Game misconceptions, blunders, goofs, etc

[Stefu]

Well, I had played Civ to King level and only then realizing what the "food box" did. Til then, I had just assumed that the game used some kind of arcane formula to decide when the civty growed. I thought that getting attacked effected it somehow, so I loved those barbarians.

[Father Beast]

I remember making sure most of my cities were next to the ocean, or at least a pond, So I could build battleships to defend the city. want the unit with the biggest defense rating there...

[rah]

There was one game before I learned the fundementals of proper hut management.

On the opening move, on a river (deity with two settlers, Settler1, built city before exploring with settler2. Moved up river with settler2 and 3 squares away (on the river) found a hut and tripped it the same turn. Barb horse pops out and kills settler2 without taking damage and uses it's remaining movement points to move towards my capital. No money to rush the warrior so the next turn.......Game over before I get a move in 3900.

Quickest game I ever played.

RAH

[Robert E. Lee]

When I first got Civ I, I didn't realize that you could actually fortify a unit in a city. So, I wound up with units running all over the areas around my cities. A barbarian lands and captures the city!
Also, I would take my starting settler and wander around, looking for a "perfect spot" to build my capital. Needless to say, I never found it.

[Eyes_Of_Night]

This isn't really funny, but if you build the great library in your city in Civ 1 and allow a barbarian to take it over, you will then have a peace treaty with them. And sometimes it will trigger a bug that will make it so you get 3 or 4 techs a turn.

[Earwicker]

Manual, who needs a manual?

1. Thinking settlers could only build cities. My friend who loaned me the disk said to build lots of cities, and that Monarchy was the best government. Thanks. So one of my triremes wandered by Japanese territory and spotted all these roads and irrigation. "Well no wonder they're so well off," I sez, "they started off with all this good stuff." When the Egyptians had it too, I figured out my problem.

2. Not knowing what the "city in revolt" symbol meant. Garrison city? Black Power? Een when my own cities revolted, I didn't make the connection.

3. Renaming cities. All the time. Whenever I took another civilization's city, I'd give it a Greek name. Besides really dredging my memory for Greek city/ village/ island names, it got very hard to remember where some of the cities were.

4. Missing the connection between trade arrows and science/ money. I followed the advisors' advice wayy too much and accidentally kept up with things. "Library? We like libraries, okay!"

5. Completely overlooking the importance of building wonders. I thought they were just for prestige. Even though I was the Greeks, no way was I going to spend 50 turns building the Colossos. What a waste!

[Rasputin]

not realisng the Damn AI cheats by rush building units in citys after you have killed all defenders, in an ealry game (small map) I moved all my units out of my citys via railroad to attack the AI and destroyed all of his citys bar one and that one i killed all defenders in. I thought woo hoo, next turn my first win , but then the AI cheated and rush built a unit that travelled down my undefended railline and took out half my civ on one turn ...

[klesh]

Oh man....

CivII...for the errr Playstation.

First game ever.
I had me quite a little Civ going. I had a few cities, lots of units and was progressing quite nicely. Except for the fact that I was on a big island. I sent out scouts on horseback to see if I could locate an isthmus. The closest thing I could find was a straight of 1 tile of ocean between continents... so what did I do?

I moved all my units right next to that straight, and sat them patiently untill I discovered the 'bridgebuilding' tech with which I could traverse that water. Ouch.

FMK.

[TCO]

Originally posted by catullus
First memories of Civ1:

I want my empire to look good. Every city should have a palace. I'll build it in all my 5 cities.

Lemme see. Irrigation on this lousy hill brings food. Mining brings more shields. I'll irrigate first, and mine later.
(turns pass)
Hm. I thought I irrigated this square before mining. Oh well, I guess I forgot. I'll irrigate it now.
(turns pass)
Hm. I thought I mined this square before irrigating. Oh well, I guess I forgot. I'll mine it now.
(repeat)

C.

Hey cattalus, what happened to the Nate Snitzer board? (the branching thread board) I posted there in March and then it disappeared. Are only cool people allowed there?

[Civ Pi(3.14)Fan]

1. I never would change govs. in Civ (it was one of the first real comp. games of mine, and (since i bought the Explorer pack) i only had an manuel on the CD and i diddn't know how to get it), I saw the word REVELUTION, and thought "why would any one want their Civ to Revolt, I mean the British lost half their empire when the US revolted " Eventuly i tried in an expriment and was relieved when I still had my whole empire .

2. On one of my first games of Civ I was just pressing orders to see what would happen. Then I got to the "Disband" order . Next turn half of my army didn't come up during the rotatation. I didn't think much of it, I just thought "I guess this "Disband" order just takes a couple turns " The next turn I noticed my army was missing, and I figuired out what "Disband" means.

[Sirotnikov]

1) Had no idea how food was calculated and what that silly food box is for

2) had no idea what all those beakers and coins and trade thingies do

3) had no idea how to turn people into specialists. The civilopedia said: you can turn your civilians into specialists. >click here to learn how<. I clicked and read: click on the civilian to make him a specialist >click here to learn about specialist<. No need to say this got me to the previous page. A long itme has passed until I ofund those pesky figures

4) waht is this "fortify" option anyway?

5) hey, cool, lets use all my 1 movement units to explore the planet and all the rest could stay in my cities!!

6) roads? I don't need these, only wimps use'em!

7) why is this russian fortified unit blocking me, zulu shaka, from going north into the ME and eaurope and asia? Why when I move my diplo at it, I have to pay?

8) How do I earn money anyway? and science?

9) cool I have all sorts of wierd english words such as "luxuxuxurury" and such. I'll just get taxes.

10) these evil babylonians conquered a city of mine in this "chieftain" level! ugh!!! I'll make piece now since I'm weak, but I'll remember it!!!

11) What is that revolution option? That's scary!!! I won't have that!!!

12) why is this boat lost at sea? Hmm... I'lll just send another one

13) this carrier isn't attacking with it's planes! What do you mean she isn't loaded????

14) let's use musketeers and ski-people to attack fortified cities!!!

15) walls? that's SO obsolete

16) Hey! This food box is what decides how fast I grow !!!
(two years ago)

17) Hey cool!! You could switch between cities with these buttons (a year and a half ago )

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Civ Pi(3.14)Fan

My Dear Lord -- my brat daughter has invaded the General forum!!

[Father Beast]

Civ=pi CivII=pi*d CivCTP=pi*r^2 CivIII=4/3pi*r^3 (hopefully)
Civ pi= It's coming
P.S. pi=(about)3.14159 Originally posted by Civ Pi(3.14)Fan

I love that sig, civpi

[DarkCloud]

*sigh* it took me nearly 2 years to figure out that I could clean up pollution... and I read the manual!

I got Civ I in 1996... It took me until 2000 to dare to try Deity level... I won of course... but I suppose I shouldn't have been afraid.

[Paul Hanson]

The main mistake I made when first playing Civ1 was to fortify every unit I built inside the city it was built in. Needless to say, my armies didn`t make a huge amount of progress.