14-03-2001 18:22									#1
	Gift of tech...by the AI Enter the AD-FREE zone

"Trireme production improved to caravel".
The AI gave me Navigation last night, not as a starting tech but as tech #22, whilst I was researching University!
I have played hundreds of games, but never encountered that kind of gift from the AI.
Is it because I was playing as the English for the third time in a row?
Is it because I had chosen to be named Thatchy?
Is it because I was researching University and I deserved a reward for that?
HELP!


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	14-03-2001 19:04									#2
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As an unsolicited gift or as a result of asking for a gift and/or demanding tribute - I have had the latter, but I cannot recall a case of the former.

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"Staring at your screen in horror and disbelief when you open a saved game is one of the fun things of a succession game " - Hueij
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	14-03-2001 20:52									#3
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I have received unsolicited gifts from the AI, but only after I contacted them. Early in my civ career, before really figuring out the game, my civ was apparently so pathetic that they gave me tech out of pity. Also once or twice this has happened when requesting an alliance from a more powerful, yet benevelent neighbor. It's been extremely rare at best.

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	14-03-2001 20:53									#4
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Once in a hundred times I have a game in which AI allies frequently (well, all is relative) offer tech for money, in the other 99 games they demand my money AND my tech. I play MGE, enough said.


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	14-03-2001 20:57									#5
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I've never had an unsolicited gift before. Every time I have to ask for it, and asking often means war (I play tot ). Fairly often if they do give you tribute, it is in the form of techs (usually ones I've deliberatly not researched). Mostly cash though.

	17-03-2001 07:16									#10
	Got spare money?

you mean you just inexplicably got navigation for no apparent reason?

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	19-03-2001 05:37									#11
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I think they only give you unsolicited gifts when you really suck. I haven't seen it once in a while, except for WWII scenario games where I was playing the Turks and got some tech by the Allies

	19-03-2001 19:16									#13
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1880s? I never managed to land on AC before 1900 I think... maybe on lower difficulty levels, but Deity? no..

	20-03-2001 21:50									#15
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LoL @ La Fayette.

I hear the "left" has just stormed Paris! Perhaps the new man there will provide his name for your next game.
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	21-03-2001 18:22									#17
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Loud cries of, "Fix, Fix!!"
- Admit it, La Fayette, your Gallic pride simply could not allow any Englishman (or woman) to better the home of viniculture ...

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Scouse Git[1]

"Staring at your screen in horror and disbelief when you open a saved game is one of the fun things of a succession game " - Hueij
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

	23-03-2001 03:04									#22
	Suffering from ads?

Having gone to FDR High School I can verify the D is Delano. But I think the name Roosevelt is Dutch.