Ign Reviews Civilization Iv - 9.4/10

[Melloj]

You guys dont have to worry.

The reason that the knight happened to beat the copter was that it was a knight who says NEE

and well, he said: NEE..

thats effective vs. copters and tanks.

[Stuie]

Guys in the copters should have brought a shrubbery.

[Harrier UK]

Originally posted by lockstep

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/620/620513/img_3162237.html

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/620/620513/img_3162265.html

According to these screenshots, it may well be that the number of U.N. votes is proportional to population size. Also, you need obviously about 62% of the votes for a diplomatic victory, and 51% to pass a resolution. (The latter is rather stupid IMO: 332 of 651 votes needed - one should think that 326 votes, i.e. more than 50%, should suffice. )

Yes it is strange 50% + 1 vote should be enough to pass a resolution.

In the first shot Steve and Hapshetsut had the majority.

I doubt it is that simple in Real Life though. Sometime higher values are needed Say 60% or greater to pass resolutions etc.

Does anyone know how it workes in the UN. (Ignoring the Veto option some countries have).

[Fidel]

have you seen in the replay screen the frequency of great people spawning for egyptians? they were being created really really fast...

[lockstep]

Originally posted by Harrier UK
es it is strange 50% + 1 vote should be enough to pass a resolution.

I know I am nitpicking, but "50% +1 vote" is not the same as "more than 50%". Take my former example: 326 votes is more than 50% of 651, but is NOT "50% + 1 vote" (which would be 325.5 + 1, i.e. 326.5).

Perhaps there should simply be one U.N. vote for every ten population points. Or, to give smaller civs more importance, number of U.N. votes could be the square root of pop points.

[Solver]

I just did some more calculations: in the very unlikely event that I am right, the chance of a Knight defending succesfully against a Gunship, with no modifiers, is extremely insignificant - less than one in a million.


For the record, the chances of a Spearman beating a Tank are no more than one in a trillion.

[Freddz]

Originally posted by Solver
For the record, the chances of a Spearman beating a Tank are no more than one in a trillion.

So you're saying it could happen?

[Solver]

Well, aren't you familiar with the theory of probability?

It COULD happen that every person on Earth goes to bed today at exactly midnight their local time. The probability of any single person doing that is one in 1440 - the amount of minutes in a day, pretty big. However, the probability of everyone doing that is six billion times less. Normally, such probabilities are considered to be 0, but formally speaking, every event that is possible theoretically has a larger than null probability.

Likewise, Spearman vs. Tank. It is theoretically possible. I think, though, you'll find that the in-game probability is less than in the real world. In the real-world, a Spearman could beat a Tank if the tank crew fell asleep, the spearmen ambushed the tank, figured out how to open the hatch and killed the crew. And the probability of that happening is, I daresay, more than one in a trillion.

[Solver]

This forum reads my mind again. After posting the above, quote I got:

The probability of a given event occurring is inversely
proportional to its desirability.

Now, what was the probability of THAT?

[alva]

Depends on who programmed the forum software, if it was Firaxis...

[SpencerH]

That old civ3 'random number generator' problem. Random my ass!

[Freddz]

What would you say was the probability of me just messing around above, Solver?
One in a trillion, or one in five?

[Solver]

One in one .

But I'm seriously surprised at the reviewer there. I ca bet that he attacked a Knight with a badly damaged Gunship and then got surprised he lost. Whereas if your Gunship has only 2 out of 20 hitpoints, then it's obviously pathetic.

[Fidel]

@ solver LOL

[Freddz]

Solver, I think he might have seen it happen.
Then he arranged for a circumstance so he could get a pic of it. Or he was obsessively looking for that flaw. LOL