Fastest you ever got Gun powder and to the end of the tech tree?

[Rustypipe]

Hey

Just trying to get a timeline of peoples average or best research speeds. I like to research as fast as I can and get the tech that matters as soon as possible so with that in mind, whats the fastest you'v reached gunpowder or the end of the tech tree ? as i see gunpowder as the midway mark in the tech tree... kinda . So far i usally land gunpowder at the 1200-1300 AD time frame, just wondering what everyone else is at ?

 

[Shillen]

I have no idea when I get gun powder really. I just know that most of my games on Prince difficulty have been ending in the mid 1900s. I'm not sure if it's because I suck or if it's harder to rush down the tech tree than it was in civ3. I'm guessing it's a bit of both.

edit: I think it has a lot to do with the fact that you can't trade techs until alphabet and even then the AI's aren't willing to trade half the time.

 

[Rustypipe]

Strange i find it easyer to rush down the tech tree in this one then in Civ3 for some reason. Then agian i didn't play civ3 all that heavely becuase the upset cities and civial disorder used to piss the crap out of me

 

[Mujadaddy]

I used to know a guy who claimed to tech-rush to Railroads by 1AD ... in CIVILIZATION ONE ... used to make me mad... b/c I suck...

 

[BobTheTerrible]

A friend of mine claimed he won the space race in 30AD or therabouts in civ1. I don't believe him, but then again I never played civ1.

 

[La_Musica]

all depends on, map size, how many civs, epic/normal/quick game. philosophical civ trait?

 

[Mujadaddy]

A friend of mine claimed he won the space race in 30AD or therabouts in civ1. I don't believe him, but then again I never played civ1.

OK, THAT is patently ridiculous without cheating. And if he was cheating, big frikkin' deal...

 

[Rustypipe]

It was common for me to get gun powder before ad in civ 1 i used to play it in collage all the time becuase it fit on a disk no tracks left behind, but that was the fastest i could research.

Anyhow I'm talking about the wondefull civ IV anyone have a decent age they reached gun powder in or the end of the tech tree

 

[CitizenCain]

Hey

Just trying to get a timeline of peoples average or best research speeds. I like to research as fast as I can and get the tech that matters as soon as possible so with that in mind, whats the fastest you'v reached gunpowder or the end of the tech tree ? as i see gunpowder as the midway mark in the tech tree... kinda . So far i usally land gunpowder at the 1200-1300 AD time frame, just wondering what everyone else is at ?

(On Noible) I'll usually get it a little bit earlier, but my best is by 800 AD, with the organized and financial traits. I got a sweet starting city, and combined with cottages and a couple big costal cities, I was able to be a tech whore like I haven't done since Civ II. I now think that grassland/floodplains with cottages on them combined with a financial trait might be a delightfully unbalanced combination. Try the financial trait if you like to tech blitz... it makes that strategy a lot easier.

I used to know a guy who claimed to tech-rush to Railroads by 1AD ... in CIVILIZATION ONE ... used to make me mad... b/c I suck...

That's believable. I used to do that myself - it was easy after you got a few big cities with gold/gems or sea tiles together under Republic, as I recall. That game was badly balanced it's not even funny. I once got rocketry from a hut in Civ I (it was stuck on a 4 tile island until around 1300 Ad when my rifleman stumbled into it).

 

[fastspawn]

in civ 1, even the lousiest AI in prince mode got gunpowder before the bcs ended

 

[Askora]

In Civ 1 you could do tons of worker tasks in one turn via cheating.

I've gotten to the end of the tree in Civ 4 in the early 1800s at Chieftain. It would have been easy to get there faster, but I chose to go for a large culture.