The Civ 2 High Council.

[Comrade Dan]

Does anyone ever use it? Sometimes they're sure as hell annoying, as their intrests conflict (build caravans vs build embassies vs build barracks) but other times the best way to win is to please them all...

Do you ever use it?

[The Mad Monk]

I like watching their antics.

I wish TOT had them...

[Ken Hinds]

Use, as in help determine strategy or use as in provide comic relief for when the AI is pounding my Civ into little bits of gravel? I almost never use them for the first and very frequently use them for the second.

BTW, any of you in serious need of gravel. I seem to be producing a lot of it lately.

Ken
[This message has been edited by Ken Hinds (edited July 16, 2000).]

[Ming]

Following their advice is usually the wrong thing to do But they are funny... I can't remember the last time I had that feature turned on

[Hasdrubal]

I love them! As comic relief, not from a strategic point of view. Elvis is just so cool!
I can't play without the music, movies, throne room and council. I need it to get attached to my empires, to get that essential Civ feeling. And I need a movie when I complete a wonder, like a puppy that gets a cookie when he's done a trick.

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[MacUser]

Yeah gotta love Elvis and the WW movies! Although I haven't had the council on in ages.

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"Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, I drink therefore I am !" - Bruce, from the Bruces Song
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[Ming]

Yeah... the wonder movies were OK the first, second, and third time... But come on, how many times do you really need to see them.

My favorite advisor is the military, especially when you are kicking butt and he just stays drunk...

[The Mad Monk]

I don't know about other level/world sizes, but on king/huge world, if I manage to get the financial guy happy pre-modern, I know I have the game in the bag...

...and his response always gives me a chuckle...

[Empress]

wow, I forgot all about them! :eek

[Comrade Dan]

Sometimes it's just possible to get the AI in a handbag, and keep the game running for peace and building up your population...you keep pressing 'Enter' until the High Council appears...

Normally however I wipe out my allies with a huge World War (normally 6 vs me) before the 20th century...

[Scouse Gits]

Despite being scorned last time this topic came up - I find them very useful or more specifically I find the science advisor to be so -- how else can you determine how you are standing in the science stakes (assuming you have not built Marco's, or found all other civs and established embassies with them - I rarely do the first and never the second at least until spies come along)
When that little man smiles and runs off to polish his abacus I know things are good in the Empire...


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[Comrade Dan]

I want to strangle that Trade Advisor sometimes. Especially when you're producing units to eliminate all your enemies, and you get told to build caravans!

[The Brain]

Am I the only one who has watched them NOT on Civ2? Just open the file from a media player and watch them all! Some are very funny that I've never had in a game...

Sci Advisor (Medieval)- "Sire, the very cobble stones of our streets possess more learning than we do. I all matters sire, WE SUCK!"

Trade Advisor (Modern)- Here's you! Here's a clue! Get a clue! Discover trade!!

Then there the drunk Medieval Military Adivsor.

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-Founder of DoH!
-Please pull up to the second window
-I see dead people...give me my medication!
-What's your favorite scary mov--Please deposit 25 cents for the next 5 minutes.
-Visit DoH, or else!
-How much longer is my sig gonna get?
-This much.

[Lazlo]

High council advisors may not be useful, I think we all agree with that, but they are fun.
Wonder movies and advisor movies are not precisely "useful" but they add some spice to the game. I sometimes enjoy and relax watching those guys discussing nonsenses, especially when the game is getting hard.

The city inside view could be vastly improved. It was much better in old civ1. Cities look almost the same no matter the age!

[Comrade Dan]

It's all modern based.

Buildng a granary that looks like that in the ancient age?