15 Light Years per Turn??

[sodsleep]

So I was nearing the end of the first Diety game I thought I would win.

I was about 10 turns away, at 3 LY per turn, which I thought was the max, when the Aztecs come out of nowhere.. 8, 11, 15 LY per turn and they beat me by ONE TURN.

Is this just Diety adjustment, or is there something else in the game that can also boost LY per turn speed?

Thanks
Marc

 

[bbbt]

You can build the laser projects that speed up the ship multiple times, and they speed it up each time. Usually I have multiple cities with spaceports pumping them out.

 

[sodsleep]

Ah, didn't realize you could do more than one of each.. thank you.

 

[Sostratus]

Ah, didn't realize you could do more than one of each.. thank you.

This is the part of science victory where having a large industrial base of high production cities (and enough aluminum or power plant fuel stockpiled) will allow you to absolutely crank those lasers out in no time. Its easy to overlook that "multiple industrial cities" part if you just have one spaceport city and then a lot of campus/culture towns.

 

[Tech Osen]

This is the part of science victory where having a large industrial base of high production cities (and enough aluminum or power plant fuel stockpiled) will allow you to absolutely crank those lasers out in no time. Its easy to overlook that "multiple industrial cities" part if you just have one spaceport city and then a lot of campus/culture towns.

Making multiple spaceports just for the last phase feels like overkill to me. I usually just use one and have surrounding cities deliver builders to hurry production through the Royal Society ability.

 

[Victoria]

One for the first chop, one for the rest but a third for a laser chop is certainly best.
Chopped out 10 LY in a turn once so the Aztec could be trying something similar but without the log directory from the game I could not tell.

 

[Sostratus]

Making multiple spaceports just for the last phase feels like overkill to me. I usually just use one and have surrounding cities deliver builders to hurry production through the Royal Society ability.

But what else am I going to make with my carpet of 100 Per turn cities?!
#HansaPride

 

[Alphons Rodulfo]

When I saw the title of this thread I thought it would be about the sheer impossibility of letting something travel a speed greater than the speed of light. They should have stuck with Alpha Centauri.

 

[Loderingo]

So I was nearing the end of the first Diety game I thought I would win.

I was about 10 turns away, at 3 LY per turn, which I thought was the max, when the Aztecs come out of nowhere.. 8, 11, 15 LY per turn and they beat me by ONE TURN.

Is this just Diety adjustment, or is there something else in the game that can also boost LY per turn speed?

Thanks
Marc

I must admit I am quite surprised by this as I have never seen the AI build the projects and in my recent game overtook Cree when he had a 20 year head start. Maybe you need to sabotage some spaceports!

 

[Galvatron]

Making multiple spaceports just for the last phase feels like overkill to me. I usually just use one and have surrounding cities deliver builders to hurry production through the Royal Society ability.

Ies, tovarisch, no need for buildingk more than rokit platform. Random mysterious axploshuns are highly unlikely to cause delays, dah. After all who would ever wish for downfall of kapitalist pigs?

 

[Tech Osen]

Ies, tovarisch, no need for buildingk more than rokit platform. Random mysterious axploshuns are highly unlikely to cause delays, dah. After all who would ever wish for downfall of kapitalist pigs?

Can't remember the last time my spaceport got sabotaged and it's by far my most common VC. Proper spy usage ftw.

 

[Victoria]

Can't remember the last time my spaceport got sabotaged

I killed 4 spies attacking my spaceports last SV... 1 from Gilga and 3 from Qin. Personally I think Qins spies were just looking for an excuse to leave the country.

 

[Canadian Bluebeer]

Nuclear Missiles will take care of those pesky spaceports.

 

[Minou]

Out of curiosity what turn was this? I have never seen the AI run lasers but then again they usually are barely getting the Satellite launched by the end of long games.