Subj : Re: civ 6
To   : Nightfox
From : esc
Date : Tue Jan 03 2023 17:48:58

 Ni> Civilization and SimCity are a couple games where I think the next sequel
 Ni> improved on the games substantially.  I thought Civilization 2 was
 Ni> great, and SimCity 2000 was great as well, and I probably played those a
 Ni> lot more than the original games.  However, I never really got into any
 Ni> of the SimCity games after SimCity 2000.

I can't say I've ever actually played Civ 2...suppose it's high time I give that one a shot, eh? :)

SimCity 2000 introduced mechanics that changed the course of the game radically. I enjoyed the original SimCity of everything having an inherent block shape, and I never really adapted well to the concept of drawing out boundaries specifically for zones. Plus managing water used to piss me off, lol.

 Ni> That said, I think the original Civilization game is a bit easier to
 Ni> play.  I started playing the original Civilization in DOSBox a couple
 Ni> years agn and was enjoynig it.  I also liked the intro it had at the
 Ni> beginning.

I have it on a native DOS machine and it's a trip. The intro on a CRT with a legit SoundBlaster is a lot of fun :)

 Ni> I'm not aware of the Gandhi bug..  What is that?

They call it "Nuclear Gandhi" - the tl;dr is that AI Gandhi's aggression level is set to the lowest possible integer value of 1. Once Gandhi's government would adopt Democracy, the aggression value would decrement by 2, leaving Gandhi at a -1 (negative one) which doesn't make sense in the game mechanics. So what would actually happen is that Gandhi would suddenly become a super aggressive warmonger. Kind of funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

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