What's your personal strategy?

[Oldman]

Scouse: Don't think i'm avoiding you, cause i'm not!!! cause i'm not scared of you and your liverpudlian ways!?!?!?

I don't think i'll be playing mp until i've either graduated or receive a windfall!!!!

Just a quick general question about mp, how does it work? you know, playing civ online? cause when i play a game of civ, even occ it takes me 12/14 hours on and off!!!! a normal game, could take me 24hrs!??!!? so what's the story...

DaveV or Bohlen: why not start a thread , "rehoming units, cheating?" i'll argue with you until i'm blue in the face !!!!

[Bohlen]

Oldman: Have me start that thread? Not on your life!

How about you, Dave? Feel like being Venger/AH Jr.?

[Oldman]

I'd start it myself only i'd be arguing the wrong side, so it wouldn't last very long!!!!!!

Go on Bohlen!!! you're not... chicken are you?

What about you DaveV? Brawck, brawck!!! (chicken noises - sorry!!)

[Ming]

There probably isn't a need to set up a thread. When this discussion occured a ways back, there was pretty much general agreement the rehoming caravans was an abuse of the rules since it could only be done through the city menu, and not the command menu. Plus, in the MP version, they fixed that little trick in one of the patches.

[Steve Clark]

I can't really add much to what the others have said, but Ming said it best - against the AI, it just becomes a matter of when. I have not played the number of games the others have (limited playtime) but I have not lost in either AC or bloodlust for the key are caravans/freights. When you have built a gazillion of them and can't see a need for anymore, BUILD SOME MORE.

[Oldman]

So they actually changed it so you couldn't do it? so you can't change where a unit is getting it's support from? which means that a unit has to get the resources from the city it was built, but that makes no sense - why should it matter where a unit gets it's why food and gear from, i bet the queens 10th mounted division back in 1400 fighting in old waterloo didn't get their new swords all the way from Derbyshire. They'd have had them brought on a boat from blighty and they could have been from any old town, if not some french stuff would have done?!?!?!!?!? So don't get me started!! that rule sucks, so there!!!

So where was the thread then Ming? i'll have to have a read and see what people said back then, to try and convince those like me?!?!


Edited: bloofy speelling mistaks!!
[This message has been edited by Oldman (edited May 16, 2000).]

[Bohlen]

Whew! Thanks for letting me off the hook, Ming. I needed an excuse for Oldman.

[Oldman]

You're not off the hook yet Bohlen!!!! I'll think of another war thread you can start!! we'll have you're name up there with the likes of AH yet?!?!

[rah]

No, Oldman
They just fixed the homing on caravans/freight, not on any other units.

RAH

[Ming]

No Oldman, you can still reassign all other units EXCEPT caravans... They realized how stupid it was, and changed it.

And I have no clue where the old thread is.
It might have been a thread specificially on the subject, but I think it was covered in another of the typical "cheat" threads.

I'll take a look, but don't hold your breath.
If anybody wants to look for it... go ahead

[rah]

Ha Ha, Ming, beat you to it.

RAH

[Oldman]

So you can re-home caravans??? So like build them with one city, move them re-home them and then give trade to the new city, or do a food exchange from that city?!?!?! God that is such a stupid rule!!!! I mean who would have ever thought that would be allowed?!?! Hmm, but you say it was fixed later, so you can do in 2.42? ha ha haaahahahhahhah!!! haha haha hahhaha hhah haha!! HA! Whoops, did i think out loud then?

[Ming]

Oldman... I couldn't find it, but I didn't look very hard

The argument was your typical "rules" interpretation vs "we can, so we do"

It was a wonderful argument. YES, we can do it so we do... But no, it's against the spirit of the game, since they didn't allow it under the command menu means that the city menu way of doing it is just a bug... You are all crazy, you are all cheaters... repeat as often as needed and you get the general drift of it.

But, they solved the intent problem when they adjusted it for MP. Once that happened, the argument kind of became silly, because there was no longer anything to argue.

It's cheating... plain and simple!

and added later... Damn you rah... I had to answer a phone call, and then I saw your post
[This message has been edited by Ming (edited May 16, 2000).]

[Oldman]

Cheers Ming!! (and Rah!!!!)

I've got to go, it's 5:20gmt and you guys over that side of the atlantic still have an afternoons work to do!!! ha ha!!!! see ya!!

[Ming]

Have a good one... We will go back to working

I guess this can go back to a strategy discussion now...