5020 Years of Greatness: A Babylon OCC in RFC DoC

[baseballpie]

//can a capital flip? (I've only seen it in an illustrated story from Sulla a long time ago)

This is the only question I can answer. In base RFC, your capital is immune to flips, regardless of location, and it led to a strategy called "squatting", which was that you would found your capital in another civ's flip zone, (Such as in settling Rome as Carthage) and they would spawn in a different, preferably sub-optimal spot.

In DoC, the mod mrrandomplayer is using, the creator, Leoreth, found a simple solution. Only capitals founded on the spot that you spawned on are immune to flips. (There are probably some other cases where capitals are immune to flip, though) All other capitals will flip to a newborn civilization.

 

[dmd175]

Remember that lots of flips can be easily gotten around or prevented.

Is the method -- similar to BTS preventing culture flips -- garrison troops, courthouses, ?

The culture screenshots are because that area is Iran's core area and only my historical area.

That seems weird: how could the tiles 1E and 1 NE/1SE of your capital not be part of your core area? (I forget, you may have moved to found Ashur instead it Babylon). but still their core is extending 5 tiles toward you, how did they generate that amount of culture pops so fast?

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Is the method -- similar to BTS preventing culture flips -- garrison troops, courthouses, ?


That seems weird: how could the tiles 1E and 1 NE/1SE of your capital not be part of your core area? (I forget, you may have moved to found Ashur instead it Babylon). but still their core is extending 5 tiles toward you, how did they generate that amount of culture pops so fast?

I meant dealing with spawns by spawn killing the civ.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Starting the final update now!

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Chapter 24: The (Space) Race Against Time (and Germany)

The epic final battle between good and time began with the birth of a Great Engineer. A Great Engineer that was COMPLETELY USELESS, because he couldn't speed spaceship part production. Hammurabi still had other ideas for him, so he held on to him...

Hammurabi got a technological boost in composing his spaceship.

Two more spaceship parts were added, increasing Hammurabi's lead against his hypothetical competitors.

Maria, like a stereotypical girlfriend, required Hammurabi to give her even more items and gold. However, Hammurabi enjoyed every night with her and every pleasure she had to enjoy with him as well. Hammurabi also needed her shiny aluminum to make his new creation.

Hammurabi added another spaceship part to his grand invention.

Meanwhile, Hammurabi's scientists singlehandedly discovered how to build a robot to run the government while Hammurabi built his spaceship.

Hammurabi's Great Engineer also built a massive elevator into space that would attract his scientific competitors in the space race and "accidentally" eject them into space.

Stalin launched the first destructive nuke that the world had ever seen. While some trembled in fear, Hammurabi kept working on his spaceship.

This picture doesn't have any strategic importance, I'm just mildly amused to see Hindu Suharto because I rarely see Suharto as the leader of Indonesia.

Another part was added as Hammurabi encased his chances of victory in his spaceship.

Some Internet hackers stole some medicine from other nations and showed Hammurabi how to make it.

Hammurabi built more casing on his spaceship, as success seemed to be the case.

Those same hackers also stole the blueprints for some Superconductors and showed Hammurabi how to make them.

Hammurabi thrust his project into the next stage of production: attaching the propulsion engines.

Ashur achieved Legendary culture. It's a pity that one can't win a culture victory, even in a true OCC. Also, look at how absurd the actual city is in combination with the City-States civic. I haven't even shown you the dozens of Great People settled.

Hammurabi learned about proper nutrition after discovering Fiber Optics.

Another useless GP was born in Ashur. However, look at how much I get out of settling him. An extra , and extra , and 2 !

MOAR THRUSTERZ!!!!?!?!?!!!!!?!

Hammurabi stealthily entered the Future Era by discovering how screwed up his gene pool was.

Ifsahan finally culture-flipped to Hammurabi from the Vikings (burned as usual), which reminded him to spend more useless gold on upgrading all of his Infantry to Mech Infantry.

I actually have too many images to upload in one post, so I will break this update up into two and finish the story in the next post.

Directly continued in Chapter 25.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Chapter 25: The Last Leg of the Marathon

Directly continued from Chapter 24

Hammurabi could see the end at the light of the tunnel, so he slammed his foot on the gas pedal and churned out more spaceship parts.

Hammurabi discovered the secrets of Fusion and discovered every single tech in existence, but time was running out, as Bismarck had launched his spaceship.

Hammurabi finished his fourth thruster, then finished his first engine, making the spaceship technically able to be launched. However, it would be one turn too slow, unless Hammurabi wanted to take a gamble with the ETA.

Hammurabi finished another Engine, but he would still be one turn slow. Did he decide to launch it? Did he win? YOU DECIDE!

...

Just kidding. I wouldn't end a story like that.

