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Yes, I think the best date is when you try to time killing last civs about the same time. I succeeded in this quite well. Unfortunately, I think I made a big mistake when Portuquese made a demand, I refused, and they declared war. This stopped my pre-roading to Portuquese/Viking/American areas...

I read this Kuningas' post from the past every time I plan for 100k: Seems like the best approach.

I have been waiting for this Space Race game. However, the amount of food in the screenshot is not enough for the needed growth. Pangaea is good as we can meet others fast, and of course rivers add commerce=beakers. I'll play at least until I'll get the maps, and then calculate if it is possible...

Planning and MapFinder After analyzing my first finished Sid milk game for 90216 points I wasn't happy about the result. My strategy was a failure, and the map had much more potential. I came to conclusion that I wanted fast tech pace to reach the key techs ASAP. This key tech seemed to be...

I'm planning to participate in this. First I thought it would be easy to find good maps for this, but after running MapFinder for a while, and playing with 2+ cows starts it seems not so easy. The problem with 80% water pangaia is that it can be any landform. Smallest domination limit maps tend...

Tech level was set to Regent-like level. I calculated that I could have reached fastest ever Space Victory, but I did not have time to finish. The map was also very good otherwise.

With a large empire most of your towns are producing only 1spt. But they can still produce a population point in 1, 2, 3 turns when all irrigated. If there's no Aqueduct, this food goes wasted. Also, the growth gets slower when the town grows to city and then to metropolis. So it's best to...

It was obvious from the pregame discussion thread to go for 20k in this game. The map turned out to be good for any victory condition. I chose to attack the AIs that were building wonders to make myself able to build all wonders. Exception to this was Temple of Artemis that I chose to ignore...

I have been playing Civ3 on and off since 2002. Civ4 and Civ5 have not kept up my interest so much. I still learn things in Civ3. Lately, I have been playing Small Sid domination and Huge Sid histographic games. Small Sid domination games are really hectic, fun, and quite quick. For milking...

Thanks. Something like that. I don't remember details as I started the game over 2 years ago. I was very afraid that Babylon would attack me too early, so I MA'd them against the English early. It took a while to setup the trade routes correctly, but then I got massive amount of GPT from the...

Thanks, that SirPleb's calculator I knew before, but the problem is playing until maxed pop, and this will take ages. Your formula seems useful, but depending on the "3.7" value, I have a bit better than Moonsinger, or lose a few thousand points. Looks like I have to play it quite a while...

Is there some tool to analyze the game save's turn scores? I remember seeing some picture (by Moonsinger?) about her and Kuningas' Sid milk games. If someone can find it, it would be nice. I'm slowly playing this game still, but wondering if I should finish it. It takes so much time and if I...

I played a milked Space Race game. I focused on land and population growth on primary, but tried to keep as fast research pace as possible. I also conquerred the world with horsemen, and left all AIs around to gain maximum war happiness. In the end, I finished Space Race in 1295 CE with a...

I did not finish last two Sid COTMs due to starting too late. This time I started early. Played Open as I thought fire rate 3 Dromons would be great help. QSC stats: 8 towns, 1 settler, 15 workers, 8 warriors, 4 spearmen, 2 curraghs. Missing Code of Laws and Currency from MA. Only south...

Yes, I remember that game well. It was my best Deity military victory at the time. Remote palace exploit was shunned in GOTM but there was no rule at the time. I think that date is impossible to achieve in normal GOTMs. Open this time. Pottery loss was too bad...

Thanks. I think it's my best science game ever. I started to plan the coming research turns with the help of TechCalc already in the Ancient Age, so I could maintain 4 turn research. This was easy until Industrial Age as I mostly relied on growth, joining workers, and finishing on libraries and...

3 settler/worker factories settled first Cities to size 12 asap - Sacrificing production to irrigations Dense city placement with no wasted tiles in core even with max 12 cities Lots of rivers + near coasts so almost all core cities high commerce Golden Age started before 1000BCE, 4...

I think I'll go with ToA. The plan is to avoid Education and use Great Library slingshot to Steampower. Avoiding Education means that many cities have unwanted border expansions and I have to destroy and rebuild them later, but the early territory gain should help with score. My continent seems...

I have been experimenting with Sid 20k for 3 years now and found out that the small pangaia is the way to do this. I play with Persia and shoot for CB Scientific Leader. With small pangaia, it is possible to take control of the world with Immortals so quickly that you lose only 1-2 wonders to...

I'm trying to do a Huge Sid milk run and I got a Scientific Leader from Philosophy pre 1000 BCE. Colossus, Pyramids, and Oracle are gone, Statue of Zeus I can't build. Rest of the wonders are available currently, although I have not all techs. I'm wondering what to build with this. Great...