billybgame
King
Yeah, too bad I didn't even do the "next turn"..I just quit. I'm more interested in the QM than the Gauntlet, anyhow, and I know I wouldn't have fared very well, either.
G-Major 58
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Still working on this. Its 1934 I think, Future Tech 110. I'm on a pace for 330+. I am still spending lots of time building more cities, trying to fill in a 3x3 like grid as much as I can. Also still bulldozing the towns, no danger now of not making 1FT/year. Been busy this week so not much time to spend on the game. I'll hopefully finish it this weekend, or at least get close.
I've noticed a few entries after the HOF update, so we can't see how you did
. Anyone want to fess up to one of the top scores?
I've noticed a few entries after the HOF update, so we can't see how you did
. Anyone want to fess up to one of the top scores?Well, its 1986, I'm over 200 FT's and I had my first crash.
I was at war, I guess that's bad, but I so overpower the AI that even if a battle goes against me I just retake whatever I lost, up my production a bit ( I am sooo over the 1FT/turn limit and have cash in the hundred thousands) and continue with the war (In fact I had lost a city a few turns ago, and just retook it without any problem the next turn. This was before the crash and did not affect it). It was just a small spoiler war to weaken someone who had build the Apollo program and had a small chance of completing it before the game would be over. Even if they managed to launch a ship late in the game I would have plenty of warning and could raze the coastal capital without taking any more land. But since I am still well under the domination land limit, I was opening up a bit of land to settle in. There was no reason for me to do anything silly so I hope the game is accepted. It scares me considering the time I've put into this thing.
I wish there was a way for me to send in the crash saves now while it is fresh in my mind and I could answer any questions, instead of having to play another 10-20 hours THEN send it in.
I was at war, I guess that's bad, but I so overpower the AI that even if a battle goes against me I just retake whatever I lost, up my production a bit ( I am sooo over the 1FT/turn limit and have cash in the hundred thousands) and continue with the war (In fact I had lost a city a few turns ago, and just retook it without any problem the next turn. This was before the crash and did not affect it). It was just a small spoiler war to weaken someone who had build the Apollo program and had a small chance of completing it before the game would be over. Even if they managed to launch a ship late in the game I would have plenty of warning and could raze the coastal capital without taking any more land. But since I am still well under the domination land limit, I was opening up a bit of land to settle in. There was no reason for me to do anything silly so I hope the game is accepted. It scares me considering the time I've put into this thing.I wish there was a way for me to send in the crash saves now while it is fresh in my mind and I could answer any questions, instead of having to play another 10-20 hours THEN send it in.
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
^^ I am trying a game... but I have no ideas on how good it will be... The bad thing is Global Warming already started (I am in 1732), and I haven't turn "Rising sea" option on I am currently loosing 2 tiles every 3 turns or so, I hope I will resist this massacre to finish this game. I am making 2 FT every 3 turns, and got started on those in 1702 iirc. I have 84 cities, but I haven't started the "satellites settling" phase... though I am agressively spreading mining and Cereal corps. I've got about 90 workers now... there are quite annoying, taking most of my time 
Hope I have the time to finish this by friday (unless the GW event get ride of me)...
Cheers,
Raskolnikov
edit: we posted at the same time, and i was replying to your first one! I guess you can send a mail to the staff to see if the game has any chance to be valid at the end?
I am currently loosing 2 tiles every 3 turns or so, I hope I will resist this massacre to finish this game. I am making 2 FT every 3 turns, and got started on those in 1702 iirc. I have 84 cities, but I haven't started the "satellites settling" phase... though I am agressively spreading mining and Cereal corps. I've got about 90 workers now... there are quite annoying, taking most of my time Hope I have the time to finish this by friday (unless the GW event get ride of me)...
Cheers,
Raskolnikov
edit: we posted at the same time, and i was replying to your first one! I guess you can send a mail to the staff to see if the game has any chance to be valid at the end?
Another person complained about global warming, and I haven't seen it at all. I have no idea what I did differently, although when I saw the problems the other person was having I did build recycling centers. I don't know if that helped or not.
