Beyond the bounds of Reason...

[Sir Isaac Newton]

We've all had it happen; the point in a game where we realize we have just surpassed an exceedingly goofy "record", which is just too obscure to make the Hall of Records. I was just wondering if anyone would like to share extremely odd game statistics in this topic. The zanier, the better. Here are a few suggestions, to which you can of course add your own:

* Highest number of units you've had in one city at a time
* Highest number of upgrades you've had take place at one time from Leo's Workshop
* Greatest number of times you've have a civ restart itself
* Largest number of double-unhappy citizens you've had in a city at one time
* Highest percentage of the planet covered by pollution, either from industrialization or World War III

Happy hunting, and remember: Useless trivia is fun!

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"It's good to be the king." --History of the World, Part I

 

[starlifter]

By Sir Isaac Newton:

1. Highest number of units you've had in one city at a time
2. Highest number of upgrades you've had take place at one time from Leo's Workshop
3. Greatest number of times you've have a civ restart itself
4. Largest number of double-unhappy citizens you've had in a city at one time
5. Highest percentage of the planet covered by pollution,

1. Over 210 units, tests in cheat mode. Typically no more than 40 in a key port city when freight trade peaks.

2. Never tracked it directly, but counting riflemen (since I 'typically' build less than 10), I'd estimate 180 to 200.

3. Loaded question. Programming limits a color to 2 restarts, then put a fork in it... that color is done for the duration (e.g., after you kill 3 purple civs, you will not see any new purple civs in that game).

4. Late game democracy, probably about 41 (maybe all 44). It is possible for all citizens to be double-unhappy in newer cities with a huge empire.

5. (305/(75*120))*100= 3.389%. So my answer is 3.389% of the planet was wallowing in pollution. It took about 150 engineers until the end of the 2nd day to reduce the pollution to the point that global warming could not occur (about 29 remaining pollutions, as I recall). Personally, I have never experienced global warming, but it seems like a bad thing, so I don't allow excess pollution to sit around, esp. after a massive nuclear war.

EDIT: add more info.

[This message has been edited by starlifter (edited June 30, 2001).]

 

[Warlord56]

1. 15 while waiting to conduct a large atttack
2. 8 types of units, I don't know how many total units this was, but it was a very large number
3. I had the Romans retuen as the Celts, then as the russians, then as the romans (again) and finally was completely destroyed as the Celts. This was in TOT
4. I've never had a double unhappy citizen,(I am not joking), so 0
5. 6 squares, I am good at cleaning up pollution

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Well, once I had 20 engineers working on one city, one per square. It grew really fast, as you can imagine.

Oh yeah, and once, I hit Zimbabwe with 7 nukes in one turn and reduced it from sie 24 to size 1! The extra two were for the hell of it, since Ulundi was already a smoldering crater. (yeah, there was some pollution in there too!)

 

[starlifter]

Oh yeah, and once, I hit Zimbabwe with 7 nukes in one turn and reduced it from sie 24 to size 1!

LOL, 7 nukes! 7*160=1120 shields of nukes to knock off 23 citizens.... you might have set some sort of record for expense of eradication, too.

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

I pity my finance minister.

 

[Az]

Wow I've never payed attention to these! How can you guys remember them?!?!

I only remember than once I wanted to see how far I could get withglobal warmings so I dropped about 70 nukes all over Europe in the WWII SCN. (cheat mode of course). Actually after three GW I got borred....

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[starlifter]

posted July 03, 2001 05:33 PM by Az:

Wow I've never payed attention to these! How can you guys remember them?!?!

Photographic Memory?

Actaully, you don't tend to forget when you have 305 pollution icons from massive nuking (look at civ score to see # of polluted squares). You also don't forget the massive numbers of engineers brought it to clean it up, LOL!