How do you maximize your Civilization Rating?

[TopAlwaysDown]

Hi,

I'm playing my most recent game to try and maximize my civilization rating. I figure if I never attack anyone, and almost always give them what they want to keep the peace, then I'll get an excellent "Peace Bonus" and drive up my final score. The highest that I've gotten that I can remember is 129%, equivalent to Emperor Augustus (although I know I've gotten higher, I just can't remember the scores/names).

What is the highest possible score? The highest score you've gotten? How do you do it, generally speaking (swift and thorough military victory? launch a 100% spaceship with a long reign of peace? Something inbetween?)?

All suggestions and observations are welcome!

Thanks,

Steve

 

[civ2]

After long and hard work I got 186% RATING = King Solomon(?)!!!
It was when I conquered all SEVEN civs till -3500 year on the Emperor level!!!
Otherwise the ratings were about 130% - even with SpaceShip...
But you can easily make a 100%.
Unfortunatelly the Civ doesn't give points for GOOD game - just for the annihilation of enemies...
And I never got my Palace completed - at least some 10 upgrades left...
But it nevertheless looks COOOOOL!!!

 

[Zwelgje]

Some clues on how to get high scores:
- play at a high level
- research lots of techs (future techs)
- get a high population
- build a spaceship of max. size
- get all wonders
- try to have peace as much as possible
- clean up polution

 

[Conrino]

How you ask. Simple, the answer is. Mastering of trade, is esential. For remember the ancient equation TRADE=MONEY=POWER

 

[TopAlwaysDown]

Then how do YOU master trade, Corino?

 

[Marx]

And always turn your luxury to 100% before ending the game (or is this cheating)

 

[Zwelgje]

You're right.
You should have as many happy people as possible.

 

[lio45]

I've gotten a 201%. (I'm not kidding!)

What's the highest ever achieved? (that you know of)

 

[lio45]

Some clues on how to get high scores:
- play at a high level
- research lots of techs (future techs)
- get a high population
- build a spaceship of max. size
- get all wonders
- try to have peace as much as possible
- clean up polution

I disagree.

Play at a high level, and get rid of every other Civ as soon as possible.

You'll end the game with no tech, no population, obviously no spaceship, no peace at all, and no wonders. But your score will be higher.

 

[civ2]

Lio45
Well even under best circumstances it takes me about 300 y...
And since it's something like score[3000-4000]=180+(yearBC - 3000)/100...
Or very similar - you can tell it by the same numbers at the ends of both time and score.
I got 180+(3-7)!!!
How did you get 201???
Maybe cheating???
Or lots of chariot resourses???
???

 

[JavaGeek]

I don't remember the score, but I believe it was greater than 200... The Trick was play the earth... Pick German (or another non-America location) build chariots and make sure all civs are not in amerca (takes too much time to research and build boats). And send 1-2 chariots to each civ (you only need 4 this way). And Win @ like 2000 AD...

I think I might try this later...

[edit]Oh yah you have to play on the hardest difficulty of course[/edit]

 

[lio45]

How did you get 201???
Maybe cheating???

Depends on... your definition.

I don't know ANY cheat codes for Civ 1, and I actually have no idea if any cheat codes exist. (I really hope not!). Anyway, if so, I absolutely don't want to hear anything about it. I HATE cheat codes!!! So officially, it's a "legal" 201%.

But yes, if that's your question, it did involve a lot of saving and reloading. My goal with that game was to see how high I could get.

 

[lio45]

By the way, that game wasn't on Earth. It was on a random world.

 

[civ2]

Lio45
Ahhhhhhh!!!!!
That's what it was!!!
Yeah you may get a very small random world which is 3-4 times smaller than the Earth...
Well cheating and reloading is the same except that cheating allows you to see the world instantly without reloading it every 10 turns...
But you can also reload with some 10-20 turns amplitude - would be the same.
(Almost - lots of wasted time.)

I usually use romans - 2 settlers and very close to most civs.
The war runs in the Mediterranian.
If no americans - quite fast.
Actually I used NONE of built units - only "free" ones!!!
And got lots of free horsemen!
It is a matter of chance...

 

[cheater]

Play on earth in high dificulty level and try to sourround your enemies and leve them one single city. Then go for the space. There are cheats in version 1 of Civ (I read)

 

[arvegil]

I got it over 300%. The problem is that racking up that score gets really tedious...

1. Play with a large custom world, with a large land mass and continents. This maximizes the available land area, and makes it easier to adopt a "conquer" strategy.

2. Play on a high level- King or Emperor.

3. Adopt a "conquer the world" strategy, but leave a couple other cities around.

4. Once you have almost but not quite conquered the world, build the max. size spaceship, max out your population. Caravans help for when you increase the luxuries level. Don't be in a rush- take the time to really max out your population.

5. Now, I did not move the luxuries to 100%, but racking it up to 50% about 20 years before the spaceship lands helps. You should be on "Democracy," and ramping up luxuries to that level both increases points (2 for happy, 1 for content), and also the "we love the president" days accelerate population growth.


On the 386 I did this on, I would have crashes if my society got too big- I think it was a buffer size issue not faced on normal sized worlds. I found that if I thinned out my defenses in areas where they would not be needed, it kept the game going.

 

[carniflex]

I dont care about the civ rating.

The civ rating is silly: getting rid of your ennemies very early gives a better rating, whereas launching spaceship very early doesnt give you any rating bonus.

Play at a high level, and get rid of every other Civ as soon as possible.

You'll end the game with no tech, no population, obviously no spaceship, no peace at all, and no wonders. But your score will be higher.

true

 

[dlerium]

bleh thats lame i built a super continent with all cities above 17 and most above 20 with like 95% of the wonders. 58%

 

[Ifrit9]

Strategy to get max. score is simple:
-Play on the highest level
-Build A LOT of cities
-Eliminate all other nations as fast as you can

 

[civ2]

I used to play my "Easyscen" for the last 2 weeks.
I put there all production to some 50-120 on all special resources.
It's funny to see a spacerun in some -3000.
Aka "aliens are among us but we were the first to invade their world".