sinergistic
Chieftain
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- Oct 28, 2008
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A couple days ago, I was trolling the forums and I came across a post linking to this article:
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/pahatty_1.html
If you're to lazy to click (or read through it) it's basically a report of game played with the 'Always Peace' option enabled. The trick? The player won a Domination Victory. How? With culture.
Now, I thought this was rather cool, and decided to try my hand it. I found it to be quite fun, and an interesting break from smashing cities with siege.
Now, the part that is relevant to crashing your economy, and then getting it going again is this. In order to make victory easier, it makes sense to settle as many cities early on as you can manage, as close to the AI cities as possible. This results in having lots of cities far away from your capital, which kills your economy rather fast. When I say rather fast, I mean VERY fast. You are pretty much screwed if you didn't get any gold from huts. Once your economy crashes, you get to try and recover it.
While having 'always peace' on essentially lets you ignore a large part of CIV (warring/units), if you are having problems recovering after an economic crash, this might be a fun way to practice/learn.
Note: I play on noble/prince, albeit I haven't won a prince game yet. I also haven't been playing CIV for very long either. So if I appear like I'm spouting nonsense, feel free to slap me around a bit.
Thoughts?
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/pahatty_1.html
If you're to lazy to click (or read through it) it's basically a report of game played with the 'Always Peace' option enabled. The trick? The player won a Domination Victory. How? With culture.
Now, I thought this was rather cool, and decided to try my hand it. I found it to be quite fun, and an interesting break from smashing cities with siege.
Now, the part that is relevant to crashing your economy, and then getting it going again is this. In order to make victory easier, it makes sense to settle as many cities early on as you can manage, as close to the AI cities as possible. This results in having lots of cities far away from your capital, which kills your economy rather fast. When I say rather fast, I mean VERY fast. You are pretty much screwed if you didn't get any gold from huts. Once your economy crashes, you get to try and recover it.
While having 'always peace' on essentially lets you ignore a large part of CIV (warring/units), if you are having problems recovering after an economic crash, this might be a fun way to practice/learn.
Note: I play on noble/prince, albeit I haven't won a prince game yet. I also haven't been playing CIV for very long either. So if I appear like I'm spouting nonsense, feel free to slap me around a bit.
Thoughts?
