News: WOTM 09 Pre-Game Discussion

[Harbourboy]

The raging barbarians can REALLY ruin your day if you make a false move in the early stages of the game. Especially if you've been playing HoF recently with barbarians turned off.......

 

[Fronx]

In my mind "Raging Barbarians" -option is just a option that limits your starting strategies (narrows the paths you can take).

I read it as if the option actually says "limit non-militaristic starting strategies". Raging Barbs doesn't really matter [with this map type], if you make enough units (and it is actually good, free exp to units, yay!)


EDIT:
explaining "Raging barbs doesn't matter" -statement: in the old continent it doesn't matter much, usually it is crowded so not many spawning points, but ofcourse on "the new continent" it makes a huge difference =)

Ofcourse, the creator of the GOTM/WOTM might have edited the games to be different from what they usually would be with the given settings....

 

[Munro]

Never explicitly tried for a Cultural Victory before, so might give one of the test games a try first. Anyone had a go?

Well - just finished greatbeyond's very enjoyable test save, aiming for a fastest-possible cultural victory, and some learned some pretty valuable lessons. Despite founding 4 of the 7 religions and building most of the world's wonders, I wasn't producing culture anywhere near fast enough in my capitals, and after turning off after Nationalism (for Hermitage and Taj Mahal), eventually got taken down by cannons and grenadiers sometime in the 1800s, still nearly 100 turns away from a cultural victory (with all cathedrals and available wonders and buildings already built).

Spoiler :

The end...
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Some of the lessons learned from this game:

- cottages for the capitals are essential; wonders and GA specialists just don't produce anywhere near enough
- teching Liberalism for the +100% and +2 from towns is probably essential as well, and maybe democracy for the extra cottage growth with Emancipation
- neglecting mid-game military techs (rifling, steel) is a dangerous game!
- building wonders with an industrious leader, and beelining to found religions, isn't that tough on prince. Multiple Great Prophets from all those wonders really helped with the religions, and I also missed only 1 of about 10 wonders that I started to build.

Also discovered that linking up resources on islands doesn't work unless you actually have a city on that island. Just making sure that the resource ends up within your cultural boundary isn't enough...

Spoiler :

Marble...
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One final surprise - at some point after building Parthenon, I noticed it was giving me +20 Anyone understand this? I thought it was meant to give only +10 (which I think it may have done initially)... ?

Spoiler :

Supercharged Parthenon?
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[Lexad]

One final surprise - at some point after building Parthenon, I noticed it was giving me +20

- all buildings double their cultural output once they hit 1000 years jubilee.

 

[Erkon]

- all buildings double their cultural output once they hit 1000 years jubilee.

Lexad, thanks for this explanation! I've been intrigued by my obelisks and temples generating 2 cpt.

 

[Tosti11]

I thought that was pretty standard knowledge, passed on from at least Civ III, that the cultural value of buildings doubled after 1000 years. Kinda makes me feel like less of a noob ... and then i compare scores.

 

[MarkUCLA]

Hi all, Im new although I bought my first CIV game, CIV III about 6 months before CIV IV came out. I've only completed 1 game ever and that was on Warlord. I recently purchased Warlords and am addicted to CIV again.

This is my 1st WOTM but I didnt start playing till 2 weeks ago. I'm going to try to finish but I might not make it in time. (WOTM 09 should'nt be a problem as I'll start that this weekend). So when does the game result need to be turned in by? I know its due 6/15, but does that mean it has to be turned in before 6/15, like 6/14 pm, or do I have till the end of the day on 6/15?

I think I'm going to go for a Domination win, but one of my civs has 3 cities with 15,000 culture in them, though theyre very good friends of mine. I'm not sure I can finish in time though as I'm not the fastest player in the world.

 

[MarkM]

Welcome MarkUCLA! The submit page will tell you precisely how much longer submissions are allowed. Current value at teh time I posted this is 3 days 17 hours.