Philosophy Philosohpy

colossus · January 22, 2001, 00:25

A weird thing happened last night.
I was playing American SP in a medium sized world. Some time in the early game(~300BC), I received the message 'The Golden Age of Philosophy begins in the Spanish city of Madrid...'. A few turns later, the message 'Spanish civ destroyed by barbarians'! When I finally comes to the philosophy, I get...'The Golden Age of Philosophy begins in the American city of Washington...'

That Philosophy bonus happened twice in my game!

suas333 · January 22, 2001, 00:51

wow, i certainly didn't realize that. So you got a free tech also?

this game never ceases to amaze me.

colossus · January 22, 2001, 04:16

Yes, I got the bonus

Zeevico · January 22, 2001, 06:57

When an AI civ is destroyed everything about it is forgotten (except the powergraph), which explains that and other problems similar to this.

Ming · January 22, 2001, 09:57

I didn't know that... thanks!

Hmmm... next time a civ beats me to Philosphy...

Albert B · January 22, 2001, 14:04

That seems rather backwards to me, as a programmer. Other tests done recently showed that even if you destroy the city with manhatten or apollo in it you can still build nukes and spaceships. It would seem to me that the philosophy flag should be a global one that once flipped on would not be reversed by destroying the civ.

Oh well, chalk up another one for the great mysteries of the game. Will they ever cease? I doubt it!

kcbob · January 22, 2001, 14:28

quote:

Originally posted by Zeevico on 01-22-2001 05:57 AM
When an AI civ is destroyed everything about it is forgotten (except the powergraph), which explains that and other problems similar to this.

Someone once told me that "Nyet" is Russian for "Yes, but..."

If you destroy a civ/city with a Wonder, you can not rebuild the Wonder, correct?

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Bereta_Eder · January 22, 2001, 16:23

quote:

Originally posted by kcbob on 01-22-2001 01:28 PM
If you destroy a civ/city with a Wonder, you can not rebuild the Wonder

Yes, but you can mourn about it

kcbob · January 22, 2001, 16:33

quote:

Originally posted by paiktis22 on 01-22-2001 03:23 PM
Yes, but you can mourn about it

Ain't that the truth.

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Smokey tha nuke man · January 22, 2001, 18:25

quote:

Originally posted by kcbob on 01-22-2001 01:28 PM
Someone once told me that "Nyet" is Russian for "Yes, but..."

i think nyet means "no"

jcarkey · January 22, 2001, 19:21

I think Smokey is right, but that is rather weird.

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weird god · January 23, 2001, 01:52

civ2 should be called the game of secrets

La Fayette · January 24, 2001, 11:27

kcbob
Some people say that
when a woman says no, it means perhaps,
when she says perhaps, it means yes,
when she says yes , it means you had better run.
(those people are ugly "machos" and we all strongly disagree with them, of course).