Goodie Huts!

[The Pioneer]

I was wondering how the heck these goodie huts are working? I get different results if I attack the huts from different angles but always the same if I attack from one angle. Hmmmm, does anybody have any idea!

[Nym]

I even do not thought that the result could depend on the attack's angle.

[zulu9812]

The difference in terrain between attacker and defender has an effect on combat. Where you attacking across a river, or from lowland to hills?

[The Pioneer]

Well, yes. When I move onto another tile before and then attack I may go to a hill, plains, etc. The two instances that I remember I attacked from a mountain tile and got barbarians, I reloaded moved to an adjacent tile with forrest and then attacked and got a warrior instead!? I find this very interesting because I thought until now that you will always get the same result in Civ III (unlike Civ II).

[zulu9812]

use this to calculate combat odds

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by The Pioneer
I find this very interesting because I thought until now that you will always get the same result in Civ III (unlike Civ II).

If it took an extra turn or you did something that used the random number generator you would get a different RN when you pop the goody hut. If you do the same thing or do something that does not use a RN then you get the same result.

[Lucilla]

Ethelred is right, it all depends on whether you have turned "preserve random seed" in the game setup screens on or off. If it's off, you'll get a different result when reloading the game. By default this option is on in order to prevent cheating.

Every move you make gives new situation, too. Therefore you get different results from the goody huts if you walk around them and attack from a different side.

The same goes of course for combat results.

[The Pioneer]

It may not be fair but that I know I will make use of this feature, especially on higher levels, since the AI cheats on those. Like the saying... ...an eye for eye...

[Purple]

You may also get a different result just by standing still for a turn.

Note that random means you may sometimes get the same outcome even if you wait or move before trying again after a reload.

Reloading is a good technique for learning how the game works, but it's rather tedious and not very satisfying after you get a little experience under your belt.

[jshelr]

You can get an idea how different gams can turn out to be due to random huts in the strategy thread under the spoilers for the III tourney game.

[kring]

If you haven't turned off the seed number option in the start of a game, then that number will be used everytime you reload, until something else causes that number to be used. This can happen several turns later if no random numbers have been needed since the reload.