goody huts

[uberloz]

This question has probably already been answered, but I will ask again anyway.

I happened upon an untouched goody hut guarded by a barbarian warrior at about 1650 a.d. !!

I was playing an island game with very many small islands.

For kicks and giggles I saved my game and tried to get the goody hut to give me a technology by reloading and reloading time and again.

After about an hour and a half I gave up and settled for the warrior it gave me.

I couldn't get it to offer anything but money or a scout or a warrior or a map or more hostile barbarian warriors.

Will goody huts give up techs that late in the game?

[MightyTiny]

I think that the best tech I've ever gotten out of a goody hut was horseback riding... though I'm not quite sure; it may be that I got metal casting once. When playing a terra map, you tend to find goody huts in the latter game on th unexplored continent, and from them, I've never gotten a tech.

It seems to me that there's some max tech (perhaps it's determined by some limit as to how many beakers the tech can cost?) above which you can't get anything from a goody hut. Don't know where the limit is though, nor whether the limit is the same for all difficulty levels.... who knows, maybe on settler you can find rocketry in a tribal village.

[JackRudd]

Someone on here once got Astronomy from a goody hut.

I believe the XML files specify which techs can be learned from goody huts and which can't.

[Provost Harrison]

I thought goody huts granting technologies once you had got certain technologies. I find it hard to believe that someone could have got astronomy from a hut...

[Virdrago]

Technically, I think it's possible to get a tech later, but very rare. It might have something to the XML files,like Jack Rudd was saying. The latest I've ever received a goody hut tech was Metal Casting.

[Willem]

Originally posted by uberloz
Will goody huts give up techs that late in the game?

No. After a certain era, you won't get any more techs out of them. I believe it's the Classical era, though I'm not positive about that. It's fairly early in the game at any rate, so I can't see anyone getting Astronomy.

[uberloz]

Thanks for the heads up guys.

I'm glad I gave up then.

I don't know what I really expected them to give me ( I think I already had astronomy, although if I found rocketry I would have had to post that screenshot here so I could be immortalized and idolized by the millions of Apolyton subscribers World Wide!! )

[Asmodean]

An hour and a half....you are persistant, I'll give you that

Asmodean

[wanderer27]

I actually got Astronomy once from a Goody Hut a couple of weeks ago.

I have no idea how it happened though, because I didn't see it as one of the options in the xml file.

Maybe there's a wildcard or something that I missed in the xml.

[MilesGregarius]

Another post mentioned that Astronomy and Music are the two lastest techs available from goody huts. I've popped Astronomy twice, if I'm not mistaken, but I've never gotten Music.

[DrSpike]

Astronomy is the most expensive tech possible to pop IIRC.

[Provost Harrison]

That is one hell of a tech to pop from a hut!

[DrSpike]

It sure is.

[Provost Harrison]

Purely by error, I was just testing the religion spread in Mercantilism so I gave myself a lot of technologies (up to medieval) and I walked into a hut...look what happened

[DrSpike]

Nice.