Perhaps because I played the Terra map and even to this point, much of the map is not settled? I'm approaching the dom limit in the old world only.
Perhaps because I played the Terra map and even to this point, much of the map is not settled? I'm approaching the dom limit in the old world only.
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
Perhaps recycling centers help... I build gra -> court -> forge -> factory -> biblio -> obs -> uni -> lab -> grocer -> supermarket in my cities. I read from another thread that perhaps this is too much polluting buildings. Bad part is that once the event started, I believe there is no way to stop it
KingMorgan
Deity
I've not seen any GW in both my games.
Was on course for a 25K score, then after an annoying little war with Washington with 7 turns to go, i get a bloody, stinking Domination victory. 23 odd hours of hard work, down the drain.
Was on course for a 25K score, then after an annoying little war with Washington with 7 turns to go, i get a bloody, stinking Domination victory. 23 odd hours of hard work, down the drain.
BLubmuz
HoF Quattromaster
Pity i was out of pocket until this gauntlet has some 10 days to go
But i think that a Huge time is much for me too.
Guys, you have lot of things to learn. Take a look on my time victories in the HoF, read the player log and you'll be in good shape.
But i think that a Huge time is much for me too.
Guys, you have lot of things to learn. Take a look on my time victories in the HoF, read the player log and you'll be in good shape.
No Global warming for me either, and I was building lots of dirty factories etc. Does anyone have any information on what triggers global warming? I can't find any entry in the Civilopedia. I suspect that playing on a Terra map, and having parts of the new world still unsettled at the end of the game help prevent it.
WilliamOfOrange
Emperor
28 hours played and it was only 1983. 
I had about 100 cities and was gifting some ice and tundra cities back to severely crippled owners and about 2% under the dom limit. I had built corporations in cities needing the culture and then was gifting resources away when the culture was getting close, then because of a culture vacuum created by Pacal capturing some of Asoka cities, I get a dom victory! 
28 hours!! As Flanders would say. "Son of a Diddly!"
While it was not perfect, I was loving this game despite my computer lagging bigtime. I was playing as Darius and didn't have horses anywhere for an Immortal start, but kept going because of the sweet start for a financial civ. My city planning and the events that unfolded on tiles was great. I had built most of the very early and late game wonders and captured the ones in the middle. The only one I didn't have with Sistine Chapel (and two shrines). All but one corporation. I was on pace for about 260-270 FTs and had 100 cities!
Lessons learned:
1. Cripple all opponents equally. I spent too much time on other civs and wiped out others for fun which lead to fighting Asoka's high culture when taking his cities. I swept in easily enough, however the culture battle needs to be less vulnerable to chance.
2. D'oh! Took me a while to figure out and then remember that gunships actually kill workers!
3. I got global warming plenty of times. I switched the cues to prioritize Recycling Centres and it stopped for a bit, but once the conquered cities started with factories and getting larger it happened again and I had to build more RCs.
4. Having free engineers to help the building is not worth the extra GEs when trying to collect GSs.
5. I was under the impression that you had that turn to gift away a city or something. However, it seems that on the triggering turn you can't.
Wonder if I will have time for another. I doubt it! Maybe a terra map would work better than lakes. These gauntlets are nice to complete a major requirement, but if you screw up, all that time is lost. This is EXACTLY why I don't play epic or huge maps normally. It takes way too much time and if you screw up, it really sucks.
IMHO a continent map is better, because you can avoid getting your feet on the other continent altogether, and if your continent isn't large enough for dom, you don't risk anything.
then again, it's harder to cripple the AIs.
This being said, I didn't try this gauntlet at all, so I can be wrong.
then again, it's harder to cripple the AIs.
This being said, I didn't try this gauntlet at all, so I can be wrong.
Mike Lemmer
Prince
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Tried finishing it, but I got in too late and don't have enough time to do the last 160 turns in 2 days. I was also rusty in large-scale modern wars, and just how important artillery is when the enemy Railroads a stack of 20+ units to your border. I was definitely gonna have trouble crippling the other races, as I conquered moderately (due to money problems) and they were already researching the Apollo Program in 1870 AD.
