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
• 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