AI Needs Birth Control....

[AuraSeer]

The randomness of war is definitely screwed up.

In my current game, I've got an enemy galley bottled up in an enclosed section of the ocean. (The only exit from the area is one square wide, and I have it blocked.) This galley is unable to go anywhere, so it has been wandering in circles for several hundred years.

And it's immortal.

Every once in a while, I decide to get rid of the perpetually circling ship, so I send in the navy to kill it. But whenever I try that, I get my head handed to me.

I've attacked the thing with other galleys, frigates, ironclads, and worse. I've tried sending one unit at a time, and I've tried them by the six-pack. No matter what I try, this galley has never taken a single point of damage. It's even dodged bombardment, once eighty times in a row before I got bored and reloaded the game.

I can conceive of a small ship defeating one frigate, or even one ironclad. But to have it defeat six frigates, followed by six ironclads, without even needing repairs? It's not even funny anymore-- now it's just plain stupid.

[aeturneus]

hahaha! that sounds pretty funny, actually... those sort of idiosynchrasies are what I missed in civ 2... as long as they go my way sometime

the Immortal galley crew... hmm... are you sure you aren't dealing with a ghost ship?

Originally posted by AuraSeer
The randomness of war is definitely screwed up.

In my current game, I've got an enemy galley bottled up in an enclosed section of the ocean. (The only exit from the area is one square wide, and I have it blocked.) This galley is unable to go anywhere, so it has been wandering in circles for several hundred years.

And it's immortal.

Every once in a while, I decide to get rid of the perpetually circling ship, so I send in the navy to kill it. But whenever I try that, I get my head handed to me.

I've attacked the thing with other galleys, frigates, ironclads, and worse. I've tried sending one unit at a time, and I've tried them by the six-pack. No matter what I try, this galley has never taken a single point of damage. It's even dodged bombardment, once eighty times in a row before I got bored and reloaded the game.

I can conceive of a small ship defeating one frigate, or even one ironclad. But to have it defeat six frigates, followed by six ironclads, without even needing repairs? It's not even funny anymore-- now it's just plain stupid.

[fstkfstk]

Galleys are supernatural always. Even when not circling in ponds, they have a strong tendency to be unbeatable by anything but other galleys.

As to the infinite settler problem with computer playerr, the computer DOES stock up settlers in cities, as any conquer happy
players can attest too. Don't forget that the computer "cheats"
either for or against the player depending on difficulty (as was noted on apolyton several weeks ago...). THe settlers COULD be coming from nowhere.

[AuraSeer]

Originally posted by fstkfstk
Galleys are supernatural always. Even when not circling in ponds, they have a strong tendency to be unbeatable by anything but other galleys.

Holy cow.
I sent in a galley, and won. On top of that, mine was a Regular, and of course the immortal ship was Elite from having won all those battles.

And my ship didn't take any damage from the fight.

[Dark Hawk]

Really...

Originally posted by AuraSeer
The randomness of war is definitely screwed up.


And it's immortal.

Every once in a while, I decide to get rid of the perpetually circling ship, so I send in the navy to kill it. But whenever I try that, I get my head handed to me.

I've attacked the thing with other galleys, frigates, ironclads, and worse. I've tried sending one unit at a time, and I've tried them by the six-pack. No matter what I try, this galley has never taken a single point of damage. It's even dodged bombardment, once eighty times in a row before I got bored and reloaded the game.

Fair enough

But now you just said you sent in ONE galley and won the battle after saying that you sent multiple galleys up there. Something fishy's going on....