Early spaceship

What you should try is to get a SSC (super science city) with all science wonders in one city plus library, marketplace, university and bank. Further on you should be in republic or democracy soon as in the BCs science goes faster (IIRC) and in these government forms you get more trade going on (more trade = more science).
Also get "slave" cites for your SSC to build caravans, let these caravans contribute to your wonders.
Hope this was of any help...
 
I usually don't launch my spaceship. Prefer to advance my cities, build a army and control the world and other civ's like a superpower :)
 
Originally posted by Marx

Whehehe. I played many games on earth with the English. And when I had discovered everything, and London was a nice city. I took some units and overrushhed the world. (Or used the good-old diplomats for a revolt :D)
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i always like playing frm the english starting position in any civ, theres nothing like being able to sit on your island watching euope evolve.......while your building up america or something :D

but then again the ocean combat / travel AI in civ1 and 2 is just too poor for my style of play :(
 
Just a question, not to sound like a smart a**, but when you people are doing this... are you using any of the cheat codes? Cause I find a lot of what you say hard to believe... not saying not possible, just saying hard to believe. I am really not sure how the cheats work, but I heard that there is a cheat that allows you to have an unlimited turn, which would mean that one could actually road/irrigate/mine every possible square for a city in just one turn, and also have a ton of cities built in just a few years of the game.
If no cheats were used for you guys, congrats! That is an awesome job... if you did use cheats though, you should state that you did.

And please, don't come back here and flame me for this, I am new to the board, not the game. And I thought I was doing good at almost getting nuclear Fission in BC, using the see the world cheat, just so I could figure out the best places to build. Does that make me less of a person??? I don't think so... I just wanted to see how fast I could get to space cheat or no cheat.

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I don't use any cheats for this.
Posting on this forum gave me many ideas to improve on my game and if you hang around here than you will too be able to improve your game. By playing yourself and not hearing how others play gives you a one-sided view of the game and possibly you are doing things in such a way that are sufficient to win the game but not in a very fast way.
For instance, when you want to launch the spaceship really early, only discover what needs to be discovered for this: don't research horsebackriding or recycling etc.
Further you must commit to being quick, don't build temples, marketplaces etc. Build lots of caravans to get the wonders you need: science and happy wonders.
At the moment the civ1 section is not very crowded, never has been actually... ;) But when you start looking through a couple of the older threads you might find ideas on how to improve your game.
Also civ2 is somewhat similar to civ1 and going through some threads in that section might give you some ideas.
Well, good luck at it.

Remember: when I got here to CFC, I couldn't even finish the game so you're not doing too bad at all. You know how to play the game, you only need to get better! :)
 
I'm getting better at this!
 

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Yesterday I landed in 860 BC (Emperor, Earth, Russians, 7 civs). Could you report about an earlier landing? If so, I'll keep playing; otherwise I´ll look for another challenge (maybe chess). Thanks a lot.
 
I've never launched the space ship that early, either (I used to play on chieftain level back then - only tried King level once used ultra ICS, and lost via spaceship to Greece - made it into the Industrial era though). Reminds me of the "Armor by 1AD" article I read once. I could never get the spaceship (or armor for that matter - save for a bug in around 2000BC once where it spawned an armor when I took a French city)...

Unfotunately, my Civ1 CD (came with 3 other Microprose games) is long gone. :(
 
The only time I ever won at Emperor was on Earth with only three opponents. Poor I know. Spaceship got me 54%, killing everyone got me 106%, both about 1550AD.
I think my trouble is not building cities close enough. What distance do the experts use?
And my version (on floppies) seems different from some. What the heck is that funny thing behind 'predicts' in Zwelgje's screenshot?
 
Cities usually are close enough to "eat" all squares, i. e., no land square is out of a city radius. This, trying to minimize the tiles in 2 different city radius and maximizing sea tiles on them (very good at later times, when you get offshore platform, harbour and all that stuff...

I think my record was about 1100, 1200 as I usually focus in expansion, not in science...
 
carniflex said:
*** 720 BC ***
Player of dos civ1 for years, i've just got a modem, and... I found this website. I began to look for the earliest spaceship mentionned (the most interesting quest, to my mind). I found a 325BC.
Here are excerpts from the replay.txt civ1 made after I won.
"2840 BC: EGYPTIANS BUILD THE HANGING GARDENS
2560 BC: EGYPTIANS FORM DEMOCRATIC
2220 BC: EGYPTIANS BUILD J.S.BACH'S CATHEDRAL
2100 BC: EGYPTIANS BUILD MICHELANGELO'S CHAPEL
1200 BC: EGYPTIANS BUILD HOOVER DAM
1200 BC: EGYPTIANS BUILD SETI PROGRAM
920 BC: EGYPTIANS DISCOVER PLASTICS
920 BC: EGYPTIANS BUILD APOLLO PROGRAM
920 BC: EGYPTIANS DISCOVER ROBOTICS"
In 720 BC, the Thebes Weekly announce:
EGYPTIAN SPACESHIP ARRIVES AT ALPHA CENTAURY
(Of course, I played as emperor)
French, I hope my english to be understood, and soon have replies !
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WOW!! launched at 720 BC!!! how is it possible??
 
I get alerts everytime someone adds a new post to this thread. I think it's pretty amazing that people are still posting in it considering the thread started back in 2002. Pretty cool. Also, pretty sad too because it means there isn't much activity in the Civ 1 forums.
 
Look at it this way: For a 13+ years old game it still gets pretty much attention :)

I've stopped playing Civ2 long ago, I'm going to sell C3C on ebay next week, but I'm still playing Civ1. Only two games which still generate as much fun are Railroad Tycoon and Monkey Island 1.
Oh well, maybe I'm just a silly nostalgic ...

Back to the topic: Over all those years I played hundreds of games but never got to launch my spaceship before 1900 A.D.
But then, I'm not sure if I even want to. It's so much fun discovering the planet, cultivating the land and developing each (each, that is!) city. Also, I won't want the medieval times to start at 2000 BC and industrial revolution at 1 AC or so.

Maybe I'm rather playing Civ1 as a kind of civilization simulation than as a strategy game, who knows. Then again, tell me of any other games offering so much options!! :)
 
Yeah I have fun no matter what, and I usually just explore and build cities until about 1500AD. Then I activate massive armies and go to war, usually leaving one city of one civilization behind, just so the game doesn't end. It's actually kind of fun having 23 settler units running around building railroads across the world!
 
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