625K with Inca's: is it valid?

[jesusin]

1)
lbs? Where have you read of them? Sorry but I don't know the meaning

Oh, excuse me, I meant longbows:

You have to stop conquering now, maximize your research and build settlers, longbows and galleons. Once you've founded the sid sushi start to spread it to your five capitals, then found new cities and spread it to them. Colonize all the tiny islands you can.

Sorry for the worst english ever seen on this forum

When the content is so good, the wrapping doesn't matter
It's not so bad, anyway.

Thanks for the enlightment. I guess I'll have to try it myself once, before coming back with more questions.

 

[Tauro]

-I think you would want HG on the last turn on the lower levels.
-Nationhood is excellent in the endgame for the reduced costs and +2 happy for barracks. Much better than bureau.
-You can switch to environmentalism every so often once you have over 10k commerce per turn.

On monarch in most cases HG were built BC
Never tried nationhood; with free speech I noticed a reduced income, compared with burocracy, even if it's only a boost of 50% regarding trading
Maybe I can reach 10.000
In my games at 0% science I gain 2000/6000 gpt with a impressive beakers per turn (future tech in 3/4 turns); I tried to balance free market/ ambientalism, but I found it very hard to manage, maybe it coulb be the optimal end strategy, even with nationhood

Anyway feel free to test the civics in the last stage, and don't try to micromanage about 2000/4000 (never computed...) specialists

Congrats to Turkish for the ability to build so many cities.
P.S.
My million score game was the last game in civ4, so

See all you soon in civ5

 

[jesusin]

Thanks for the enlightment. I guess I'll have to try it myself once, before coming back with more questions.

Well, I did. Slightly different settings: Quick, Tiny. I noticed every Cereal Mill resource provided 1.5 food. I had only 10 of them

1800AD victory, 118K. I don't know if that is decent for the settings or not. The date is very late, I was losing points in the final turns.

I was surprised to see how easy managing the economy was. I observed little difference between running Merc or FM. 35 cities at the very end, less than 25 optimized.

 

[Robert Smith]

Thx for a great thread, a few questions

1.

If you do well you can go for the fist golden age at about 300 BC.

Are u using any of the GP for light bubbling your way up to Medicine (if yes, is it Philosophy, Education, Printing Press, Liberalism and Scientific Method?), or are you using GP for golden ages? Are you picking Nationalism as freebee from lib?

2.

You will be able to buy all your executives, markets, banks, harbours, settlers, courthouses in the initial stage of your sushi expansion when your research is cruising at 0%.

Except for a longbowman what buildings are placed in the production queue for your "colonies"?

3.

at about 100 BC, so you can switch to mercantilism and organized religion.

What religion do you pick as your state religion, Confusion or Taoism or are you going for Hindi, Buddhism (most common by opponents to keep them happy)? Do you have any problems with AP?

4.

In the rex phase is crucial expand on gold and other resources, avoiding the classical scheme of placing the BFGs in a regular way.

Are cities grounded with 2 square space so you can fit as many colonies as possible (the first 5-6 cities can of course be at square 3, 6, 9 or 12 multiple of 3 from each other)?

5.
During REX are you steeling any workers, conquer any opponents? Or is focus on research Bronze working, pottering and writing. Cottage 2-3 cities and secure resource as stone (pyramid) and marble (Oracle and Pantheon, I guess you skip GL).

6.
In your capital, except for Wall street are you building Oxford as national wonder) and in a second GP farm do you have National Epic together with National Park?

 

[Tauro]

Thx for a great thread, a few questions

1. Are u using any of the GP for light bubbling your way up to Medicine (if yes, is it Philosophy, Education, Printing Press, Liberalism and Scientific Method?), or are you using GP for golden ages? Are you picking Nationalism as freebee from lib?

Usually I use all my GP for golden ages, till the last one with 5 GPs. Nevertheless -on certain conditions- I use the first PG for math, when I've expanded too much and the research rate is too slow for a good timed CS. Note that obtaining the CS after 1300 BC will drive you in a anonymous game. You will score very decent anyway. In other circumstances, i.e. when I've a very good science capital, I can use a great scientist for the academy.
I take always biology, with an ordinary tip: I leave the scientific method as the last tech to research, I switch to lib research, and when I'm at the last turn of reseach I switch to scient method...

2. Except for a longbowman what buildings are placed in the production queue for your "colonies"?

granary
lighthouse
courthouse
when the pop will be over18/20 you will need to build markets and so on
remember that in the universal suffrage stage You will buy all in a few turns (obviously with Kremlin)

3. What religion do you pick as your state religion, Confusion or Taoism or are you going for Hindi, Buddhism (most common by opponents to keep them happy)? Do you have any problems with AP?

Simply I don't pick any religion: free religion (on golden age..) with swedagon paya

4. Are cities grounded with 2 square space so you can fit as many colonies as possible (the first 5-6 cities can of course be at square 3, 6, 9 or 12 multiple of 3 from each other)?

No. The placement for the rex depends by the capitols location, and the following cities must be optimal gold producers, so you can't seek a "squared scheme" for the city placement optimization.
Anyway I have a general rule: I often place the cities so that the BFCs are separated by 2/3 squares.
Note that evidently Turkish doesn't seem to seek this rule

5.
During REX are you steeling any workers, conquer any opponents? Or is focus on research Bronze working, pottering and writing. Cottage 2-3 cities and secure resource as stone (pyramid) and marble (Oracle and Pantheon, I guess you skip GL).

eheheh
You have to do all of these things in the same time, including the GL
In good condition you'll have the GL and pyramids in 1400/1200 BC, even without stone (we are Incas, aren't we?!? )

6.
In your capital, except for Wall street are you building Oxford as national wonder) and in a second GP farm do you have National Epic together with National Park?

Oxford is TOTALLY useless. sometimes I build the Iron Working, it's not so important.
National Park is useless too, when you have way more than 100 cities.


Finally an answer to Jesusin

I've never tried tiny maps, but the number of city and fish resources ratio seems too low :|

on Big and Small, sea low level, temperate, huge, you will earn till 34 food (or maybe more) with an optimal colonial strategy.

So:
when you have more than 100 cities You'll gain a huge amount of gold with free markets.

A final good (and forgotten!! Sorry ) tip: the UN and the +1 gold per route resolution, about 750 GPT for free...

P.S.
I don't feel the need to play again in civ....incredible

 

[jesusin]

Thank you very much for your tips.

P.S.
I don't feel the need to play again in civ....incredible

There are many ways to play this game...
Are you able to get cultural victories before 1000AD?

 

[Tauro]

NO, my civ time is over and I can't do better than this without spending another 3 years