Max points for this game

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Taras Bulba

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like the title says, i want to get max points on this game as soon as possible, and im hoping to declare peace with the 2 remaining civilizations left. they just keep coming in my territory, and i kick em' out and they declare war again. my respect has gone waaaay down.

i want to get as high points as possible, i just don't want to retire to win, that is it. space race, and conquering are the way i want to win.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/109601/Play_the_World.SAV

hope that links works, im new to the world of game files :)
 
happy population point = 2 score points
content population point = 1 score point
specialist population point = 1 score point
unhappy population point = 0 score point
Other score points (such a future tech) are too insignificant to be worth discussing.

Add them all up each turn, average them, then you'll have your score.

There is also a modifier that get lower the later you win the game, it is only very hight when you win the game very early, for example, on a tiny pangaea map by conquest in the ancient age.
In other situations the best way to maximize score is usually to win the game at the last turn in 2050, with as big as possible happy population during most of the game.

Milking the game for max score is usually a very long and tedious process. I usually ignore score and just win the game as fast as I can, regardless of what my score might be.
 
Also 1 point per non-sea/ocean tile in your territory.
 
if You finish Your game earlier You get bonus :

years left till 2050 multiplied by difficulty factor (1 for chief, 2 for warlord...)
so victory in 1500AD gives You 550*diff

as MAS said - milking would (on bigger maps) give better score. but it takes a lot of time
 
The irony of milking is that the faster you (almost) win, the longer it takes (and therefore the more tedious it gets) to milk.
 
"Milking" is short for "milking dry," an expression with a negative connotation. It is often used for, say, companies who come with badly done sequels of movies, games, books, ruining the brand, and any positive view people used to have of it as a result, but getting at least still a little bit more cash out of it.
Or businessmen who know a certain costumer desperately needs/wants something, and exploits this by asking a truly unreasonable high price.

These actions are symbolically compared with a greedy farmer who milks his cow to such an extent that nothing remains for the calf. Where normally, a farmer should only takes a part of the milk.

In the context of Civ3, "Milking" is a dysphemism (opposite of euphemism) used for the act of trying to use every trick in the game to get the maximum possible score. This usually involves doing stuff that is not really in the spirit of the game.
 
MAS said:
There is also a modifier that get lower the later you win the game, it is only very hight when you win the game very early, for example, on a tiny pangaea map by conquest in the ancient age.
In other situations the best way to maximize score is usually to win the game at the last turn in 2050, with as big as possible happy population during most of the game.
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It has been proven by the HOF players that highest score on Tiny and Small maps comes from early wins. On large and huge, milking is the way to go. Standard is kinda iffy as to which approach is better.
 
Aceman101 said:
I find it that I get Most of my points from territory. Followed by happy citizens.
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true that, true that

reminds me when my brother played as rome, he utterly dominated everyone early on, leaving only 1 civ with like 3 cities that had no reasources left, to milk (although he just wanted more points, he didn't really know what he was doing.) so he covered the whole map with his cities and sent over a few armies of modern armor, just in case they send over a warrior or something.

whenever i get discouraged, i open that game, and wipe them out
 
Milking is not that bad. Did several of those games. At some point you can just start hitting enter all the time. For example in my last game it took me about 60 hours to get to 1250AD, then just 4 hours to finish it.

You can get a max of 4 points per tile, not counting food bonusses (1 for the territoy, 1 happy working citizen and a specialist).
 
Taras Bulba said:
true that, true that

reminds me when my brother played as rome, he utterly dominated everyone early on, leaving only 1 civ with like 3 cities that had no reasources left, to milk (although he just wanted more points, he didn't really know what he was doing.) so he covered the whole map with his cities and sent over a few armies of modern armor, just in case they send over a warrior or something.

whenever i get discouraged, i open that game, and wipe them out
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If the whole map is covered with your cities than you will probably have the most points. At the moment I'm wiping out England untill they give me their techs. Then I'll have peace and after 20 turns declare again, and finish them off. Sometimes it's fun to take all but three cities of the enemy. If they have no resources then all they can build are spearmens and warriors. Which are no match for MA's (Modern Armors).
 
Aceman101 said:
If they have no resources then all they can build are spearmens and warriors. Which are no match for MA's (Modern Armors).
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not neccessarily, some of the civs in that game had riflemen, which should be no match for MA, but they still lost to em :(
 
Taras Bulba said:
not neccessarily, some of the civs in that game had riflemen, which should be no match for MA, but they still lost to em :(
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Oh Yeah, I forgot, you don't need resources to build riflemen. But they shouldn't win too many battles against MA's. What's riflemens defence? 6 or 7 I think. So if a riflemen had 6 defence and was fortified, that increases his defence by +50 so that would make the riflemen about 9 defence. Which isn't much chance of winning against MA's but it's about 1 in 3 that the MA will lose. So that would explain why you have lost a couple of MA's. But if the riflemen were attacking your MA's then the odds would be about 1 in 7 that the MA's lose. Were you attacking or was the enemy attacking?
 
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