Last turn mass settle

[fret]

I've read of a few people timing lots of cultural border expansons to trigger on the last turn of the game, but has anyone ever tried setting themselves up to settle 100% of the map on the last turn of the game?

 

[superslug]

That idea's floated through my head once or twice, but I've never really considered it worth it. The problem with my games is that I'd have to abandon a lot of cities in order to build new ones without hitting the 512 cap.

Probably the only really interesting thing I ever did on a last turn was nuke all my cities...

 

[fret]

Originally posted by superslug 512 cap.
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Eek! I never realised there was a cap on the number of cities. What happens when you hit the cap? Does it just not show the 'build city' icon?

I might try it at the end of my current game just to see how many extra points its gets you.

 

[superslug]

The build city icon does still show up, but when you tell a settler to build, he'll only get his pack halfway off and then stop and you'll get a pop up saying there's too many cities.

By the way, the 512 is the total number of cities for all civ's combined, so the AI's count too.

 

[Aeson]

Pretty sure Bamspeedy did this, or something very much like it, in one of this games.

 

[Drazek]

Originally posted by Aeson
Pretty sure Bamspeedy did this, or something very much like it, in one of this games.

Yes, I think at least in GOTM18 which was on a large pangaia map. He milked it ICS style and settled all available area in the end.

 

[EMan]

....till you ANALYZE the numbers!

For example, if you controlled an extra 1000 squares on the last turn you would effectively get a whopping 2 points added to your score! (times the difficulty level)

 

[fret]

WOW! 8 points at Monarch, Well worth doing then