Can't choose free Great Person

[Ijuin]

I have recently encountered an odd situation. When I am awarded a free Great Person of my choice (such as by completing the Liberty social branch or the Hagia Sophia wonder), when I get to the point where the announcement says "choose Great Person", I click on it but do not get a menu to select my awarded Great Person. Since the announcement will not go away until I have selected a Great Person, and since I am not being allowed to do so, gameplay grinds to a stop. Does anybody here have any clue on what might be happening and what I can do about it short of reinstalling the game?

[Martin Gühmann]

I have recently encountered an odd situation. When I am awarded a free Great Person of my choice (such as by completing the Liberty social branch or the Hagia Sophia wonder), when I get to the point where the announcement says "choose Great Person", I click on it but do not get a menu to select my awarded Great Person. Since the announcement will not go away until I have selected a Great Person, and since I am not being allowed to do so, gameplay grinds to a stop. Does anybody here have any clue on what might be happening and what I can do about it short of reinstalling the game?

No clue, but if you post the savegame than we could inspect it and we would have a chance to figure out what is going on.

-Martin

[Dinner]

I've never seen this. The get a great person of your choice thing always worked perfectly for me. BTW anyone who takes anything other than a great engineer is dumb.

[jetdevilmet]

I have recently encountered an odd situation. When I am awarded a free Great Person of my choice (such as by completing the Liberty social branch or the Hagia Sophia wonder), when I get to the point where the announcement says "choose Great Person", I click on it but do not get a menu to select my awarded Great Person. Since the announcement will not go away until I have selected a Great Person, and since I am not being allowed to do so, gameplay grinds to a stop. Does anybody here have any clue on what might be happening and what I can do about it short of reinstalling the game?

I just bought this game last week and ran into the same problem. I can select the great person, but it looks like the screen is cut off where I can select OK. I tried adjusting the video settings, but there are not taking. I have no mods. I am stuck now as I cant go forward until the great person is selected.

[DutchGamer]

Not completely agree

Great General : Useless, get plenty of those
Great Merchant : Useless too.

However the other three do have use :
Great Artist : I NEVER get enough of those, the ability to snatch a few tiles (usually 3) from your neighbour is often more valueble than you think.
Great Engineer : A few extra production in a city (3 more compared to a mine, 8 more with the right social policy, plus production bonusses) is nice. the ability to rush a wonder a nice backup option, it is good but sometimes I prefere the artist.
Great Scientist : The ability to instantly get a tech may be often useless in later game (when you have so much science you get one every 3 turn) but in early game it can give a great advantage, giving you acces to units, or buildings early further speeding your early advance. If you play for science victory this one too is a great help.

So while I agree Great Engineer is good, when given the chooice I often pick artist, since they seem to be more scarse when I need them.

[Wiglaf]

the ability to rush a wonder a nice backup option

Lol

[DutchGamer]

It might be fun to those who only build rushed wonders, but I tend to SPECIALISE my capitol for wonder production.
meaning I pick the social policy's increasing production, place a lot of mines near my capitol (to boost production) use my gold to buy waterwheel/windmill/workshop/factory/powerplant to have that production boost direct and not have to waste turns on building buildings there...

This lead me to having a 100+ production city early rising to 200+ and beyond..
more tha enough production to outproduce my rivals on any wonder.

with this tactic, having 5 production on a tile rather than 2 from a mine means a lot.
for starters with Freedom that 5 becomes 10, giving a difference of 8

Furthermore, if one is egypt has marble in that city, and has the right social polic's that adds 130%, making that +8 a whopping +18.4 production.

rushing gives about 1000 production.
1000/18.4 = 55 turns.
In 55 turns (or the time of just 1 wonder) I get that same effect.
I prefer a 18.4 production/turn forever boost due a production tile improvement over a one time only 1000 production boost anytime.

The reason I called them backups, it CAN happen sometimes on a map with lots of rivals you just missed one wonder.
that is where the backup comes in, than you do load you last savegame (go back 5 turns) and rush yours.
however I see that as a absolute last resort option, due I find that 18.4/turn bonus to important to just waste it.

[Lambiorix_be]

Not completely agree

Great General : Useless, get plenty of those
Great Merchant : Useless too.

However the other three do have use :
Great Artist : I NEVER get enough of those, the ability to snatch a few tiles (usually 3) from your neighbour is often more valueble than you think.
Great Engineer : A few extra production in a city (3 more compared to a mine, 8 more with the right social policy, plus production bonusses) is nice. the ability to rush a wonder a nice backup option, it is good but sometimes I prefere the artist.
Great Scientist : The ability to instantly get a tech may be often useless in later game (when you have so much science you get one every 3 turn) but in early game it can give a great advantage, giving you acces to units, or buildings early further speeding your early advance. If you play for science victory this one too is a great help.

So while I agree Great Engineer is good, when given the chooice I often pick artist, since they seem to be more scarse when I need them.

Now the Great Artist only starts a golden age while the the Great general takes the tiles around the fortress he builds. (in G&K)
So the great Artist lost a lot of its appeal and the general became more useful

[Ijuin]

rushing gives about 1000 production.
1000/18.4 = 55 turns.
In 55 turns (or the time of just 1 wonder) I get that same effect.
I prefer a 18.4 production/turn forever boost due a production tile improvement over a one time only 1000 production boost anytime.

This is very good IF you have at least 55 turns left in the game before you are likely to achieve victory, but in the late part of the game you will not have enough time to reap the benefit of the increased production per turn, so in that situation the rush buy option gets you more.

[shami]

Great persons are every time great, so i don't have any clue but i want to know any clue. If any one have then share with us.