Last week I submitted my first attempt, which was with Gandhi on a rainforest map. I really like that combination for Time victories, because you can get some insane city population from cereal mills, a philosophical leader, and Gandhi's workers are just awesome on that map.
I made alot of mistakes, for instance I settled over 20 great merchants for the 1F, before I realized just how little that improved my score. So I was hoping to have time for another try, but I never did get started with another game.
I've submitted a game with 317FT, and 187 cities with cereal mills giving +36F to each city.
I made alot of mistakes, for instance I settled over 20 great merchants for the 1F, before I realized just how little that improved my score. So I was hoping to have time for another try, but I never did get started with another game.
I've submitted a game with 317FT, and 187 cities with cereal mills giving +36F to each city.
Well, my game of 66 plus hours was rejected . It was because of a wartime crash. A war where I outnumbered my opponents 200 cities to 20 (I could produce units with more than 1/2 of my cities if desired and still get 1 FT/turn), where I was just reducing the chance of a spaceship launch (which was never really a threat) and gaining a bit more ground (I stayed well below the domination limit, I was about 3 % below the limit at the end). My final score was 27760, and even that was lower than it could be because I was limiting my actions at the end because of the crash problem. 
. It was because of a wartime crash. A war where I outnumbered my opponents 200 cities to 20 (I could produce units with more than 1/2 of my cities if desired and still get 1 FT/turn), where I was just reducing the chance of a spaceship launch (which was never really a threat) and gaining a bit more ground (I stayed well below the domination limit, I was about 3 % below the limit at the end). My final score was 27760, and even that was lower than it could be because I was limiting my actions at the end because of the crash problem.
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
That sucks pholtz...
I won't be able to submit my game: still about 300 turns to play. I am on turn 450, researching FT75, making something like 28k bpt... GW is less than expected (a tile every 4/5 turns now), but I just don't have the time to finish this... I expected to finish at FT375 but oh well...
PS: I will post a pic of my WS city later as it's prolly my biggest one ever... it would have been even crazyer by the end game... edit: done
I won't be able to submit my game: still about 300 turns to play
. I am on turn 450, researching FT75, making something like 28k bpt... GW is less than expected (a tile every 4/5 turns now), but I just don't have the time to finish this... I expected to finish at FT375 but oh well... PS: I will post a pic of my WS city later as it's prolly my biggest one ever... it would have been even crazyer by the end game... edit: done
Spoiler :
WilliamOfOrange
Emperor
I thought last night was the 25th! I aborted a decent game cuz I didn't think I have time. I will try for one now. 12 hours....going to be tough!
EDIT: 10:30 pm. I give up. Terra map had them all too close and everyone was Buddhist but me. I took out civ civs early, but was repeatedly dogpiled
EDIT: 10:30 pm. I give up. Terra map had them all too close and everyone was Buddhist but me. I took out civ civs early, but was repeatedly dogpiled
Results:
G-Major 58 - Time, Noble, Huge, Epic - Any Starting Era
1st phanc 28,461 pts
2nd KingMorgan 14,390 pts
3rd donsig 7111 pts
Congratulations!
G-Major 58 - Time, Noble, Huge, Epic - Any Starting Era
1st phanc 28,461 pts
2nd KingMorgan 14,390 pts
3rd donsig 7111 pts
Congratulations!
WilliamOfOrange
Emperor
Great job everyone. I might have been third if I hadn't triggered domination.
I also had a question for phanc. Why did you choose a rain forest map. Any particular reason? Thanks.
I also had a question for phanc. Why did you choose a rain forest map. Any particular reason? Thanks.
I choose the Rainforest map because it's very food rich. Especially all the rice resources, that boosts Cereal Mills. I checked my final save, and at the end I had 96 rice (some imported), so Cereal Mills gave +36F to each city.
The bigest drawback of the rainforest map is the time it takes to clear all the rainforest, but that isn't really an issue when going for time victory. And Gandhi's fast workers helps alot too.
I'm not sure it's the map type that supports the largest population, but I can only think of Terra that would beat it (from the larger landmass).
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