Where's that 'stupid mistakes' thread....

[Sweetchuck]

Wanna hear a blond moment?

I'm playing this game against 3 rivals. I hit my GA later in the game - great, many of my cities are matured and developed. GP's weren't where I would have thought they were, but I didn't think much of it.

So my GA ends and I'm losing 150 GP's per turn. Yowza, what's going on? Slid my science slider down to 10% and I'm still bleeding gold. I didn't have a lot of units to support and I stopped building them everywhere. In fact, I'm somewhat under defended. I converted a bunch of my workers to settlers since most of my tiles were developed and I had slaves - and I'm wondering where I'm going to scrape up units to knock AI cities off and guard my newly settled towns.

I'm thinking - something's really wrong, then I notice it. Back in 1,000 AD after my revolt, instead of clicking Republic, I must have clicked Feudalism.

D'oh!

 

[Marsden]

I think anytime you hit the wrong gov't coming out of anarchy is a real blow to the game. I remember particularly being so happy to get out of despotism and in my haste for my new gov't picking despotism. We just like shaking things up with an anarchy every so often.

 

[NickyH]

Yeah, I've also managed to choose Despotism, and once I stayed in anarchy by just clicking away the new government choice. Lucky thing that I'll allow myself to reload in circumstances like that.

 

[capnvonbaron]

Foolishly thinking a shiny, brand new 15hp infantry army could take down a regular infantry stationed in a town to trigger my first win-by-army.

NO HEROIC EPIC FOR YOU!!

 

[Lord Emsworth]

I *think* that if you picked the wrong government after you've come out of Anarchy you can still re-revolt and then get to pick a new government immediately. At least as long as it is the same turn. Might check it out.

 

[Turner]

That was in Civ2, but I'm pretty it doesn't work in Civ3.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

I *think* that if you picked the wrong government after you've come out of Anarchy you can still re-revolt and then get to pick a new government immediately. At least as long as it is the same turn. Might check it out.

That was in Civ2, but I'm pretty it doesn't work in Civ3.

I guess you are right. I just played around with re-revolting, and, nope it did not work.

 

[Sweetchuck]

Yeah, I always save after each turn because I play on a laptop and I'm always fumbling the touchpad and putting a worker on a volcano or something like that.

This one - I didn't notice I was in Feudalism until a thousand years later.

 

[capnvonbaron]

@ Sweetchuck:

As a fellow laptop Civver and former touchpad user, I highly recommend you buy yourself a travel mouse or something of that nature. The $15 investment is worth it, believe me. Your game will thank you, your wrist will thank you, you will thank you.

 

[Quintillus]

Wanna hear a blond moment?

I'm playing this game against 3 rivals. I hit my GA later in the game - great, many of my cities are matured and developed. GP's weren't where I would have thought they were, but I didn't think much of it.

So my GA ends and I'm losing 150 GP's per turn. Yowza, what's going on? Slid my science slider down to 10% and I'm still bleeding gold. I didn't have a lot of units to support and I stopped building them everywhere. In fact, I'm somewhat under defended. I converted a bunch of my workers to settlers since most of my tiles were developed and I had slaves - and I'm wondering where I'm going to scrape up units to knock AI cities off and guard my newly settled towns.

I'm thinking - something's really wrong, then I notice it. Back in 1,000 AD after my revolt, instead of clicking Republic, I must have clicked Feudalism.

D'oh!

This one - I didn't notice I was in Feudalism until a thousand years later.

That's a good tale. 1000 years is quite a while to be in Feudalism and not realize it... can't recall ever having done anything quite like that before. Closest gov't-related thing would be putting off a revolution until a Golden Age ends and then forgetting to revolt for 5-10 turns after the Golden Age ends.

As for forgetting to choose a government after Anarchy, I'm pretty sure it asks you again the next turn then. It can be useful - if you've got way too big a military you can just intentionally stay in Anarchy for free maintenance. Though the only time I've ever stayed in Anarchy was for the sake of winning the game in Anarchy (and it was only 1 turn at that).

 

[Sweetchuck]

@ Sweetchuck:

As a fellow laptop Civver and former touchpad user, I highly recommend you buy yourself a travel mouse or something of that nature. The $15 investment is worth it, believe me. Your game will thank you, your wrist will thank you, you will thank you.

I do have a travel mouse actually.

I still prefer the touchpad regardless of it's downfalls.

Armchairs don't make good mousepads when you're sunk into a corner of a couch with the laptop.

