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	Version 2.1.6 installed fine and ran fine, the first version to do this for me. But as soon as I make contact with another civilization, the diplomacy window comes up and the game invariably suffers a complete crash. Maybe this should go to the developers and not here, but here is where I found.		Version 2.1.6 installed fine and ran fine, the first version to do this for me. But as soon as I make contact with another civilization, the diplomacy window comes up and the game invariably suffers a complete crash. Maybe this should go to the developers and not here, but here is where I found.
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Forum:(Newbie) Losing cities to AI

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	: If AI conquers your cities, then learn to use '''Diplomat''' units to incite revolts in your former cities. Unless the AI is a Democracy, the cost of revolt might be cheap. Diplomats are most effective if the AI knows much more technology than you. --[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] 02:40, November 18, 2009 (UTC)		: If AI conquers your cities, then learn to use '''Diplomat''' units to incite revolts in your former cities. Unless the AI is a Democracy, the cost of revolt might be cheap. Diplomats are most effective if the AI knows much more technology than you. --[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] 02:40, November 18, 2009 (UTC)
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		+	Thank you for great tips Kernigh! I've gotten better, hope the tips help others too. I've always liked using diplomats to take over cities and units.

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Version 2.1.6 installed fine and ran fine, the first version to do this for me. But as soon as I make contact with another civilization, the diplomacy window comes up and the game invariably suffers a complete crash. Maybe this should go to the developers and not here, but here is where I found.

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Forum:Didn't love Freeciv

Kernigh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:09:56 GMT

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	I gave FreeCiv a try, playing entirely against the PC. I uninstalled it after a day or so. I actually didn't mind the graphics and I liked the ability to run it in a window. But my observation was that the AI bends the rules much moreso than in traditional civ. My games would tend to turn into stalemates where dozens and dozens of units would inexplicably vanish before smaller numbers of primitive enemy units. Now, any civ player is used to this, to a degree. But after a certain point it makes the game boring and repetitive. AI cheating is probably necessary to make the game challenging, but if it's taken too far it simply makes playing pointless. It seemed to me that this is the case here, so I moved on.		I gave FreeCiv a try, playing entirely against the PC. I uninstalled it after a day or so. I actually didn't mind the graphics and I liked the ability to run it in a window. But my observation was that the AI bends the rules much moreso than in traditional civ. My games would tend to turn into stalemates where dozens and dozens of units would inexplicably vanish before smaller numbers of primitive enemy units. Now, any civ player is used to this, to a degree. But after a certain point it makes the game boring and repetitive. AI cheating is probably necessary to make the game challenging, but if it's taken too far it simply makes playing pointless. It seemed to me that this is the case here, so I moved on.
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		+	: AI cheats, but not so much! As the [[FAQ]] explains, AI seems to cheat in only three ways: AI can see the entire map, AI can skip [[anarchy]] when changing government, AI can ignore the maximum tax rates.
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		+	: My AI opponent might be a Despotism with 100% science rate, and become a Monarchy next turn. AI is good at sending boats to settle islands, because the AI knows the location of every island, while I must use turns to explore the ocean and find the islands. AI seems aware of my units, attacks my weak cities, and plays defense if I build a large military.
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		+	: '''''The AI is not cheating during combat.''''' An invasion of AI cities works exactly like an invasion of human-player cities that have the same improvements, defenders and terrain. AI Musketeers use the same stats as human-player Musketeers. Your large military might fail because the "primitive enemy units" had good defense bonuses. AI likes to use Barracks to build veteran units and to use City Walls for defense. If your green army attacks veteran defenders in walled cities, then you have disadvantage.
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		+	: You might misunderstand the probabilities of [[combat]]. Suppose that your [[Legion]] (Attack 4) attacks enemy [[Archers]] (Defense 2), neither units has damage, and no other bonus or penalty has application. (The Legion has at least 1 move, neither unit is veteran, the Archers are on flat terrain, the Archers are not fortified or in a city or fortress.) Attack 4 is better than Defense 2. The chance for your Legion to win is much greater than 2/3. With average luck, Archers hit 5 times, Legion hits 10 times, Legion wins. If Archers are very lucky, then Archers hit 9 times, Legion hits 10 times, Legion wins.
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		+	: Suppose instead that these enemy Archers are veteran (×1.5 to defense), in a city (×1.5 to defense) with City Walls (×3 to defense) on a hill (×2 to defense). Your Legion has Attack 4, but Archers effectively have Defense 27. With average luck, Archers hit 10 times, Legion hits 1 or 2 times, Archers win. If you use around 5 to 10 units of Legions to attack this one unit of Archers, then the chance of success is around 1/2. My arithmetic can be wrong, but I hope that the magnitude is near correct.
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		+	: Suppose instead that you attack with [[Riflemen]] (Attack 5, HP 20). Archers effectively have Defense 27. With average luck, Archers hit 20 times, Riflemen hit 3 or 4 times, Archers win. If you use around 3 units of Riflemen to attack this one unit of Archers, then the chance of success is around 1/2. If Barracks can heal Archers, and you attack with one unit of Riflemen per turn, then over "dozens and dozens" of turns, you can lose "dozens and dozens" of Riflemen against one unit of Archers. --[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] 05:09, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

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Forum:(Newbie) Losing cities to AI

Kernigh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:40:34 GMT

Messages. Expired cease-fires. City Walls!

