Recent content by Ozmandius

OK, as mentioned in the start-up I had forgotten how UN formed so around 200 my first game I gave up waiting for the other Civs to generate enough Science for me to reach info age. In that game I conquered my starting continent but left the second alone. So I tried again (why is it boring to...

Just want to point out to get a diplo victory, you have to get the UN formed first. This happens automatically when either any civilization reaches the Information Era, or once half the world civilizations still in game reach the Atomic Era. At King level, Civs progress really slooooow. (My...

Turn 216 CV (but I cheated see below) I thought I would try something different. I mean, how tough could it be to win a culture victory if you killed off everyone else (but 1 weak opponent). First tech I discovered was archery, then built 6 archers which got me Indonesia. Upgrade to comp bows...

@BananaGod I didn't know about turning Shrines into gold. Thanks for that tip. Much better than just setting cities to produce gold.

Banana Policy Order 1. Tradition Opener 2. Liberty to free settler (and cheap settlers to build after that .. don't build any settlers before this) 3. Piety (now you should have a few cities so you can build shrines etc, should also have full Religion (eg. tithes, pagoda, +30%, happy shrines)...

Hi, took a quick look and here are my thoughts. 1) You are letting the AI control your cities and the city AI is really stupid (forever assigning pop to the wrong places). This has caused your city growth to slow down quite a bit. 2) Trade routes should be focussed on city growth (sending food...

@Bob, why don't you post your T200 game file? Maybe we can spot something (actually there's always something). For example, don't 'bulb' your great writers until 10 turns after you win the World's Fair (which doubles culture output and therefor doubles bulb effect). Took me a long time to...

@BananaGod Very impressive. I tried another game following your advice and it was much simpler to play. It shows how important good policy picking is. My game (didn't quite finish but got up to XCOM at T225 and took a couple of capitals) was a little slower. Partly because the Turks never...

Teach me! Pretty sure someone can do a better job than me. I've attached 4 save files below. Please take one and show me how I could do better. Maybe I should have been more aggressive after settling rather than build up and defend for 50 turns. Let me know how it turns out. T118 Settling...

Well, looks like this is going to be a really long game so here is a midway report (first 250 turns). T1 Assyria is quite a strong warmonger so looking forward to steam-rolling whoever my nearest neighbor is. Settle in place, build scout then monument. T10 Hello? Where is everybody? Use the...

Score Victory on T200 (1019) [though I chose to replay at one point so ...] Wow. Very strange map. Didn't meet one city-state till the very end of the game when everyone DOWed me. Anyway, settled in place and decided I would go just one city. My warrior wandered off to the far south and met...

OK, been a while since I tried a Prince so decided to give this one a try. Completed a Domination victory around T225. How useful was your UA? Useless. Started attacking as soon as possible so no one was ever bigger than me. Did you use spying to your advantage? Nope. Only got a spy at the...

I would suggest that you constantly bribe the AIs to attack each other. As long as they are building units, everything else slows down.

The sooner the better. Ideally (if you want to attack the Celts), you first bribe the Celts to declare war on the Inca, the USA, Venice .. everyone you can possibly get them to declare war on (and then you bribe the others ... Rome and Atilla for example, to declare war on Celts if Celts don't...

If you get other people to join you in the wars (even if they can't reach the target) you don't get the warmonger penalty (with that person anyway).