Whats the stupidest thing you've ever done in civ2?

[Dell19]

Another thing along those lines happened in my latest game...
I was playing Test of Time (extended original). I went to Alpha Centauri but the I could not talk to the alien race. I tried sending spies but they got destroyed before they got anywhere near. Eventually a spiy got through but it could not establish an embassy so I bribed the city instead. I have now taken over around 9 of their cities and lost 2 or 3 myself but still I cannot talk to them.
I bribed another city but this time it was funny because they had about 30 planes in that city and I got them all!

Can anyone tell me how to make them let me talk to them (without cheating).

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The Worlds Worst Civ player! But still playing!

 

[cichlid221]

One game, I hadn't played in about 3 years, so I was as a newbie. I made an alliance with the Mongols (bad idea), and I let their units swarm around my cities. They then built cities near mine.
One day, I received a nice invitation to a chat with the Mongol ambassador. I went there, and he cancelled the alliance! (Who could've seen that coming?) All his units went to his cities near mine, and I was dead within sixteen turns. I didn't have any military at all because we were getting along so well! Now, I want REVENGE!

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Never again will I eat those orange cashews.
<u>I DON'T LIKE RAW FOOD! </u>
Feel free to criticize my porr speelings.
DO NOT ask me why I'm like this.

 

[Exile]

I once played Stephan Haertel's "Iran" scenario and my civilization was destroyed by a goat before turn 10. I contacted him to tell him about it. He was amused.

Salutations,
Exile

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What? Huh?

 

[MrSparkle]

The most useless thing i have done in a game is build the Great Library when there was only one opposing Civ

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I am disrespectful to Dirt! Can you not see that I am serious?

[This message has been edited by MrSparkle (edited January 21, 2001).]

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

Still, building a wonder gets you extra points.

 

[duke o' york]

I bought my mate Civ II for his birthday having played the first one many years ago, and when we settled down to play it for the first time (on Chieftain admittedly, but we needed a gentle intro), everything was going swimmingly until 1AD. We were miles ahead in tech, crushing other civs at will and with cities spread across the globe in strategic points for the crushing of even more civs. At about 1AD we noticed that we were losing loads of money every turn and increasing the tax rate just made everyone unhappy and our new techs disappear practically. Realising that we didn't have a lot of time before we got very broke very quickly, we rushed to take over the other civs and end the game before we had to sell improvements. This accomplished, we ended with the towering score of erm, 41%.
The problem was that, although we had built the Statue of Liberty, we had been operating under despotism the whole time and hadn't noticed that corruption was at least 50% in most of our cities. Duhhh!

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in vino veritas

 

[Håkon]

The stupidest thing I've ever done was when I played the Greeks in the second or third game of mine. Nothing wrong about the Greeks, it was the cities that was the problem. One city called Thermopylae suddenly revolted. I had temple-building going on there (30 of 40 shields), and it steadfastly revolted for about two hundred years and I thought "why aren't it building the Temple?" (In this game, I was actually proud of having the big number of four, I repeat, four cities!)

Man - am I stupid, or not?

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What's wrong with Bodø/Glimt?

 

[Siggy]

I had played my first game of civilization 1 and I really was very enthousiastic. Offcourse I had never read the manual; hadn't the patience for it.

A friend of mine recomended the game to me and he asked whether I liked the game or not. I told him I liked the game, but I also complained that it took so long to travel a unit between the city's. "Well, build more roads", he told me.

Can you feel it coming? My reply: "roads?..."

 

[andycapp]

The dumbest thing I ever did (playing Civ) was while playing a game of Civ1. There was just me and the Greeks left in the game, the Greeks had conquered most of the other Civs and I had stayed in the game by stealing techs from them. They were much bigger than I was and had landed on my continent and taken a couple of my cities. There was no way I was going to survive the way things were going. So I decided to send a task force to capture the Greek capital Athens on another continent and split their empire - if it came off I'd be right back in the game.

So my task force comprising assorted warships including a carrier (loaded with bombers) and two transports loaded with tanks and mech inf set off from my port city of Caesarea and with a few losses made it to the vicinity of Athens. Meanwhile the Greeks were attacking hard against some of my cities and succeeded in capturing Caesarea - what did I care! The very next turn I was going to unleash my bombers and then move into Athens with my ground units - that was the theory. And unleash my bombers I did, destroying Athen's defenders - now to move a transport up to Athens and unload my ground units into the city - but the transports and their contents were gone!

I'd neglected one minor detail - the home city of the transports was Caesarea!!!

Shortly after this the Greeks sank most of my taskforce and eventually destroyed my civ.

 

[Magnus]

The most glorious mistakes are early on when you don't really know the rules so well. One time I was in a bad starting position and had only a couple cities - well a civ nearby bribed one of my defending units and I went into an irrational tizzy.

for the next few turns I built legion after legion to the complete exclusion of anything else - then I loaded them on transports and plopped them right next to the closest enemy city - 12 legions - I was so impressed at this mighty army - they didnt stand a prayer, the city was as good as mine!

