"Blessed Sea" worth it?

[Scaramanga]

Just wondering if "Blessed Sea" is worth doing. I was assigned this quest in my current game and told to build 10 cities on different land masses. This means I'm going to have to build 9 more cities, which I expect will absolutely devastate my science rate (especially since they're all overseas). Is this going to pay off?

 

[Chode]

No one has helped him yet? come on guys he gave you so much information about his game setting that the answer should be obvious

 

[Scaramanga]

No one has helped him yet? come on guys he gave you so much information about his game setting that the answer should be obvious

Oh, you know, it's one of those games with the cities and units and so forth .

Okay, here's the lowdown:

Leader: Tokugawa
Civilization: America
Difficulty: Prince
Map Type: Hemispheres
World Size: Standard
Sea Level: Medium
Game Speed: Normal
Starting Era: Ancient
Victories Enabled: all
Turn: 226
Year: 1580 AD (researching Nationalism to advance to Renaissance Age)
Rivals Met: Napoleon (of France), Montezuma (of Aztec), Augustus Caesar (of Rome), Wang Kon (of Korea)

Cheers

Edit: Oh, and I got 7 cities; completed the Classic Literature quest as well

 

[VladTepes]

I got a quest to build a National Sports League. 11 cities, each with a Colosseum by the Modern age. I decided early on that it would wreck my strategy so much that I let it go. It's not worth it if your civ crumbles as a result, and unless you can build the FB AND Versailles this quest would completely destroy you.

 

[SwordofStriker]

I got a quest to build a National Sports League. 11 cities, each with a Colosseum by the Modern age. I decided early on that it would wreck my strategy so much that I let it go. It's not worth it if your civ crumbles as a result, and unless you can build the FB AND Versailles this quest would completely destroy you.

I agree as it seems to me it would be impossible to maintain any kind of research AND you'd be unable to defend all those cities if you entered into a war. Unless the reward could counteract all the pain and suffering you'd have to go through to achieve this quest, it's really not worth it.

What is the reward by the way?

 

[Blaarg]

Blessed Sea
Prereq: GALLEY or CARAVEL or GALLEON AND State Religion BUDDHISM or CONFUCIANISM or TAOISM AND Minimum number of Landmasses is 2*default number of players for this map size (12 for standard) AND Maximum number of Landmasses you have cities on is 0.5*default number of players for this map size (3 for standard)
Obsolete: INDUSTRIALISM
Active/Weight: 85/300
Aim:
Have cities on 1.5*default number of players for this map size (10 for standard) landmasses while never switching State Religion
Result:
1.convert 20 own cities to your state religion
2.gain a temple in every city size 5 or more
3.get on great prophet unit

Sounds pretty good to me.

 

[SwordofStriker]

I generally never have cities without my state religion and I always build temples, so the only real choice for me would be to get the great prophet. I'm not convinced that is worth crippling my empire since I'm going to be running a specialist economy anyway.

Maybe it would be worth it on certain maps though, like on an archipelago map with islands very close to each other.

 

[Tantor]

This quest totally ruined my game once. I don`t think it`s worth it unless you`ve already settled 7 or more land masses by the time you get the quest.

 

[Carabodes]

I've tried it many times, never made it, though, normally (on islands maps) I lack one city when I reach industrialism. Once I had all cities before industrialism, but several turns passed without a message of fulfilling the quest, then I hit industrialism and - Wham! Up comes the message that I'd failed the quest!

Now I've stopped going for the "blasted sea". As there's no penalty for failing a quest, that is in itself a reward when it comes to that perticular quest because the quest really messes up your economy and your other (and more important) bilds.

But by all means, go for it, try it at least once, and if you manage - Good on you, mate!

 

[IDave]

So what actually is the reward for this quest then??

Has anyone actually done it?

 

[Sjaramei]

So what actually is the reward for this quest then??

Has anyone actually done it?

Read Blaarg's quote again

 

[Carabodes]

Read Blaarg's quote again

And for all quests and other random events, check out this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=236727

 

[azzaman333]

It's definately worth it IMO, just for the free Prophet. I never seem to be able to get that blasted shrine.

 

[Crighton]

When i got this quest I had to get 13 cities. And the reward would have blown in comparison to the expense of doing the quest. I don't think the great profit is worth all that much in mid to late games.

 

[Atwork]

Blessed Sea Quest: build cities on 16 different land masses. My question is, what counts as a landmass? There were only 4 continents in the game I was playing and only so many islands -- unless landmass means something other than what I think it means, there weren't 16 landmasses available in the entire world!

 

[azzaman333]

Anything from a 1 tile island to a huge continent is a landmass.

 

[Aquatic]

I had this quest once. It was bugged at that time so I never got the payment (I'm not sure whether the bug has been removed in 3.13; I hope so though it doesn't appear to be in the change log). But I found it worth it, because the result was sevaral colonies and some extremely useful resources, principally oil, that I didn't have at home. These can be especially useful with the arrival of corporations. I avoided ruining my economy by not founding all the cities at once on the same contintent (the cost for one city on a foreign continent is not expensive). Where there was a risk of someone else founding a city, I did have more than one on a continent, though. For other cities, I simply sent out settlers, with due protection, and waited till they were all in place to build the cities all at one and the same time. After that, when it was clear that due to the bug I wasn't going to get any reward for my labours, I simply turned them into colonies, and went on to win the game regardless.

 

[MrFrodo]

It sounds awful, but perhaps on maps with lots of islands it is useful.