What is the dumbest thing you have done?

[Richard III]

#1 dumb thing - undefended air fleet in city. Didn't think the French could get there in one turn. They did. For one cavalry, they destroyed 18 aircraft.

#2 dumb thing - was stal,ling a city's wonder production (of Forbidden City/Palace, whatever it is) until I could get the right tech to build the wonder I really wanted (Smiths' Company). Had the city down to "produce in 2," tech one away. Suddenly, something changed - think it was the city growing or something. Result: Forbidden City built in the city three tiles from my capital. Terrific.

#3 dumb thing - I'm working on a personal project. I gave civ to my girlfriend and told her not to give it to me until I finish, or on holidays. 3 weeks later, only one full game of civ. Dumb! Dumb! (I'm thinking of secretly buying another copy)

R.III

 

[cat98]

The dumbest? Try this one on for sise, I control all of the largest contenent, with some civs blowing the crud outta each other in the other one and the germans in new astralia. I was the most powerfull, but I had no uranium. So I asked the english, they had none. same with all the others. Except for the Germans... The 4 uranium sources on the map and they had to be on one island. I asked them for a little trade, they told me to go pee on a rug. Apparently they had everything they needed. I threatend them. Same answer. I told him how much damage my armies of modern armor would suffer if I sent them roling over his cities. (none) He killed my ambasador. I declared war. 29 turns later 47 of my citys were totally useless, my infrastructure was gone and I had NOTHING in my trade box. 4 turns after that he started nuking my cities... BTW, he didnt capture one of my 'towns', he simply destroyed them...

Year: 3016 AD

EGYPTIANS INVADE NEW ENGLAND! TROOPS SPOTTED AROUND BIRMINGHAM!

Year: 3038 AD

EGYPTIAN SCUM DESTROY WASHINGTON!

Year: 3042 AD

The Capatilist A*s has made a public apperance denouncing uprisings in London.

-She has recently stated in a public adress to Bismark: Right now I'm The Lord of the Universe, and you cant do a thing about it.

Year: 3058

Invasion of New Germany has begun. All able bodied reserve soldgers are to report to the barraks.

Year: 3100

(Blink) We have confirmed reports that outmigration to the colonies will begin shortly. Please report to your assignd pods and await your orders.

ALL HAIL PHARAOH!!!

 

[dino_schoen]

Bought a game that is not finished. Pay for beeing a beta tester.
:crazyeyes

 

[SkyShagger]

I think it's a rule of civ that the first time you dominate a game you have to hold UN elections, and lose. I know it screwed me bad, just glad I'm not the only one.

 

[Sam_Catchem]

OK..in no particular order.

Without thinking I managed to build the Forbidden Palace in a city RIGHT NEXT TO MY CAPITOL. Doh!

A common mistake is that I quite building defensive units during war. Needless to say, I have to retake cities every once in a while. Once I tried to defend my newly conquered Rome with a damaged Vet Knight...Why?..Cuz late night/early morning thinking led me to insanity.

I also have a tendency to overexpand. What I mean is..neglect defense in favor of more territory. Sometimes, you have to know when to say when..ya know?

 

[Publius]

Originally posted by Gregski
How about this: at 11pm I say OK, I'll finish by midnight. At 5am I look at my watch and decide to play just one more turn...

I hate it when I do that...
The only thing I've done that's dumber than staying up until 5AM playing the game,...
...is staying up 'til 3AM talking about it!
!%@*&!@#$!!
(ok, good night)

 

[Grotius]

In my current game, a city next to my capital was trying to complete an early Wonder, but it lost the race. I switched it to Palace so that it wouldn't lose the accumulated shields; my intent was to switch to the next Wonder when it came along. Well, I assigned the next couple of Wonders to other cities, and I forgot I was building a new palace next to my existing capital. Well, before long I had built the new Palace -- in a city no more than 5 tiles from my capital. Duh.

The funny thing is, it worked out ok. (Nope, I didn't reload; I almost never do the save-reload thing. Prefer to live with my mistakes.) The new city is more central than my original city. The new palace surely counts for a lot less culture, though. And my original capital city was my real powerhouse city.

Here's a second punchline: I ended up building the Forbidden Palace in my original capital! It was far and away my most productive city, and my empire is very small -- I'm on a Small map.

