Two Town Centers bug
How does it work? -
Consequences -
How to fix it
How it works
This bug works best on medium or high resources. What you do is to delete
your Town Center as soon as you have stockpiled 400 wood and found two good
spots for a Town Center (e. g. with berries and trees). Then you use the
"building queue" feature and build both Town Centers at once, holding SHIFT
when giving the first building command. This trick has been found by THoTH.
Consequences
Like this, you can get more than one Town Center before you have a
Government Center, and as soon as you reach the Tool Age, you have a huge
advantage using this technique. E. g. you can still get villagers while upgrading to the new age, and you can produce villagers twice as fast when you have farms that give you enough food for that. This is certainly not in the spirit of the
game, and I recommend that this is fixed with the patch. Otherwise, leagues
and ladders might be ruined with this trick - especially since the
usefulness of it depends very much on the map.
How to fix it
There are several ways to prevent this trick:
-
disable the building queue feature altogether - it is only really useful
in deathmatch anyway
- restrict this feature to certain building types, e. g. only houses, only
buildings that produce troops + houses, all buildings except the Town
Center
- make it impossible to self-destruct the Town Center - since this
building is immune to conversion, deleting it makes no sense normally. This
idea came from Greg Shaffner.
Whichever alternative might be chosen, I hope that it will be fixed soon. It is the only
bug that seriously affects multi player games.
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