My highest-scoring game ever.

Martacus

World's Greatest Warrior
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Sure, it was on Cheiftain and all, but still, getting roughly 5500 points was quite an accomplishment for me. not that I can't win on higher levels, but hey: when you've only won at King level once with a score under 1000, it feels good to drop back down to lower levels once in a while and absolutely trounce the opposition. I did just that.

I customized a large Archipelago map. Normal climate, cool temp, and 5 billion years old. What I got was more of a Continents map, but the continents were very roughly and narrowly shaped for the most part. There were 7 civs to start with, I as the French sharing one of the larger continents with the Russians and Zulus. My strategy was mainly peaceful yet aggressive expansion: hemming the opposition in quicky so they can't expand. Meanwhile, most of my cities were building peaceful stuff, and naturally I got an SSC going. I also made a point to get waterworks (aqueducts/sewers) up quickly all over. Peaceful expansion/research/growth lasted a long time, but I kept to myself and didn't try going out and conquering. At least not too much. Some enemy AIs got ahold of a few Wonders that I missed, so I simply relieved them of the cities holding them. Including Pyramids, so score. Eventually, around 1850, England sends a diplomat to steal technology from me, so I switch to Fundamentalism and begin my Conquest of the world.

Now my opponents had expanded to a large number of cities, so I decided to make the most of my conquests: my "home" continent cities were all completely built up by this time and I was researching Future Tech 30-something, so I decided to expand my population base by actually taking care of all this newly-gained territory. As a large fundy government like my own has a virtually bottomless treasury, I just bought my city improvements wholesale, while getting engineers improving the land while my army spread across the globe. Starting my World Conquest in around the 1850s or so, I managed to conquer all but one Celtic city. I left them surrounded by tanks on forts to kep them in check--having been last in the tech race throughout the game, I wasn't worried. Eventually, I managed to completely build up all of my cities, and my population was rising ever higher. There was still qute a bit of terrain improvement to be done, but it was soon time to launch my spaceship. So my fully-built ship set forth in 2007, arriving in 2019 for the win. I had all wonders, no barbarians, Future Tech 85 or so, and after a last-minute switch back to democracy and a high luxury rate, a population of nearly 250,000,000 people, nearly all of them either happy or specialists. Final score was in the high 5400's, and a 207% rating (Louis XIV the Magnificent!).
I was happy, and relieved that it finally ended. Turns were slowing to a crawl, trying to maintain over 100 cities.
 
nice score, i have achieved 8200 points though.. (that took some time in the later game, Prince)
had the largest landmass for myself.. getting more than 2 future techs per turn is weird..
 
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