Urtica dioica
Chieftain
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- May 8, 2008
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In response to this question about how well we can do at Emperor+1 (level 5, one tougher than Emperor), why not find out for sure, by doing a GOTM?
Here's the scenario: I started a random game, and set difficulty to Emperor, 7 civs. I pressed ESC to get a random civilization, and happened to get the Egyptians. I played the first turn (you're not allowed to save in 4000 BC), and just plopped the city down, since the site looked OK. Then I saved and edited the save file to increase the difficulty a notch. Loading the save, where it would normally say "Emperor Ramesses, Egyptians/3980 BC", it says " Ramesses, Egyptians/3980 BC", since there's no name for this level of difficulty. Further confirming that I did it right, the first bulb box fills at 16 light bulbs.
I don't know much about the scenario, since the most I've played it was to confirm the size of the bulb box. It looks like there are only 10 tiles south of us, so we're pretty close to the south pole. Top 5 cities shows we're up against the Romans, Indians, Babylonians, and French, with Americans/Chinese and English/Greeks unknown. We've got no free advances and only 1 settler, so there's a good chance we'll be on our own for a while. On the other hand, a lack of neighbors indicates no barrier for Barbarians. There's a sad lack of shielded grassland around us, but there could be some 2N1W, 1N2W, 2S1W, and 1N2E.
I'm not going to be picky about cheats, as long as you say which ones you used. The Civ 1 GOTM never ends up that competitive anyway. What I do want is discussion and fun, so go ahead and play it again after you're done, even though you have foreknowledge.
Here's the scenario: I started a random game, and set difficulty to Emperor, 7 civs. I pressed ESC to get a random civilization, and happened to get the Egyptians. I played the first turn (you're not allowed to save in 4000 BC), and just plopped the city down, since the site looked OK. Then I saved and edited the save file to increase the difficulty a notch. Loading the save, where it would normally say "Emperor Ramesses, Egyptians/3980 BC", it says " Ramesses, Egyptians/3980 BC", since there's no name for this level of difficulty. Further confirming that I did it right, the first bulb box fills at 16 light bulbs.
I don't know much about the scenario, since the most I've played it was to confirm the size of the bulb box. It looks like there are only 10 tiles south of us, so we're pretty close to the south pole. Top 5 cities shows we're up against the Romans, Indians, Babylonians, and French, with Americans/Chinese and English/Greeks unknown. We've got no free advances and only 1 settler, so there's a good chance we'll be on our own for a while. On the other hand, a lack of neighbors indicates no barrier for Barbarians. There's a sad lack of shielded grassland around us, but there could be some 2N1W, 1N2W, 2S1W, and 1N2E.
I'm not going to be picky about cheats, as long as you say which ones you used. The Civ 1 GOTM never ends up that competitive anyway. What I do want is discussion and fun, so go ahead and play it again after you're done, even though you have foreknowledge.