Re: Civ 4 - Beyond The Sword

"Öjevind Lång" <bredband.net@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Some things come up in all or most games, such as the trade weirdness
- 
>>> the AI civs asking for five or six of your resources for one of
theirs, 
>>> or wanting to buy resources they already have (and not for the purpose

>>> of then selling them to other civs). That has been confirmed as a bug,

>>> not as the civs being fiendishly clever.
>>
>> Has it really been confirmed as a bug? I assumed they were after the 
>> extra resources to make certain cor****ations more effective. Don't 
>> cor****ations give you extra benefits if you have multiple coal, etc?
>
> Oh, yes, it's a bug all right. An AI civ may have dye and demand dye
from 
> you all the same (without selling the extra dye to some other civ); it
may 
> demand six different resources for one of their, long before there are 
> cor****ations (and some of the resources may be stuff they already have);

> they may even refuse a trade of iron for one of their luxury resources 
> when they verifiably have no iron and need to build iron units. And so
on. 
> Apparently, the bug was inadvertently introduced when they fixed the 
> previous bugs where vassals refsued to trade resources with their
masters.
>
> Öjevind
>

Not seen the trade bug but have seen plenty of this 3.13 introduced 
bug......
Order a privateer out from one of your coastal cities to another civs 
territory and up pops the question "Do you wanna declare war ?"
It's ok however to move the privateer into another civs territory from any

water tile, just not from you coastal cities.
Wierd eh!