The Wheel

[Melkor Morgoth]

Hi guys, i have Civ 4 Complete Edition, currently playing BTS 3.19 and i want to ask about the wheel tech. This problem occurs when i start a game with ''Play Now'' or ''Custom Game''. As you already know, civilizations are always starting with 2 techs but in my games civs which shouldn't have wheel as their starting tech, start with the wheel tech. For example Incan Empire starts with mysticism, agriculture ( these are normal) and the wheel.Empires that have wheel as their starting techs, possess 2 techs as they should be. This bug (or feature) doesn't occur in scenario games.Btw starting year is 4000 BC. Thanks for reading my first post in CFC and sorry for whining, have a good day

 

[Nares]

Two questions.

1) What difficulty is this on?

2) How are you determining what techs the AI is starting with?

My only experience has been reading through worldbuilder files of an immortal difficulty game, but I got the impression there that civilizations which already start with one of the free techs do not receive additional compensation.

Also, I wasn't aware that the wheel was one of the free techs the AI received on any difficulty level.

 

[God-Emperor]

At any difficulty below Noble everybody starts with the wheel.

From CIV4HandicapInfo.xml:

Settler difficulty:

			<FreeTechs>
				<FreeTech>
					<TechType>TECH_THE_WHEEL</TechType>
					<bFreeTech>1</bFreeTech>
				</FreeTech>
				<FreeTech>
					<TechType>TECH_AGRICULTURE</TechType>
					<bFreeTech>1</bFreeTech>
				</FreeTech>
				<FreeTech>
					<TechType>TECH_MINING</TechType>
					<bFreeTech>1</bFreeTech>
				</FreeTech>
			</FreeTechs>

Chieftain difficulty:

			<FreeTechs>
				<FreeTech>
					<TechType>TECH_THE_WHEEL</TechType>
					<bFreeTech>1</bFreeTech>
				</FreeTech>
				<FreeTech>
					<TechType>TECH_AGRICULTURE</TechType>
					<bFreeTech>1</bFreeTech>
				</FreeTech>
			</FreeTechs>

Warlord difficulty:

			<FreeTechs>
				<FreeTech>
					<TechType>TECH_THE_WHEEL</TechType>
					<bFreeTech>1</bFreeTech>
				</FreeTech>
			</FreeTechs>

 

[Melkor Morgoth]

Thanks for answers, i was playing on warlord difficulty and this clears all, further i have found this link : http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=158130
but its kinda weird that some civs don't receive any bonuses on this lower difficulties, for example sumerians and babylons on chieftain and warlord difficulties.