The French Galley : on her way to Uber Isle ?

[Aggie]

Reddawg, it does indeed help. Based on your analysis and my experience with the AI, I will continue my current orders for the ships to go to their original destination.
As far as the danger of the AI selling maps well they probably will stay along the coast and just see what our own maps that we have given away already show.
Aggie

[trickey]

Originally posted by Max
I think it's not even worth taking care of this galley. Most probably it will sink before it can reach Uber Isle.

Anyway we can't take the risk to sink one of our galley in a hazardous sea attack, can we?

You forgot that the AI's galleys dont sink.

We must take care of that galley of we see it going twords uber island.

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by Robber Baron




Funny typo! We are a religious civ, so we hope and PRAY.
But we are warriors, so we hope and PREY, when prayer doesn't work!

Blunder of the week !

[Shiber]

Originally posted by trickey
You forgot that the AI's galleys dont sink.

Really?? THEY DON'T??
If you're right then we'll have to rely on the fact that's Uber Isle is very far from France's capital and they won't be prune to set up a town there because it'll be corrupted like hell and would probably lose them money in the long run.

[trickey]

Well, they are supposed to, but i have never seen one sink. I think the chance of a gally sinking is 50% right? Well, the AI's galley surely dont sink 50% of the time.

[Shiber]

It can't be. It's pure cheating. It's like giving the AIs the effect of Astronomy for free.

[trickey]

It is true, i think there was a few threads about it a while ago.

[Shiber]

I've done some searching and I didn't find any solid proof of this.
Noone has actually been able to present a case where an enemy galley stayed in water it should have drowned in according to its advancement through the tech tree for a long enough time and didn't sink, with attached saved games and all.
Come to think about it, I think I once saw an enemy galley sink. IIRC it was the first time I ever saw a galley sinking (it was one of my first games and I did not dare send my galleys to the high seas yet).

[Sheik]

I have NEVER seen the AI use a galley in a way that would could cause it to sink. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that Uber Isle requires that the galley stop in the middle. I hope something like this will be fixed in PTW though because the AI should be more aggressive with it's navy.

[Kuciwalker]

The AI Triremes in Civ2 didn't sink either.

[Apocalypse]

I think everyone knows that by know, skywalker.

[Will 5001]

They musn't get to Uber Isle, we need that island to expand onto!

[trickey]

It doesnt matter if the galley will sink or not. If we continue to let them explore twords uber isle, they will trade thier map to other civs, then will have a galley (pr two) from each civ flying by our territory to get to uber isle. Its OUR secret, we should keep it that way. The french know to much, they will have to be destroyed

[Shiber]

I have reached the conclusion that France will not try to make it to Uber Isle. The reason is as follows:
We know there are coastal tiles beyond our view because we see a hint of bright blue and a whale's tail just outside our view of the known world. Therefore we assume that there is land beyond those coastal tiles. However, the AI doesn't know that there are coastal tiles there! Therefore he is not aware of the existence of Uber Isle and will not send a galley to the sea.

[adaMada]

Yea, I think Shiber's right... the AI does know all the map, but it can't do some things with the knowledge, including settle... I wonder, though, if it's programmed to 'discover' favorable settling conditions and then settle there?

I doubt it... I'm pretty sure Shiber's right.

-- adaMada