G-Minor XL

[Landos]

wooohoo. Turn 288. Not anything to write home about, but a solid improvement over my starting point.

 

[Xger]

With continents it seems excedingly hard to tech all the way to Cristo and towers. I haven't getten that close (though admittedly I've not mastered the RA balance to the level vexing has). I haven't even submitted a game this time around as my best time was gonna be 270, but I got annoyed and overreacted and quit when the project was gonna take 13 turns. I am interested in seeing what the top scores are.

 

[HideInLight]

I played a few games around 250, once I managed 246. I definately could have gotten a couple turns better by polishing the strategy, but probably not below 240.

I can think of only 2 ways to get way better - either to get very lucky with cultural CS's quests and get several of them allied very early or get continents connected by shallow water to find all 7 civs before astronomy (which I had only once out of about 11 tries or something and in that game I got double DoWed so no luck either).

 

[Denniz]

Results:

G-Minor XL - Culture, Warlord, Standard, Continents, Standard, Egypt (Ramesses II)

1st vexing - 1590 AD T-228

2nd HideInLight - 1675 AD T-245

3rd cas - 1700 AD T-250

Congratulations!

 

[HideInLight]

T-228 nice vexing. Shallow waters between continents?

 

[vexing]

nope. a 4-3 split.
i tried a few other times, but never got low seas between with a good start. i imagine 215 or lower could be done with shallow waters and a good start, but i got sick of trying.