In sum: I established a capital city; moved it five tiles away; and then built the Forbidden palace in my original capital city. Pretty dumb, huh? Beat that!

 

[Parmenion]

Yes, trying desperately to overcome the enemy through espionage I tried to plant spies in every opposing civ, not realising that if the spy plant failed the civ wouldn't be too pleased. Needless to say I was very soon at war with the Germans and the Russians and was forced to give away several techs and most of my treasury just to stay alive.
Why don't they understand that it was all a mistake, we're all only human after all...... er, well they're not but I am. Anyway, the US has been doing it for years and getting away with it, but I guess that's what a big army does for you.

 

[Zomboy]

Stupidest thing I've ever done? Declared war on "weak" old Rome. They had an entire empire that I hadn't seen because of fog of war, and quickly decimated me.

Also, if you build your forbidden palace right next to your normal palace, you can just move your normal palace so its in a better spot. I've done this before myself.

 

[57%]

Not unintentionally dumb, just suicidally dumb.

(btw, I always save over the same file name ... no using the "way back" machine to try an alternate reality.)

Tiny world, 16 opponents. Fast and furious until modern era. A few world wars, very fun. I'm militaristic, have the military small wonder and the Pentagon, and three standing armies.

I have a horrible defensive position. I'm in a big curve. Every one of my cities is on a possible front line.

Modern era: Come to realize the ENTIRE MAP has no uranium. Aw, man... I was going to blackmail the world with nukular weapons.

I decide to go on a campaign of lebensraum by "razing" the Americans. They call up two friends, and they call up two friends... A turn or two later I look around, see that everybody but the Indians aren't at war with me yet, so I throw a few airstrikes at Delhi to make it unanimous.

After several turns of "softening up" by a score of radar artillery, all my three Armies of modern tanks expire on the steps of Delhi. Radar arty captured, destroyed.

The French stomp through Kyoto and burn it to the ground.

The Egyptians seize a few more. I'm collapsing faster than Enron.

<Esc> Do you want to save? "Yes"

 

[Luc bin Laden]

Originally posted by Jimcat
Stupidest thing I've ever done in Civ3?

Held a revolution during my Golden Age!

This was on the first day that I had the game, and I didn't understand how Anarchy worked. Needless to say, I never did that again.

C'mon now, anyone else done this? If you've done it once it shows you're human... if you've done it twice it shows you're a moron.

I believe that your golden age comes to suspension while your civ's in an anarchy (you won't lose any golden age turns).

But I'm not sure.

BTW, humans are morons, all of them.

 

[enelrad]

In my games, I always follow the advice I got here about getting settlers as far out as you can to resources and to set wide borders. This is predicated on the belief that you will fill in when you have the time.

In one game *I really meant to fill in that space between Babylon and Ur but, you get busy*, right? All of a sudden, there is a purple blotch on the world map between Babylon and Ur. Not that that city could withstand the culture of those two cities but boy was my face red!

 

[diamon]

Actually, I've not ever had a cultural flip work for me, even for that darn pop 1 city those sneaky French put in there.... Oh look, another city! Well, I'm sure they'll both be assimilated...

A few dozen turns later I'm fighting for my life with a wedge of stubborn French trying to divide my lands in half....


In other news:

I started a war in the Modern age without any Air support. Bombers came from all over to mangle my improvements, as all my cities have SAM sites. Starvation was rampant, and my democracy fell, taking several nuclear plants with it as it went....

I got stubborn, and decided to kill that one little mech infantry on that mountain.... Two dozen tanks later, I finally whip out a nuke to kill the bugger. Suddenly, everyone wants me dead. I went from killing one stubborn unit to world war!

This is a sneaky one.... I lingered, holding off on my war I was planning so I could build up an enormous army (had over 50 units in a city in several cities, my military budget exceeds my mainenance on city items!) and before I began, my main enemy built the Manhattan Project...

I decided I wasn't worried at the approach of an enemy naval vessel on my undefended home city... I had taken everything out but one explorer to reinforce a critical city immediately. Turns out the enemy had a transport in that stack and a pile of mech infantry rolled into my city the next turn. I was cursing and screaming for the remainder of that turn, as NOTHING I had could reinforce the city in time....

Ok, more from you folks!

 

[Amask]

I signed a MPP with English who were almost killed, then Persians, who had 50 cavalry near my capitol, attacked the English, and guess what happened...