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Warlord
- Joined
- Nov 3, 2004
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- 202
I don't think I got 25% that many ruins, although I haven't looked at saves to confirm. When I get a chance I'll run it a couple more times 'cause I'm guessing I just had some poor luck. Did you use scouts to hit camps? On Settler it's certainly doable, but that may be one of the reasons I lost out on ruins, 'cause they're spending way too many turns healing. I think I under-appreciated the number of ruins I could get to with rapid exploration (I did push as much as I could, but I thought camps for 450 should be the priority) and I'll try skipping scout vs. barb and hope they last for my warrior(s) to clean up so I can find more ruins.
As for science, I need to get everything up faster to hit your curve. I can catch up in cities, but without the extra setler/workers from ruins and cash, I was at least 50 turns behind in growth and infrastructure by the the early 100's. If I can duplicate a start like yours I'm hoping I can keep up like 75-80%. I took almost a year off from civ 'cause I played 5-6 games on release and realized I could already beat deity if I was willing to slog out the turns (never finished a full deity so maybe I can't say definitively, but I sure felt like it was in the bag). Anyway, I knew I couldn't stay away forever and the patches have changed it enough that I'm trying it again, but it does mean my chops are nowhere near HOF quality.
As for science, I need to get everything up faster to hit your curve. I can catch up in cities, but without the extra setler/workers from ruins and cash, I was at least 50 turns behind in growth and infrastructure by the the early 100's. If I can duplicate a start like yours I'm hoping I can keep up like 75-80%. I took almost a year off from civ 'cause I played 5-6 games on release and realized I could already beat deity if I was willing to slog out the turns (never finished a full deity so maybe I can't say definitively, but I sure felt like it was in the bag). Anyway, I knew I couldn't stay away forever and the patches have changed it enough that I'm trying it again, but it does mean my chops are nowhere near HOF quality.