I Hate the Babylonians.

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Tomoyo

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• May 26, 2004

• #1

Well, I don't really hate them, but I was one turn away from my first ever Diety Space Race victory, and...

Stupid Culture

I guess the reason I lost was because of the slow tech pace. I have never thought that in 1918 I would be researching the Laser! I had never participated in any real wars. Tech just went slow.

Standard Continents, 4 Billion, 70% Water.

 

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WildFire

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• May 26, 2004

• #2

Damn that sucks! Didnt you have spy's? Try to sabotage?

 

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Tomoyo

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• May 26, 2004

• #3

I did. Spies don't kill culture though. If I didn't state it clear enough, it was a (I think) 100K cultural loss.

 

HamaticBabylon

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• May 26, 2004

• #4

Babylon is the best civ ever! to bad you lost the cultural race.

 

Binnor

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• May 26, 2004

• #5

Very unlucky mate. It had to be Babylon, the culture kings, didn't it? That tech rate is very slow: normally on deity I don't have any problems with cultural victories and the space race is completed in the 1400/1500s.

 

Milan's Warrior

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• May 27, 2004

• #6

Reload a saved game a few years before and do something about it. :wink:
Declare war to them and raze one of their cultural hubs or something

 

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collin_stp

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• May 27, 2004

• #7

Maybe you should change your profile to be the same as Sealman's.

 

Dell19

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• May 27, 2004

• #8

Ouch can't be very nice to be that close to winning and then lose... Reloading might work but it won't be such a great victory.

 

SuperBeaverInc.

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• May 27, 2004

• #9

Everyone hates the Babylonians. They ruined my latest attempt at Emperor.

 

sealman

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• May 27, 2004

• #10

collin_stp said:

Maybe you should change your profile to be the same as Sealman's.

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I am always looking for fellow Babylonians haters. Although, for some reason, I have never lost to them via culture.

 

Dell19

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• May 27, 2004

• #11

I had a game where they were miles ahead of me in technology which was pretty annoying...

 

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llebsirhc

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• May 27, 2004

• #12

I find it rewarding to disembowel and annihilate the Babylonians as early in the game as I can. That way, I don't have to worry about them getting a culture victory. You should try it... it's great fun.

 

jb1964

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• May 27, 2004

• #13

Yes, killing the babs is a special delight.

Zulu are a close second for me. If you ever want a war with the Zulu, or just about any other AI (but especially the Zulu), just throw down a sacrificial town on the Zulu frontier and leave it undefended.

 

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HalfBadger

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• May 27, 2004

• #14

Tomoyo said:

Well, I don't really hate them, but I was one turn away from my first ever Diety Space Race victory, and...

Stupid Culture

I guess the reason I lost was because of the slow tech pace. I have never thought that in 1918 I would be researching the Laser! I had never participated in any real wars. Tech just went slow.

Standard Continents, 4 Billion, 70% Water.

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No wars? Than why didn't you build a few Culture buildings to have at least half of their culture, to avoid the 100k culture loss? Keeping an eye on opponents culture is usually a good thing, specially Babs.

 

Dell19

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• May 27, 2004

• #15

Just because he wasn't involved in a major war, doesn't mean that he didn't build plenty of units for defence...

 

WS78

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• May 27, 2004

• #16

Yes, killing the babs is a special delight.

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This one cracked me up, since I have kebab diner near my home named "KeBAB Delight"

 

Moss

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• May 27, 2004

• #17

There are many civs that I try to conquer early. The Babs are on that list.

 

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Andrewcool

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• May 28, 2004

• #18

I Don't like the Babylonians. I kept loosing cities to there culture. So what i did is i started a war with them. It took forever to get to there capital. Since most of the roads were destoryed. But for some reason every time i took there capital they had a new city some were. So i just kept getting mad. Even during the war i even lost some cities to there culture. They Finally lost and i got a +17 income from this war .

 

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collin_stp

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• May 28, 2004

• #19

personally, I don't find them to be worse than any other scientific civ, but my playing styles always allows a lot of culture. The civ I hate the most are Incans. They seem to conquer everybody, forcing me to do the same to keep up with them.

 

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Tomoyo

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• May 29, 2004

• #20

Dell19 said:

Just because he wasn't involved in a major war, doesn't mean that he didn't build plenty of units for defence...

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Actually, at my height of military, my army consisted of... 10 infantry and 5 cavalry.