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Scouse Git[1]

The pop-up message says that the astronauts bring back pictures of the earth from space or something similar. The photos of the earth taken by the real Apollo teams were not deemed to be classified materials and therefore were not restricted to distribution within our government only. To the best of my knowledge they were shared with any government that made the effort to request copies. They were not tried like photos from spy satellites over the SU or other locations.

Not that I mind, really. The AI is already handicapped enough when it comes to strategy, like sending out settlers to irrigate when barbarians are a square away.

Speaking of which, I’ve gotten rather fond of howling barbarians. Buy off a few at bargain-basement bribes and stick ’em in a fortification. Now you don’t have to take time out from building spaceship parts or something.

I often trade with barbarian cities, too, if no other place wants dye or salt or cheap stuff I have lying around. What would happen if I sent in an ambassador and gave them a nuclear missile? Has anybody ever tried that?

SO I had about 16 cities, 5 on the border with the chinese that were in range for nuclear assault.

I built 4 sdi in a turn (cost a lot of money) and guess which city they nukes 8 (EIGHT) times the next turn? The fifth.

quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 on 01-08-2001 07:58 AM I built 4 sdi in a turn (cost a lot of money) and guess which city they nukes 8 (EIGHT) times the next turn? The fifth. They hadn't used any spies either. It was another clear cheat.

Almost the exact same thing happened to me: all my border cities had SDI, and what do the Indians bomb? The only city that was going to get an SDI next turn. That's why I'd like to have a Space Platform wonder that would put an SDI in all cities at once.

There's a twist to the unerring-nuke story, though. In another game a rival tried nuking one of my cities that did have SDI. And it kept trying, and trying... Very odd.

I like to nuke enemy fleets. Saves on fallout pollution.

What it does is to «pretend» it doesn't know a thing and in most cases it does that very badly.

What differs maybe the way it chooses to use that information. I think that has to do with how far ahead or behind you are in comparison with the biggest AI civ.

Sure, it cheats with Nukes - I'm convinced it knows the SDI cities. However, the AI also loves Cruise Missiles. I recall a game when the AI were losing heavily, so they decided to aim cruise missiles at one of my Battleships. They used two Cruise Missiles but the beast still survived - it was black! Next square along from this unit was another Battleship stacked with a transport - stuffed full with an invasion force. Now if the AI did have perfect knowledge it would have gone for the stack. Both Battleships were in range of any city using a missile!?

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