Interesting Screenshots

[Bowsling]

Now at the total opposite end of the RNG spectrum:
I was looking through saves the other day, and I noticed one save, wondering why it was discontinued. Then I saw why.

 

[choxorn]

Rise of Rome, right? Weird settlement pattern.

Ouch, it both cut off your wines and destroyed Neapolis.

 

[Bowsling]

Yes, it is RoR. I think the wines had been destroyed earlier, and I was rebuilding them when the Mt. Vesuvius became once more active. I believe the GLH was in Neapolis, too.

 

[darski]

What can I say? it was all I had and needed to use the army I got

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I gave up on that game - it was just major loser time.

 

[grumjug]

Not really that interesting, but I had never seen a start with 5 cows and a wheat before

ETA the wheat and the 5th cow are in the fog, got them by settling on the river - the start is a little crowded for my tastes, however

 

[grumjug]

Here is the file for the above start if someone wants it - it is a large archipelago map, Emporer

 

[madviking]

Henry of Portugal, master of the CxxxxxxC settling strategy.

I think his strategy is working. I can't settle the spots in between!

 

[choxorn]

The solution, of course, is to send a few Javelin throwers at those cities so your settlers can move in.

Why the Despotic GA?

 

[madviking]

The solution, of course, is to send a few Javelin throwers at those cities so your settlers can move in.

Why the Despotic GA?

You answered it yourself.

 

[Optional]

Spot the funny line:

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Spot the funny line:

Looks like a glitch. As if a comment from a defeated AI had slipped in there.

 

[Optional]

Guessed right! I was trying to mod the water % in the game. In the Conquests.ini. There is a line that goes 'Worldoceancoverage=?', where the ? will be a zero if your game had 80% water last time, a 1 if it was 70% and a 2 when it was 60%.
You can change the .ini file, fill in a higher number here to get bigger landmasses, but those numbers will then start to correspond with different things. If you fill in the number 125 you'll get the line 'Stop gloating, do it again!', if you fill in 126 you'll get 'I bet a 100 gold you can't do it again!'. I believe these are lines from the victory screen. Anyone can reproduce this, although I'm not sure you'll get exactly the same thing with previous versions of the game.
What I found funny is that it doesn't look out of place at all here. Somebody even thought I had discovered an easter egg.

Find more details about modding the water % this way in this thread.

 

[madviking]

I wet my pants when I saw this...

 

[choxorn]

Holy Cow and Deer!

 

[darski]

And you're Aggie on a river.

You can own the world with settlers from there.

 

[Arexander]

There's spices too and the only flood plain in the view has wheat.

 

[Bartleby]

Yeah but there's only the one river.

 

[templar_x]

Yep, which would make this awesome start less ideal for a science game. i´d say it is optimal for domination, 100k or a milking game. i´d choose a tight core. the visible tiles should easily allow 4 factories in the AA, the easiest to set up being 1s1se.

but why would you research WC?

templar_x

 

[madviking]

but why would you research WC?

Free workers.

The setting on this map are insane:
large, 80% conts, arid, warm, 3 billion, raging barbs

Here's a save if anyone wants a piece of this:

 

[choxorn]

Still, even with only one river, that's a 4-turn settler factory without even needing any irrigation. You need to work poorer tiles just so the settler won't complete in three turns.

And if you left despotism, it could be the extremely rare TWO-turn settler factory.