Challenge-III-09

[Denniz]

While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we are running a series of ten games called the Hall of Fame Challenge Series. Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but any games meeting the settings of one of the games will be counted towards the Challenge.

(*) Please read the >> HOF rules << BEFORE playing!​

Settings:

• Victory Condition: Score (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Settler
• Starting Era: Ancient
• Map Size: Standard
• Map Type: Any
• Speed: Epic
• Civ: Any
• Opponents: Any
• Version: 3.19.003
• Date: 19th September 2010 to 19th January 2011

Must not play as Inca.

The highest score wins.

 

[iggymnrr]

Having played scoring games at this level before, money, golden ages and courthouses all seem superfluous. Health is the over-riding concern at the finish. This makes me think cheap harbors and/or using spiritual to flip the enviro switch. Ergo, Issy. On the other hand, certain wonders are useful, and if enviro is possible, setting the stage with Rammy might be doable. I might have to experiment with this challenge.

 

[iggymnrr]

Submitted my Issy game. 358K in 1090 AD. Accidentally tripped domination early. I didn't quite make it to the enviro switching point. I did however try it for another 5 turns or so and was breaking 400K with score still skyrocketing and 3.5K gold per turn under enviro. Looks like Issy can play for score at this level. Spiritual makes the game seem effortless sans checking cities every turn of course. I can't bear another scoring game though. Don't remember how many cities I had. I spun off 3 vassals and stats page says I constructed 135 granaries. So, a ton of cities. Not bad for a first scoring attempt at epic speed.