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I recently tried the 1000AD scenario and noticed a weird glitch in it.
The scenario has a couple of civilizations that you cannot interact with and that you are automatically at war with. One is the Byzantine Empire, I can't remember what the second is but the leader has 'beard' in his name. Diplomatically, they seem to behave the same as barbarians, but their cities have cultural buildings and they show up when you ask the other civs 'What do you think of...'. Everybody seems to always be furious with them.
I understand that there is a limit to the number of 'true' civilizations you can have in a scenario, but there seems to be only 12 civilizations you can interact with diplomatically in this scenario so you'd think they could have fit in these other two, even if they had to re-use the leader art from another civilization.
The thing about this that ruins the scenario for me is that it treats the Byzantines as being on the same team as all barbarians, so your relations go up with practically everyone when you fight barbarians with the 'common struggle' explanation. I wiped out a bunch of barbarians in South America as the Inca, and when I make first contact with Saladin I already had a +4 to our relations because of this. China was very popular with everyone because they are fighting with 'barbarians' in SE Asia from the beginning, and by the 19th century EVERY civilization had Taoism as one of their religions.
The scenario has a couple of civilizations that you cannot interact with and that you are automatically at war with. One is the Byzantine Empire, I can't remember what the second is but the leader has 'beard' in his name. Diplomatically, they seem to behave the same as barbarians, but their cities have cultural buildings and they show up when you ask the other civs 'What do you think of...'. Everybody seems to always be furious with them.
I understand that there is a limit to the number of 'true' civilizations you can have in a scenario, but there seems to be only 12 civilizations you can interact with diplomatically in this scenario so you'd think they could have fit in these other two, even if they had to re-use the leader art from another civilization.
The thing about this that ruins the scenario for me is that it treats the Byzantines as being on the same team as all barbarians, so your relations go up with practically everyone when you fight barbarians with the 'common struggle' explanation. I wiped out a bunch of barbarians in South America as the Inca, and when I make first contact with Saladin I already had a +4 to our relations because of this. China was very popular with everyone because they are fighting with 'barbarians' in SE Asia from the beginning, and by the 19th century EVERY civilization had Taoism as one of their religions.
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