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I did some experimenting with moving the palace. A person can put hammers into palaces in multiple cities. Finishing a palace neither creates fail gold nor disrupts the progress on unfinished palaces. This could be useful in space race finishes. That is, using bureaucracy on overflow. The palace...

Sometimes things go right and sometimes they go wrong. In this game things went wrong immediately. The game plan called for a capitol on a river near either stone or marble plus a lux resource. Never start a game without an obvious source of commerce. Never. However, food considerations tempted...

I finally broke the 1200 AD barrier for a space win on the warlord level small map. State property works fast on the lower levels but I wanted to find speed for the corporate game. Resource distribution implies 40ish cities for a map size that almost won't cater to this. Whipping is too slow...

When Creative Constructions is present in a city with Aluminum Co. coal resources are counted as aluminum for corporate purposes. This means an increase in hammers from Creative Constructions.

Large highlands map with sea food. This map size offers a decent play for another corporation. Declining returns from Mining Inc. also leads a person to look for something else. The corporation being explored is Standard Methanol. Both value and quantity of resources make it attractive. There...

I have a space game going that should finish ~10AD. The Kremlin and Notre Dame were used to collect 32k+ in fail gold. That was more than enough to buy the 3 Gorges Dam. Purchase price after 1 turn and a few chops was 22374. No coal plants were built. 54 cities on same land mass.

Finished my first HoF game in years. Tiny settler marathon map. Previous record used Gandhi for a 460 AD space win. I just submitted an Asoka game. 440 AD. Waiting for acceptance. Strategy called for no academy. Period. Never! Oxford was late too. Around the time of Mining Inc. I over settled...

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Anyone have espionage stop working in BNW? One game it was working for me and next game it stopped. I get the new spies each era and the AI can do espionage but I can't get to espionage screen. Even control e doesn't work. I can also go back to G&K and espionage is working there but...

This challenge is to win a cultural victory on settler without using piety. I tested this out with Egypt and got to the following at 25 B.C. (Turn 114.)The strategy wasn't too fancy. GL->Parthenon and build a guild, spam the UU and kill, kill, kill. (Specifically, make sure to kill the...

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I've been working on an idea to get a non-financial leader to space before 1000 AD at settler standard, standard. Asoka seems to be the best candidate and may even be the best one. I just finished a game that was a near miss, 1010 AD. I usually have some kind of commerce resource in the capitol...

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Darius currently holds the record for a settler space colony game. On a huge settler highlands map at marathon, he launched the ship at 390 BC. I wanted to explore a different leader at these same settings. As far as strategy is concerned, the game would feature an environmentalism + Cereal...

A recent thread about enviromentalism got me thinking about some of my HoF SP space games. They have a lot of windmills so I loaded up a game about half way from the adoption of SP to launching the ship and made the switch to enviromentalism. Then I kept hitting next turn until the needed techs...

Has anyone had the game add things during a turn? A current game had some computer problems wanting to sleep. The game in progress was still playable on wakeup but the following turn it seems like something drastic had happened. A city got every building in the book: The auto save is from the...

This is an odd question but sometimes I run into situations where my only goal is to maximize watermills in a city. However if they are not erected in the right order a person either has to accept less watermills or spend worker turns retooling the landscape. So does anyone know a means where a...

The VEM mod, also known as Vanilla Enhanced with the unofficial patch, has some interesting features. I won't detail all of them but this leader caught my eye and inspired a goal to get a city with 100 population:Sanitation systems are aqueducts that add one food to all riverside tiles. The...