Get your dog off my grass!

[MaxaTheGreat]

Yes. Even if I'm going for a peaceful victory, I toss out anyone who's on my continent.

It will happen even sooner if:

A. I'm not going for peaceful victory (pretty obvious...)
B. It's a small continent (Once I ended up on the smallest continent you could spawn on, and I had to share it with Shaka...)
C. They have all the good stuff.

 

[darski]

Yes. Even if I'm going for a peaceful victory, I toss out anyone who's on my continent.

It will happen even sooner if:

A. I'm not going for peaceful victory (pretty obvious...)
B. It's a small continent (Once I ended up on the smallest continent you could spawn on, and I had to share it with Shaka...)
C. They have all the good stuff.

I do this all the time now. I start with continents and then aim for a clear *ahem* peaceful race to space.

 

[Bowsling]

Yeah... My peaceful games generally go out the window when I look at the domestic adviser screen and say "Holy Crap, I'm spending of 100 GPT on unit support, and my only neighbour has musketmen to defend against my 60 unit stack of artillery, cavalry and infantry".

In my game, I am going for a space race as Greece. I've stuck to myself for most of the game, building wealth and buildings in core cities, and a two-tile chokepoint occupied by me separating me from my only neighbour, Rome. Then Arabia sold me horses. Then I got Replaceable Parts. Then unit support costs started getting to me. So I went and wiped out the Romans, who had put up a hard fight in the one war we fought over a source of saltpeter. In fact, I only got attacked once in that war, and that was because I left an elite fisherman MDI exposed. And now Egypt is discovering what happens when their northern neighbour gets steamrolled without causing any damage to the attacker.

 

[Moosezilla]

I'm playing MEM II as the Moor and had no design on Africa but somehow it is changing to my color!

 

[timerover51]

Darski, you clearly have struck a responsive chord in the community.

I am playing my first game (ever) as the Spanish, on Rick's Battleground 362 X 362 map, which is very nice by the way. I did some modifications to it (surprise!), and also tried to locate all of the civilizations that he had preplaced. I found everyone but India, my personal Bete Noir. After I started as Spain, loe and behold my nearest nieghbor, and also the only AI civilization on my continent, is INDIA. For once, I had the great pleasure and enjoyment of doing onto Gandhi what he normally does to me, and that is blitz him. No more INDIA! Aztecs, my favorite civilization to exterminate are next, on the adjoining continent. Just hope the erupting volcanoes do not do in Tenochtitlan first.

 

[Elephantium]

I voted no. My continent is not JUST for me ... not necessarily. After all, you can win a lot of games without clearing your continent.

... or doing any research
... or building any barracks
... or ever being at peace with anyone.

 

[Desertsnow]

As a general rule, yes. Otherwise I might tolerate a neighbor if their land is useless. On the other hand, if a new resource pops up, I might be encouraged to, erm, acquire some of it.

 

[King of Anshan]

it depends on my mood, but with a nice little continent I could call my own it would be fun. Than I go Machiavellian and manipulate the guys/girls on the bigger continent. That's the fun of having one continent; riskless screwing around in the other.

 

[darski]

it depends on my mood, but with a nice little continent I could call my own it would be fun. Than I go Machiavellian and manipulate the guys/girls on the bigger continent. That's the fun of having one continent; riskless screwing around in the other.

I always pick one of those as well and set up the others for my pseudo war. I usually pick the generally annoying ones as loser - Cathy is always at the top of the list unless Mursilis is around. It keeps them from getting silly ideas about my continent as well.

 

[NickyJ]

"Do you believe that you must own/clear your continent?" Yes! I can't stand squatters. Get off my lawn, or I'm gonna nuke the lawn!

 

[Raliuven]

You unexpectedly find another civ populating YOUR continent. After closer inspection of the tourists, you realize they don't intend to leave. In fact, they have claimed valuable tiles with their Civ color. In response you:

1) Welcome your new neighbor and invite it to trade with you and prosper. After all, at least you don't have to sail across half the world to find someone to talk to and we are all part of one big Civ color wheel family. They even offer to get you closer to Alpha Centauri by trading techs.

