'NONE' settlers?

[AkwaticDudeCity]

It seems many of you can build independent settlers. I have never thought it possible, how do you do this? Do you build a city next to another civ's and start pumping settlers or what? Please someone let me in on it. I'm sure i can put it to good use

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ugh crud, why won't they fall prey to my Machiavellian schemes?

[Ming]

Besides the non settlers you get from huts, they are easy to build.
Put a city down closer to another civ than any of your cities. Before the city can go to two population, quick build the settler and in the process, disband the city. This will create a non settler as long as another civ has a city closer to the disbanded city than any of yours. Good luck!

[rah]

From reading other threads, someone mentioned that you can't disband a city at the lower levels. Since Ming and I never really played the lower levels, we can't validate that.

RAH

[Scouse Gits]

A third possibility is to buy a settler/engineer at some point closer to a city owned by another than any of your cities. Be warned - they are disproportionately expensive.

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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor

[Dino the Dinosore]

In OCC games I often bribe a settler (or 2) to get a "none". It's cheaper when they are farther from their capital.

[Ming]

Scouse Gits... you mean "bribe" the settler... right

And yes, they can get VERY expensive!

[Xin Yu]

Bribing a settler costs double the amount of an ordinary 40 shiled unit. Very expensive.

[Scouse Gits]

Sorry - of course I mean bribe rather than buy - it's just that my fundamentalist outlook regards the entire map as a shop window from which I can buy anything that takes my fancy - elolwthnotlfpapl (evil laugh out loud with the nail of the little finger pressed against pursed lips)

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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor

[War4ever]

can we have an acronym for that too or perhaps a smilie ELOL @ SCOUSEGITS

[My Wife Hates CIV]

none settlers... I dont see how this is any less of a cheat than bomber stacking.

[MasterBob]

I don't disband any cities, I like all my cities.

[Steve Clark]

I, too, like all of my cities (since I only build 10-12 of them), but I have had situations where I had to disband. I was approaching a peninsula with a settler from the NE with the SW still dark. I built a city with 2 specials and then in the city view, I saw two white squares. There was an enemy city 2 squares away in a better spot. I rush-built a few units in my new city, took over the enemy city and then disbanded my original city.

[rah]

Please clarify MWHC.
Are you saying you think it's a cheat if you get an advanced tribe from a hut (that never seem to optimize surrounding terrain) to build a settler and move the city one or two squares to take advantage of specials?

Or are you saying that you don't consider stacked bombers a cheat either. If it's this one, I agree with you. (which is normally a moot point in MP because nukes get developed near the same time.)

RAH
Lord of the Ferrets

[N35t0r]

you can't disband cities in the original civ 2 if you are in chefthain

if the city you disband is more than 1 screen frome any of your cities, and you haven't discovered many civs, the settler will probably be 'NONE'

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[War4ever]

are you sure about that HsFB...... i was sure it was based on being closer to the ai like none troops.... i would think the same formula/principle would apply