I started a HoF game yesterday with a seemingly VERY good start. I got the wonders looked for very easily. the first one came with a scientific leader (Temple of Artemis), the seconf was the pyramids which I took from the Zulus.
Now, playing the Maya, it was great to have a granary in every city as well as a temple, without using any effort building them.
I started with a heavy settler campaign. I only went to a short war against the Zulus so that I could obtain the pyramids. I turned on the french, but when they made the great wall wonder, taking their cities proved to be a difficult task with lots of casualties. Instead I went against the Americans and wiped them out. My first cavalry unit entered the stage while most civs still had spearmen. I easily conquered 60 % of the map and had to go on amphibious missions in order to obtain 65%.
this is how the scoring looks.
Here comes the funny part. While I played under Monarchy government, the score per turn was around 33-34 points.
As you can see on the score graph, once the americans were finished off, the score was climbing steadily until I switched to democracy in the year of our lord 1150 AD. Then it declined to 25-26 points per turn. I made sure everybody was happy. I had all the luxuries I needed, I even stayed away from researching steam power for a while so that the hanging gardens wouldnt become absolete. SO.. my people WERE happy !! Still the scoring per turn dropped dramatically. I am starting to think that changing from Monarchy to Democracy in a game where you are in full control, is wasting points per turn !!
I dont have an explenation for this, I was really surprised to see this effect, so I started going for communism to see what happened once I changed to Communism. And.. as I though.. the scoring per turn increased.. now I get 36 points per turn, and it happened over 1 turn. from a measly 27-28 points pr turn to 36 points. if there was 300 turns left, that would mean 2400 points lost. Does anyone else feel the same way about demoCRAZY ?
I have sworn that I will play this game through on Communism and not even touch democracy again. On the next HoF try I might even play monarchy all the way ! Doesnt make sense.
By the way.. here is my map
Exactly what factors are involved that makes the pt/pr turn increase ? I am struggling hard by making huge cities. Disbanding smaller ones that take foodtiles from the Megapolis cities.
Please enlighten me, somebody :grad:
Now, playing the Maya, it was great to have a granary in every city as well as a temple, without using any effort building them.
I started with a heavy settler campaign. I only went to a short war against the Zulus so that I could obtain the pyramids. I turned on the french, but when they made the great wall wonder, taking their cities proved to be a difficult task with lots of casualties. Instead I went against the Americans and wiped them out. My first cavalry unit entered the stage while most civs still had spearmen. I easily conquered 60 % of the map and had to go on amphibious missions in order to obtain 65%.
this is how the scoring looks.
Here comes the funny part. While I played under Monarchy government, the score per turn was around 33-34 points.
As you can see on the score graph, once the americans were finished off, the score was climbing steadily until I switched to democracy in the year of our lord 1150 AD. Then it declined to 25-26 points per turn. I made sure everybody was happy. I had all the luxuries I needed, I even stayed away from researching steam power for a while so that the hanging gardens wouldnt become absolete. SO.. my people WERE happy !! Still the scoring per turn dropped dramatically. I am starting to think that changing from Monarchy to Democracy in a game where you are in full control, is wasting points per turn !!
I dont have an explenation for this, I was really surprised to see this effect, so I started going for communism to see what happened once I changed to Communism. And.. as I though.. the scoring per turn increased.. now I get 36 points per turn, and it happened over 1 turn. from a measly 27-28 points pr turn to 36 points. if there was 300 turns left, that would mean 2400 points lost. Does anyone else feel the same way about demoCRAZY ?
I have sworn that I will play this game through on Communism and not even touch democracy again. On the next HoF try I might even play monarchy all the way ! Doesnt make sense.
By the way.. here is my map
Exactly what factors are involved that makes the pt/pr turn increase ? I am struggling hard by making huge cities. Disbanding smaller ones that take foodtiles from the Megapolis cities.
Please enlighten me, somebody :grad:
![[civ3]](/images/smilies/civ3.gif "Civ3 Icon [civ3]")
![[ptw]](/images/smilies/ptw.gif "PTW Icon [ptw]")
Yes, milk with Democracy (maybe Republic).![[c3c]](/images/smilies/c3c.gif "Civ3 Conquests [c3c]")
I haven't accumulated enough testing data to decide yet...
