What Quests have you completed?

[Solo4114]

I've only ever completed the "Build # of Triremes". All the others I usually fail. My least favorite one is the Holy Mountain quest. Right. Because I want to settle every friggin' MOUNTAIN area? Get real. And stuff your quest.

Now, some of the others seem pretty cool, but I still rarely manage to complete them. Usually I've got other stuff going on and the rewards, while nice, don't justify deviating from my current strategy.

[Joshua368]

I find the library one and colloseum one (if I have their appropiate wonders) to be very nice.

[Ai Shizuka]

I've completed:

chariots (don't remember the reward)
swords (all swords promoted to CR1)
muskets (golden age if you have something - Taj maybe, not sure)
harbors + caravels (all ships promoted to navigation 1)
expand corp to 8 new cities (corp HQ produces +10 )
stables (mounted units promoted to flanking 1)
colosseums (golden age if you have the SoZ)
libraries and forges (don't remember the reward).


Got the triremes quest several times, but never completed it and the "settle x landmasses" a couple times, but never completed it.

[Gwynnja]

The stables one is cool cause it gives you food

[royal62184]

my favorite is best defense or something like that where you get 25 EP for having the great wall after building X number of castles depending on map.

[Bleys]

I like the Harbor one, where your ships can get Nav I out of the box. Godly event on watery maps, especially since I normally go for the circumvent bonus the instant I hit Paper/Optics.

I am actually a fan of the Random Event system in this game, I think it adds a lot of flavor. Some dont like em, I wont mention any names, but his initials are TMIT (heh, sorry, couldnt resist mate) because at higher levels, a few bad ones in a row (Your mine blows up, your Forge and Theater burn, and there seems to be a Pyro torching all the forests in sight) can be extra painful.

I have gotten a Quest and won it next turn a couple times, and I even got one and lost it next turn once, that sucked. Got the Stables +1 food one with Sury, thats sweet, Stable + Aquaduct = 1 free citizen, basically.

[Neal]

The Shaka King of the World game I just finished featured quite a bit in the way of random events. At first, we were buffeted by the cruel winds of chance, losing crucial early research and a pasture the turn after it completed. Later, though, I completed the Collosseum quest, grabbing the Golden Age with the Statue of Zeus. I gotta say, I, too, dig the events. Playing as I do on the Earth maps over and over, they add quite a bit of variety.

[assass1n]

Library (free scientist in Glib city)
Forges (free engineer)
Colosseum (GA)
Stables
Classic Defense
Some Army Doctrine or some thing which helped me force a NPT
Harbourmaster's quest
Another one which gives free Navigation I (though it was with Vikings which was a waste)
I hate that Colonize new lands quest and also Holy Mountain

[nanomage]

1. x caravels + y harbours (for navigation I to all naval units)
2. build x muskets (for GA)
3. build x knights (for settled GP in a city)
4. build x swords (everu sword gets CRI)
5. build x carries, y battleships, z fighters and w destroyers (every harbour + 5 commerce)
7. build x forges (engineer in capital)
8. build x collosseums (for 4 culture per one)
9. acquire the control of holy mountain (+1 happy face)
10. conquer th Holy city (convert some cities into your faith)
11. spread your corp to x cities (for 10gpt in HQ)
umpf, i thought i comleted a plenty of them, but now i see it's few... there a huge heap of quest which i failed and even a huger heap of which i only read in a after-game replay.

[Solo4114]

I think the Holy Mountain one you win by luck. Or if there's only on mountain tile on the map.

[azzaman333]

The only one I haven't completed is the blessed sea, founding 10 cities on different continents.

[Lessa]

On larger maps the blessed sea one can ask you to settle more land masses than there actually are which is very annoying.

[Joshua368]

What does that one give you, since it's pretty much impossible to win?

[azzaman333]

Originally Posted by Lessa

On larger maps the blessed sea one can ask you to settle more land masses than there actually are which is very annoying.

Actually, it can't.

Quest1:
	Blessed Sea
	Prereq: GALLEY or CARAVEL or GALLEON AND State Religion BUDDHISM or CONFUCIANISM or TAOISM AND Minimum number of Landmasses is 2*default number of players for this map size (12 for standard) AND Maximum number of Landmasses you have cities on is 0.5*default number of players for this map size (3 for standard)
	Obsolete: INDUSTRIALISM
	Active/Weight: 85/300
		Aim:
		Have cities on 1.5*default number of players for this map size (10 for standard) landmasses while never switching State Religion
		Result:
1.convert 20 own cities to your state religion
2.gain a temple in every city size 5 or more
3.get on great prophet unit

[Lessa]

Originally Posted by azzaman333

Actually, it can't.

Fair enough. I swear in my last game when it came up it was for more landmasses than I had. I must have missed a couple of tiny islands somewhere!

[royal62184]

Personally I love the quests mroe than anything. Is there a way (XML editor) to adjust how many quests you get a game. So basically every civ can get every quest every game just so I can add some flavor to my games.

[Solo4114]

I got the "one city per continent", actually managed to found a city, and then failed it anyway. I suppose the game's definition of a "continent" is any land mass larger than 3 tiles or whatever, and this was on an earth map where I didn't settle on Greenland. Why? BECAUSE GREENLAND ISN'T A CONTINENT. But I digress.

Anyway, I think the quests can be interesting at times, but like I said, I think they can distract you and the payoff isn't always fantastic. The trireme one is easy and as I recall pretty useful, but others are problematic unless you're already close to completing them anyway.

[azzaman333]

Originally Posted by Solo4114

I got the "one city per continent", actually managed to found a city, and then failed it anyway. I suppose the game's definition of a "continent" is any land mass larger than 3 tiles or whatever, and this was on an earth map where I didn't settle on Greenland. Why? BECAUSE GREENLAND ISN'T A CONTINENT. But I digress.

Anyway, I think the quests can be interesting at times, but like I said, I think they can distract you and the payoff isn't always fantastic. The trireme one is easy and as I recall pretty useful, but others are problematic unless you're already close to completing them anyway.

Actually, it's 1 city on 10 different islands (standard sized map), not continents.

[Solo4114]

I specifically remember it being continents, but whatever it was, apparently I didn't settle enough places, even though I had outposts in Asia, the Americas, Australia, and Europe. I also had one on New Zealand. I guess I should've gone for Greenland and boosted my tourist trade by settling in other tiny tropical otherwise-useless plots of land.

Which pretty much goes back to my "risk/reward" calculation: settling in all those places might be great for the AI, but for a human player it just means extra maintenance from crappy cities that aren't pullin' their own weight.

[Calouste]

On watery maps there's a quest to build a large industrial era fleet (3 Carriers, 6 Destroyers, 9 Fighters and maybe a few Transports or something like that) and the reward is to get Combat 1 to all those unit types. I completed that once.

Other I have completed:
Libraries (seem to get that one fairly often), stables, collosseums, corporations, forges