Huge Monarch Maya Histograph Attempt

[Denniz]

I am currently about 90 hours into a histograph attempt on monarch difficulty. (Pretty much all I have been doing for the last week or so.)

Setting:
Barbarians: SEDENTARY.
Climate: NORMAL.
LandForm: PANGAEA.
Map Size: HUGE.
Ocean Coverage: 60%.
Temperature: TEMPERATE.
World Age: 5 BILLION YEARS.

PLAYERS:
Maya (Denniz)
Byzantines
Arabia
Netherlands
Portugal
Korea
India
Russia
England

It is 1465 and my score is around 11k. I finished destroying all the other civs except for a token English city. I have been moving my population to better climates. Still a long way to go but I thing I will be about to get a spot in the bottom half of the table. I could probably do better if I started over but I've come this far. I will finish this and then see about stepping up the difficulty.

Current map - 1465AD

Score graphs vs. 1st, 4th, and 10th - all Mayan

 

[Mistfit]

Good luck to you Denniz. This is a game for sure that you do not need to worry about me competeing against you in. I'm getting frustrated with a huge DOM attempt because it has taken me 6 or 7 hours so far (1/2 way done). so Being 1/2 way and 90 hours in... Not gonna happen.

 

[a space oddity]

Well done sofar, Denniz!

Your game looks very similar to mine, the only thing different is probably that mine was an archi map while yours looks pangaea, i.e. lower domination limit.

 

[Bartleby]

I hope the rest of it goes smoothly for you. I reckon the worst part of such a game is when you've just finished the wars, and there's loads of irrigation to do, and loads of military to disband--have you passed that?

 

[Denniz]

@Mistfit, @a space oddity, @Bartleby thanks for the encouragement.

As for military disbanding, I started that a couple turns after the end of combat. I am maybe a third of the way through. I am using them to help rush things in new cities.

I've finished the major clearing of jungle and marsh. Most of the native workers have been used to fill up new cities. Slave labor is mostly cleaning polution and clearing up new territory. I have had extra for roading hills and mountains to make cleaning polution easier.

 

[Moonsinger]

Good luck, Denniz! You probably have at least another 100 hours to go. The last 100 turn may be very sleepy, but don't do what I did "hitting space bar" to skip to 2050AD (I can't help wondering how Kuningas managed to out milk mine during those last turns).

 

[Svar]

Good luck, Denniz. A great tool for the final 100 turns is CRpMapStat. Save every turn and check CRpMapStat. The number of happy citizens should be a constant and if it isn't pollution has moved a citizen off of a tile. Go find the poluted tile, clean, and replace the citizen. Unfortunately you have to do this every turn if you want to maximize the score.

 

[Denniz]

Good luck, Denniz! You probably have at least another 100 hours to go. The last 100 turn may be very sleepy, but don't do what I did "hitting space bar" to skip to 2050AD (I can't help wondering how Kuningas managed to out milk mine during those last turns).

Thanks. Right now, I am at least 20-30 hours before I get close to sleepy time. In the meantime, I'm playing chicken with the dom limit as I resettle greener pastures.

What I'm wondering right now is should I make peace with England. The fighting has been over less than 10 turns and she still has some ships. No cities have popped up. She declare on me, so I got war-happiness but waiting for the other shoe to drop is nervewracking.

 

[Denniz]

Good luck, Denniz. A great tool for the final 100 turns is CRpMapStat. Save every turn and check CRpMapStat. The number of happy citizens should be a constant and if it isn't pollution has moved a citizen off of a tile. Go find the poluted tile, clean, and replace the citizen. Unfortunately you have to do this every turn if you want to maximize the score.

Thanks. You know, Dianthus added a pollution tab to MapStat. Not that i have to worry about hunting for it just yet. Right now I'm getting 5-6 new pollution each turn. I have a ton of slave workers auto-cleaning.

 

[zerksees]

What I'm wondering right now is should I make peace with England. The fighting has been over less than 10 turns and she still has some ships. No cities have popped up. She declare on me, so I got war-happiness but waiting for the other shoe to drop is nervewracking.

If she won't make peace you can always up the luxury slider, but I would make peace.

I suggest building lots of privateers to sink the ships. Also sign ROP and put units around the city so she can't escape with new settlers. If she has only one city left you can give a resource, luxury or even a tech to get ROP.

If any stray cities pop up you can always redeclare war and take them out. Should this become necessary, build a city on tundra or desert and gift it to her before you declare war. That way once you take out the other cities she will not be able to build a settler.

 

[Moonsinger]

What I'm wondering right now is should I make peace with England. The fighting has been over less than 10 turns and she still has some ships. No cities have popped up. She declare on me, so I got war-happiness but waiting for the other shoe to drop is nervewracking.

Unless there is a galleon/transport among them, I wouldn't worry about them (have to destroy their last settler). I usually leave some empty land near to their shore to lure out any last settler (work every time).

 

[Denniz]

Well, I finished.

Not as long as I thought, but my curve flattened out towards the end. I don't think I moved enough cities. Oh well, now I know what to expect with a huge map.

 

[Denniz]

If she won't make peace you can always up the luxury slider, but I would make peace.

I suggest building lots of privateers to sink the ships. Also sign ROP and put units around the city so she can't escape with new settlers. If she has only one city left you can give a resource, luxury or even a tech to get ROP.

If any stray cities pop up you can always redeclare war and take them out. Should this become necessary, build a city on tundra or desert and gift it to her before you declare war. That way once you take out the other cities she will not be able to build a settler.

I made peace eventually. Luckily she did have any settlers on her ships. I killed 3 or 4 with my single destroyer. I did have to go to war with her again at one point. Her borders kept pushing my blockers back which allowed her room to colonize and then repeat. I definately should have stuck her in the tundra like you suggested.