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Hiawatha says: "Workers are overrated!"

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Hiawatha says: "We can buy oil, coal, aluminium and furs from the stupid Byzantines for only 200 gold and silk. So we do not need to road our beautiful country."

But I am not selling horses, rubber and uranium. :D

He also seems in no need for garbage removal. :eek:

Also his science is down to 20%, since most of his money went straight to the Bank of Constantinopolis. ;)
 
Why's his capital in Niagara Falls instead of Salamanca?
 
 
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A funny thing happened on the way to the... global domination...

I got to the stage where there wasn't much else left to do, so I thought I'd prioritise my future invasions on securing all the Uranium deposits, just on the off-chance someone got to Fission. I was thinking of declaring world peace and experimenting with how long it might take to get all the AIs back to friendly status, possibly even Gracious.

However... the AI was having none of it.

At 1999 I'd left this small island in the hands of the Dutch, looked like it was more hassle that it was worth bothering with:

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Alas, by 2022 it seems it had suddenly become a must catch:

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Not to be outdone and just to make sure I did indeed catch-em-all, this happened again a few turns later with a small Persian island:

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Which all made me somewhat skeptical of the idea that certain resource's placements are pre-determined at the start of the game.
Looks to me more like a traditional game-balancing thing...


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Horses and rubber are entirely pre-determined as they donnot exhaust. Every other resource can exhaust and thus appear at a random legal position instead. For iron and salpeter this happens at a chance of 1 to 800 per turn per resource. For coal and aluminium it is 1 to 400, for oil it is 1 to 200 and for uranium it is 1 to 100. So if there are 4 uranium resources not one of them exhausting and thus appearing elsewhere has probabilty of only (100/101)^(4 x 20) = 45.11% in 20 turns. This is opposing the idea of world peace and nuclear nonproliferation. Choose which one you want.
 
Have you added the chances of the new resource location appearing in such (oh, there's a surprise) obscure places into your stats? :lol:
 
It can happen that a resource will reappear at the same position it had immediately before. So no, i only calculated the gross chance of resources exhausting, the net chance of losing resources will be a lot smaller if you controll a great deal of territory. If you controll two thirds of all tiles possible for the exhuasted kind of resource, than the net chance will be two thirds lower than the gross chance.
 
A funny thing happened on the way to the... global domination...

Which all made me somewhat skeptical of the idea that certain resource's placements are pre-determined at the start of the game.
Looks to me more like a traditional game-balancing thing...
...

When I generate a map for a scenario in the editor and then use it, the resources are fixed at the start, but I do not know how the map will behave if you simply are playing on a randomly generated map.
 
What? Is Empress Wu observing the same war as I do? :eek:

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They have lost their land, their army, their navy and their airforce (Ok, hunting I-16 Rata with A-4 Skyhawks is slightly unsporting... ;) ).

And no, I did not mess with the diplomatic texts. ;)
 
It's happened again...

For the second time I've stumbled upon a victory condition that would entitle me to a position in the Hall of Fame, 8th for Huge Regent 20k:

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But, alas, because I wasn't planning on competing for the HoF I don't have any of the prerequisite saves. At least that was the reason my previous one, a Huge Emperor Space Race, was refused. You have to make three of four specific save games at certain points in the timeline. With this game, heck, I didn't even make my first save until about 1200AD LOL. It wasn't until about then that I realised a HoF might even be likely.

I got lucky with an SGL at a first level tech and built the Pyramids extremely early:

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Which also knocked out many of the AI pre-building queues. Normally I only hope to get one or two of the early Wonders, but this allowed me to get all three and from there I secured every Wonder possible except the Statue of Zeus (built by Spain), Sun Tzu's and Leonardo's (both built by another one of my cities):

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I guess I could have tried to get the Heroic Epic, it might have a made a few turns of difference to build that instead of The Great Wall, for example, but, nevertheless, aside from stuff that would require intense calculations, my Capital was just permanently building Cultural items, so I'm not sure where I would have fit it in anyway. The starting location was also quite blessed with everything one could want bar a couple more hills and an Iron and/or Coal deposit etc:

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Heck, looking at it now I even wasted two Plains tiles after I built Shakespear's. But I still think the biggest game-changer was the early Scientific Great Leader. I got another one later in the Ancient Age, which helped me secure the Hanging Gardens/Artemis double, but no more after that. Even playing as a Scientific civ just two measly SGLs, who knows what would have been the result with just a couple more!

Needless to say, I recommend, if you're trying for a HoF 20k game, then just reload if you don't get an SGL from the first couple of Techs, I'm not entirely sure the advantage that gives can be accounted for any other way.

I had a laugh when the Name'Ometer gave me my ranking:

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I hadn't conquered anyone, quite the opposite. I always find it amusing how they never adjusted the points system to take account of any of the new Victory Conditions, it's just how much land you have whatever you do. Here I am posting the 8th best ever Huge Regent 20k and the game is just, like, Meh, not bad, first tier of the good names...

Anyway, I've still got the 4000BC autosave and several saves after 1200AD, so if the boss of the HoF want's to let me have this one, let me know, if not, well, I hope I inspire someone!
 
i also hope for that inspiration, however regarding...

Needless to say, I recommend, if you're trying for a HoF 20k game, then just reload if you don't get an SGL from the first couple of Techs, I'm not entirely sure the advantage that gives can be accounted for any other way.

i may clarify that what you mean is either "start a new game", "rerun", "start over", or whatever way you want to put it. but *never* reload, i.e., start from an earlier point of the game from an existing save.

in your game, anyway quite the opposite seems to be the problem, like, that you did not make saves. i can only recommend to get used to making the typical saves whenever you play. i fear your game will be rejected again, because it might seem unfair to everyone else who already submitted meeting all the formalities. good luck.

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You just need the 4000 BC save and the final save for the HoF, usually. Submit it.
 
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