No enemies, no military?

[superslug]

I'm playing a huge map with Space as the only victory type enabled. Barbarians are sedentary and the AI's aren't allowed to respawn. Even though Space is the only victory possible, I took over the whole planet for the fun of it.

Now that I'm the only one on it, would there be any danger in disbanding ALL of my military units and leave the planet undefended so I can free up my tax base? I'd love to get through the future techs and make people happy to inflate my score!

 

[Scyphax]

If you want to play it safe disband all units except for 1 or 2 per continent. I was in a similar situation but I had Raging Hordes and I found that 2 cavalry units per island/contient with a good rail and road network could deal with the barbarians.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

I don't see a problem, but you might want to keep just a few units around, per what Scyphax said. Emergencies might arise; you'll never know.

 

[Bamspeedy]

If barbarians are sedentary, you have absolutely no threat from barbs (except from huts, which by now there should be none left), so you can disband all your military.

Future tech is NOT worth it. You get the equivelent of adding just 1 content person/specialist for each future tech you get. You'll get many, many more points by irrigating every tile and cranking the luxury rate up. Getting Cure for Cancer and Longevity would be worth it, though.

P.S. This is my 2,000th post!![dance]

 

[anarres]

I can't think why you would want to keep any units.

Even if there were raging barbs you could create loads of units at 1 turns notice, so the barbs would have no chance anyway.

 

[Darkness]

No AI civs, no barbs, no units needed. Simple as that

 

[Scyphax]

Anarres

My experience in the few games this has happened to me that I was getting a barbarian almost every turn. They were easy to deal with but they needed to be dealt with instantly otherwise they would treaten my colonies.

(I always have raging hordes)

 

[superslug]

Based on some of the advice given here (which I appreciate greatly) I disbanded all of my military and split the savings between research and luxury, and man oh man are the points piling onto my score!

 

[anarres]

Originally posted by Scyphax
Anarres

My experience in the few games this has happened to me that I was getting a barbarian almost every turn. They were easy to deal with but they needed to be dealt with instantly otherwise they would treaten my colonies.

(I always have raging hordes)

I would guess that you have not colonised the world then. If there is land you can not see barbs may appear, but if you have settled the land or can see it all I don't think barbs will appear.

 

[Scyphax]

Anarres

you are right I had quite a lot of worthless land left but only 2 barbarian spawning points left.

I decided not cover these with cities because I was not sure If the spawning points would disappear or move. I did not want them to move to somewhere less conventent.

Here is my new current theory on Barbarian Spawning.
Certain blocks of land are barbarian spawning points.
Each block of land will support 1 barbarian village.
If the barbarian village is destroyed another will appear in a certain number of turns providing the spawning area is not competely covered.
Spawning areas to not move if covered they remain dormant until uncovered.

Barbarians cannot spawn inside cultural borders.
Barbarians cannot spawn within 1 tile of a cultural border.
Barbarians cannot spawn within 1 tile of a square occuppied by a unit or a colony.

 

[MTheil3508]

Barbarian huts spawn at or nearby a site of a razed city soon after the razing, too.

 

[superslug]

I've never really figured out the barbarian spawning myself, but it doesn't matter as my game has them sedentary. Plus every land square on the planet is inside my borders. I did disband all my soldiers but I kept a small stash of ICBM's just in case. I'm using them as an answer to civil disobedience...