twansalem
Warlord
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- Aug 16, 2005
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I've been playing around with the settings a lot lately, and I thought these setting might be interesting to the builder types out there.
It is a settler difficulty, duel size pangea, high sea level, 18 Civ game with Louis. The catch? It's an always peace game. You can't capture cities, and there simply isn't enough space to build any new cities. The goal is to obtain a conquest victory by culture flipping every city on the map. So here's the one game where the advice,"Make sure to neglect your army, and build as many wonders as you can," is actually sound.
In order to do this, I of course had to disable both culture and domination victories. Space race is enabled in the save file, but that would be an incredibly easy win. The diplomatic victory is also enabled, mostly just so that the Apostolic Palace can be built, so be careful accepting too many vassals, you might win a diplomatic victory without really trying for it if you vote for yourself. I had to play this a few times to pull off the conquest victory, finally winning in 2043. I usually play on prince difficulty though, so I suspect that some of the better players could do it much more quickly on the first try.
This map was rolled by the random map generator, but I attached it because it is the ideal map for these settings, as you start pretty much right in the middle of the continent. I highly suspect it wouldn't be possible to culture flip all cities if you started in one corner, but I could be wrong.
Have fun.
It is a settler difficulty, duel size pangea, high sea level, 18 Civ game with Louis. The catch? It's an always peace game. You can't capture cities, and there simply isn't enough space to build any new cities. The goal is to obtain a conquest victory by culture flipping every city on the map. So here's the one game where the advice,"Make sure to neglect your army, and build as many wonders as you can," is actually sound.
In order to do this, I of course had to disable both culture and domination victories. Space race is enabled in the save file, but that would be an incredibly easy win. The diplomatic victory is also enabled, mostly just so that the Apostolic Palace can be built, so be careful accepting too many vassals, you might win a diplomatic victory without really trying for it if you vote for yourself. I had to play this a few times to pull off the conquest victory, finally winning in 2043. I usually play on prince difficulty though, so I suspect that some of the better players could do it much more quickly on the first try.
This map was rolled by the random map generator, but I attached it because it is the ideal map for these settings, as you start pretty much right in the middle of the continent. I highly suspect it wouldn't be possible to culture flip all cities if you started in one corner, but I could be wrong.
Have fun.
/turn straight away, so piling on culture is trivial at this stage. The trick is getting that far along ASAP without missing things on the way.
and 
get newly flipped cities up to speed with infrastructure extremely fast, too. Only 2 resources for Civ Jewellers, so meh.
. The other half through cultural revolts.
