GRINDFEST
1645 - 1877 (And beyond)
Due to the fact I made 72 (!) Screenshots in this VERY long period of time, many things will not show images.
1680: Capture Agra (2 Lighthouses, Production city)
1690: Get the gold rush event. I choose to add 3 people to the city, as the city isn't fully grown yet, and it only costs 29 gold. (In the first Indian city to ever be captured)
1700: Capture Varasari (The second Indian Capital). Its a nice, balanced city, which the Indians have made into a small production city, obviously a desperate attempt to shoo me away...
That turn, offer peace, for capitulation, and a mediocre city up in the northernmost part of our continent. However, even without ANY production, with 2 courthouses, every city can make 32 GPT, with my corps
Then 'demand' fish and gold, for some spare resources that I have, and aren't tied with any corps. This gives +0.5 food, and +1 production in all cities with my corps.
Finally, in a very eventful turn (why is it that at the turn of each century, EVERYTHING happens? Just look at 1600 -.-), I offer 600 gold to Julies Ceaser, and Giglamesh to make them happy with me. This means I have some friends (at long last)
1708: Civics change... I don't quite remember what the change was exactly... I think it was from Nationhood -> Free Speech, Slavary -> Caste, and Theocracy -> Org. Religion
1726: Grab Physics for Miltary science, and Communism. I need Rome to be happy with me, if I am going to not die horribly in the atomic era.
1744: Rome likes me for tech trading!! I trade Democracy, and 160 gold, for Steel.
1750: Found Mining Inc in my gold production city. Start building courthouses EVERYWHERE expecting to gain tons fo gold from it. I didn't expect the upkeep costs, however.
1762: Build the Church of the Nativity (Yes... I popped a Great Prophet in the mid 1700's... I effectively founded Mormonism!!)
1762: Find my Great Merchant, and grab Sids Sushi in my gold city. Two corps, and a shrine for the second biggest religion in the world!!
1772: Gold production city gets +5 commerce, for having an underground rail network.
1776: Giglamesh steals the Statue of Liberty from me... but I get tons of gold anyway, so its not a totally bad thing. (At this point I am losing 108 GPT at 0% tax)
1780: Rome cancels my deal, and I have to buy the gold, fur and cattle for copper, clam and sheep. But at least my cities are happy now.
1798: Build Broadway. Love that culture (and the +1 happy isn't bad either)
1804: In my wonder-whoring traditions, build the Pentagon. Note: I NEVER build another military unit again, except by mistake. This was to prevent France from getting it, and invading me.
1810: Start a golden age, to switch to Emancipation. The 10 unhappyness per city was too much to ignore.
1814: Three gorges Dam. Dam, I am good at this wonder-whoring!! ([/Pun])
1816: Something you have to see to believe. Here (and to the east) are THREE Sumerian cities, south of my cities. They are there for the glowing green rocks (which they already have some of, BTW). 1 city has 1 ice/hill tile for production, another is settled on uranium, and a last one has NO production tiles, whatsoever, to use. In the first, and last cases, the production tiles (uranium / 2 forested tiles repectively) are DEEP within my cultural borders, and these are MAJOR cultural cities... one is the highest culture producer EVER, with 4 Cathedrals, the Hermatage, and, later, 2 Broadcast Towers, for an INSANE +400% culture.
1836: Ignore Sumerian cries for Biology. It was a tough decision, but I feared it would allow the Sumerians to breed like rabbits, and take my important UN seats.
1838: Build the Eiffel Tower. Tower, I am good at wonder-whoring. (Wait... that doesn't work...)
In addition check this cities maintanance costs... 76.78 GPT base... with 1 courthouse.
1844: Build the Apollo Program. Is it that bad that I built this 120 years before the REAL Apollo Program? No? Good.
OK... how about this? A technology we haven't even researched properly yet... in 1845. Or a section of an interstellar spaceship: 1847?
1851: Start a golden age, to finish off those spaceship parts. People are happy to be so productive!!
1852: Give uranium to the French, for gold. The +1 hammer is a much bigger important thing than the protection of the world. Surely...
OK... seriously though, the French don't have EITHER electricity, nor rocketry, so its going to be a long time before they get nukes. And by the time he gets nukes, I would have built the UN, and passed a nuke ban treaty, as no AI votes against a nuke ban treaty, right??
In that turn, make the Internet. I don't gain anything, but more importantly, neither does the AI.
1843: I have NEVER in ALL my time of civ, seen this before.
My Mining Inc. Executive FAILED his mission. Whats more,
3 more execs failed in that city. No other cities failed.
1854: Build the space elevator. That statement destroys my idea of time being linear...
