hut tipping

[EmperorMing]

lord of the mark :

on the one hand I desperately need the gold, or a good tech, or a unit, OTOH, I could get hurt by barbs, or a bad tech, or an advanced tribe i dont want

What exactly is a "bad tech"?

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq

Nah, forums is good. Nobody plants gerania in front of the house, after all. Leave latin to the latin fans.

Cursed barbarians, all you Gauls are good for is the arena. :banned:

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by EmperorMing
What exactly is a "bad tech"?

Any tech that is not directly in your research path. The more techs you have, the more beakers it costs you to discover your next advance. Also, leading in techs sets you back. So if you are trying to get to navigation, warrior code or horseback riding will only slow down your research. Ideally, you can put them off for many turns and then trade for them.

[cpemma]

The more techs you have, the more beakers it costs you to discover your next advance. Also, leading in techs sets you back.

Granted, but once you get moving in democracy, the turns/discovery seems to fall steadily - may take more beakers, but you're producing a lot more.

And you can always give railroad away - so nice to have a ready-built invasion route

[EmperorMing]

Marquis de Sodaq:

That explains why the turns/discovery can change from 5 to 18 in only a few turns after some "tech huts" early on in the game!

Do you know if anyone has found out the approx. relation between beakers needed for new tech and techs already discovered?

[Ming]

Originally posted by EmperorMing
Do you know if anyone has found out the approx. relation between beakers needed for new tech and techs already discovered?

Check out these two links that are provide in the Great Library Thread.

http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HTML/000881.html?date=17:02

http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum3/HTML/001831.html?6

The first link contains some data that is disputed, but after reading through both threads, you will have a much better understanding.

[Novi Nomad]

Re-loading bad huts

Re-loading after tipping a bad hut is kind of weak.

The AI isn't challenging enough as it is. Besides, it is a bad habit to get into for when you start multiplaying.

[debeest]

The latter thread, Samson's, is definitively correct. The former thread is correct only in the most limited sense, never encountered in a real game, and would lead you wildly astray.

[cpemma]

Has anyone else noted that when a hut contains partisan barbarians, they are loathe to attack the tripping unit and usually move away or immediately disappear?

Yes, I tipped one on a 5-square island, they moved away then vanished a couple of turns later.

Incidentally, replaying a section of game (for research purposes ) 4 huts exposed by Apollo (on polar glacier) tipped the first time to give 4 x $100, the second time I got 2 x $200 and 2 x Partisan barbs. Each time, I killed one barb & the other vanished.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq

Nah, forums is good. Nobody plants gerania in front of the house, after all. Leave latin to the latin fans.

Just as long as you dont process "datums" or follow the news "mediums"

Some latin loan words are fully anglicized, some ain't. Forum can go either way - I like fora, but forums is certainly acceptable.

LOTM

[barefootbadass]

I never really reset huts but one time a long time ago in a single player game at the beginning I had about 2 cities one with a warrior and the other one's warrior opened the hut(near the cities). The hut had about 3 barbarian archers in it so they ran my fledgling empire over in a few turns. So I guess that was the worst hut I ever got.