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Dracandross
Warlord
Puuh, it was pain! But got early 1800 (now 3rd ) on vanilla. My computer really slows down to agony with standard sized map, like 3 mins beetween turns. Gotta try warlords next.
Really low scores compared to Prince/standard on any settings. Btw thanx for the treebug, i did have some of em though.
-Dracandross
Really low scores compared to Prince/standard on any settings. Btw thanx for the treebug, i did have some of em though.
-Dracandross
Meatbuster
formerly Robo Kai
Crud. 1871 on Vanilla as Saladin.
Opponents: Liz, Vicky, Mansa, Gandhi, HC, Fred, Toku
Mistakes:
1. Continuing the game with the "treebug" (thanks for mentioning it though, Lexad)
2. Got overconfident with my diplomatic relations and forgot to have everyone declare war on HC, causing him to declare on me. Lost some improvements in my Wall Street city and spent some turns in Nationalism.
Opponents: Liz, Vicky, Mansa, Gandhi, HC, Fred, Toku
Mistakes:
1. Continuing the game with the "treebug" (thanks for mentioning it though, Lexad)
2. Got overconfident with my diplomatic relations and forgot to have everyone declare war on HC, causing him to declare on me. Lost some improvements in my Wall Street city and spent some turns in Nationalism.
(congrats for beating my 1725 AD finish on the last gauntlet, Alraun)
Regarding the Great Scientist discussion:
Academies? lightbulbing techs?
What about super-specialists? I can never seem to justify more than about 3 cities that are good enough to get an Academy. A super-specialist in my capitol pumps out ~ 30 beakers/turn. For the Academy to do the same the city would need 60 base beakers/turn without any modifiers. My style of city management doesn't create too many cities like that.
Regarding the Great Scientist discussion:
Academies? lightbulbing techs?
What about super-specialists? I can never seem to justify more than about 3 cities that are good enough to get an Academy. A super-specialist in my capitol pumps out ~ 30 beakers/turn. For the Academy to do the same the city would need 60 base beakers/turn without any modifiers. My style of city management doesn't create too many cities like that.
Alraun
Warlord
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If I'm going for a space race, nearly all of my cities are going to have like 10+ cottages, especially on a sub-emperor difficultly level. I'll admit though that I haven't checked thoroughly enough exactly where the line is between an academy in a mediocre city vs. a specialist in a vibrant one.
The-Hawk
Old Original Geezer
Yes, I've been wondering about this as well. I've been building 4-5 academies in cities i plan to leave as science factories, then dumping GS's in my capital (running Bureacracy most of the game). Of course, at some point, the GP is worth more as a lightbulb. I've not bothered to figure when to switch from super-specs to lightbulbs (guess that's why I'm not in 1st place in the current gauntlet
) Nice thing about a gauntlet, you have an end date to shoot for. This will make the math on super-spec vs. lightbulb pretty straightforward.RE: wonders. I've been building Oracle somewhere, GLib and Oxford in my capital, Natl Epic in my GP factory, Ironworks and Elevator. Sometimes I'll build Taj Mahal in a prod city that has nothing better to do. Even built Eiffel one time, again in another prod city that had nothing else to do. I'm curious if others are building the same wonders???
/edit: Oh... and I once built Rock and Roll. Had nothing else to do with the GE for researching Fusion. Don't really count that though.
Meatbuster
formerly Robo Kai
Well, I lightbulb Ecology with the GE, not that it shaves a lot of turns...
Misotu
King
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Try looking again, I think I have that corrected.
Probably a stupid question, but where do you look? (Edit: for the Gauntlet entries to date)
I've looked under the Gauntlet tab in HOF and there is a table, but it's blank. Can you post a link if it's somewhere else please? Thanks 
I think you've got the correct page. The table will be blank for every row except yours when you're logged in.Probably a stupid question, but where do you look? (Edit: for the Gauntlet entries to date)
The-Hawk
Old Original Geezer
Meatbuster
formerly Robo Kai
Depends on the situation though, if somehow I haven't finished the Elevator by Fusion (happens sometimes) I will rush it with the Engineer.
Alraun
Warlord
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I never finish Elevator before Fusion. I generally rush either that or the Great Big Dam.
sweeeet...
Alraun
Warlord
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Yeah, I've been starting to lean that way. I'm still trying to get out of some of my previous civ mentalities where Hoover Dam was one of the top 3 wonders.
The-Hawk
Old Original Geezer
I came to this conclusion too. In the last game I submitted (sitting in 2nd place last time I looked), I had specifically built a city on a river and saved its trees for the Dam. However, once I could build coal plants, I went ahead and built them in my 5-6 prod cities. I had plenty of health in those cities. The coal plants were done long before I could have built the dam.
I finally completed my bid. It's fun to experiment with alliences. I'm definitely going to use that feature again. I can focus on building when the AI is building its troops. 
Murky
Deity
1871 so far with Liz.
I managed a 1778 AD launch with Liz on Vanilla Civ.
I haven't played in months. I don't plan to get Warlords, so I thought I had retired from Civ. Since this gauntlet was for Vanilla Civ, I came out of retirement to see how much strategy I forgot.
I was 100% peaceful. Since I had no marble or stone, I skipped the Pyramids which is very unusual for me. I also passed on the Taj. I never build the Dam or the Elevator.
I didn't get Coal or Aluminum in my borders, so I had to settle two more cities way out for those. No one else had more than one, so trading wasn't possible.
I don't think I can get a 1725 AD even if I get better luck and clean up my mistakes. Maybe one more try.
I haven't played in months. I don't plan to get Warlords, so I thought I had retired from Civ. Since this gauntlet was for Vanilla Civ, I came out of retirement to see how much strategy I forgot.
I was 100% peaceful. Since I had no marble or stone, I skipped the Pyramids which is very unusual for me. I also passed on the Taj. I never build the Dam or the Elevator.
I didn't get Coal or Aluminum in my borders, so I had to settle two more cities way out for those. No one else had more than one, so trading wasn't possible.
I don't think I can get a 1725 AD even if I get better luck and clean up my mistakes. Maybe one more try.
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