Hut luck

[rah]

Yes, we've all had good or bad hut luck, but last night I had a string that qualified as the best I've ever had and I just had to post it. I guess if you play enough games, almost anything can happen.

BEST STREAK
Playing EMP. Two huts in sight on opening. First get a scout. Second get AH. SWEET.

I get 7 more huts in the game. ALL TECHS
I even got DRAMA from a hut.

And yes, I was not reloading.

While it's nice to get a few coins, I couldn't complain.

I have never had a streak like that.

Worst Luck.
Yes we all have our streak of barbs and maps, I did get 5 hostiles out of six one game.

The most annoying hut was opening one with a warrior on a forest hill and getting experience and going "great uber scout time" only to have a wolf kill it the next turn before I could apply the promotion. That was one super wolf.


What are your tales of hut glory or punishement?

[Krill]

I once popped astro from a hut in an MP game. The next turn we got lib and took sci method

[Jvstin]

I've mentioned elsewhere that I play friendly hot-seat Civ 4 with a couple of friends. (Noble Difficulty)

One game, Friend #1, playing the Celts, came across a half dozen goody huts before Friend #2 or I could find more than one. Friend #1 had a streak of two techs, a warrior, a settler, a scout and gold.

When I finally got a goody hut...I got a map. Friend #2 had it worse, popping barbarians which killed his scout.

[jbp26]

8 techs on emperor, thats ridiculous! what are the chances of that..

[DirtyMartini]

what are the odds of one hut? like 1:10 at emporer? That's make it 0.1 to the eighth power, if my math skills are correct anyway. That'd be 1 in 100,000,000

[Unimatrix11]

or: only happens once for all civ games ever played by all player in the world - so: thanks rah... it wont probably ever happen to any of us ever, since it was you who hit that jackpot !

[Garth Vader]

Yeah I have barely got 7 techs in all my games put together.

[Supr49er]

Techs are fairly rare for me to pop on Emperor, even with scouts. Gold is most common for me, which is useful early.

[Crossfire]

I think the best I have ever done was BW, IR, and AH in quick succession. That alone pretty much sews up a win unless you are careless later.

[Ming]

My latest emp game (using a scout), I got 4 techs from a total of 9 huts... I was quite impressed.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Jvstin
Friend #2 had it worse, popping barbarians which killed his scout.

I thought scouts couldn't get barbs from huts.

[snoopy369]

Scouts get 'better' hut draws, I don't think they explicitly eliminate barbs on higher levels though... but I haven't looked at the code. Raging Barbs I believe also affects this, doesn't it?

[Jvstin]

Originally posted by DaShi


I thought scouts couldn't get barbs from huts.

Originally posted by snoopy369
Scouts get 'better' hut draws, I don't think they explicitly eliminate barbs on higher levels though... but I haven't looked at the code. Raging Barbs I believe also affects this, doesn't it?

I may have misremembered my friend's scouting unit as being a scout instead of a warrior. Still...I've seen some lousy draws from scouts.

[Modo44]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Scouts get 'better' hut draws, I don't think they explicitly eliminate barbs on higher levels though... but I haven't looked at the code. Raging Barbs I believe also affects this, doesn't it?

I doubt that. I play large and huge maps exclusively, and I've never, not once, seen a scout provoke barbarian units. Raging Barbs doesn't seem to change it, but makes more barbarians (units and cities) spawn in general.

[Addled Platypus]

majority is gold 30-52 gold

then:
local map
unit
tech (1 out 10 if then)