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	but how can I monitor whether an attack is imminent? I didn't even see the units fighting...		but how can I monitor whether an attack is imminent? I didn't even see the units fighting...
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		+	: Think about '''City Walls''' and '''Barracks'''.
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		+	: AI moves very quickly at start of turn, so you might not see the fight. If AI captures your city, then you have no vision there. This is why you have '''Messages''' tab. (The tab appears at start of every turn, or you can press F9 to see the tab, or you can click "Messages" in "Reports" menu to see the tab.) With default message options, you have messages for "Unit: Defender Destroyed", "Unit: Defender Survived" and "City: Captured/Destroyed" so you know what happens if someone attacks you. I read messages at beginning of all my turns.
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		+	: A cease-fire expires after exactly 16 turns. You can use "Nations" tab (press F3, or "Nations" in "Reports" menu) to check other players. In my current game, the "Dipl.State" with Algeria is ''"Cease-fire (2)"'', so the cease-fire will end after I click "Turn Done" two more times. My empire has 112 cities and plenty of Battleships, and I rule most of the world, so I plan to invade Algeria after 2 turns. The Australians might have attacked you at 16 or more turns after you agreed the cease-fire treaty.
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		+	: Freeciv allows no fighting during cease-fire; but a treaty is only paper, and players can shred paper. If you want to attack during cease-fire, you can visit "Nations" tab, click a player, click "Diplomacy" and click "Cancel treaty". (Read [[Diplomacy]] page for details.) Other players can cancel treaties, but AI players in Freeciv 2.1.9 never seem to cancel cease-fire treaties.
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		+	: You want to better defend your city. Study the [[Combat]] page! There is ''no benefit'' to '''fortify''' a unit in a city. This is because ''"Land unit fortified or in city"'' has the same ×1.5 defense bonus. Your fortified Archers are already in a city, so they already have the bonus, and they are no better than non-fortified archers in the same city. I like to '''sentry''' my units in a city. Sentried units will ask for orders if they see any approaching enemy units. Enemy units like Horsemen or Chariots might move too fast for this.
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		+	: If you want to attack an enemy unit, then select your attacking unit and ''middle-click'' the enemy unit. You will see the percentage for successful attack. I attack if the attack percentage is high. The defense percentage can change if you move your unit to a square with a different defense bonus.
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		+	: Build '''City Walls'''. These provide a huge ×3 defense bonus to units in a city! Watch as the AI waste units by attacking your walled city. The effect of City Walls is dramatic. Read "[http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=5706&start=0 City Walls, number one in city defense.]" in other Freeciv forum. City Walls protect against land units, not sea units, so City Walls are ''useless'' if AI attacks your coastal cities with Ironclads. If my city is too far from the enemy, or already has adequate defense, than City Walls are only waste of production; in my current game, very few of my cities have City Walls. (My empire has 112 cities, but I have walls for only 24 cities.) Too many City Walls are better than too few.
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		+	: Build '''Barracks'''. Cities with Barracks can build veteran units and heal units faster, but Barracks are expensive and they go obsolete, so I rarely build Barracks. You might pick a city with high production, build Barracks, build veteran units and move those units to other cities.
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		+	: If AI conquers your cities, then learn to use '''Diplomat''' units to incite revolts in your former cities. Unless the AI is a Democracy, the cost of revolt might be cheap. Diplomats are most effective if the AI knows much more technology than you. --[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] 02:40, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Forum:Need help with 'Bribing' Cities

Kernigh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:01:01 GMT

Protect your Diplomat!

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	How do I send my Diplomats into another city?		How do I send my Diplomats into another city?
	Because they can only move one tile a turn, If I leave them a bit far from the city then in the next turn they will go closer and get destroyed, So how do I send them in without the risk of them getting destroyed?		Because they can only move one tile a turn, If I leave them a bit far from the city then in the next turn they will go closer and get destroyed, So how do I send them in without the risk of them getting destroyed?
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		+	: You put your question in a normal wiki page. I moved your question to the forum, so that all the forum readers can see your question. If you want to create a forum thread, you can use the 'Add New Topic' button in [[Forum:Playing Freeciv]] or any of the other subforums.
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		+	: To answer your question, you might want to protect your '''Diplomat''' with a military unit, like '''Phalanx''' or '''Musketeers'''. Your Diplomat can follow your Musketeers toward the enemy city. If your Diplomat and your Musketeers are on the same square, then your Diplomat is safe, unless the enemy can kill your Musketeers.
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		+	: Sometimes, your Diplomat can sneak alone into a city. Notice that each Diplomat has 2 moves per turn, read the "Movement" section in the [[Units]] page, and check the "Move cost" in the "Terrain Catalog" of the [[Terrain]] page. You want your Diplomat to stop 2 squares away from the enemy city. At next turn, your Diplomat walks through a square that has a ''move cost'' of 1, and enters the city without stopping.
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		+	: In my current game against the AI, I combined both ways. I found an island with enemy Malian cities. (I wanted to bribe the cities, but Mali was a cowering Democracy, so I decided to steal technology.) Any unit that steps off a boat has zero remaining move. My Diplomat needed to step off my boat, wait one turn, then visit the enemy city; so my Musketeers needed to guard my Diplomat for one turn. My Diplomat and my Musketeers landed on Desert, being ''1 square away'' from the enemy city; but the Malian Cannon killed my Musketeers. So I tried again with other Diplomat and Musketeers. They landed on Mountains, being ''2 squares away'' from the enemy city. Next turn, my Diplomat walked through the Desert (because Desert has ''move cost'' of 1) and stole technology from the city. --[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] 01:01, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Need help with 'Bribing' Cities

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