24-Bit Voxel
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Hello all, just thought I'd share this gem with those of you that haven't already thought of it.
I've been doing the following to set myself to accept Hyborem as my new civ, and pump my town up to 99 with no unhappiness. It works on Monarch, but I havent tried it on the higher diff. levels.
1) Use a civ that starts with either exploration or ancient chants. (We are going to switch to Hyborem so it really doesn't matter which one.) The reason for this is so we are one step closer to mysticism or fishing, both of which we need.
2) Get a tech or two to help generate some gold. Education for cottages or calender if you can use it (without bronze working). This will speed up your research as gold increases commerce which increases research.
3) Get the Octopus Overlords religion, and mind stapling so you can build the tower of complacency. Make sure its your best town that you build it in. By now you should have at least 3 or 4 squares that provide 5 gold or more.
4) Go for philosophy so you can research way of the wicked and get Infernal pact. At this point I never have more than 3 towns. Do what you can to trade for priesthood during any of the following steps if anyone has it for religious dicipline. (This will give us unlimited priests.)
5) Get way of the wicked and start building prophecy of ragnorok in the town you built the tower of complacency in. If you don't have priesthood yet, get it now.
6) Go for Infernal pact.
7) 1 turn before it is done, (keeping in mind barbarian closeness and strength) disband all units except for 1 in your main town. (The one with the wonders)
8) Get Hyborem and immediately declare war and take that town. Put all your units in it as 2 or 3 civs usually declare war at this point.
9) Use your manes to increase the population level when you get them, and with prophecy of ragnorok you get 1 free hammer per priest. Religious dicipline will allow you to have unlimited priests. With no unhappiness due to the tower of complacency, each priest is really a free hammer and free great people points.
10) Now all of a sudden you have a town that has no unhappiness, and huge production even without workers or any worked tiles provided you use them as priests. I had my national epic here and was generating 430 or so great people points per turn. I managed to get my town up to size 75, building all units and non wonders in 1 turn, with wonders taking 3 to 10 turns on average. Eventually youll want to get the civic that allows specialists to get 2 free research per specialist. I usually go for corruption of spirit here while Hyborem kills neighboring cities for doomsday points. Once I have Meshaber of Dis I keep Hyborem in my main town as he doesn't get the blitz promotion but Dis does.
Don't build courthouses if you can help it, they seem to trigger war with the barbarians.
I'm sure there are other tricks but this is the one I have been using. Have fun!
I've been doing the following to set myself to accept Hyborem as my new civ, and pump my town up to 99 with no unhappiness. It works on Monarch, but I havent tried it on the higher diff. levels.
1) Use a civ that starts with either exploration or ancient chants. (We are going to switch to Hyborem so it really doesn't matter which one.) The reason for this is so we are one step closer to mysticism or fishing, both of which we need.
2) Get a tech or two to help generate some gold. Education for cottages or calender if you can use it (without bronze working). This will speed up your research as gold increases commerce which increases research.
3) Get the Octopus Overlords religion, and mind stapling so you can build the tower of complacency. Make sure its your best town that you build it in. By now you should have at least 3 or 4 squares that provide 5 gold or more.
4) Go for philosophy so you can research way of the wicked and get Infernal pact. At this point I never have more than 3 towns. Do what you can to trade for priesthood during any of the following steps if anyone has it for religious dicipline. (This will give us unlimited priests.)
5) Get way of the wicked and start building prophecy of ragnorok in the town you built the tower of complacency in. If you don't have priesthood yet, get it now.
6) Go for Infernal pact.
7) 1 turn before it is done, (keeping in mind barbarian closeness and strength) disband all units except for 1 in your main town. (The one with the wonders)
8) Get Hyborem and immediately declare war and take that town. Put all your units in it as 2 or 3 civs usually declare war at this point.
9) Use your manes to increase the population level when you get them, and with prophecy of ragnorok you get 1 free hammer per priest. Religious dicipline will allow you to have unlimited priests. With no unhappiness due to the tower of complacency, each priest is really a free hammer and free great people points.
10) Now all of a sudden you have a town that has no unhappiness, and huge production even without workers or any worked tiles provided you use them as priests. I had my national epic here and was generating 430 or so great people points per turn. I managed to get my town up to size 75, building all units and non wonders in 1 turn, with wonders taking 3 to 10 turns on average. Eventually youll want to get the civic that allows specialists to get 2 free research per specialist. I usually go for corruption of spirit here while Hyborem kills neighboring cities for doomsday points. Once I have Meshaber of Dis I keep Hyborem in my main town as he doesn't get the blitz promotion but Dis does.
Don't build courthouses if you can help it, they seem to trigger war with the barbarians.
I'm sure there are other tricks but this is the one I have been using. Have fun!