KingPoseidon
Chieftain
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2012
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I've been playing Civ 2 on Playstation recently, and keep being frustrated in the same way.
My strategy has followed basic guides written here: build lots of cities early, make a science/trade city, build wonders, advance science. As a result, I always have the largest, most prosperous, and most technologically advanced empire coming into the industrial age.
Assuming I then concentrate on tech growth rather than world conquest, set my science rate as high as possible, and try to boost city output, three things happen:
1) enemy AI's become aggressive,
2) enemy AI's start stealing technology (either with diplomats or by taking border cities with overwhelming force),
3) enemy AI's beat me in the space race by somehow running off a module/component/structural from every city each turn.
Since space updates don't follow Manufacturing Plant by very much I usually can't run off space components at anything like the AI's rate. Even at full production capacity with Plant, Factory and Hoover Dam, most cities only run off Structurals in 2-3 turns, Components in 5-6, and this isn't going to catch the computer up if it's launching the turn it discovers/steals Superconductor.
When I have a lot of cities, the computer seems to target them very efficiently. Favourite tricks include coastal bombardment, nuking then paratroops, and diplomats.
The third of these seems to be an effect of the AI cheating on wonders which is mentioned elsewhere.
Is this beatable?
I'm wondering if:
A) I need to stop advancing tech/production so quickly, and concentrate on money and units
B) I should be further ahead in the tech race by the time I get to space race
C) I should be building defensive/military improvements before advancing production
D) I need to advance money instead of science, to rush-build stuff
or something else I've not thought of? Basically, how are other people winning the space race?
My strategy has followed basic guides written here: build lots of cities early, make a science/trade city, build wonders, advance science. As a result, I always have the largest, most prosperous, and most technologically advanced empire coming into the industrial age.
Assuming I then concentrate on tech growth rather than world conquest, set my science rate as high as possible, and try to boost city output, three things happen:
1) enemy AI's become aggressive,
2) enemy AI's start stealing technology (either with diplomats or by taking border cities with overwhelming force),
3) enemy AI's beat me in the space race by somehow running off a module/component/structural from every city each turn.
Since space updates don't follow Manufacturing Plant by very much I usually can't run off space components at anything like the AI's rate. Even at full production capacity with Plant, Factory and Hoover Dam, most cities only run off Structurals in 2-3 turns, Components in 5-6, and this isn't going to catch the computer up if it's launching the turn it discovers/steals Superconductor.
When I have a lot of cities, the computer seems to target them very efficiently. Favourite tricks include coastal bombardment, nuking then paratroops, and diplomats.
The third of these seems to be an effect of the AI cheating on wonders which is mentioned elsewhere.
Is this beatable?
I'm wondering if:
A) I need to stop advancing tech/production so quickly, and concentrate on money and units
B) I should be further ahead in the tech race by the time I get to space race
C) I should be building defensive/military improvements before advancing production
D) I need to advance money instead of science, to rush-build stuff
or something else I've not thought of? Basically, how are other people winning the space race?