Hey

Just trying to get a timeline of peoples average or best research speeds. I like to research as fast as I can and get the tech that matters as soon as possible so with that in mind, whats the fastest you'v reached gunpowder or the end of the tech tree ? as i see gunpowder as the midway mark in the tech tree... kinda :D. So far i usally land gunpowder at the 1200-1300 AD time frame, just wondering what everyone else is at ?

I have no idea when I get gun powder really. I just know that most of my games on Prince difficulty have been ending in the mid 1900s. I'm not sure if it's because I suck or if it's harder to rush down the tech tree than it was in civ3. I'm guessing it's a bit of both.

edit: I think it has a lot to do with the fact that you can't trade techs until alphabet and even then the AI's aren't willing to trade half the time.

Strange i find it easyer to rush down the tech tree in this one then in Civ3 for some reason. Then agian i didn't play civ3 all that heavely becuase the upset cities and civial disorder used to piss the crap out of me :P

I used to know a guy who claimed to tech-rush to Railroads by 1AD ... in CIVILIZATION ONE ... used to make me mad... b/c I suck... [pissed]

A friend of mine claimed he won the space race in 30AD or therabouts in civ1. I don't believe him, but then again I never played civ1.

all depends on, map size, how many civs, epic/normal/quick game. philosophical civ trait?

A friend of mine claimed he won the space race in 30AD or therabouts in civ1. I don't believe him, but then again I never played civ1.
OK, THAT is patently ridiculous without cheating. And if he was cheating, big frikkin' deal...

It was common for me to get gun powder before ad in civ 1 :D i used to play it in collage all the time becuase it fit on a disk :D no tracks left behind, but that was the fastest i could research.

Anyhow I'm talking about the wondefull civ IV :D anyone have a decent age they reached gun powder in or the end of the tech tree

Hey

Just trying to get a timeline of peoples average or best research speeds. I like to research as fast as I can and get the tech that matters as soon as possible so with that in mind, whats the fastest you'v reached gunpowder or the end of the tech tree ? as i see gunpowder as the midway mark in the tech tree... kinda :D. So far i usally land gunpowder at the 1200-1300 AD time frame, just wondering what everyone else is at ?

(On Noible) I'll usually get it a little bit earlier, but my best is by 800 AD, with the organized and financial traits. I got a sweet starting city, and combined with cottages and a couple big costal cities, I was able to be a tech whore like I haven't done since Civ II. I now think that grassland/floodplains with cottages on them combined with a financial trait might be a delightfully unbalanced combination. Try the financial trait if you like to tech blitz... it makes that strategy a lot easier.

I used to know a guy who claimed to tech-rush to Railroads by 1AD ... in CIVILIZATION ONE ... used to make me mad... b/c I suck... [pissed]

That's believable. I used to do that myself - it was easy after you got a few big cities with gold/gems or sea tiles together under Republic, as I recall. That game was badly balanced it's not even funny. I once got rocketry from a hut in Civ I (it was stuck on a 4 tile island until around 1300 Ad when my rifleman stumbled into it).

in civ 1, even the lousiest AI in prince mode got gunpowder before the bcs ended

In Civ 1 you could do tons of worker tasks in one turn via cheating.

I've gotten to the end of the tree in Civ 4 in the early 1800s at Chieftain. It would have been easy to get there faster, but I chose to go for a large culture.