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- From: ameiba@reed.edu (Keith Steiger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Civilization
- Keywords: civilization
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.205238.8586@reed.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:52:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug27.205238.8586
- References: <Marijan_Madunic.03s0@panam.wimsey.bc.ca> <92240.003235WENDELL@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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- In article <92240.003235WENDELL@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> WENDELL@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Wendell G. Wren) writes:
- >Yeah, I've noted the same thing... doesn't exactly seem fair that
- >your opponent can break the treaty as long as you aren't in sight, but
- >you have no chance to do the same... how does he get away with even
- >standing on your built up land, let alone building on it?
-
- Treaties only prevent you from walking on developed land that's IN USE, as
- far as I know. So if your road had no city near it, it was fair game for
- the computer, but once the computer started to use the road squares, you
- can't walk along them.
-
- >The game also
- >seems to have a tendency to "cheat" regarding combat... I've had veteran
- >tanks get wasted attacking an opponent legion, and tanks fortified in
- >cities behind walls get wasted by attacking calvary... and I don't
- >mean occasionally... repeatedly... 4 out of 5 times... this does not
- >excite me...
-
- From an on-line interview of Sid Meier I picked up via anonymous FTP, combat
- works like this. If a unit with an attack of 5 hits a unit with a defense
- of 2, the attacker wins 5 out of 7 and the defender wins 2 out of 7. So no
- unit will win every fight. I'm tempted to say that you just had a string of
- bad luck. I don't think the computer cheats in combat.
-
- >Oh, one other thing I've noticed... playing at Prince level I wiped out
- >all civilizations, but didn't conquer the world... apparently (and I
- >have no way of knowing if I'm right) since I didn't have cities on all
- >the continents (this world was almost completely islands, only 2 of any
- >real size) I wasn't in control of enough land to have conquered.... for
- >those who say "maybe you missed someone" I had all sciences (up to Future
- >Tech 9 or so) so I had the eye in the sky and knew what was everywhere in
- >the world....
-
- The Apollo Program only shows you the locations of the cities AT THE MOMENT
- YOU GET IT. Any newly-created cities will NOT be seen.
-
- P.S. Build roads and railroads almost EVERYWHERE. Railroads especially have
- benefits to production that the manual doesn't make clear if it even
- mentions them.
-
- --
- Keith Steiger--ameiba@reed.edu--"I am what you see. I cannot be otherwise."
- Disclaimer: Reed College tries very hard to ignore its students' opinions.
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