Recent content by Kong99

I had decent resources and start location, but for some reason my early development dragged a bit. I did miss the early religions and I suppose was fortunate to have Judaism spread from Elisabeth. I felt like I was behind once I realized I was isolated... not sure what I did wrong on this one...

Howdy, I started a standard game, Large map, Epic, Fractal, Prince, I was given Roosevelt. I realized early on that I was alone on a good size continent. I sent out a Galley to discover what I could. I found another smaller continent unoccupied and below this another continent with one...

I was really feeling old earlier in the thread!! I played Civ I on a Mac, I think in '92, so I would have been 24 then. Did not play Civ III.

Let's see game facts: Prince, Large, Lakes, Epic, 9 Civs, Incan(random selection) - I achieved a Domination Victory in 1985, with a Normalized score of 13927 and an Abe Lincoln rating. The best I had got before was like Chamberlain. Thanks for all the help and suggestions. I attribute...

Yea Cabert, I'm not sure now if I wanted to generate a Great Prophet but wonders of that type were unavailable so I went for the Gardens knowing it generated an Great Engineer or was just mistaken, not sure, but I know now that I LOVE Great Engineers and Great Scientists!! I'm cranking now...

Ok, I started another one. Prince, Lakes, All Victory Conditions, Epic, Large Map. I always do Random leader and got the Incan. It is 830 AD and I've got a score of 601, the next closest is Loius at 518 and the lowest is Alexander at 329. I have 7 cities founded with plans/space for 2...

Monte won a Diplomatic victory in 1988. Diplo kinda odd to me, I'm thinking to myself doesn't anyone else want to win?!!? I usually watch the timeline after the game and I most definetely am not expanding fast enough. I've got to crank out more cities faster... period. I like to play...

Vik, thanks, that dawned on me while playing this current game. I'm not gonna win but I'm holding my own, Montezuma is being an arse and draggin Khan along with him. Here maybe is a better question, do ya'll have a general rule on number of cities?? I know many factors affect this, but for...

Thanks for the responses guys. I rarely whip, IMO it is normally counter-productive. IMO if I get to 50% research then I'm done unless it's there VERY briefly, because you fall so far behind in research. I have focused more on economy this current game, in particular research, and am...

After winning my second game playing Prince, I have gotten me arse handed to me in the last three. In particular I am not generating enough coin early in the game, early being say around 1000BC-1000AD. (Before access to Market, Bank, etc) I am getting knocked down to 50% Research and this is...

Still very much a CIV newby but I pulled a Space Race Victory in my 2nd Prince game. I actually won the game on the very last turn, I had kept a couple of forest around my 2nd city to help rush production of something important and it was just enough!! I beat Khan who had a large point lead on...

Thanks Ori!!

Hey Guys, Oldy/Newby here. Played Civ I and II when they came out, but never got serious about it. I just got Civ 4 a few weeks back and am trying to master it, so been reading here a bunch, and it has helped a lot. I can at least win Noble games now!! Ya'll use a great deal of...