G-Minor 35

[BLubmuz]

I made an attempt with the standard rivals, medium sea level.
I arrived in the early AD to see i lack some 5% on my continent.

I suppose that to increase the chances to have a pangea-like map we need LOW sea level, and that to decrease the dom limit we must select the max opponents.

But wih the dates seen in this thread, i suppose to have no chance to arrive in the "podium". The game is all but challenging (only this competition is), i'll give up.

 

[shyuhe]

It took me a few tries to get the pangaea style on high seas (I think almost 10 regenerations). If you play with medium seas, it's much more likely that you'll get a pangaea fractal. However you get over 200 extra tiles on the map as well (which equates to 100 more tiles to settle). If you're going for a fast finish, I think it's worth regenerating on high seas as 620 tiles vs. 850 is a big difference.

 

[Airny]

shyuhe you didnt submit your yet, right?
My game is still first.

 

[shyuhe]

HOF games haven't been checked yet. I'm assuming my settings were fine but we'll see...

 

[Thrallia]

I used high seas and my second map had 9 rivals on it, along with myself.

 

[Wahnfried]

I have submitted a 1740 AD win. I started on the greatest landmass and very early I could exterminate four rivals. I played Lizbeth and the main important ressources like copper and iron were nearby my capital. But it took time to cover the continent with cities and culture. The game was funny. I have learnt some new things about the best using of civics.

 

[cabert]

Man am I slow...
I guess I'm too used to later tactics, and cannot put myself on the tracks...
12xx AD for me.
Not sure if I want another run, since
1) I already have england
2) settler isn't improving my overall score
3) I stand no chance beating a 1840 BC

 

[hecubus]

Man am I slow...
I guess I'm too used to later tactics, and cannot put myself on the tracks...

I had to severely alter my early game play for this, turning away from building truly sustainable cities. Naturally the first one I played (where I was teaching myself all this) was the only one with a single land mass big enough for domination. I was going way too slow as well, getting within 5% of domination at around 1000 AD. Ones I've tried since have been faster/smoother, but I can't get the land mass. Problem is I don't like playing like this. These haven't really been enjoyable games, and I'm not looking forward to more regens and rushes trying to get the right map. Think I'm going to pass on this one.

 

[Wahnfried]

I think, the result is not important. I did not regenerate the map and played my first attempt. After my estimation, the landmass was not great enough to reach the 64% landmass, which i needed.
A pro-footballplayer cannot change the weather either, I guess, regenerating the map to get an ideal start position, is a problem. But it is one of the features of Civ 4.
And winning is not the main target of gaming. I am happy, that my first gauntlet will count. And congratulations to them, who are better.

 

[Moonsinger]

A pro-footballplayer cannot change the weather either

Although a football player cannot change the weather, he doesn't play in the ice storm with no chance of winning either.

 

[Wahnfried]

Although a football player cannot change the weather, he doesn't play in the ice storm with no chance of winning either.

In Germany maybe yes... I have seen soccer-matches with rain, snow, ice in which often only the lucky team have won... and not the team, which deserved it.
One question: how often should anyone regenerate the map? What is the ideal starting position?

And I would, if possible, change my avatar, because i am not a prussian.

 

[cabert]

2nd try: 295BC. Quite an improvement (my best unit was a chariot whereas I fought with cavalries in my first try ).

The tricky part is to get the settlers done and in place.
Obviously, I should have settled the further cities first...

 

[bestje]

are people bothering with wonders for this?
stonehenge should be an essential but others?

 

[Conquistador 63]

It isn't. It is better to tech to CoL and hire artists specialists for 4 cpt. I did build Oracle for it but was a mistake: as someone said before, hammers are at a premium and should be invested in troops/workers/settlers instead.

 

[hecubus]

are people bothering with wonders for this?
stonehenge should be an essential but others?

I didn't bother with Stonehenge. Tech was so easy to come by with Victoria I would just go to Drama for the slider, then after I hit IW for jungle removal I turned off research and put my revenue into culture.

Edit: I see fondness for Caste System and its artist specialists here, and while I did indeed Oracle CoL, it was only for courthouses. I found Slavery much more useful overall since I wasn't even trying for a sustainable empire, just speed. As I was already going to Drama for the slider, a theater was a very quick chop/whip in places that needed more of a boost than just the slider. Since I was running the slider high, too, the happiness the theater gave more than made up for any unhappiness from whipping it.

 

[shyuhe]

I built stonehenge because I wanted to pop the borders of my early cities. Chopping forests in the bfc are better than outside the bfc.

 

[Thrallia]

I built Stonehenge for that as well...hammers aren't as important in BtS, as the AI will explore with their original warriors So in my submitted game, I had no city razing turned on, and took out 3 AI with my original exploring warrior.

Thus, I had 4 capitals before 25 turns were up, and had plenty of places taht could build warriors/workers along with using Stonehenge in one city.

 

[Airny]

Ah, no city razing! I forgot about that, will include it in my next try.

 

[Mistfit]

@Thrallia: I have never played in settler mode (I think my first game was Noble).. but are you saying that you eliminated 3 AI by just walking into their undefended cities? Also did you not leave anyone behind to protect while you looked for another city to take?

 

[shyuhe]

I walked into 4 cities. It actually crashed my economy on settler My research rate was down to 0% for a few turns before I got some WB out to fix that problem. You don't need any defenders if you can grab their city before they can grab yours. At most, they'll have one wandering warrior somewhere.