Things you thought when you were a noob

[mechaerik]

Yes but I wasn't running SP, and nearly EVERY tile had either a workshop or mine.
Another thing i thought as a n00b:
Farms always provide food, whether or not they're anywhere near you cities.

 

[Mungo_84]

4 specialists of each kind? and you say that's newb?

I guess I should clarify that by saying I only only had 16 population at the time. Didn't understand that cities needed food that came from tiles, so assigned all the population as specialists.

 

[Bowsling]

I guess I should clarify that by saying I only only had 16 population at the time. Didn't understand that cities needed food that came from tiles, so assigned all the population as specialists.

yeah, i seem to remember in my first civ game, in civ iii, watching cities with 2 pop starving

 

[furlock]

I thought I was doing well when I had lbows in the 1700s

 

[IAM]

I thought I was doing well when I had lbows in the 1700s

Oh that's so messed up!

I used to think that catapults were O.K. but trebs strength was only 4 so what idiot put those in the game?!... AH! City attack *2 now I see what's going on.

 

[furlock]

Oh that's so messed up!

I know, i was so happy in civ3 after i had lost, the demographics showed i had tha most culture. I sucked back then

 

[PreLynMax]

When I thought if I REX hard enough, I can regain enough commerce tiles to keep my ecomony going (Ahem).

 

[Contox]

I assigned ALL of my citizens to be specialists.
i didnt know what
STARVATION!!!
meant.

 

[Skallagrimson]

I was a transitional noob from playing Civ2 to playing Civ4.

1. I kept trying to attack land units on the coast with battleships, frustrated that they wouldn't attack

2. I settled cities in a perfect grid pattern in order to make maximal use of all available land (resources schmesources!!!)

3. I kept looking for ways to make Alpine Infantry and Paratroopers along the tech tree in Vanilla.

4. I eagerly hoped that somewhere in the modern tech tree workers would transform into Engineers and would then be able to terraform deserts and tundra into useful tiles.

5. I thought movement along railroads would be infinite with zero cost.

6. It took a while to figure out what the "intercept" mission for fighters meant.

7. It also took a while to figure out that "intercept" had a range beyond just the little circle the fighter was flying around the city.

8. I had no idea what a "shrine" was, and thought a holy city was just a slight ego boost for having won a religion tech race.

9. I didn't understand why barbs would stop spawning after all the fog of war was gone. (In Civ2 there was no fog of war, and barbs would just appear out of nowhere any time the game decided your cities weren't defended strongly enough, usually right outside the BFCs!)

10. I kept looking for how to play the Random Earth map. Or any Earth map.

 

[mcaber]

Way back in Civ I, when i was 13, I remember me and my friend speculated what those wheat-sheafs were (of course we didn´t understand that they were wheat-sheafs).

We agreed it must be windmills, though we couldn´t understand why there were so many windmills.

 

[JonathanStrange]

Back in the day, I was more interested in keeping my orderly island nation well-cultivated, prosperous and researching techs at my own pace with little regard to others. After all, we'd destroyed our hated ancient enemy a thousand years earlier, so we had the right stuff.

Then one day, iron gunboats and large sailing ships landed musketmen on our shore. All the king's men and all the king's horses couldn't drive the invaders away; our swordmen and charioteers were slaughtered.

Probably the most traumatic and most surprising Civ "eye opener" of my games.

Now, I, at least, see destruction coming.

 

[jsweeney]

I remember being mad when, during my first game, my 3 musketmen could not kill off Spain's 2 longbowmen as I had no clue what the combat system was like and figured that guns beat bows.

Also, civ 4 was the first civ I played and i was playing like my 3rd game as england on an earth map and i didn't know we could load units onto ships until turn 400. I was pretty happy but upset cause all the good land had been taken.

 

[qyll]

The first time I played on Warlord, I wondered why the enemy armies were so small (just a couple of units!). I suppose the Civ V way of laying out units is a lot more intuitive for me. So I was rather surprised when his tank took out my modern armor and I realized that that one unit in fact had about three dozen more units beneath it.

 

[Absolute Zero]

I thought settling GPs as specialists or building academies were the worst ways to use them. I would choose to bulb Future Tech 13 over settling or building an academy.

Actually, come to think of it, I didn't know what a specialist was.

 

[Honorable_Pawn]

Bank on this:







Tally me Bananas:



Along that same line of thought, I razed an AI city because it was right on top of an ivory tile and then built a new city right next to it. 'Cause I needed the ivory. No camp, no elephants, right?



Cheers.

I have to 'fess up to this one too.

 

[SirDrake]

In one game I clicked on "always war" in the custom game menu on a huge map with 18 civs. I thought everyone would be at war with each other. All the AI's were just at war with me. Didn't realize it until I saw different AI civs with units in the same tile.

I thought the same thing in my first "always war" game.

But my frustration was greatly multiplied, because (a)I had been playing for some time, up to about Emperor level, and (b)It was a Game of the Month.

No do-overs for that one.

 

[Link]

I thought GW worked only in the area it covered on the map. I always upgraded to a new civic thinking a new one was like an upgrade of an old one. I didn't even look at traits. Once I realized that upkeep were so much higher than in civ 3, I started playing through the entire game, never building cities. I actually raized good cities that i could have kept. I didn't use siege bc they couldnt kill anything. I was astonished when i couldn't build colonies or improvements outside my borders.

 

[Decius]

I never made any incorrect assumptions and was perfect from the start.

That is, unless you insist on including:

Never building a worker until a city was at least size 3 so it wouldn't slow growth ...

Avoiding the entire slavery civic ...

And thinking my units had to patrol my empire to keep barbs from popping inside my borders. (In my defense, it worked really well)

 

[Metzi]

In my first Civ IV game, I:

1)I would build whatever the computer recommended. That means 20 Archers for 2 citys.

2)My first ever game involved;
i)Always waiting until my citys where size 5 until building a settler.
ii)Never adopted Slavery, thinking it would skrew my Karma.
iii)Whenever there are angry citizens, I serched endlessley for the 'entertainer' citizen from Civ III.
iv)I declared instantily on half the people I met, accidentely from clicking rapidy.

3)I quit at around the Renaissance era, because I was overwhelmed by everything. I didn't think it was a good thing.

 

[Nothingontv]

When i started and attacked the AI i remembered reading somewhere that you had to bring lot's of sieges. So i took along a stack of catapults and some other units after which i used all those catapults to bring down the walls in one turn and then basically suicided my axes and spearman against fortified archers on a hill.

I stopped attacking for several games until i learned you needed to use the catapults to damage the defenders as well.