What is the "cow glitch"?

[Condorski]

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• Apr 6, 2010
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No, I had not heard of it. I briefly looked through the thread that you linked but I could not find reference the word "glitch" in the first three pages. I randomly read through some of the entries and after that, gave up looking.

Can you explain what is meant by the Cow glitch?

The name was probably introduce 1st by Obsolete, which refers to the bug of the map generator, the algorithm it uses could produce a food poor capital as low as a plain cow only.

I mentioned about AI's capital since the map generator uses the same code to choose and normalize the capital regardless it is for human player or AI.

 

[FourPlanetsInPisces]

The plains-cow start is the most powerful start in the game.

Cows are also generally happy and fun.

I was so relieved to see this post. I got halfway through the second page and began to scream at my laptop: "WHY DOESN'T @Plains-Cow SAY SOMETHING?!?!?!"

 

[pigswill]

Probably because the thread died several years before Plains_Cow joined the forum and only got necroed recently.

 

[Core Imposter]

"God willin' and the river don't rise", my favorite JW quote (or JW's screenwriter, as is most likely).

"God willing and the creeks don't rise" is a common southern saying that folks from unfortunate places wouldn't know. Out west there aren't as many wet creeks as we have. Dry creeks which become raging torrents and then dry up. So then we have identified that the screenwriter came up in the west, but not California.

My favorite:

“Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?”
― John Wayne