Recent content by bcool

Just wanted to thank you guys for keeping the gotm games going with such creative games. I think I submitted my contender save game on time with a space victory 1555 AD. I avoided the protective AI in the beginning (just stole a worker from China) and then took Berlin. Then took Hammi's capital...

Good luck, happy to offer advice or tips if you are interested. I've learned a lot from other players and I'm happy to pass on the knowledge. Learned a few things perhaps recently on the settler and lower difficulty level space games.

What about settling 2W of the settler. That way you have early access to the gems (still have the clams and the cow in the city radius). Can share the clams and cows with a 2nd city that settles on the river near the corn. And you can skip researching agriculture and go for mining and bronze...

Not sure if my game will count (might have missed the deadline and I had issues with the save files since I reinstalled the game) , but I tried a slightly different strategy with Joao than a normal space game. I got optics around 1AD and settled a lot of cities in the new world with the carrack...

Sorry to throw anyone off, I guess it was a random city name "Montezuma's Castle". I hadn't ever seen that before so I thought it must have been a map feature, but apparently not.

Not sure if my game will be accepted, since I had a few problems reinstalling and setting up the game. Regardless it was a fun game with a neat map and interested twist with the always war civilizations. I did go for space and corporations and noticed that there wasn't any oil or uranium in the...

Ah well it isn't worth it if you have to research Theology.

Using the great engineer for the pyramids gives lots of interesting civic options. Early representation gives early happiness which is sometimes a problem on Deity and it gives the settled great prophet the research bonus. Also an earlier pyramids also gives another early great engineer... The...

Deity also defeated me.

Seems we need a test out a few ideas. Settling on the plains hill might be worth the risk. Even without another hill, working the unimproved crabs while you build a work boat isn't that bad since the commerce is important too. The workboat gets built 8 turns slower (original numbers were wrong...

Space Race victory 1575AD, advanced start helped, earlier Statue of Liberty helped, Humbaba helped, the AI didn't really help with any tech trading to speak of however.

Fun game, but there was a lot of luck on my part in the early game as I played way too aggressively in the beginning and got away with it. I stole a worker without even speculating that the AI had their own Humbabas. I stole the worker and fled before the AI reacted with their own Humbaba and...

My game didn't get accepted. Not sure why. My computer hard drive recently died and I had to reinstall the game, so some of the settings might have gotten changed or lost.

Tried Space without war. Lots of difficulties and interesting developments. So many of my space games are fueled by world conquest that it was a challenge to rethink the strategy. My early game was very weak I think. I didn't attempt the oracle and expanded too fast without teching pottery for...

Submitted a 1450 AD win with 2nd attempt where I turned off tribal villages and random events.