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Post by 9iron9 on Oct 15, 2007 7:48:39 GMT -5
another bts tip, if u dont have single graphic units u have 3 times as many, cool huh
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Post by cv431410 on Oct 15, 2007 12:35:38 GMT -5
Here is "What I Saw In a Teamer Today". It is painful, but every funny:
Teamer starts 4v4, the captain was talking to a noob, which I did not really pay attention. Then the captain quits. Now we found out why, a warrior is 2 squares away from the noob's capital, which is guarded by a worker.
He has pop2 city with 3P and 2F1P tiles, so we asked him if he know how to produce a warrior in 2 turns. He said "No", he can produce a warrior in 5 turns. We helped him to relocate tiles so he learned to produce a warrior in 2 turns.
It turns out he wasted 1 turn already, and the warrior is 1 step away. So we told him that you don't have 2 turns. You have only 1 turn, can you slave it? He is very very slow to answer, and the turn ends.
His worker is no match for the attacking warrior.
I suppose it was our fault, we should have paused the game, and explain how to use slavery to him; or it could also be the game's fault, a worker should kill a warrior occasionally.
The game is over. Four reports: ;D ;D ;D ;D
Lesson learned: pause the game! Lesson learned: people will get better, but tuition must be paid, which is your reports.
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Post by lporiginalg on Oct 15, 2007 12:57:40 GMT -5
stay tuned for pics of me building courthouses with zulu ^^
by the way ez, did you post that screenie because the guy was building hermitage when he clearly needed workers to work his land, or because a bunch of noobs were playing an era that they are totally clueless about, clearly, nyuck nyuck ;D
lp
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Post by Lestat on Oct 15, 2007 13:17:35 GMT -5
WOT I SAW IN OCC I think that i was dreaming but .... Game started, one player was not connected on turn 1. When he join in turn 1 he said that ai build cite instead of him and moved all units. Then we realod at turn 1 - GAME START and answer was same. Then we free those woumans for report and he left. Never saw this crap but i have explanation : Player conected and hes builded cite and made mistake or he had bad land , then he lag out by purpose and sold storie to us, about AI ghost builder. AI cant replace player if we dont have vote screen and cont was voted (replace over ai off). If im wrong im puting mine apology here
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Post by Bantams on Oct 15, 2007 16:20:02 GMT -5
i joined a teamer all i saw was this guess ill go play halo 3 with ulla sad but true i spent 4 hours trying to get a ladder game today but to no avail got Booted from a teamer lol sad
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Post by lporiginalg on Oct 15, 2007 17:00:36 GMT -5
lestat your such a noooooooB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! first off that wasn't a teamer so this is really the wrong thread... secondly...here's what happened from me [the woumans] point of view: game launched, I sat at finishing for like an hour (or 3-4 mins if u wanna be literal) finally I get into game and the first thing i see is lestat has retired, player2 has retired, etc etc and the timer was frozen at the start and all players are showing as [ai] next to their names so I'm thinking ok this is funky but what's really weird is my city is already planted (in a real bad spot since for total food I had 2 corn and ai had planted on one of them) and all of my units had moved, except for worker intrestingly enough which was just fortified on the hill where it started. I remember thinking how if they game wasn't stuck i mighta been tempted to play a few turns real fast, before joining others to see if there was anymore food out there ;D but ya it was stuck so I went back to lobby and saw the other game and joined it...this is where it gets really nutsty... when I got into the real game, these same moves were already done, i had to explain to all that ai had planted me on corn, but intrestingly it hadn't chosen a tech yet or set what to build in the cap, or moved the worker, but all other units had moved, so it was like it played half the turn, they agreed to reload and this is where I got angry because.... we reloaded and it was same nuts, so they agreed to let me quit without reports I was on teh same page as lestat actually, as in, "HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE" i was so confused i decided to try loading my copy of the init save by myself, guess what, none of my units had moved. LESTAT YOU NOOB YOU LOADED THE WRONG SAVE!!! you took a save from the damn vote screen and loaded that so I tried to rejoin the game to tell you guys we can do a proper reload, but it was showing as 6/6 and said game was full, i tried twice, i guess cause I retired there was no take over ai... so i got on c4f but not a single person in that game was online so i cursed your noobiness in the lobby and went on with my life.
