HiCiV - Competition 3 - Freight-City

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Competition . It is possibility for testing whether you know Civilization perfectly. There are unusual situations of real games in this section. Do you capable of explaining them? . There is Competition #3 below on this page. See full list of competitions also. . Competition # 3 : "Freight-City".
( very difficult )
. Trade Advisor

Date of start :

January 15, 1999.

Date of finish :

June 08, 1999.

Situation :

Maybe it's strange but all three competitions are about money. This one too.

Question :

How is it possible ?

Additional information :

Current standing :

January 15 :

January 17 :

January 25 :

January 31 :

Answer #1.

Well, first build that food freight from Freight-City. Then put Freight-City to build a wonder. Move the freight from outside the city, and then enter it. A box will apear, and you'll have some options, including "Help Build Wonder", another one that I don't remeber now, something like "move unit"... and also "Establish Trade Route". Select to establish trade route, and then you'll have the food route stablished.

When I gone this way I got the following:

Freight message 1

So I may not establish trade route in this case... Sorry...

Answer #2.

Send the Caravan to a nearby city of your own. Enter the city and select option of keep moving. While in City, make this your home city and return to your origin.

At the end of checking this letter I got the following:

Freight message 2

This is not I want too...

June 08 :

There are two ways to get situation described.
	The first one (that fully coinced with mine) is the following: "This sounds like the notorious "no support" bug that I love to exploit. When enough cities are created ... any unit created in (or supported from) the later cities will in fact be considered independent. [If your empire is large enough, you can use this to turn your entire army independent, freeing up all your shields!] The unusual thing about this, uh, feature is that a freight or caravan built in such a city is likewise considered independent. To get the event you're describing, build a caravan in one of these "neutralizing" cities. The support should read "NONE", for independent. Then bring it to Freight-City -- which can be any city in the world, neutralizing or not -- and have it establish a trade route. Presto! There's your message." These are words of Robert Owen. And as I understand Li Ruoyan has the same answer - he sent me sav-file.
	And there is the second way to get "NONE" freight: "Just bribing a foreign city caravan (when you bribe a unit that is closer to an enemy city than to your city it becomes a none unit) .... this one will appear after being bribed as belonging to NONE (as home city) but once you try to establish a trade route with Freight-City the message 'Food Caravan from Freight-City arrives in Freight-City' will be showed." The following civers sent me such answers: John Calder Manolo Palma Matjaz Malesic Steven Prabowo
Congratulations!
If I lost YOUR letter with right answer please don't hesitate to say me about my mistake.
And one more answer - from "Danger 'Pyro' Boy_006": "The freight moved all the way across the world, and was caught in a space-time coninum. then, suddenly, aliens invaded! the resulting chaos made it possible for the freight to scoot home with 3 wheels left. but, they got into the city and developed a trade route, because its home city thought the freight was from a rival city, and that it was bearing a much-needed peace offering. however, the computer caught the mistake a little too late, but it identified the error."

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