Kemal
23-08-2004, 11:47
With plenty of all human PBEMs going on at the moment, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the handling of flips by the game when playing PBEMs.
I haven't experienced losing or taking a city to or from a human via a flip in PBEM yet, but I'm very curious if it happens, and when it does how the game would handle such an occurence.
Since you can lose a city to a flip during your own "upkeep" phase (i.e. when production is added to your production queues etc), that would mean that the civ taking over such a city would actually obtain an additional city outside his or her own turn, while obtaining a city does involve decisions that need to be made by the obtaining civ (rebuff the rebels or not). It seems that this decision can never be made by the obtaining civ simply due to the fact that he is not the active player when the flip happens.
So I was wondering, does that mean the AI will handle this decision for this player (as is the case with the UN vote I believe), and does that mean your civ will always automatically accept these flips (unless in very rare circumstances), just like the AI does?
Or are the culture flips in PBEM between two human opponents simply turned off automatically during PBEM games? (I've personally never seen one happening, plenty of AI flips though)
I haven't experienced losing or taking a city to or from a human via a flip in PBEM yet, but I'm very curious if it happens, and when it does how the game would handle such an occurence.
Since you can lose a city to a flip during your own "upkeep" phase (i.e. when production is added to your production queues etc), that would mean that the civ taking over such a city would actually obtain an additional city outside his or her own turn, while obtaining a city does involve decisions that need to be made by the obtaining civ (rebuff the rebels or not). It seems that this decision can never be made by the obtaining civ simply due to the fact that he is not the active player when the flip happens.
So I was wondering, does that mean the AI will handle this decision for this player (as is the case with the UN vote I believe), and does that mean your civ will always automatically accept these flips (unless in very rare circumstances), just like the AI does?
Or are the culture flips in PBEM between two human opponents simply turned off automatically during PBEM games? (I've personally never seen one happening, plenty of AI flips though)