hut knowledge

[Xin Yu]

I once got an advanced tribe for my first city. It was a bad place so I disbanded it and got no capital ever since.

[SilverDragon]

I thought that you don't get advanced tribes or barbs until you found your first city

[ColdWizard]

you can get advanced tribes before building a city. I've gotten my first city this way several times and they've all had palaces too.

[cavebear]

Well, since advanced tribes always use a name appropriate to the specific civ, it sounds like there is a line in the software like:

civcitycount=0, goto civcitylist, palace=1

Is the advanced tribe/capital named the usual capital name for the civ?
[This message has been edited by cavebear (edited May 07, 2000).]

[ColdWizard]

yup, always been the same name whether i build it or got it out of a hut

[Jim W]

Couple of games back, when I was playing even more ineffectively than now, I had my first settler irrigating a place next to my chosen city site, when a Warrior knmocked over a hut and found an advanced tribe. The only building they had, though, was the Palace.

In other games, I've found advanced tribes, about mid-game, that had no buildings at all.

In my present game, Ijust recently found an advanced tribe, on an island, that had, as I recall, a Barracks and a Marketplace. And in the same game, a few turns before, found an advanced tribe that seemed to have nothing but the clothes they stood up in.

Jim W

[Canadian War Beaver]

i have never received a city from a hut until after 1500 bc........ and always close to a rival to boot when this happens and for me , every time NOOOOOOOOOO palace either

I wonder if when we all play this is standard or a glitch in our individual games.

I have received mobile warfare , nuc fission , recycling, and mass pro from huts.... although none of these in over a year now i think, if i remember correctly.

there was a thread awhile back discussing these techs.....

[Bohlen]

I have found my capital in a hut in both SP and MP. In the MP game, I was playing a true vet who is known to kick some butt, but with this luck of finding my capital I was actually able to win our duel.

[SmartFart]

http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HTML/000815.html

(more huts)

[Jim W]

quote: Originally posted by Canadian War Beaver on 05-08-2000 03:00 AM i have never received a city from a hut until after 1500 bc........ and always close to a rival to boot when this happens and for me , every time NOOOOOOOOOO palace either .

I have personally received cities from huts at about 3500BC. Never found any modern techs, though. Probasbly because all the huts were discovered by the time we got modern.

Jim W

[Canadian War Beaver]

let me rephrase Jim....... i mean before i have founded my first city

[SmartFart]

I just remembered some more useless hut features from my early civing when i reloaded huts and bad events
(that was cheating,but it helped me alot to understand a game...however,without proper fighting knowledge i felt like someone threw me to the lions when i started multiplaying).

-3 non-settlers is a max
-you cannot get wandering nomad before you have 3 cities

[The Mad Monk]

quote: -you cannot get wandering nomad before you have 3 cities

Sorry, but i've seen it happen with one, and it's repeatable, to boot. Funny thing, it came from grassland with water on two sides, so you would expect a city.

[Smash]

ya.we had them in that OCC game

[SmartFart]

In that case i suppose it has something to do with current year.
Perhaps you can't get one before 3500 or so?
I remember i build 2 cities,find a hut on rough terrain and reload about 100+ (yes 100+) times to get wandering nomads before i gave up.