Wow, an AI suicide galley

[Solomwi]

This is the same game that had the Egyptian conscript horseman. My suicide galleys finally paid off, and I made contact with the Portugese two turns ago. Looking at the mini-map, you can just see three Portugese cities, to give you an idea of their location. All of a sudden, here comes Henry's galley along my coast. Catt, or anybody else, please give me an alternate explanation if there is one. Until then, I'm sticking with a seafaring civ using a suicide galley (Portugal has the lighthouse, but not education, therefore no astronomy, btw).

[Solomwi]

And the tech verification...

[joncnunn]

Light House gives immunity to sinking in sea tiles and the Galley is in a sea tile.

[Solomwi]

Yes, but it had to cross quite a few ocean tiles to get where it is.

[Swissy]

You can be sure that there is sea within the movement of that galley (5 sqs). AI will not send out a suicide galley.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Swissy
You can be sure that there is sea within the movement of that galley (5 sqs). AI will not send out a suicide galley.

hi ,

that and the fact that the AI can see the whole map , ....

have a nice day

[Last Conformist]

Mightn't it be galley teleportation?

[Robert]

Pherhaps there are islands along the route that you can't see....?

[Catt]

You have no knowledge of the nature of most of the water near where the galley appeared (nor indeed whether there is land just just outside your visible coastline). When your map knowledge improves as you play further into the game, post another screenie and I'll bet there is a safe sea route requiring a crossing of no more than 4 ocean tiles.

Teleporation is possible, too, but I'd still lay strong odds that there is a safe route for a GL-powered seafaring civ.

Catt

[Mr Justice]

aye id definately agree with Catt.

playing a game atm on large archipelo, ive mapped all the major islands in the world, tis only as the AI is getting into Industrail ages that they've started sending out Ships. although on one of my aborted attempts (im playing Sid) which required the use of my timeship, the AI did send a galley with a settler to my island before it was fully developed. i cant remember if GL was in play then (it was turn 110) but the distance between our homelands is 3-4 ocean tiles and around 6-8 sea tiles.
mind u after i used my time ship to go back and readjust my REXing i never saw any AI ships untill lately (circa turn 200)

[PeaSoup]

maybe they came up this way??

[Saint Marcus]

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by PeaSoup
maybe they came up this way??

I think he would have seen the galley before now though.

I agree with Catt, a way-point island in that black is likely.

[Solomwi]

Pea Soup, that's got to be it.

Actually, I forgot about the GL and seafaring bonus and was thinking of the galley as four move. Turns out there's a peninsula in the far north that sticks out unusually far, giving just enough room to cross.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
Mightn't it be galley teleportation?

What do you mean by this? A Galley strays into another civ's territory and is demanded to leave, and is thus teleported to the closest tile out of the civ's culture radius where it will not sink? Does that actually happen to the AI?