Getting every great person

[JudgeJudy2020]

Is this something anyone has managed, and if so using what methods. Please feel free to share any tips or suggestions you have.

 

[Bangau]

Now there's a true challenge. For one: play on the lowest difficulty, second: only get one opponent and pillage anything they build. Would be a boring game though. And you would have to disable all victory conditions but score...

 

[Victoria]

impossible task, you can only get one great prophet.
Also eras can move on before you could get them all.
Not saying all but prophets is not possible but you would need a frantic start and a hell of a long game.
Does not sound like fun.

 

[playshogi]

You could use the pantheon exploit and buy all the GP with faith.

 

[JudgeJudy2020]

Greetings,

So it's a forgone conclusion that you can only get one GP. I am on Switch so that exploit won't work. But I don't think it would anyways since once you recruit a GP you cannot recruit another anyways.

But the idea is to get the rest of them. And correct, the idea would be to play for high score and I do turn off the other victory conditions.

I have managed to get every scientist up and general up through the modern era, and the others were pretty easy, but I realized down the road on that game I had missed an early merchant and stated over. since I have played several maps (prince difficulty) and managed to get all of them up until the ren era. That's when I seem to hit trouble.

If you pace things right, you can get the first Ren era general, scientist and writer before you enter the medieval era, so the card showing on the stack will have a high price tag that opponents can't pay before you can. The problem is that once you get the person on the top of said stack (second from the ren era) you will reveal the last one, and have to buy them with faith or gold, since your opponents will probably have enough points to get that person at the end of the turn, since the price will be lower on the next card. Presuming you have the faith to buy the third ren person right away you then go into Ind era people and they are way to expensive for any opponent to reach.

So the challenge I am having is;

A) getting the right play-through early where you get the first 7 generals, 7 scientists and 8 writers quickly enough to control show a high price on that second ren era card from each stack (has to be revealed but not earned during classical era)
B) Having enough faith banked up to patronage to immediately buy the third scientist or general at roughly the same time.

Ideally it seems you want an encampment, campus, theatre square and harbor in the same city as the Oracle, Great Library, Terracotta Army, Lighthouse and Colossus. Obviously, you want that gov there that gives +100% GPP.

Later on you could include Great Zimbabwe and Ruhr Valley as well.

any thoughts..?

 

[Victoria]

any thoughts..?

Just faith it out with Khmer or possibly Pedro

 

[JudgeJudy2020]

So it seems the main thing is to be willing to reload. Having tried this multiple times on multiple maps it seems like you can find a point where you know what will be competitive (generals and scientists) and plan accordingly. On my most recent run through I was able to get all but the last general before the end of the classical era and knock out the only folks that built campuses early on. Seems like after that if it's pretty easy to run away with it, but late game might prove different.

I'll post about the otucome in the event anyone is interested.

 

[agonistes]

So it seems the main thing is to be willing to reload. Having tried this multiple times on multiple maps it seems like you can find a point where you know what will be competitive (generals and scientists) and plan accordingly. On my most recent run through I was able to get all but the last general before the end of the classical era and knock out the only folks that built campuses early on. Seems like after that if it's pretty easy to run away with it, but late game might prove different.

I'll post about the otucome in the event anyone is interested.

Good god man... just go Russia and build the oracle. This isn't very hard to do. There are a few civs that can steal one or two if you get them in a game (and you leave them alone).

 

[Fluphen Azine]

I just finished a game as Frelanor and decided to go for a CV kinda late.
It wasn't working out so well so of course I started racing myself for SV.
I had finished both trees and was able to get every promotion for every Governor.
Does that count??
It took me 279 turns.
As usual I can't win fast.