2) Guests are not welcome. Post signs all around their house that explains that trespassers will be shot. A lot. In spite of complaints from the Health Department, post heads on spears to keep an eye on them. Just to be sure they get the point, draw the 'line of death' two tiles out to sea. Put a flyer in their front door that explains that a settler in a boat is a viable survival technique (remind them about the 'line of death' two tiles off the coast).

3) Immediately complain to the other Civs about the flagrant violations of your national sovereignty. Extol the virtues of (YOUR) manifest destine and start a dogpile.

4) Watch the neighbor from your sniper scope on the second floor of the book depository. Close the blinds whenever they look in your direction. When you are sure they are asleep, sneak over and work them over with a pipe wrench.

Ah, so many choices . . .

 

[Carnac]

I'm still getting a hang of the whole war thing, so not right away. However, if I run out of space and their outer villages aren't culture flipping on their own, I may give them... a little push as it were.

Also, as I tend to go for a more peaceful victory (UN Victory was my first victory in Civ3, lol) I have a generally small standing army. But if I'm attacked, I will attack right back!

 

[darski]

You unexpectedly find another civ populating YOUR continent. After closer inspection of the tourists, you realize they don't intend to leave. In fact, they have claimed valuable tiles with their Civ color. In response you:

1) Welcome your new neighbor and invite it to trade with you and prosper. After all, at least you don't have to sail across half the world to find someone to talk to and we are all part of one big Civ color wheel family. They even offer to get you closer to Alpha Centauri by trading techs.

2) Guests are not welcome. Post signs all around their house that explains that trespassers will be shot. A lot. In spite of complaints from the Health Department, post heads on spears to keep an eye on them. Just to be sure they get the point, draw the 'line of death' two tiles out to sea. Put a flyer in their front door that explains that a settler in a boat is a viable survival technique (remind them about the 'line of death' two tiles off the coast).

3) Immediately complain to the other Civs about the flagrant violations of your national sovereignty. Extol the virtues of (YOUR) manifest destine and start a dogpile.

4) Watch the neighbor from your sniper scope on the second floor of the book depository. Close the blinds whenever they look in your direction. When you are sure they are asleep, sneak over and work them over with a pipe wrench.

Ah, so many choices . . .

That pretty much runs the whole gamut. I like how you think

I wish I had your creative wit

 

[darski]

I'm still getting a hang of the whole war thing, so not right away. However, if I run out of space and their outer villages aren't culture flipping on their own, I may give them... a little push as it were.

Also, as I tend to go for a more peaceful victory (UN Victory was my first victory in Civ3, lol) I have a generally small standing army. But if I'm attacked, I will attack right back!

Welcome to CFC - great username by the way.

I'm even willing to forgive you for admitting that the UN exists let alone using those evil descendants of pond scum... nothing personal of course

 

[rilnator]

I always play pangea, sending my scouts out at the start to get as many goodie huts as possible. Land warfare is heaps fun as well.

Always end up forking out the big bucks later in the game when I need to build instant navies though.

 

[bigFRANK]

Depends on the map and your start location, Given for example a huge earth map and a start location in Western Europe its going to take quite a while to control all connected land mass and even longer to kick all other civs out from the surrounding islands.

 

[NickyJ]

Actually, I don't usually have to declare war myself. The other country usually does that. The game that I started just yesterday had that happen.

 

[Raliuven]

Welcome to CFC - great username by the way.

I'm even willing to forgive you for admitting that the UN exists let alone using those evil descendants of pond scum... nothing personal of course

When I was formatting my #3 selection I almost mentioned the UN. Then I remembered who the kind OP was and thought it was better to leave that off the list of possible resolutions. It was one of those 'If you call down the thunder' moments.

 

[darski]

When I was formatting my #3 selection I almost mentioned the UN. Then I remembered who the kind OP was and thought it was better to leave that off the list of possible resolutions. It was one of those 'If you call down the thunder' moments.

Oh yeah ... but you have to be nice to the newbies for the first post you see.

 

[dominatr]

Well, if i bought a house in the development, the neighbors better be aware that the whole neighborhood will be mine soon!