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Post by ezy on Oct 15, 2007 19:15:01 GMT -5
i just posted it cuz it was funny mostly because of building hermitage w/o marble and no worked tiles was hilarious. the no workers is pretty much accepted in a non ladder game stay tuned for pics of me building courthouses with zulu ^^ by the way ez, did you post that screenie because the guy was building hermitage when he clearly needed workers to work his land, or because a bunch of noobs were playing an era that they are totally clueless about, clearly, nyuck nyuck ;D lp
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Post by NumberOneMercury on Oct 16, 2007 1:16:38 GMT -5
stay tuned for pics of me building courthouses with zulu ^^ by the way ez, did you post that screenie because the guy was building hermitage when he clearly needed workers to work his land, or because a bunch of noobs were playing an era that they are totally clueless about, clearly, nyuck nyuck ;D lp sigh
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Post by DrShot on Oct 17, 2007 4:06:33 GMT -5
Damn, lp's infamous feared library stack was frightful enoough, now courthouses!!!!!! Dare to consider what could be next.
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Post by DrShot on Oct 17, 2007 4:11:01 GMT -5
By the dawn of a new games freshness the question was posed by a team member:
' who's making the oracle?'
why scorpio_man I hope I quickly replied, as I only had seconds to move the 5 chariots into range...
6 seconds later the turn changes and behold, the Oracle has been built! always nice when the guy on the front makes wonders and your 1/2 a foot away with a welcoming committee..
well, the story did have a happy ending... they got a free tech and we got a win. ;D
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Post by marr on Oct 17, 2007 13:12:28 GMT -5
lmao! Its nice to know with as many changes as the patch made, some things will always stay the same
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Post by lporiginalg on Oct 17, 2007 18:17:20 GMT -5
what nom neglects to mention in this thread is that the other team conceeded 2 turns later because we had all the land, power and and gnp, I was number one in power and gnp and i think nom was like 6th in both hehe ^^
Thing is in medi era if you are building nothing but units and getting down to around 50% tech rate and you have the most power then there's really nothing wrong with slaving out some courthouses imo, not only will it maybe prevent you from goin on strike when you actually attack but the added espionage will let you see the other teams charts fairly quickly.
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Post by Tony on Oct 18, 2007 4:51:13 GMT -5
LOL with 4-5 cites those courthouses give you like 6-7 gold a turn for like, for 400 hammers!
With stone or marble that is the same price as a fairly expensive wonder - Anyway, just 1 bank(or even market) would have got you more gold!
In a short game they are only worth it, IMO, if you are organised or have loads of cites, also you seem to be building these right next to your capital, where its even less important.
And, if your willing to lose 3 population so lightly,you could have made 3 specalists in those cites, and a GP is definatly alot more powerful.
Not a good tactic IMO - But i guess every man to his own.
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Post by lporiginalg on Oct 18, 2007 19:37:42 GMT -5
I agree about GP but since the only specialists I coulda made are workers, not so much an option. PS your all just jelous cause I thought of it And also tony i'm pretty sure upkeep depends on how much units u have so it may be 2-3 gold saved per turn then again it may be more. a market in my cap may have been better but those other cities didn't have any cottages anyway so probably the courthouse makes more money than markets, so nyah. Oh and last i checked they was 70 hammers each so the pair cost me a paltry 140 hammers, not 400. PPS: If you look a bit closer at NoM's screeny u will see a guy, running at 70% science, with 1 gold in his treasury, saving a woping -4 gold per turn, about to plant a new city. If you looked at my screeny 1 turn after finishing the second courthouse you'd see a guy running at 90% not losing any money and getting 80+ beakers per turn by which point nom was probably down to around 40. Dare to consider what could be next. colloseums baby, can't get enough of em
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Post by Tony on Oct 19, 2007 6:58:33 GMT -5
I sentance you to 2 weeks with KC. Any more comments like this, youll have to join them Well this was just on the assumption of 5 cites having couthouses, if you only have 2 then the 6-7 gold a turn i said you save is even less, more like 2-3 gold.