Maybe

I'll

finish

it

but

to

make

a

long

story

short,

the

winner

of

the

space

race

and

the

game

was..............................................................................................................

That's right, Hammurabi played it too cautious and lost everything with victory in grasp.

However, he was satisfied with his long 5011 years of existence as an immortal. He had discovered the entire tech tree and became one of the most powerful civilizations in the world. He had outlived nearly all of his enemies. He survived and beat the Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Seljuks, Turks, and Iranians. He had built a truly extraordinary city worthy of the title of the greatest city in the world, filled with wonders, great people, buildings, and specialists. And he had done all of that with one city.

Hammurabi was satisfied with his life, unlike Rajendra Chola. He decided that he would party the hell out of his last night, then go to bed with Maria. In the morning, he had gone and passed on to the Firaxis, where all immortals went when their time was done.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Epilogue and Thank You Post:

First of all, I would like to thank many people for making this story work.

I would like to thank Rhye for making RFC and Leoreth for making the amazing mod that DoC is. I truly think that it is the best mod for civilization (even better than FFH2).

I would also like to thank everyone that voted in my poll on who to play as for making me play as Babylon. They are an awesome yet underrated civ, but unfortunately, their tech rate has been heavily nerfed in the latest SVN *cough cough* Leoreth *cough cough*. I wonder why that happened?

Thirdly, I would like to thank Tomorrow's Dawn for posting his amazing stories. His Kition story inspired me to join Civ 4 S and T and he also taught me how to become much more aggressive in my Civ 4 Strategy. Before then, I was a peaceful culture-monger who would never declare war under any circumstances. Thanks for the inspiration!

In terms of strategy, I would also like to thank Tachywaxon (I hope you're still around) for teaching me some of his Babylon strategy in his Babylon AAR. Before I had read his story, I only cared about harassing China's economy enough to allow me to research Math (which rarely worked). I also learned the strategy to kill Persia, and that has helped me in many other games as well.

Lastly, I would like to thank all of you readers, whether you're a long-time lurker, veteran from another subforum, Civ 4 S and T regular, or person who reads this several years from now and is inspired by it. I would also like to apologize for thank you for enjoying my truly terrible amazing puns.

One last thing, I am not quite sure about what to do in the future. With more RL commitments and my own DoC modmod, I'm not sure whether I will start work on a 4th story while my Tamil story is in hiatus in all except name. I can do one of the following (I will try to do more than one, though):
-Put more effort into my Tamil story and try to break through my writer's block.
-Write my Greece AAR. I have all of the screenshots and ideas ready for a Greece AAR that I played a few months ago, but I decided to put it off until I finished this story.
-Play out and write a new AAR for DoC. If you guys want that, you have to tell me who you want me to play as, how you want me to write the story (if you care), and if you want any special restrictions (if you want).
-Not make a new story and instead focus more on my modmod.

Please post what you want me to do now in the comments!

 

[CFCoasters]

STUPID BISMARCK!

Oh, well, that was quite a good shot. Great game, random! I know I didn't comment much, but it was definitely an entertaining game. As for what you should do next, my suggestion - use the Mongols (in DoC of course), conquer as much of the world as you can, and see if you can keep that empire until the modern era. I tried it once, but the game began to lag so much towards the end that it was literally unplayable. Of course, if you want to do something else, that's perfectly all right with me.

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

And so ends another exibition of the worst puns ever...

JK
Great story as always mrrandomplayer! I would love tp see a Greece AAR, but I understand if can't.

 

[pole475]

A great story goes apundent with puns.
(I know that was a lousy attempt)

 

[baseballpie]

Nice story, great game, just couldn't pull it out of the bag.

I would love to see another story by the worst best punmaker on S&T. Just please, goodness, no more puns.
Grease Greece seems pretty cool.

Reminds me again to update my story.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

I'll be taking your ideas into account until Friday, when I'll decide. At the moment, popular opinion seems to favor Greece, but I will wait for a bit to see if more people will comment.

 

[CFCoasters]

I'll change my vote. I'd love to see what you can do with Greece.

 

[Toxicman007]

If you have the Greece AAR pretty much ready, why not just post that fairly regularly (say, updates twice a week?) as you play a new one?

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Unless a vast majority suddenly appears and wants me to do something else, I will probably start the first chapter for the Greece AAR soon.

 

[pole475]

Yay! More stories!

 

[CaterpillarKing]

I just went through and read this and I have to say two things. First off, where is the Greece? Also, great story. I now understand why you consider yourself the best punner

 

[mrrandomplayer]

I just went through and read this and I have to say two things. First off, where is the Greece? Also, great story. I now understand why you consider yourself the best punner

I put Greece on indefinite hiatus. There is a chance that I'll revive it, but it's very unlikely.