08-07-2001 03:38									#1
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I had sent a longship out exploring for around 200 years, and it found a one square island in the middle of nicaraguan territory with ruins on it. I unloaded a horse archer onto it and found:

"the remains of an ancient civilization. their writings show your scholars things they hadn't known about" or some such. I get a tech.

The tech? Jet Propulsion!

man those ancients were something, weren't they?

	12-07-2001 12:04									#2
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Sometimes you get something even more overpowered. My best was an Eco-terrorist when I just entered the Renaissance age.

	18-07-2001 07:19									#3
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Just before I finished my game, I got future air 2 out of ruins

	19-07-2001 06:05									#4
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Luckily, you will seldom find a barbarian War Walker hidden in those ruins

	20-07-2001 11:20									#5
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quote: Originally posted by jpww Luckily, you will seldom find a barbarian War Walker hidden in those ruins

Try playing with MedMod, the barbarians tend to keep pace with current tech. Last time I played I saw a barbarian machine gunner I never been able to get past modern in MedMod, so I never found a barbarian war walker(But I don't doubt they are in the mod, it is one wicked game)

	21-07-2001 00:23									#6
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the most amazing tech i even found in a ruin was:
guess what, Quantum Physics.

	21-07-2001 01:27									#7
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I have actually played with several versions of the MedMod.

Read here from my first expirience with MedMod2 (28. february and 3. march 2000):

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...30&pagenumber=2

Sure it was fun.

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	21-07-2001 05:38									#8
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One game I played (default game, essentially), I found a War Walker in one of those ruins. Unfortunately, it was too far away from my nation to sail it back any time soon. Since I was planning on establishing a city ten tiles north (the whole island was glacer, except for some polar hills and mountains), I walked it up there as a defender. I don't think the AI ever knew I was there . . .

	22-07-2001 08:35									#9
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In my Conquer PBEM I found nationalism and Mosketer in 2 sepearate ruins. It was around turn 32

	23-07-2001 00:26									#10
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If I took it upon myself to create my own scenario, I would turn the ruins off to begin with. This way, I could somewhat diminish the luck factor in CTP; Thus, balancing things out a bit more for everyone.

I suppose you could also achieve the same result either by setting up an "islands" game, or by customizing your own map

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quote: Originally posted by jpww If I took it upon myself to create my own scenario, I would turn the ruins off to begin with. This way, I could somewhat diminish the luck factor in CTP; Thus, balancing things out a bit more for everyone.

I am creating a scenario, and I have turned off ruins (in case anyone wants to know how, just set the RUINS_CHANCE_PER_BOX to 0 in const.txt). In Civ2, they had no advances in ruins after you discovered invention - perhaps this could be simulated in SLIC (with some appropriate advance in place of invention). It certainly makes the game fairer to do without them, but the reason I removed them was to stop barbarians (which tended to crash the game) and because the scenario is based on Mars, where there really shouldn't be any ruins from ancient civilizations... or should there?

John

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quote: ...set the RUINS_CHANCE_PER_BOX to 0 in const.txt...

Thanks for the tip

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There are some other values in const.txt, along the lines of RUINS_MAX_GOLD, RUINS_MAX_ADVANCES, RUINS_MAX_UNITS. Something like that. Perhaps fiddling with these numbers could affect the types of advances/units obtained from ruins.

	11-08-2001 00:04									#14
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Ah well, even if this thread is a bit old, I still want to post a reply. Guess what I found in ruins once? Communism! Shows what happens to those who enact it! They end up in ruins!
Oh, and another VERY strange object I found in ruins: a fascist! I have never enacted fascism for moral reasons and thought I'd never get to see that unit. But here it was! So for a while there was a fascist without a fascist government. Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

	11-08-2001 04:05									#15
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quote: Shows what happens to those who enact it! They end up in ruins!

That is my government of choice wins well for me

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quote: Dictatress wrote: Guess what I found in ruins once? Communism! Shows what happens to those who enact it! They end up in ruins!

The enactment of democracy is what is killing former commies

	11-08-2001 05:01									#17
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I've often wondered, is communism in these games supposed to be pure communism (aka marxism) or communism as it turned out (aka Marxism-Leninism)?

	11-08-2001 06:49									#18
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This thread brings to mind an extremely lucky story with ruins. Back then I was a Warlord or a Prince, but I doubt if this was because of the level. I have never again seen anything like it.
I played with 7 opponents, but I still had a large continent to myself. It had many ruins, and all of them were turning out to be either settlers or cities! I mean ALL of them! So rather early in the Ancient Age, I had about 15 cities all over the continent! I never got any farther because I checked the power graph. All my opponents were at the very bottom, and I was soaring. That was getting too easy, so I quit. But what an amazing experience!

	17-01-2002 02:42									#19
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In a PBEM my ally, Faded Glory, and I found seperate ruins the same continent. He found sattalites and I found television.
We just chalked it up to being the lost civilization of Atlantis

	20-01-2002 10:04									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Dictatress Ah well, even if this thread is a bit old, I still want to post a reply. Guess what I found in ruins once? Communism! Shows what happens to those who enact it! They end up in ruins! Oh, and another VERY strange object I found in ruins: a fascist! I have never enacted fascism for moral reasons and thought I'd never get to see that unit. But here it was! So for a while there was a fascist without a fascist government. Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

I usually go Theoc, communism and then Corporate Republic, unless I just find Fascism and am knee deep in a war, but Communism is great if you have a big civ, place a few cities on capitalization for funding and build the mess outta production facilities, then launch a war, artillery and Marines or Machine gunners!


Have agreat time playing this gaming addiction of all consuming time!

Yours in Civin

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	06-03-2002 22:50									#21
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Neural Interface was about the silliest tech I found in a 'barbarian' hut.

Rich