Wonder Destroyed By Catapult

[Northern Pike]

Has anyone else seen this? I assume it's a bug.

 

[Spoonwood]

Not with catapults, but other artillery units, yes.

 

[Gamemaster77]

Really, that can happen?

 

[Bucephalus]

It's the 'Great Wall' bug.

 

[Northern Pike]

Ah, the Portuguese did have the Great Wall. I'm interested to learn that it's a known bug.

 

[Bucephalus]

Yeah, it's because the GW puts a wall in other towns, and there is no other structure except a Wonder; the arty tries to destroy the wall, cannot, so the Wonder gets it instead.

 

[thetrooper]

I thought this was fixed for the final patch?

 

[Shylock]

I had to reload because of this yesterday. I wanted that Great Wall.

 

[MGS]

I have never had a wonder get destroyed by artillary. What is the great wall bug? I would like to know so i can avoid it?

 

[TheOverseer714]

I lost the Pyramids to this bug once, it was very upsetting. Apparently this bug is present in the 1.22 patch. The only "solution" is to avoid bombarding cities with wonders that are owned by the holder of the Great Wall.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

The Oracle? Good riddance.

 

[ecuwins]

Yep, I have has this happen several times. *sigh*

I lost the Pyramids to this bug once, it was very upsetting. Apparently this bug is present in the 1.22 patch. The only "solution" is to avoid bombarding cities with wonders that are owned by the holder of the Great Wall.

Or build it yourself. Not an ideal solution, but it works.

 

[ThERat]

Is this hard coded? I saw it once too with the Great Wall

 

[Padma]

I first ran into this bug during beta-testing. I destroyed the Russian Palace with cannons.

@ThERat: I guess you could say it is "hard-coded". The bug is in the code that handles the damage done to a city by bombardment units.

 

[Rodrig0]

I hate how the AI can rush great wonders out of military GL. How else could a small town surrounded by only sea and mountains could have built the Oracle?

 

[Padma]

Yup. That "cheat" is actually a bug. When they added the SGL to the game, they failed to completely correct the AI's GL handling. (Pre-Conquests, the ONLY GL was military, so all the code just checked for GL. They missed fixing that bit of code for the AI's "rush" capability, so ANY GL will work for them.)

 

[mythmonster2]

Feel sorry for the Ports, though. Must be the first civ conquered.

EDIT: NM, seems they still have their own island.

 

[Northern Pike]

Actually the Portuguese were the third civ to go, after the Arabs and the Celts. This game was another example of how strangely the program interprets the archipelago setting--five civs started on the same small continent. By about 500 AD I'd finished off the Portuguese and the Maya too without meeting the other three civs, and so was playing with no contacts at all, a fairly rare situation.