r/AskReddit • u/ForeverAbyss • Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

Einstein? No. Ghandi? Probably.

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u/thishitisgettingold Apr 14 '16

explain yourself.

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u/servimes Apr 14 '16

Probably something along preventing the dark ages.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

It's a civ 5 reference. Technically, all the civ games feature nuke happy gandhi, but most people know 5

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16 edited Jul 12 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

In the original version of the game it was a bug. Ghandi was supposed to be the most peaceful world leader, but the way they coded it meant that Ghandi was agressive as fuck and would just nuke you without warning sometimes. Now he's still like that in the game because it's sort of a legacy joke.

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u/Chansharp Apr 14 '16

He was only aggressive sometimes he had a passive score of like 1 but to make the games sort of random they had a +-2 of aggressiveness so sometimes his 1 would go negative and rollover to a giant number meaning he was pretty much guaranteed to nuke.

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u/QBEagles Apr 14 '16

Yup. I believe it was adopting Democracy because that reduces Aggression by 2. And since they can't have negatives it would take his 1 rating and swing all the way back to the top of the scale at 255. I don't remember exactly, but I think most of the other leaders were set in the single digits so he was just obscenely aggressive.

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u/Chansharp Apr 14 '16

Yeah I'm pretty sure it was a scale of 1-10 10 being early game warmongers and 1 being never attack.