High Score

[gar13]

hi!
i've played for a while, but i've never tried for a high score... can someone give me tips to get hte highest score possible? thanks!

 

[Archbob]

I'm working on Prince right now. It 1896, I'm a future tech 27, and my current rating is 166%. The key is to research fast, conquer quickly, and then use democracy to grow like mad in the end and terraforming is crucial, farm and road every square there is (or at least try to).
You just have to get used to switching between democracy and fundy for their purposes of research and war.

 

[stormerne]

Expand, expand, expand!
There is no other way.

Control unhappiness by building settlers!

BUT... you'll need a LOT of patience to get a really high score. Once you've conquered the world, got over 200 cities and just have one pet AI city left, it becomes very tedious for most people. You may spend several months on just that one game. You have to ask yourself whether it's really worth it and what you're really playing it for.

But there are lots of tips we can share. Browse through previous topics in this Strategy and Tips forum and you'll find many.


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[gar13]

Stormerne. i had a game like that on king, with like 175 cities and my one little pet city surrounded with rifles.

it was like 1700, and my ship was ready, but i was getting as many cities/people as i could. it got boring

i may still have it....

 

[stormerne]

So you already know. Well there's no getting round it - you can't get a really high score in a normal Civ game without all that stuff in the endgame that many people find tedious and boring.

Why not try Game of the Month instead? The way we play this is by incorporating an early finish bonus. Say you played a good ordinary game on King Level and you'd just got to the "boring bit", and maybe you had, say, 2000 points already. If you were really careful you could nurse that up to 8000 points or more in a normal endgame: no wars, just city growth. Now in Game of the Month if you reached that point halfway through the turns and finished there, the early finish bonus would transform your 2000 points into 9000 points! (Sliding scale from x8 at the start to x1 at the end of the available game turns.)

We're just starting GOTM #3. Why not give it a go?

 

[gar13]

i actually already downloaded the GotM3. i don't know how i'll do though, because it's on emperor...

i also found my old game. i have 180,000,000 people, and around 150 cities (moscow is like size 43). i'm on future tech 43, and my ship has been done and ready for a while now.
it's aorund 1964.

 

[stormerne]

Originally posted by gar13:
i also found my old game. i have 180,000,000 people, and around 150 cities (moscow is like size 43). i'm on future tech 43, and my ship has been done and ready for a while now. it's aorund 1964.

You want a really high score? You're going need to expand! Yes even in the year 1964. 150 cities is not enough. You've got a 254 city limit so use it.

Get most of your cities producing engineers and a few transports. Identify the good city sites from your Apollo maps and go colonise! If you can't find a 100 good city sites, I bet you haven't used the ice-caps yet, so use them too (see my topic on "Polar Strategies" for hints).

You've got 55 turns left and that's probably enough to get 100 new cities up to an average of size 16. You've conquered the world so who's going to stop you? Or perhaps you don't want the extra 2500 points that would bring!

 

[gar13]

I was actually trying to make all of my cities perfect, before expanding.

should i build farms everywhere first, or expand first?

 

[Archbob]

Now its 1933, and I've got 205 million or so, my spaceship is almost finished(I just let my cities build it, I didn't buy parts) and just terratransforming whats left to terratransform, I'll have to count how many cities I have.

 

[stormerne]

Originally posted by gar13:
I was actually trying to make all of my cities perfect, before expanding.

should i build farms everywhere first, or expand first?

My recommendation is always to expand first. The maths are simple in several ways...

It takes quite a lot of effort to get a size 24 city up to a size 40 with farms etc. Yet that's the same as spinning off 2 settlers and letting them grow for eight turns under high luxury until they need aqueducts! It's always quicker and cheaper to grow little cities to size 8 than to grow bigger cities even bigger.

Plus it's eaier to keep lots of small populations happy than one big one, especially at the end of the game when you have all the wonders. You need to stop unhappiness to be able to grow +1 per turn under high luxury.

Another thing: above size 24 your population gets added as entertainers etc. These are one point each. It's only the first 24 that can earn TWO points each (if they're happy). Therefore you'll get more points for 4 size 8 cities than 1 size 32 city.

So expand first. Perfect later.

 

[gar13]

ok thanks.

 

[Archbob]

Well its 1946 and I'm at future tech 70 or so and at 277%(going for 490%). Luxuries and 10, taxes at 20, and science at 70%, basically discovery every turn. Spaceship is finished!

I got about 160 cities. Yes, more cities is the way to go. If Lux is at 100% you get much mroe point for 3 size 8 cities than 1 size 24 city. Going from 200 million to 320 million pop does not increase your score all that dramatically.

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