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

[greenie]

The dumbest thing Ive ever done in Civ is in Civ 1.

This, like most ppl, was when I was learning how to play.

Istead of putting defensive units in a city, I thought the best way was the surround my city with the easiest unit to build - Militia. Needless to say, as soon as the Barbarian Cavalry (2-1-2) came by my city it didnt take them long to punch a hole into my undefended capital.

From then on in, I learned that units INSIDE the city would do the best. LOL

Feel free to laugh

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- Greenie

" Let us take by
cunning what we would
take by force"

 

[starlifter]

Thunderfall wrote:

>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.

Did you know you Capital won'be be disbanded, if it is your first and only city? I started GOTM 4 a couple days ago, and began by building my first settler that way, since I started Beijing on a forest with whale nearby.

Probably the dumbest thing I did early on was something that was pervasive throughout about my first 8 or 10 games... the utter disregard and disrespect of trade, and caravans/freight. Now that I understand economy better, I wonder how I could have been so blind to ignore it. But I guess it goes to show there are many ways to play and win a game.

A corellary that can occure to me to this day is sometimes forgetting to reset my citizens to the proper terrain after re-arranging them for optimum caravan/freight delivery (max trade) ... this causes projects to not finish on time, sometimes starvation, and on occasion, units to be disbanded at the end of the turn! I *hate* it when that happens, though it is pretty rare now... it has forced me to have much more discipline!

 

[Morgasshk]

When I first started on Civ1 I also started without the manual... I didn't know that I could keep units in the cities... duh...
and so... my cities keep geting taken... then I thought Hey! Lets just make a ring of 8 units around every city!!!
Wasn't fun when babylonians came along with fighters... mind you, I was using warriors still....


Morgasshk....

 

[TrajanDacicus]

LOL, these are all pretty funny.

My worst was yesterday, my first day of playing Civ2. I have long been an avid Civ1 player, so I figured that I could just jump in no problem. I loaded up a Prince game, picked the Romans on the world map. Being a stickler for history, I decided to annoy the Carthaginians ASAP by sticking a phalanx on that nice mountain range right next to their city. However, the different point of view from Civ1 really took me for a loop. I lost 5 - yep, FIVE - sets of triremes and phalanxes because I kept accidentally attacking Carthage instead of landing at the mountain range. Sort of like real history - the Roman navy gets their butts kicked around before finally getting some seafaring experience.

It wasn't the best start to Civ2, but oh well. On a separate note, as a first time Civ2 player, I'm really pissed that the Throne Room, Wonders, and Diplomacy screens aren't in the TOT version. What a ripoff. At least I found the menu option to turn city view to Classic mode.

 

[Relegin Bor]

I started a land war in Asia!

Cheers,

Relegin Bor

 

[GenghisK]

I confirm that stupidest of stupidest things to do on this world is play Civ2.

And never wonder why your watch seems not to work properly because it shows 6 am...

 

[Az]

No GK I think the stupidest think youve done in the game is to press the disband key before building your first city

remember?

That was the quickest defeat of your worthless Mongol empire

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[thedirk]

The stupidest thing I ever did was forget to build a defensive unit in my capital. Somehow I had no units in my capital. I was expanding rapidly and locked in a war with two other civs when some barbarians popped up near my capital. I didn't bother to check the cities defenses as I had gunpowder already and Leonardo's. I figured, those barbarian horsemen have no chance. The next turn, my capital falls along with several wonders. To make matters worse I'm split by civil war, and loose all the cities that had my other wonders in them. I'm now sandwiched between the two civs I'm at war with and the new rebel civ, with none of my wonders and a handful of small cities.

 

[DvR]

When i first played Civ II, i thought it would be logical to place cities as close to eachother as possible.. so there i was with a block of cities and roads between em, wondering why they weren't growing

Later on, i figured out how the city screen worked, and that i had to place my cities further away from eachother.. but i hadn't figured out yet what trade was for, so i only aimed for getting as many shields as possible.. Then in the year 2000, i felt great i had already invented stealth!!

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Well, There was a time when I thought that units gathered resources from resource squares...

...so I had all of my calvalry and alpine troops up in the Arctic sitting on Furs and Ivory! Dumb dumb dumb.

 

[GeneralHotRod]

Once at the beginning I took my settler unit looking for a city site. I found a goody hut and was hoping for a NONE unit!! what I found was a horde of barbarians. Before I could found a city I was done!!

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

I didn't think Barbs even existed until the first city was founded? or for a certain number of turns in the beginning of the game?

 

[Becka]

Originally posted by TTG:
Well, this isn't in civ2, it's in civ1, but I don't play civ2 so...

When I first got civ1 I didn't have the manual and had to teach myself how to play. When I first discovered that you could increase the size of your cities by 1 by pressing "b" with the settler when on the city, I thought "great! free population!". I set all of my cities to building settlers, and then as soon as the settlers were built I would add them to the city that built them. As you can probably guess, this got me nowhere. I continued it for dozens of turns before I realized that creating a settler decreases the population of that city by 1. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>

I laughed outloud at this! I almost choked! Sorry. I just thought it was soooooo funny!

Originally posted by Cunobelin Of Hippo:
Well, There was a time when I thought that units gathered resources from resource squares...<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif" border=0>...so I had all of my calvalry and alpine troops up in the Arctic sitting on Furs and Ivory! Dumb dumb dumb.

