Has anyone played untill the bitter end?

[Paul]

You are not entirely correct about barbs not taking your capitol if it's the only city. They will walk into your capitol if it's undefended, but they will not be able to kill or even damage defenders of your capitol/only city.

[Smokey tha nuke man]

quote: Originally posted by Paul on 01-18-2001 11:53 AM You are not entirely correct about barbs not taking your capitol if it's the only city. They will walk into your capitol if it's undefended, but they will not be able to kill or even damage defenders of your capitol/only city.

are you sure. i remeber seeing my only city defender of my only city getting killied by barbs.
but they left to go attack some horsemen unit i had charging.

[This message has been edited by Smokey tha nuke man (edited January 18, 2001).]

[War4ever]

If your only city is your capital..... the barbs no matter what they send and no matter what you defend with will always fail... however weird anomolies do occur AI on the other hand has no such limitations

[zyxpsilon]

To the bitter end?
Certainly, once i opened a brand new box into which there was a shiny CD.
Then i installed the game.
Fiddled a little with the printed material, read a few paragraphs.
Then, i said... what the heck... let's try a FIRST time.
Bing, bam, boom, SEVEN civ's were after me with their catapults, red barbarians comin' out of nowhere too!
But i got back to them a few days later!!

It's nice to let AI's conquer an empire(??) that belongs to an amateur, unexperienced, donno how it works, but it's fun, player.

It happened to me ONCE... for real. And many times after that... for fun.

"FOR" the bitter end!
[This message has been edited by zyxpsilon (edited January 19, 2001).]

[Bereta_Eder]

quote: Originally posted by zyxpsilon on 01-19-2001 08:40 PM player.

So you can read-speak some greek huh?

[Darkknight]

first time i played civ2 i played it on deity just to see i died after i built 3 cities and found two other civs on my medium to large island i still remember sniff sniff.i then went to medium and progressed up to deity where i was pretty sure of winning but then CTP2 came out only time i've ever lost in civ2 i did the same in civ with the first game i played.

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[Scouse Gits]

Paiktis, I thought that 'punter' was a better translation?
There seems to be some evidence from these boards that the invincible defender of the only city works only on the PC - Mac users have frequently had their capitals wogged by Barbs...


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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

[Ming]

First time I played Civ...
After a few turns, a Roman chariot strolled up to my capital (and only city) and demanded something... I said no. Game over

Never again after that...

[Bereta_Eder]

quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits on 01-22-2001 05:40 AM Paiktis, I thought that 'punter' was a better translation?

I am impressed

The exact translation of paiktis is in fact player but:

since to most of the unenlightened world a «paiktis or player» is the one who plays lucky games and gambles (in opposite of paying CIV for example ) paiktis has acquired the meaning of punter as well. Exact translation of punter would be joyathoros, although this is argo (slang in english?).


Ming I remember my very first game of CIV 1! I remember admiring all these little icons of chariots and catapults that came next to my cities thinking how nice they looked...

[Scouse Gits]

OK - I give in - how do you transliterate 'joyathoros'? I have never seen a 'j' in a Greek word before!

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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

[Bereta_Eder]

Ôæïãáäüñïò. If your machine supports the greek alphabet.

Tzogadoros if it doesn't.

J does not exist in one letter in the greek alphabet (as opposed to psi, ksi etc) and is produced as a combination of t and z.

BUT: the pronunciation of letters such as «g» and «d» is much more «heavy» in the latin, euro-indian (german) based european languages in comparison to greek.

Instead «d» (delta) in greek is pronounced as the «th» in the english word «then». And «g» (gamma) is also pronounced lighter in greek as the «y» in the english word «yearn» for example.

I am pleasently surprised that you'd ask me that! Did you have ancient greek in your school or what? Although that was a long time ago since you were a pupil as I understand

[Scouse Gits]

Yes - many many moons ago when the world was young I briefly studied Classical Greek - Demotic Greek is I fear a closed book to me and 'argo' (argot in English) is completely beyond me ...
so have I finally got it right - TzogadoroV ? Forgive me if I have the wrong symbol for the terminal Sigma ...

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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

[Scouse Gits]

... and while we are reminiscing - my first game of Civ went wonderfully - my cities prospered - they had all the good things of life like Libraries, Temples, Marketplaces - it was the best of times.

And then the Mongol Armour appeared ...



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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

[Caesar the Glutton]

Once I played an entire game staying small and not trying to win. I just wanted to see how the other Civs acted w/o me to pummel them. I played on Earth and only had five cities. Two in Japan and three in Australia. It was pretty cool. The Aztecs launched their spaceship and won the game.

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Nam si violandum est ius, regnandi gratia violandum est: aliis rebus pietatem colas

[Bereta_Eder]

quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits on 01-24-2001 06:04 AM Yes - many many moons ago when the world was young I briefly studied Classical Greek - Demotic Greek is I fear a closed book to me and 'argo' (argot in English) is completely beyond me ... so have I finally got it right - TzogadoroV ? Forgive me if I have the wrong symbol for the terminal Sigma ...

It's absolutely right. The final Sigma in
greek words is the same as the latin «s».
By the way, you should really work for firaxis as a game tester. The exhaustive tests you have conducted in CIV 2 are really impressive.