Remarkably predictable random combat....

[BustaMike]

Something interesting I found...

I started up several games as the Romans, large map, 12 civs, wet climate, med continents, 4 billion yrs, restless barbs. On 3 seperate occasions the same thing happened: I build a warrior in 5 turns, there is a hut 2 squares away from my city. I immediately move to get it. It has barbarians in it. There's nothing weird about this except for the fact that it happened at least 3 different times on three different maps the exact same way. Random seed my ass! There is clearly nothing random about this. I don't consider this necessarily a problem with the game but it's something to think about. Try it for yourself, I bet the same thing happens.

Busta

[The Andy-Man]

i always felt civ3 with a very random game (random combat etc) but it appears that it is really a well calculated pre-determined precision game made so the AI knows everything like Big Brother. The randomness is just a cover up so people dont realise this :spookyemoticon

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by BustaMike
I build a warrior in 5 turns, there is a hut 2 squares away from my city. I immediately move to get it. It has barbarians in it. There's nothing weird about this except for the fact that it happened at least 3 different times on three different maps the exact same way. Random seed my ass!

Last two games I played I got a settler right at the start. With double the pop to start, the game was almost too easy on Emperor level.

[Aeson]

I've played hundreds of starts with Expansionists (usually Zulu), and huts are different from game to game. The only thing I've noticed is that I can never get a from a hut in 4000BC. I have gotten techs, maps, warriors, and barbarians (when not playing Expansionist). Play out the same scenario on some other random maps a few times, you will get something other than barbarians eventually. Difficulty level does seem to affect what huts give out as well.

[zlandar]

I'm guessing the spearman was Russell Crowe beating some tank ass.

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Aeson
The only thing I've noticed is that I can never get a from a hut in 4000BC.

What's supposed to be in the blank? Army? Settler?

[Aeson]

Sorry, meant to type Settler in there

[Hurricane]

Check out these earlier threads about the random numbers:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...0&pagenumber=1

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...0&pagenumber=1

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=36623

[Technoron]

DIE, thread, DIE!!

Wow.

My stupid thread won't die.

(bump)

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Aeson
Sorry, meant to type Settler in there

I've seen that. I built the town on the starting square and the hut in the next square popped out a setter. That probably makes up for the time a barbarian popped out in 4000bc and plundered my town.