Lol! I did somethng similar to that in Colonization. It took me a while to figure that out.

My dumbest thing wasn't in Civ2, but in CivNet. (Just like original Civ, but a little prettier and a few nice features). I was probably the Germans (I'm always the Germans) and I made a map that I designed myself and that I liked lot. So I'm playing it, and I go on a conquring spree. I've conqured everybody but the Chinese. Soon, the Chinese only have one city left. My troops are ready for the final attack, but for some reason (maybe a mistake?) I hold off one turn before attacking their city (now undefended). So I'm about to attack it when barbarians take the city! <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/eek.gif" border=0> The Chinese civilzation was destroyed by the barbarians, and I couldn't conquer the world and win. I think I then got mad and took the barbarian city. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/nya2.gif" border=0> (Maybe I could've win with a spaceship, but I'm not that patient.)

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[This message has been edited by Becka (edited August 13, 2001).]

[This message has been edited by Becka (edited August 13, 2001).]

 

[Soundwave]

I hate it when i was thinking smart, but i was building cities, as soon as it got to 2 i'd build a settler, in the end i was huge, bad thing every Ai have a secret alliance, with all other ai's against me, and in the end, the computer was ganging up and i said no i wont move my troops renouce treaty, all my attacking troops (30) were destroyed in the first turn, then they all actived there alliances, and i was destroyed, although i made a heroic defence of my captial which didn't fall for 20 turns!!

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[LeBigMec]

I was going to bribe a heavily defended Chinese city. It was a long distance from my cities, and i had 1 diplomat and a few musketeers. My offensive units were gone, but no problem, that is...until i accidently clicked sabotage instead of bribe..and destroyed the granary..it was a major setback in that game.

 

[The Splang]

somthing that i really like to do after i have a bad day is take out my anger on the AI.

a few days ago i was doing just fine, all civs were happy and soon a hail of nuclear missles would rip from there silos followed by a quickstrike force and the world would be soaked in blood

suddenly the english want to talk, we talk, he invades me and ruins 2 good border citys, small but there still mine!

. so i go onto create the blodiest event in human (civ) history

The Birthday Seige
(it happened to be the year i was born in real life )
21 paratroopers land in the the area around london efectivly cutting it off from all soursces of food

- Londen (25) sends out all (2) tank divisions it has, they loose to my (vet) paratroopers.
i get a spy thrue, shortly after all hapiness improvements in the city are gone, after spying i can see that soon there will be quite a big famine

after a short while i just sit and watch the pop plumet, it goes down to 2, then i take the city and obliterate the rest of his civ with nukes, a few turns later i am the only civ left standing (well, starving i should say due to the global warming

)

after that the english never f*cked with me again.

not realy stupid, but pretty sadistic

 

[Aristonico]

I recognize I don't like manuals

I still remember when I discovered, in my 4 or 5th game that I was able to change the form of government

The only problem was that changing costed me my levely fleet of aircraft carries equipped with stealth fighters (3 fully equipped)...
Life is wonderful... specially when you fry'em

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[Juize]

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I still remember when I discovered, in my 4 or 5th game that I was able to change the form of government
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Yeah, I discovered that in mid-summer 1999, which is pretty bad considering that I have
been playing Civ2 since 1996. My buddy told me that. I propably wouldn't been never discovered
that if someone didnt told me that (good english huh?). Then I goed back to Civ1
(which I've been playing since 1992), and
checked that out, and discovered that it
worked there too! Pretty bad, huh?!

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<IMG SRC="http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/img2/flags-4/europe/FIN.GIF" border=0> I have stolen this idea from Az.
I'm a pathetic little wimp.

 

[Master of Ceremonies]

Some of you have had some very funny stories in this thread, but I think this may take the cake.

Back in 1993 I heard about this hot new game Called Civilization where you could conquer the world. "Risk, only better!" I had to play it. I got a *ahem* "borrowed" version without a manual of course and started to play (at work on my lunch breaks).

I was fascinated by the game and starting on cheiftain level, I set off to conquer the world. Well, I kept losing. I must have played a dozen games before I finally got so frustrated that I called a friend to ask if he could help me. It seemed that no matter how many troops I got, the enemy would find a way to beat me up and the game was over.

My friend was at a loss as to what my problem could be. He kept talking about shifting resources and building wonders and stuff that seemed to make no sense. Finally, he got so frustrated with me that he said he would come over to the office I worked at and take a look.

So at lunch the next day my friend came over and asked me to start a new game. I did, and proceeded to show him what I had been doing - rushing with my settler to the nearest goodie hut and hoping there weren't any barbarians. "Why are you doing that?" he said. "What else am I supposed to do?" I replied.

It was then that he showed me the key to success in Civilization...he pulled down a menu and selected FOUND NEW CITY.

Boy did I feel stupid.

 

[Aragond]

Not overly stoopid, but...

I built slowly but I had a massive empire, about 60 cities. It was nearly the supreme empire on the planet, but certainly the largest number of cities...

And then, spontaneously, my capital was besieged by barbarians and captured, splitting my empire in two and leaving me with only eight cities.

"Protect your capital" was my motto ever since.