Most stupid thing i ever done in MP

[SmartFart]

Supercool

I feel much better now

[Ming]

Yeah Bird, but I was stupid too. I got so pissed when none of the SEVEN units could move into the empty city, I hit end turn before I could move a defensive unit onto the stack... DUH!

When your turn came and went, and the stack was still there I almost died laughing

[SmartFart]

What kind of defense unit could protect your stack against catapult?
Cool situation indeed.

[Ming]

Maybe nothing would have helped.
But, I would have rather taken my chances with a vet pikeman vs a non vet cat then depending on a vet crusader to defend.

And if I had been in birds position, I would have attacked the stack with the pikeman he built anyway. What did he have to lose. The city was going to fall if he did nothing. Might as well take a chance as see if you can get lucky. I've done that kind of thing before in desperation, and won

But true stupidity on both sides

[Xin Yu]

Ming, you shouldn't have got into that. Think about using two settlers or an explorer.

[War4ever]

How about this one ..... i am the host, forget to put autosave on, game crashes around 975BC six screaming warriors not only want my civ, they want my scalp as well...

slight variation would be the forget autosave, player(s) drop and the ai screws them meanwhile i have no save other than the first turn and sometimes not only that..... needless to say i have not forgotten about autosave since then

[Makeo]

in the last session of the game i'm playing, i revolted from monarchy to change to republic, blissfully unaware that i didn't actually have monarchy. until a couple of turns later when my choices came up as despotism or monarchy.

[berzerker]

Well here goes - I was building UN waiting for electronics, I had the pre-reqs and the game screwed me - got stuck with something else. Then I was overly generous to Ming giving and trading techs (not again) - he got electronics before me and built Hoover. I GOT STUCK BUILDING UN

[SmartFart]

This pearl also deserve place here:

I fell asleep during a game with Rah and War4Ever.
I only can imagine confusion i created

[rah]

The most stupid thing that I have ever done is waiting almost 40 minutes to figure out that one of the players fell asleep. ooppppsss, j/k.
We actually figured it out quite quick, but we were hoping that he might wake up. That was the stupid part.

Yes, it did create some confusion, but we had fun anyway. Thank goodness for the chat feature. It was kinda fun making up things that could have happened to him. The best ones involved the police. hahahahha


RAH
Thanks to the great comradere that this site helps build, we weren't even annoyed. We laughed and played on.

[Carolus Rex]

A lot of stuff covered already...

Here's one thing I did when playing one-on-one with Carnide.

i) He was in demo (which I knew) and landed a couple of units next to one of my smaller cities.

ii) It wasn't exactly an invasion force, but this was a large map, king level, restless tribes game so I was weak on defence. The city was doomed.

iii) "No problem. I'll just rush a diplo and buy it right back!"

iv) City falls, diplo moves up next to it.

v) See point i)...

The expression on my face when "The armed forces bla bla bla popped up...

Carolus

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[DaveV]

In one of my first MP games, I built my capital near an iron mountain. I was micromanaging shields as the city grew to size 2, and could finish my horsemen by putting my workers on the iron square and a forest square. Unfortunately, that caused a food deficit; next turn my capital was back to size 1 with no food in the box. Ouch.

[Xin Yu]

Don't worry Berz, Cure for Cancer is only one tech away.

[War4ever]

i have another that happened to me a short while ago...... i was building a wonder, only to be beaten to it.... so i let the shields accumulate like everyone does. Well i clicked on colossus as it was available to see how many shields i had, i had more than enough..... next turn someone built colossus and i clicked on the city and by accident clicked barracks anyways i built about a 300shield barracks which blew my chances in the game big time.... i was not impressed

[Ming]

What makes that even funnier W4E is that when you do just as you did, you get a chance to correct your mistake. It will ask you if you really want to change and take the 50% shield penality for switching classes. Many times I have done just as you have, and saved my butt by pressing, no thank you, I will continue building the wonder