1851: Yip. As I thought. Julius builds the Manhatten project (Actually, I missed this, and was wondering what happened when I found I could build nukes, so I went back in the event log, and found it). Thats not entirely unusual, although very few civs actually BUILD the project, Rome is normally one of them (Aztecs, if they get advanced, and the Celts, if they don't get vassalised, also build it in my experiance. India never has)
1856: Giglamish (Or Giggles, as I like to call him) makes HIS Apollo Program.
1858: Oh! Oh yeah!! YEAH!! 669 hammers in ONE CITY!! (And very little overflow hammers too!)
Thats because of, for you too lazy to read, +100% from buildings, +100% from power, +100% from resources (Ironworks), +150% for building a spaceship component (Labs and Space elevator), and +100% for building with copper!! That makes my 92 base production go through a +550% multiplier, meaning I have (without my 11 overflow) 598 production. In one city.
1858: Build Rock and Roll (I love the snippet of the music when you build that wonder... I haven't heard the entire song before, however)
1859: Make Giggles happy, with a nice trade of Biology, Industrilism, and 2000 gold. And since everyone else was begging too, I gave simaler amounts to every civ. Reason? UN next turn, and I don't want Rome to be known as the most friendly civ. LOVE ME OR BE NUKED!!
1861: Launch my fully designed spaceship (with 15 turns trip, and 100% success rate!) Then get announced as the secretary.
1864: Build Hollywood.
1867: The AI must love me. I am buying sids sushi resources at any cost. In this case, Fish for Oil. OIL!!
1868: Rome builds the Apollo Program. A little late, mate! I have 8 turns till victory!!
1868: Make the nuke ban motion. With 20 nukes in my arsenal, and no-one else with even the techs to make them (except POSSIBLY Rome), I obviously vote yes.
This is what happens. Sitting around the table of the UN.
Digit: "I know you AI like the back of my hand. You ALWAYS vote for nuke-ban... its so predictable!"
Giggles: "Predict this: I vote NO!"
Julius: "Yeah!! Screw my coding! I vote NO too!!"
Digit: "But ... but ..."
Boudica: "NO! I want my NUKES!"
Napolean: "You gave me uranium... I want my NUKES! I vote NO!"
Digit: "I gave you that uranium for the fish!! You have your OWN source of uranium now... but at least I can count on my vassal. You don't even have rifling, you will NEVER get nukes, and I can protect you."
Asoka: "Come on... you know me. I bow to peer pressure, and it would look cool on the forums if you look like a fool saying that the AI never votes against nuke ban. I vote NO!"
*Digit crawls into a corner and cries. The AI gives High-fives all round*
Thats right... I just needed the support of one other (major) civ, and it would have passed. Alas, it didn't. Aside from me, it failed unanimously.
And then, in 1876, a sole radio message was heard on the Roman SETI project...
"This is an unencripted radio transmission from Alpha I: We have successfully landed in Alpha Centauri, and are planning on contruction of a space base starting immediately. Any further ships will be hunted down and destroyed, so don't even bother. Hand over your crowns and presidancies to the almighty Ottoman empire, effective immediately."
Summary
Now, these pictures are my summaries, and in order they are:
The screen of my first man to set eyes on a new world. Yippee!! Victory!!
The map. And the fact I played no less than 12 hours and 11 minutes on this crazy game.
The 5 best cities. From bottom to top there is: MY gold city, MY Globe Theatre city, MY Cultural city, MY science city, and MY capital. I wonder what links them all together. Oh yes, they are the best cities in the world!!
Demographics. My people generally don't like me (WTH!? I had HUGE happyness and healthyness surpluses in most cities!!) But I have insane production / GNP bonuses over the AI.
53K final score. Double buildings helped somewhat.
I played on about 15 more turns, to see if I could win a diplomatic victory. Although I bribed Julius and Giggles, they wouldn't vote for me, even though I forced everyone to obey free religion, to reduce the diplo penalties I get for having a foriegn religion.
Gold city. 824 GPT, at 100% espionage. 300% multiplier.
Globe Theatre city. 19.4 million people. Larger than the 18 milion cap most cities hit (in RL AND in this game)
My miles-away-from-anywhere-so-why-are-we-living-here-again-oh-yes-its-the-two-courthouses city. Without the courthouses: 81.97 GPT payed in that one city alone. With the courthouses: Nothing (I even run environmentalism just for fun!!)
Science city (I should have put the Oxford uni in my capital, however). 592.65 science at 90% science. My capital is slightly behind, with 490-ish science per turn.
Finally, my production city. 726 production, on a regular building. Oh yeah. (But half of that is overflow >.<)
And that is that. The first, fully documented game, on what happens when you can build 2 buldings of the same type per city!!
