[BTS] Challenge: earliest space race victory

[youtien]

I just finished an emperor game of space race victory, starting with Chinese, built all wonders I can build, then when Mongol spawns, give all cities and gold I can give to them, then switch to Mongolia. With all properly built cities and wonder, and late civ's faster tech rate, I simply got space race victory in 1898. I think I can do better next time.

Tonight I am going to try Greece - Dutch, raze all French, German cities I don't like as Greeks, found Amsterdam, then switch......

 

[Magnificent One]

Rome, Persia, Germany and Russia should be able to do Space race easy-Lots of good land they own,or can expand into.

 

[Cosmos1985]

I just finished an emperor game of space race victory, starting with Chinese, built all wonders I can build, then when Mongol spawns, give all cities and gold I can give to them, then switch to Mongolia. With all properly built cities and wonder, and late civ's faster tech rate, I simply got space race victory in 1898. I think I can do better next time.

Tonight I am going to try Greece - Dutch, raze all French, German cities I don't like as Greeks, found Amsterdam, then switch......

Remember Amsterdam gets autorazed, if founded before the dutch spawn.

 

[Magnificent One]

Perhaps found Frankfurt instead and switch to the Germans.

 

[KMRblue1027]

Remember Amsterdam gets autorazed, if founded before the dutch spawn.

Are you sure? I thought the Dutch would just spawn outside the culture of Amsterdam and the city would flip. That's what happened when I built on the spot as Germany when I played my first RFC game. (Never made that mistake again.)

 

[Cosmos1985]

Are you sure? I thought the Dutch would just spawn outside the culture of Amsterdam and the city would flip. That's what happened when I built on the spot as Germany when I played my first RFC game. (Never made that mistake again.)

I did it playing the RFC patch just before this one, and the city then got razed - I haven't heard anything it being changed in the latest, so I'd think that it's still like that. But feel free to try of course, it'll just be a bit of a pity to have spend so much time, and then see the city getting autorazed

 

[nody]

I understand the new 'rule' of autorazing, because otherwise you could found Amsterdam as Germany with only a granary and when it flips the Dutch wouldn't have their free forge and harbor.

On second thought, they would have an extra settler instead...

 

[Cosmos1985]

I understand the new 'rule' of autorazing, because otherwise you could found Amsterdam as Germany with only a granary and when it flips the Dutch wouldn't have their free forge and harbor.

On second thought, they would have an extra settler instead...

I can't imagine that should be the reason - if you want to obstruct how the game its supposed to be, as a human player, you can always do that anyway - "cheating" is possible for us always, if we'd feel like that.

 

[nody]

That may be, but Rhye did his best to eliminate 'squatting and other exploits without the use of worldbuilder'.

I'm not quoting.