CFC: Fastest STANDARD SETTINGS Deity Science Victory

Civ Fanatics Competition: Fastest STANDARD SETTINGS Deity Science Victory


Welcome to the Civ Fanatics Competition (CFC) where we will find out who can pull off the fastest deity science victory on a game with ALL STANDARD SETTINGS!

Everyone plays Civ with their own 'standard' I know, but the game gives some 'standard' settings to us and many of us will regularly play them. This competition is meant to see who can achieve the fastest victory on those 'standard' settings.


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Start conditions


To participate, start and play a game that matches the following conditions:

• #players: 8
• Leader: Any
• AI Leaders: Random
• Ruleset: Gathering Storm
• Version : September update or higher
• Difficulty: Deity
• Start Era: Ancient Era
• Game Speed: Standard
• #City States: 12
• Disaster Intensity: 2
• Map: Any map that is randomly generated (NOT: Earth, East Asia, Europe or any of the TSL variants of those three. Also: no custom build maps!)
• Map Size: Standard
• Resources: Standard
• World Age: Standard
• Start Position Standard
• Temperature: Standard
• Rainfall: Standard
• Sea Level: Standard
• Victory Conditions: All enabled
• Advanced Options: All default
• Mods: UI (only!) mods allowed, no other
• Special conditions: Any random seed / map can only enter the competition once. Any player can join the competition multiple times, but always with a different map seed.

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Rules


To make sure it’s a fair competition, make sure to:

• Not cheat and/or use exploits (you know when you have, it’s that subtle feeling of shame when you post a score you did not earn fairly ). This off course includes using any cheat codes, restarting maps or playing maps you have seen others play, reloading previous saves after mistakes (not crashes, but even then you shouldn’t replay more than one turn exactly as you did before).
• Follow the GOTM rules, especially the ‘what should we consider as exploits’ (see https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/civ6-game-of-the-month.545/)
• If you participate and anyone shows you accidentally or purposely violated the conditions or rules of the competition, your name will be crossed from the top 10.

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Participate in the contest

To be eligible for a ‘top position’, post a reply to this thread where you:

• Mention the number of turns it took you to win the intended victory.
• Claim your position in the ‘top 10’.
  • End your post with the new ‘top 10’ with you in it (see below).
• Add the first turn save game and the last turn save game (post victory).
• Mention the game seeds.
• For flavor: post screenshots of interesting parts of your game, or even make a video.
• Describe (the more flavor the better) what your strategy was and how the game went.

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Current Top 10

Copy and paste, and enter yourself into the top 10 list if your score is worthy!

• 1st place: [player] - [number of turns] - [leader/country]
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Have fun!

 

Science Victory standard settings turn 236 with Trajan, score 1156




I didn't originally aim to go for a fast science victory, was just trying to fill my HoF. But i had good land and i quickly conquered 3 cities from Inca, and with Trajan's road got a huge empire super early, so i thought it would be nice to try.
Very likely super easy to do better than this, i missed / ignored multiple ways to go faster (Kilwa, Colosseum). Had a bad culture mid and late game (no culture CS). I had a few good production cities though so the end of the space projects went smoothly.
Standard in my opinion is harder for science victory as the lack of good city states or the non-new world can be in the way, but in this case it was mostly fine.

A couple of screenshots. victory screen, last turn screen and the seeds. Attached the last turn save (i don't have first turn, because i didn't plan to go for this challenge).

Therefore:

• 1st place: Ceydezed - 236 SV - Rome/Trajan
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This is exactly what I was looking for, the Gathering Storm christmas sale cannot come soon enough

 

T191 Kupe science victory standard settings, 11 cities entirely peaceful apart from recovery of Nan Madol from Eleanor in the last few turns.

1/1 save settings no replays GOTM rules followed. Entire game played in one sitting today (power cut on T160 )
Certainly can be done shorter.

• 1st place: Victoria - 191 - Maori/Kupe
• 2nd place: Ceydezed - 236 SV - Rome/Trajan
• 3rd place: ....

 

A sub 200 turns SV, impressive! Nice to see you join, @Victoria . What was your strategy to reach this fast a victory?

 

So Kupe starts in the water on Terra, all civs are on one island and all the CS are on the other island
So find the CS's and settle there, spam settlers, push harbours for 2-3 cities but you also need a CH relatively early and a few other things for the eurekas and inspirations.
Find a good chopping city and settler before T80 and get a theater going so it spreads nicely.
manage your golden ages so only build a Toa when you need +4 and get the toa to make a Pa (fort) only when you need +4
Get a quad out early for the naval tradition inspiration as it doubles both science and gold on your harbours.
Getting slingers and warriors out for the exploration is just awesome because everything moves 4+ in the water and those slingers and warriors also helped for eurekas/inspirations.
I got most but stupidly did not do some things right so certainly I think it can be shaved down to around 160

It really is an easy game, simpler than playing prince in many ways but it is a great learning exercise for getting things fast for an SV.
I did have a go being violent first, so grew till T80 then attacked the main civs which was fairly easy apart from they then suzerained all of my CS and pretty much wrecked my fast game and gold supplies.
With only 10-11 cities you have to be quite efficient. I could have been much more so but the micro bores me, hence I played the game in one sitting.

One big caution if you have not played a lot of kupe.... the worst thing about Kupe is not being able to lace districts on resources. So a +5 science mountain adjacency is useless if there is stone there. Also do not forget about +2 science for reefs, using a search on reefs makes it much clearer.

 

I'm certainly not HOF material, but since no one is posting I guess I could claim the 3rd place for now.

Turn 244 win with Korea.

• 1st place: Victoria - 191 - Maori/Kupe

• 2nd place: Ceydezed - 236 SV - Rome/Trajan

• 3rd place: Rittmeyer - 244 - Seondeok/Korea

• 4th place: ...

Nothing too special, a peacefull game with Korea. The only city I took was Stavanger when it rebelled after Monty took it from Norway. 13 Cities total by the end.
I don't do a lot of micro. There was only 1 Science CS.
The interesting thing for me is noting that even surrounded by Monty, Alex and Norway I managed to never be DOWned. In previous Civs that was almost impossible. Of course I did keep some units up to date and close to Monty's borders all the time, even built and fully developed an encampment there.

 

The latest GOTM has a T181 SV on standard deity

 

Oh man, what a spoiler. Playing it at the moment and I will NOT get anything like that.

@Rittmeyer : nice to see you join in! Haven't played very focused games myself in a while (working abroad, jetlags, busy schedule...), and unfortunately it hasn't been real 'competitive' in here for a while. Hope to see some of the top players show us their best games some time this year!