Do you think this guy cheated!?

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

It's possible! I tried! Using the reloading technique, I got a a dozen horses and about 20 cities in the first turn, AND I killed the Babylonians. When I looked at the pg, it wasn't as high up, but it was pretty damn high! *about 3/4 as high as his.

 

[shadowdale]

Vlad, there is only one thing that doesn't fit and that is when you play the game some more. The power graph works like it has zoomed in on the beginning section and when you later on get a better score then it zooms out! So what seems to be 3/4 of his graph is probably not more than 1/3!!!
What you should do to be certain is to play the game until you max the graph then you can se how big you actually where on the first turn!!

But it still does not explain how he maxed, dropped and then maxed it again in under 50 turns.

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[Andu Indorin]

Well, briefly testing the military unit hypothesis, while it has an effect on the power graph in Civ1, it apparently has no effect in Civ2.

Tiago's power graph starts at a point roughly equivalent to "All Techs Given." Remember that once you discover Invention, you can no longer get tech advances from the "goody huts." Also, Tiago's map has the resource seed set to 3; very few of the goody huts correspond with the locations of his cities.

And, as I have said elsewhere, his custom map, and therefore his entire game, violate the principles of the game of Civilization, which I find more annoying than the fact that the evidence indicates cheating.