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regoarrarr Wrote:For those of you who are not old-timers, that comes from Sirian somewhere. I think maybe it's in the epic SG Cuban Isolationists but I'm certainly not wading through like 5000 posts, including like 10 full pages where Sirian describes games of chinese checkers he's been playing while waiting for his new computer 
I think Sirian first shared it there, but the origin comes from Civ4 beta testing. Some person was complaining that the "resource popping" feature never actually does anything... So Sirian kept taking screenshots because he was popping resources all the time - and would post them in the testing forum with the caption "popped another one!" or something along those lines. Apparently it became a big joke after awhile.
I can't believe I remember that. I've played way too much Civ4.
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scooter Wrote:I think Sirian first shared it there, but the origin comes from Civ4 beta testing. Some person was complaining that the "resource popping" feature never actually does anything... So Sirian kept taking screenshots because he was popping resources all the time - and would post them in the testing forum with the caption "popped another one!" or something along those lines. Apparently it became a big joke after awhile.
I can't believe I remember that. I've played way too much Civ4.
Yeah. Didn't I say that?
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It actually makes more sense to pop it when you did- I've never understood how a city can work the same dang mine for 3,000 years and then one day the workers suddenly realize "oh hey, the walls are made of gold!"
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Bobchillingworth Wrote:It actually makes more sense to pop it when you did- I've never understood how a city can work the same dang mine for 3,000 years and then one day the workers suddenly realize "oh hey, the walls are made of gold!"
Haha, don't think about it too hard, or you'll start to wonder what exactly they were mining before the metal popped. It's not copper or iron or gold or ....
What are they mining!? 
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Bobchillingworth Wrote:It actually makes more sense to pop it when you did- I've never understood how a city can work the same dang mine for 3,000 years and then one day the workers suddenly realize "oh hey, the walls are made of gold!"
The Mithril Working text in FFH actually captures the "popped another one" spirit pretty well.
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It is a weird mechanic. I have had games where it seems like every mine built in the BCs ends up with a resource.
Wasn't there a RB pitboss game a bit back where someone popped a copper resource on the same turn their only source was pillaged?
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Ellimist Wrote:It is a weird mechanic. I have had games where it seems like every mine built in the BCs ends up with a resource.
Wasn't there a RB pitboss game a bit back where someone popped a copper resource on the same turn their only source was pillaged?
You're thinking of Pitboss 3, England (et al) v. France. My chariots were all named after Hundred Years' War Veterans. 
It wasn't pillaged. Their copper city was burnt to the ground in a surprise attack. France had foolishly settled their copper city with all of one warrior to defend it, and I had 5 chariots that could attack out of the fog (yay for combat workers!).
But, yes, they got a copper pop at their capital at the exact same time. It should have saved them, but their tactics were pure  . Come to think of it, their strategy wasn't at the best level, either (they refused to run slavery, for instance, which just slowed Lizzie of France down all the more. Lizzie is a slow leader to develop (PB2 was different: FW and chops did it there)). Oh, and "their" copper city was also our copper location. Resource distribution was a mess that game. Most things were a mess that game, come to think of it.
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regoarrarr Wrote:For those of you who are not old-timers, that comes from Sirian somewhere. I think maybe it's in the epic SG Cuban Isolationists but I'm certainly not wading through like 5000 posts, including like 10 full pages where Sirian describes games of chinese checkers he's been playing while waiting for his new computer
I dunno, this feels like something you might aspire to.
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