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Post by NumberOneMercury on Oct 19, 2007 9:11:17 GMT -5
PPS: If you look a bit closer at NoM's screeny u will see a guy, running at 70% science, with 1 gold in his treasury, saving a woping -4 gold per turn, about to plant a new city. If you looked at my screeny 1 turn after finishing the second courthouse you'd see a guy running at 90% not losing any money and getting 80+ beakers per turn by which point nom was probably down to around 40. PPPS: LP you need to tell me the secrets of getting 80+ beakers with only one cottage (see screenshot)--must be the courthouses right? (for the sarcasm immune I am referring to LP's five lux res, more than half in cap under bureau, oasis and sea foods). I think I'm going to start building courthouses now!!! thanks LP!!!!!!!!!1111
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Post by lporiginalg on Oct 19, 2007 19:53:01 GMT -5
yar and my cap had library so i'm pretty sure that making a market in my cap wouldn't be as good for my science output as making the 2 courthouses in other cities since this let me run at 90% and take all that gold in teh cap i was getting from luxes/beuro and put it through the library, just remember nom, I'm here to answer all your noob questions and ya we'll make a civ player out of you yet
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Post by DrShot on Oct 26, 2007 6:00:19 GMT -5
This evening I was fortunate (?) enough to bear witness to a near spectacular event. Someone that has virtually devoted their entire existence to civ 4 ancient team games ( I honestly believe that one day he will be enlightened to the true world of civ, outside the box of the -anc. s/s format) cry and complain like a little school girl from the get go. We can rest fairly confident that he did not wet him self in the panic attack that ensued as he went into another game shortly thereafter. Hmmm, I suppose it is possible that he uses a catheter or "adult undergarments" thus allowing him to never miss any moment of the one thing more precious than life itself, nonstop -round the clock gaming. Ironically, this poor fella managed to suffer a fate worse than death, he died ( in the game of course, as this is more important than 'life' itself ). Now this truly set the cogs 'a' turning. Immediately, the "game must be conceded!" We cannot win! Lets start another one!" Well, lets ponder this a moment. 'Must concede now'... yes, down a player in a game early is never easy (as it was early and losing 2 cities in the same turn has it's psychological effects as well. Granted this was solely, by his own admission, due to a mis click; naturally). 'We cannot win!' Well, of course not, you are no longer there to win it for us. While you did stay in the game as the voice from the grave, you never mentioned anything about me and what made you lose control of your natural prowess in the lobby thereafter. Interesting, why couldn't you have voiced your concerns while the game was actually in progress? when there was a chance to correct the 'so called' problem. Sure, you asked for chariots to 'save you' so I made my second city, at a great expense to my empires development, not where I should have, to procure metal, but to expedite your munificent salvation; in pony form of course. Now here is where the conflict begins, as best I can determine. Our magnanimous leader is in peril, facing certain peril. He needs chariot to foster his salvation ( sound trumpets )! OK, no problem; take one for the team, lets make some chariots. Now, with these two cities, how do we make other things? That is simple, we do not make chariots! But we have to make the chariots !! OK, it seems that I should have known( ) how many cities to have at this juncture to please our soon to be deceased friend. Mind you im making chariots, just chariots... really though, how many cities does one need in a start seperated ancient game? With 3 cities and a proper set up; allowing them to be 6-8 in size when one gets Horseback Riding, as an example, it does not take more than 12-18 turns to get 30 HA's (3-5 cities seems to be the norm for most players in any position) Well, interestingly enough I have not found the way to make multiple units from one city at a time. Certainly we noobs missed that tid-bit by skipping career civ-lifer day at the good ole civ academy. I'll check Cliff Notes next time I'm in the library(or have LP build me one to suit). Now, in the post game (lobby) rant our beloved lil civ pixie got his nose all bent outa shape. He managed to avoid a quaint discourse about how I ruined the game for only having two cities ( yup, all me! yea,not the dead guy on the far side of the map but the only one willing to assist him.)into a lack luster( as in no creativity) display of insults. Not willing to read the text with any intent of comprehension ( to get the answer to the questions he posed!) but merely looking for typo's and the like to exploit as a means to further propagate a truly child like display of petty name calling. Heaven forbid I transposed two letters in 'team'. This has run over the time limit, too much time has been spent on this little bundle of joy. My only hope here is to leave this in a place where our megalomanaical friend can read and re-read the simple facts as to why what was done happened in such a manor. For you to say I did not want to win was off base. Why would I want to ruin my run toward a 50-0 start; I guess now it had to end at 40-0. I hope you do not get all choked up by this, scrapzeluches, as we, the ladder community, all love you in the most sincere way. We understand that there is a little hof trying to get out and sometimes his head does get pulled out. Your favorite noob- DrShot P.S. I never said anything about being nice, I'm not.
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Post by tamijo on Nov 5, 2007 8:55:29 GMT -5
Lesson learned: pause the game! Lesson learned: people will get better, but tuition must be paid, which is your reports. Well pausing in this case should be 4 reports lost anyway, pausing is not a strategic choise is it ?
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Post by tamijo on Nov 5, 2007 9:37:56 GMT -5
lol Ezy, Ind? Why the hermitage mate? Wheres his workers? How come his iron wasn't hooked? Funny screen shot:P Adding a bit to the fun, check the other stuf he got in there. Aquaduct , forge , marked.
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