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Scouse Git[1]

But while I happily spam to help get you up to the desired 100 posts I do have a moan.

WHEN will I finally stop forgetting that I've delayed a change of gov.t waiting for an Oedo year, only realising I'm still in despotism or some outmoded non-representational gov.t half a dozen Oedo cycles later?

I've tried holding the Oedo chart tightly in my non-mouse hand until the change has been made. I've tried solemnly intoning the number of turns to the desired Oedo year before the start of each turn. But all to no avail.

STILL I forget.

At the critical moment the bloody Mongols sneak attack, or a long awaited caravan arrives or my voices tell me that some misbegotten civ is about to build the Gardens. And I rush to click the needful clicks and to tap the needful keys thereby missing that tide in the affairs of men.

When realisation belatedly strikes, oh revered one, the words BLOODY BLOODY OEDO may be heard in ringing tones well down my street (spreading your fame yet further, you will be pleased to hear).

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Scouse Git[1]

oh ya gotta revolt.

quote: Originally posted by East Street Trader on 03-26-2001 11:08 AM Japan, Oedo, your fame has, rightly, spread far. But while I happily spam to help get you up to the desired 100 posts I do have a moan. WHEN will I finally stop forgetting that I've delayed a change of gov.t waiting for an Oedo year, only realising I'm still in despotism or some outmoded non-representational gov.t half a dozen Oedo cycles later? Now, short of investing in one of those books that promises to improve my memory instantly, does any kind soul have the panacea to cure this awful ill?

I suppose that those strong players who never forget anything have some kind of checklist available.
Personally I have a piece of paper close to my computer only when I'm testing something (preferably the incomparable accomplishments of vet spies ).
Otherwise I promiss myself to be careful at the end of EACH turn ... and I am no more than you are...and very ugly words might be heard in a quite non overlapping radius around my house.

And I saw somewhere that it is a secret that one SG is a women (or I didn't understand well because of my weak english).
Are you sure it is SG(1)?

Look four posts above - it is by a new Settler called Ming!!!!

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Scouse Git[1]

quote: Originally posted by SlowThinker on 03-27-2001 02:59 PM I hope there will be a "reminding machine" in Civ3. I posted a suggestion how to improve the system to FirAxis, you can see it at ../../Forum28/HTML/000133.html?23#23

Great discussion on that link for CIV improvements.

quote: Originally posted by schweick on 03-18-2001 22:15 PM Hi, I play MGE at King level. I noticed (my hubby also) that when we add a solar plant to a city, pollution appears where there was none before. I thought the point of Solar Plant was productivity WITHOUT pollution. Is it a bug in the program that it adds the shields and then calculates the pollution without making an exception for the "solar" aspect?

I, SG[1], am a boring old fart of an academic (male);
SG(2) is my good friend, we met over the bridge table, and is a (male) printer
and finally, SG{3}, is my brat (15 year olds are brats by definition) daughter

We have posted this before - but these things get lost in the sands of time - no I don't think it worthy of inclusion in the Great Library - which incidentally has become unstuck!!!

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Scouse Git[1]

quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits on 03-28-2001 12:20 PM Has Ming been defrocked - thrown down from Olympus - struck from the regimental rolls ? Look four posts above - it is by a new Settler called Ming!!!

quote: Originally posted by Slow Thinker on 03-20-2001 11:29 AM SlowThinker is an internet hacker who likes to be always a "Settler". Unfortunately, he is not perfect and the system often crashes after his actions. Sorry.

You know, I reached a chieftain status just now...and...

quote: Originally posted by Ming on 03-28-2001 04:07 PM Everything is back to normal now... whatever the heck normal is around here

Well you do a great job - I for one would not care to take the flak you receive - without giving it back in Spades.

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SG(2)

I have adjusted my strategy to compensate for this by trying to plan the discovery of the next form of government to coincide with an oedo year, and this works better! Same turn revolts also save a turn of research.

The other thing I do is discipline myself to go through a mental checklist at the end of each and every turn:

1) Is this an oedo year?
2) Did I happy up that city that went into revolt this turn?
3) Will an important improvement I just rush-bought be sold off because I used up too much gold and left taxes at zero?
4) Will my favorite engineer be disbanded because his city workers were all left on ocean squares to boost the gold payoff when I delivered a caravan?
5) Did I leave the science rate at 0% 3 turns ago when I was checking how many beakers I needed for the next advance?
6) Will I ever unfortify that horseman who is supposed to be exploring Outer Mongolia?

This checklist works very well for me, EST, and so far, the only times when I forget to use it are when any of the answers to the questions above happen to be “yes”!

Finally, my final answer to the question posed for this topic:

quote: Originally posted by Paul on 04-05-2001 11:28 AM I never do that, but in OCC games I sometimes forget to put the science rate back to the maximum when I have lowered it because I didn't need all those beakers for my next advance.

Paul, forgive me if I am missing something because I am not an OCC'er, but, excess beakers after an advance is discovered accumulate towards your next advance. Therefore, excluding other outside issues, why would you lower your beaker production then increase it back once an advance was discovered. IMHO if you left it alone you would a) save time not having to micromanage this element of the game, b) accumulate future advances quicker and c) never have to worry about forgetting to change it back

You are kind of right. But also wrong.

What happens is that each of your cities contributes its beakers in turn (youngest first) towards the next advance. Once the advance is reached the remaining cities contribute their beakers towards the next one (that's why you are right).

But the city which contributes the beakers which get you to the advance contributes not just enough beakers to get to the advance with the balance starting off the the accumulation towards the next one but rather contributes all its beakers. So that's where you are wrong. As you see there are some beakers lost.

The wrong bit counts in OCC because in a One City Challenge you only ever have one city and you strive to make it produce a four figure number of beakers every turn. If you only need, say 15, beakers to complete the next advance and fail to turn science down, all but 15 of that turn's large beaker production goes to waste. If, instead, you turn science down to 10% and turn taxes correspondingly up you hike your gold for that turn.

Solo

Thanks for the help.

Some of the things in your list look strangely familiar! "Nottingham can't support settlers" (all its citizens having hung "gone fishing" signs on their doors) in particular!

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Scouse Git[1] -- git1@scousers.net

1. Did you remember to kill those barbarians tearing up your farms?
2. Did you remember to run down that barbarian leader?
3. Did you remember to demand tribute?
4. Did you remember to rush buy that acqueduct in the city about to turn to size 9?

quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits on 03-28-2001 12:34 PM SG(2) is my good friend, we met over the bridge table, and is a (male) printer

Your best friend is a printer? For how long have you been socializing with hardware? you know there's a specially designed computer hardware for "those" pruposes alrady SG(1)!