Armies' pillage.

[Kramsib]

I am delighted by this new feature of the game.

My congratulations to the programmers.


- EDIT -

I may say, that I was stupid by opening this thread to complaint about something that I did not see directly by myself.

I never wanted to be a troll and I hope you can excuse me.

Thank you very much Aeson.

[Aeson]

"Automatic" means you can pillage without using movement points. You don't have to pillage the tiles if you don't want to.

[Kramsib]

oooops.

My mistake.

[Dis]

useful for disconnecting that pesky iron resource. I love it. Pillaging is really something I have never done in civ2. Why would I? It's easier to conquer. I do it a little in SMAC (mainly for boreholes and such). I still don't do it a whole lot in civ3, but sometimes I send a diversionary unit deep into enemy territory to draw enemy fire. And in the process I will disconnect strategic and luxery resources if I can before he meets his death.

[Solomwi]

Aeson, you know better than to blow up a troll with facts that quickly.

[Kramsib]

Aeson is right and I am wrong.

The new feature is that Armies can pillage without movement cost, they don't do anything without your permission.

I am sorry about opening this thread without no sense.

Anyway, I feel relieved

[Solomwi]

Ahh, I retract my troll statement then. Mea culpa. I thought you were trying to tell Aeson he was wrong. People usually don't get too far doing that, I've noticed.

[Antrine]

Actually, and please note I see and experience much of this, having AI Armies pillage just plain sucks!!

That said, I de-fanged said behavior or I shall I say de-ticked that option in my Mod.

Nothing worse than having perfectly good, pre-built scenario roads chopped up by errant enemy AI Armies. It only distracts from grand campaigns anyway, hurting both sides hampering good game play.

[Switch]

I'm sure I already know the answer, but I'll ask anyway...is it possible to make certain terrain improvements un-pillageable?

[Aeson]

I make a lot of assumptions like this myself, sometimes even posting before testing. (usually regretting it )

"Automatic" was definitely the wrong way for this feature to be billed. "Ability to pillage without expending movement points" is more verbose, but less confusing.

[MattPilot]

I'm sure I already know the answer, but I'll ask anyway...is it possible to make certain terrain improvements un-pillageable?

Then how would you bomb someone back to the stone age?

[georges bonbon]

As always not mentioned anywhere, except here.

[Cerbykins]

Afaik you can't pillage rubble
(which, I suppose, is 'technically' an improvement, certainly less dull than the other squares )