Always check the victory settings

I was playing a custom scenario online. The map’s name was something like forest prison; the entire map is covered by trees and players start in a small clear patch and proceed to cut and farm and trade. No gold, stone, food sources. It was a 3v3.

Anyway, game starts off and I’m lagging behind. The other team seems to know what they’re doing and the host, I’m on his team, is sorta telling me what to do. The market trade is off kilter, rising every second. I keep trying to accumulate stone to build castles, but it’s tough. Eventually I noticed I got 1,000 stone and I get curious.

I check the match settings and see ‘Victory: Standard.”

Ohh baby, these folks are in for a surprise. I ask the host “should I build a wonder?” He tosses me a ‘no,’ and I disobeyed.

I pop that wonder up completely surrounding it with vills to build it fast.

The ‘300 years ‘til victory’ count appears. Host laughs. My Other Teammate is confused. And we all know the other team has got their fire lit.

Anyway, the other team tries to take it down. They’re unable. One of them quits a split second before I deleted my wonder with 70 years left.

I found it all funny. And I think the host too. I felt bad for the other team. Well, at least I got chance to pull this trick off. I was the victim of it in a Michi game once. But it wasn’t as bad as the time my teammate/host changed the game to last man standing before launch. That was a hilarious surprise.

So lesson to you all: make sure to change the map to last man standing before everyone clicks in to launch the game.