]

Maybe the culture of nearby cities stole all their tiles? (Though that begs the question: how do you manage to produce so much culture to rob a holy city founded at 3000 BC from all its tiles?)

Turkey does it all the time. In the Ancient Era, with a different civ, it would certainly be difficult, but not impossible.

 

[Dumanios]

Egypt collapsed in my game, so I thought that it was Persia. I was wrong.

Rome had managed to take Niwt-rst, and you can see Roman Athens as well. (And yes, I took over India as Babylon)

 

[AnotherPacifist]

Damn the Mali--they haunt me even in another mod where they don't exist!

 

[apenpaap]

That's Crossroads, isn't it? Man, that is one nasty event. Bloody Mansa.

 

[ComradeNapoleon]

It's Sword of Islam. That events a killer o.o

 

[AnotherPacifist]

It's Sword of Islam. That events a killer o.o

Well, it almost killed me, but I fought back and got my -87gold/turn with 0% science, up to a 80% science rate with positive gold per turn.

Basically this event turns the game into an emperor (caliph) difficulty midway, and with the Ayyubids (whose UHV requires a large empire) this is terrible. I suggested to embryodead that he time-limit this (after all, the gold isn't continuously being pumped into Egypt's economy, it was just a one time gold influx from some stupid monarch in Mali, not unlike tourists today). The Spanish did have a similar inflation rate with their continued mining of gold and silver (quintupling of prices in the 16th century per wikipedia).

 

[Linkman226]

The Spanish did have a similar inflation rate with their continued mining of gold and silver (quintupling of prices in the 16th century per wikipedia).

Ahem. PROFESSOR Wik E. Pedia is the name.

Cool event by the way! They should script this in regular BTS/ RFC for owners of holy cities.

 

[Gruekiller]

I've seen this happen at least once, but not recently. Always interesting.

The Portuguese colony of Minnesota. Also, Toronto(!).

Dutch Pompeii (shouldn't it be Pomepeji?). And a huge stack of Ottomans about to capture what I assume is Palermo.

What appears to be three Turkish Legions and two catapults sitting on Crete.

Turkey's pimpslapping eastern Europe.

And Central Asia. They're ridiculously powerful.

And you can't see it in these shots, but Spain controls almost all of South America, except for the north coast (Dutch) and Brazil (oddly unoccupied for once).

 

[Science Rules]

Who are you playing as?

 

[Gruekiller]

This is one of my 3000 BC USA spawns. I like seeing how screwed up the world can get in the 4774 years before I spawn. Example:

This one's off to a good start...

Ah, that explains it.

Chartres is what interests me the most here. What could possibly have enticed the French to settle a city here?

Hehehe.

Rome's still alive, even if only in control of Italy. Looks like it just declared peace with Germany, because its units have just been pushed out of German cultural boundaries.

Funky-looking surviving Babylon. What surprises me is that they've managed to hold onto Sur.

ಠ_ಠ

 

[Linkman226]

Concerning Portuguese Newfoundland- There actually was a temporary Portuguese attempt at colonization there, so Rhye actually put it in the settler maps.

Concerning the Turkish legions/ cats.- If your playing the latest version of DoC, that's probably a feature of the Roman UP, where you get mandate armies within the BFC of the country's capital. Of course, that can sometimes mean Crete. And I presume those troops were stranded there all the way till the Turkish spawn, when they flipped.

Cocnerning the Babylon pic, I was much more deeply amused by the fact that the Turkish capital is BAKU of all places!

 

[sennomulo]

I already had Ethiopia, France and Spain as vassals, and on a single turn Russia, the Netherlands, Portugal and Mali offered to be my vassals, bringing my total to seven vassals!

I wasn't sure how I was going to finish out this game. Now I'm thinking domination...

EDIT: Attached save file for anyone interested in playing from here. I've pretty much been turtling in southern Europe up till now.

 

[Kawzmo191]

And Central Asia. They're ridiculously powerful.

Ancestral homelandz, dawg

Enver Pasha would be pleased wit it.

 

[SilchasRuin]

I already had Ethiopia, France and Spain as vassals, and on a single turn Russia, the Netherlands, Portugal and Mali offered to be my vassals, bringing my total to seven vassals!

I wasn't sure how I was going to finish out this game. Now I'm thinking domination...

I had a similar experience; I had France and Russia as Vassals, then got to the new world, and got conquerer events for the Mayans and Aztecs. I vassalized the Mayans and Incans )who were at war with Aztec), then had Spain, the Netherlands, and England all off to be my vassals that turn, shot my stability up through the roof

EDIT: I was Greece btw, and, being an idiot I went and lost the save, so had to do it again, and end up with the Aztecs offering to become my vassals instead of the English

 

[Gruekiller]

What

What

What

Wh-- Okay, actually this one doesn't surprise me so much.

 

[Leoreth]

Nice to see Izmir and Köln for a change

 

[Wessel V1]

Should be Keulen in the city name map... but I have never seen the city before, quite cool.

 

[Linkman226]

Should be Keulen in the city name map... but I have never seen the city before, quite cool.

CityNameManager is considerably flawed, as far as the rename commands are concerned, when it comes to cities that are almost never settled.

 

[killerkebab]

PyScenario had a more interesting approach that could rename cities based on their location rather than their original name...

That way the player could even rename his towns to "Beverley Hills 90210" and a Spanish conquest would still trigger "Los Angeles"