That's a good tale. 1000 years is quite a while to be in Feudalism and not realize it... can't recall ever having done anything quite like that before. Closest gov't-related thing would be putting off a revolution until a Golden Age ends and then forgetting to revolt for 5-10 turns after the Golden Age ends.

As for forgetting to choose a government after Anarchy, I'm pretty sure it asks you again the next turn then. It can be useful - if you've got way too big a military you can just intentionally stay in Anarchy for free maintenance. Though the only time I've ever stayed in Anarchy was for the sake of winning the game in Anarchy (and it was only 1 turn at that).

I typed that wrong - I actually revolted around 1,000 BC and didn't realize I was in Feudalism until around 1,000 AD.

I've also done the "forgot to revolt" thing, but that pales in comparison to being in Feudalism that far into the game and not realizing it.

 

[Looksitabear]

Try marching your brand new army on to a volcano for a better view.

and then watching it go *boom*

 

[rebel kid]

barbarian warrior attacking and killing my infantry

 

[Loki130]

Once tried to clean up a game my brother had. He wasin the modern age and at war with everyone, and he seemed to be doing well-large empire, madern armors at border. But then I took a look at his cities-they were all occupied by pikemen and knights. He had nowhere near enough money to upgrade them all, so instead I just gatherred them up, marched them to the border, and began 'operation drown the enemy in our blood'. It actually worked, But I have no idea how he survived at war for so long with his central empire like that.

 

[Angry Ninja]

I started at a great location, Flood Plains with lots of grain, produced settlers like there was no tomorrow. I spent so many shields building settlers I neglected my warriors - I only had two - and used them both to scout eastward. Needless to say I was ticked off when a Barbarian came and paid a visit.

 

[Sharwood]

barbarian warrior attacking and killing my infantry

Try barbarian warrior attacking and killing my mech infantry army. 20hps. But that's not a stupid mistake, that's just because there is a god. And he hates me.

I've done the forget to revolt thing many times, and the accidentally choose despotism thing. Probably the most annoying thing I've done though is accidentally click The Wheel as my free Philosophy tech.

 

[NickyH]

I was surprised once when I had left coastal cities deep in my territory undefended. It was long before amphibious warfare, and I was at war with the Vikings. That's when I learned that Berserks are the only unit that can do amphibious attacks long before the technology has been researched.

Another mistake, that I do so often that it's almost a habit, is to forget that single archer that my enemy drops of from a galley next to one of my undefended cities. I must confess that I sometimes reload when it happens. It depends on the situation and on my mood. Other times I feel that I need to suffer the consequences of my stupidity and simply retake the city. After all, war weariness is the worst consequence of those incidents. Getting the city back is never a problem.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I was surprised once when I had left coastal cities deep in my territory undefended. It was long before amphibious warfare, and I was at war with the Vikings. That's when I learned that Berserks are the only unit that can do amphibious attacks long before the technology has been researched.

Another mistake, that I do so often that it's almost a habit, is to forget that single archer that my enemy drops of from a galley next to one of my undefended cities. I must confess that I sometimes reload when it happens. It depends on the situation and on my mood. Other times I feel that I need to suffer the consequences of my stupidity and simply retake the city. After all, war weariness is the worst consequence of those incidents. Getting the city back is never a problem.

Been there, done that, on both counts. I think the AI loves to go after undefended capitals especially, to the point I have learned to keep it defended no matter what.

 

[capnvonbaron]

Been there, done that, on both counts. I think the AI loves to go after undefended capitals especially, to the point I have learned to keep it defended no matter what.

Unless you want them to start something. Then as long as they can't reach it on the first turn of attack, leave it wide open I've had plenty of cases where I've ended a civ's existence because they were dumb enough to try that.

On a seperate note, I don't think the enemy is really concerned about the capital. All things equal, if you leave all your cities open, it seems to prefer to take the first city you built, and then goes down the list in order. If all your cities are defended, it will hit whichever it feels like based on garrison, resources, and proximity to the AI homeland. I had a regent game where I moved my capital to a better location. Later on, out of the blue the AI RoP'd a single cavalry right up to undefended Persiapolis and took it. In another game, I left Thebes undefended (I, mighty France, had smote Egypt in the early MA) and the AI kept landing boats full of crappy units right next to it the rest of the game, ignoring every single one of the other undefended coastal cities. Anyone else notice something like that?

 

[NickyH]

I just made one for this thread:

I already had a whole bunch of armies, so I moved my new military leader to a city where I planed to build my Intelligence Agency, changed the build to IA, and then clicked the button to make an army of my leader.