...then the entire stack was massacred by one chariot from inside the city. It was Teutobourg Forest all over again - I

for my lost legions!

 

[TheDuckOfFlanders]

Once i was building michelangelo's chapel ,and i got the message that the Chinese were almost ready.
I had to rush buy it (was about 800 gold short),so i sold all my colloseum's and some tempels. (the happines would be fine affterall wit the chapel ,and that way you don't have to pay support cost.

But when i had the money ,i just Forgot to buy it. (MAJOR unhappines afterwards (and back to anarchy))

I also once did a naval invasion (about 70 land units in 10 transport's and 40 naval unit's ,managed to capture 1 city of the ennemy ,and then declined a peace treaty.

1 Nuke later my invasion fleet was gone.
(if i had excepted a treaty ,i could have builded all defense inprovement's in the city(like SDI))

 

[thx1138]

Originally posted by PaleHorse76:
Besides getting killed on the first turn, my settler explored a hut and got stomped!

i laughed out loud at that

 

[thx1138]

Originally posted by Matrix:
Now that's really cool! I also started Civ I without manual and I didn't know what to do when a city got a riot. That actually really frustrated me, and I felt really stupid when someone else showed me what to do...

I still have NO MANUAL FOR Civ2! I taught myself to play it too. (altough i did later find that the manual is on the CD-ROM, but i HATE using Acrobat at the best of times)

My biggest cock up was when i changed from a FUNDAMENTALIST government to a DEMOCRACY. I lost all of my fundamentalists, and most of my cities got invaded in a few turns.

 

[Crazy_Vasey]

It's some sort of tradition, when you first play civilsation you must scre up major league

 

[Alan_Nicoll]

The above posts are all about experiences when learning to play. I've been playing for more than 10 years. My biggest screw up is going on even as we speak, in the current Game of the Month. I may expose some details about the setup below, so you've been warned.

The game is at Prince level. I figured, I'll just use my King level strategy, it'll work even better at Prince. So I push for early Republic while discovering that I don't have much land to build on, the Zulus share my continent. But I build my cities and go to Republic and raise luxuries and pump up my population. First hint of something wrong: my cities run out of food, can't expand beyond about size 5. So I start irrigating. Cities grow slowly. When I exit I see that the Persians have swallowed up the Romans and Sioux and are WAY ahead of me on the power graph.

My mistake: I usually play King level at Double Production (multiplayer)! Cities grow to 8 in a hurry, and keep on growing, etc. I go to the GOTM thread in the Civ Fanatics forum and see how other players have eaten up the Zulus and gone on to world conquest while I'm in 1500 AD with about twelve little cities, facing the task of taking out the monster Persian empire.

My face is red.

 

[infoman]

While playing one of my first games of Civilzation 1, I settled a city on the polar cap and did not understand why it took so long to build a unit or grow. Oops! I was playing on a friends computer and did not have the manual.

 

[hungrybuffalo]

Sadly my stupidest mistake was in my last game (even after playing for around 4 years). I was sharing a continent with the Chinese, when their capital (Beijing) was taken by Barbarians and the Chinese were holed up in a small 2 city peninsular. I should have just gone after Beijing at this point, but no. In a previous game I'd bought a lot of barbarians howevering around a Barbarian City. Since they were nearer a Chinese city than my own, and I had Leonardo's I figured I would get a load of cheap no-support riflemen. Sadly this technique screwed up my whole global expansion (Deity Level, Large map). Net result I waited around 2000 years before taking the city, which was the natural launch point for the next continent. This was where the nasty Mongols were busy capturing all the nice Roman cities and technology. Net result is that by the end-game the Mongols were bigger than me and had some of the best Wonders (Magellan's and Adam Smith's) for their rather agressive strategy.

The moral of this story is don't delay, conquer today !

 

[Thunderfall]

I stupidest thing I did was rush building settlers in size 1 cities because I wanted to expand my empire so much. When the game asked me whether I want to disband the city or not, I had to click cancel. I didn't want to disband the cities. What a waste of money and shield!

I have done that several times already.

 

[Vrylakas]

Once, many moons ago, I started a game but the AI put my starting Settler in a spectacularly bad place. So, off I went wandering, turn after turn, looking for the perfect place to put my capital.

Well, finally, 500 years later I find a GREAT spot for my capital - and I built it! What a glorious site it was. The very next turn a previously-unseen Aztec charriot rolled in to my capital and conquered it; game over.

What an idiot...

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"...über den Bergen sind auch Leute..."

 

[Father Time]

Really early, I at least learned barbarians were red-shielded units. Unfortunately, when I put the fact that red=barbarians, I was scared was when I saw a unhappy citizen... in red. I was concerned and clicked on his production square to make him an entertainer... but another unhappy citizen popped up( I was in a despotism without out any trade). I added more and more entertainers until my whole city was entertainers. Eventually, a little later I learned that entertainers don't make food.