Crosspost from Civ2 Forum

[frisbee]

Your day will be less bright if you miss this post from Civ2.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=464142

[r_rolo1]

Moderator Action: You could had reduced the chain linking .... 4 link clicks to get to the target story is not nice. Here is the original story and here is a more concise resume in rock paper shotgun

For those that do not want to follow the links without a intro, it is about a player that is playing a civ II game for the last decade ( really? SMAC got out in 1999 ). He is currently locked in a 1700 year world war ( he already won ages ago and he is currently in the end of XL century AD ) ; there are 3 big superpowers waging a nuke war , the world ice caps melted atleast 20 times, making the world a swampy and irradiated mess that the intervening powers can't clean due to the never-ending war ...

[Jack Funk]

That is excellent. Thanks for posting it here.

[plasmacannon]

He's been playing the same game for 10 years?
So, how many years does one have to play a game like that, before calling it a 3-way tie?
Human beings are suppose to be intelligent.
If they play a game for the fun of it, then it turns into work and isn't fun anymore, they should recoginize that and walk away from the game.
I think, it is safe to say, that when the year hits 3991 AD and you are still tied with the AI, then you can call it a tie (ie. recognize reality) and start a new game. In this case, on a newer version of the game.
In his case though, I'd recommend a long vacation. He could have an addiction/obsession here.
It's time for some fun, that doesn't involve nukes.

[God-Emperor]

You should have gone and read the original. It's not like he's done nothing but play this. He digs up the save from time to time and plays some more turns. Not every day, or even every week, for 10 years - he has played other games (and presumably the same game but different starts) and done other things.

If you read some of the various posts, it turns out that there are also things he has not tried at least one of which is for roleplaying reasons (he won't shift a civic to Fanaticism).

It sounds like there is a long-term plan he is willing to try that could work to break the stalemate. The main part of it is to slowly build up a sufficient supply of engineers in a few core cities so that at some point, probably right after the next time the icecaps melt, he can rapidly fix some of the land around those cities and thereby gain just enough of an advantage to put a significant dent in the Vikings to get a long term advantage to break the stalemate. There is also the possibility of converting some of the swamps to ocean, which is immune to fallout and therefore remains workable.

It also turns out that the game is not completely static. There is still a tiny remnant of a 4th civilization (the Sioux) that the Americans are apparently slowly conquering, now down to 4 cities on an island. It seems to me that he should perhaps go take those 4 cities if he can - better that he has them than one of the other two, even if it is the less warmongery of the two.

Yes, I know - I spent way too much time going through that stuff over there...

[TheWilltoAct]

Originally Posted by God-Emperor

Yes, I know - I spent way too much time going through that stuff over there...

Your sacrifice benefits us all, nice work.

[GA econ FTW]

Originally Posted by r_rolo1

[mod4] ( he already won ages ago and he is currently in the end of XL century AD ) ; ...

40th century?, so 3900 AD....just wait....36,000 years, and start going after the Vikings with Space Marines and Leman Russ Standards.....

Knowing the Vikings though, they'll Bio-engineer Orcs upon that world, then engineers or not, you'll NEVER get them fully weeded out of that rock!