AutomatedTeller
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yeah - having those offset not getting SoZ and HG.
G-III "November"
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AutomatedTeller
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Just a few turns earlier.
Changed things up a little - Persia, still, but with Mongols, China and America as my opponents. Also, 70% water (don't need all the space for research and it makes trading easier cause things a little more compressed - I've also noticed that you get more food clusters) and, apparently, wet/temperate. I'm not sure why I had temperate instead of warm.
Set up mapfinder and got a ton of great looking starts - 20 or so 2 cow, 5 or 6 3 cow and a 4 cow. None of them yielded an early SGL, so I went through the 1 cow ones and got one that had 3 cows, a bunch of hills and bgs and rivers - not coastal, but makes 32 spt at size 12. A powerhouse, in other words.
Got my CB SGL for pyramids and ran onto Mysticism, then the plan was alpha->Writing->Lit->CoL->Philo. Got a 2nd SGL for Alpha, which became Oracle and then a 3rd SGL for writing. I had to think then - I didnt' want to kick off a GA with GLib when I didn't have any other wonders to build, so I detoured to Poly and continued expansion. Took ToA then went Lit->Republic.
By the time I had that, I had found ivory on the other side of the world, traded for MM and sent a galley/settler/worker combo to pick up the ivory.
Rest of the game was uneventful, except for endless leader fishing - I was at war for much of the game once I hit the MA and didn't get the leader until 900 AD
then, of course, I got several more in succession.
America ROP-raped me (ineffectively, of course) after awhile and so I took them out.
Got a 4th SGL for mass prod, which I used for SETI.
I still think a mid-1300's date can win, but boy is it painful to deal with the fishing...
Builds
Palace 4000 BC
The Pyramids 3500 BC
Temple 2550 BC
The Oracle 2270 BC
The Temple of Artemis 1525 BC
Library 1400 BC
The Great Library 850 BC
The Hanging Gardens 690 BC
The Mausoleum of Mausollos 590 BC
Cathedral 530 BC
University 470 BC
Colosseum 410 BC
Shakespeare's Theater 110 BC
The Statue of Zeus 10 BC
Copernicus' Observatory 190 AD
Sistine Chapel 360 AD
Knights Templar 440 AD
Newton's University 530 AD
JS Bach's Cathedral 610 AD
Universal Suffrage 680 AD
Smith's Trading Company 730 AD
Theory of Evolution 840 AD
Hoover Dam 910 AD
Heroic Epic 930 AD
Wall Street 960 AD
Military Academy 1000 AD
The Pentagon 1080 AD
The United Nations 1130 AD
Research Lab 1170 AD
SETI program 1250 AD
The Internet 1290 AD
Cure for Cancer 1330 AD
Longevity 1360 AD
Changed things up a little - Persia, still, but with Mongols, China and America as my opponents. Also, 70% water (don't need all the space for research and it makes trading easier cause things a little more compressed - I've also noticed that you get more food clusters) and, apparently, wet/temperate. I'm not sure why I had temperate instead of warm.
Set up mapfinder and got a ton of great looking starts - 20 or so 2 cow, 5 or 6 3 cow and a 4 cow. None of them yielded an early SGL, so I went through the 1 cow ones and got one that had 3 cows, a bunch of hills and bgs and rivers - not coastal, but makes 32 spt at size 12. A powerhouse, in other words.
Got my CB SGL for pyramids and ran onto Mysticism, then the plan was alpha->Writing->Lit->CoL->Philo. Got a 2nd SGL for Alpha, which became Oracle and then a 3rd SGL for writing. I had to think then - I didnt' want to kick off a GA with GLib when I didn't have any other wonders to build, so I detoured to Poly and continued expansion. Took ToA then went Lit->Republic.
By the time I had that, I had found ivory on the other side of the world, traded for MM and sent a galley/settler/worker combo to pick up the ivory.
Rest of the game was uneventful, except for endless leader fishing - I was at war for much of the game once I hit the MA and didn't get the leader until 900 AD
then, of course, I got several more in succession.
America ROP-raped me (ineffectively, of course) after awhile and so I took them out.
Got a 4th SGL for mass prod, which I used for SETI.
I still think a mid-1300's date can win, but boy is it painful to deal with the fishing...
Builds
Palace 4000 BC
The Pyramids 3500 BC
Temple 2550 BC
The Oracle 2270 BC
The Temple of Artemis 1525 BC
Library 1400 BC
The Great Library 850 BC
The Hanging Gardens 690 BC
The Mausoleum of Mausollos 590 BC
Cathedral 530 BC
University 470 BC
Colosseum 410 BC
Shakespeare's Theater 110 BC
The Statue of Zeus 10 BC
Copernicus' Observatory 190 AD
Sistine Chapel 360 AD
Knights Templar 440 AD
Newton's University 530 AD
JS Bach's Cathedral 610 AD
Universal Suffrage 680 AD
Smith's Trading Company 730 AD
Theory of Evolution 840 AD
Hoover Dam 910 AD
Heroic Epic 930 AD
Wall Street 960 AD
Military Academy 1000 AD
The Pentagon 1080 AD
The United Nations 1130 AD
Research Lab 1170 AD
SETI program 1250 AD
The Internet 1290 AD
Cure for Cancer 1330 AD
Longevity 1360 AD
Attachments
Shake's in 110 BC... goodness gracious. No wonder why tech cost goes up as you move up levels. Even if the AIs had a slew of units, if you could research that fast yourself on upper levels, you could fairly easily control things much earlier.
AutomatedTeller
Frequent poster
It was almost completely because of the 3 early SGL's - I got a bunch of settlers out very early, because until literature, the only culture I spent any shields on was the temple.
So I was able to get 4 or 5 turn research in the middle ages.
So I was able to get 4 or 5 turn research in the middle ages.
I'll guess he did the same thing as he did with the first game he posted. He kept the saves around so he *could* submit if someone beat his time, but otherwise he saved it since he already had the number 1 spot on the table???
AutomatedTeller
Frequent poster
ooh - well, that gives me more credit for planning than I deserve, Spoonwood!
What happened was that I finished it and then didn't upload it and forgot until now
I'll load it soon, so I get credit for another #1 next month!!
What happened was that I finished it and then didn't upload it and forgot until now
I'll load it soon, so I get credit for another #1 next month!!
