One City Challenege + Super Cities

[Agent Cooper]

For a Cultural victory OCC, Siam blows the competition away by a mile. Of course the catch is that you need cultural city states in the game you can ally with - I'd say at least 5-6 of them to really feel the sweep of Siam.

The Aztecs are the most fun to play though but the cultural gain they get from killing enemy units is surpassed by Siams 50% CS cultural bonus by far.

If you want to beat Siam judging by overall score (meaning not just getting the most culture as soon as possible) as the Aztecs, I'd say you would need to leave the OCC behind and just reign over a super capital and an empire of puppets. That will generate a huge end score since population numbers will be huge and science + gold will skyrocket.

I can't really see the point in going for a spaceship win with an OCC approach, since you need to build six different parts almost at the same time for an early launch. Sure, it can be done but it's hardly the optimal strategy.

A domination win with an OCC is no problem - just go Mongols (land map) or Danes (water map) for best effect.

 

[Bibor]

For a Cultural victory OCC, Siam blows the competition away by a mile.

Culture OCCs are more about production than anything else. Overall, Darius is the strongest OCC culture gamer, closely followed by Gandhi. Maps, city state types and their attitudes are random. Production is not.

 

[iggymnrr]

Culture OCCs are more about production than anything else. Overall, Darius is the strongest OCC culture gamer, closely followed by Gandhi. Maps, city state types and their attitudes are random. Production is not

Siam by a mile is correct. There was a gauntlet on this and 13 of the top 15 spots went to Siam, the other two to Arabia. The sole Persian submission was dead rock bottom. Where India ranked, I don't remember if anyone tried.

 

[TPQ]

1. What civ if the best for a one city game? I want to have an extremely large city

2. What are some tips for playing these one city games?

3. And, for future reference, what do you pro-gamers do to get your civs to have supermegaultrapopulations? (besides being india)

I appreciate all you guys' help.

1. Like others have said, my personal choice would be Siam, for the +50% City state bonus. Allying all the maritime CSs will net a heck of a lot of food in your capital anyway, but with Siam, it'll be 50% more.

2. Get your capital as big as possible, as fast as possible. Go tradition and get landed elite as early as possible. Scout a lot, to find all the City states as early as possible. Do all the City state quests if practical, ignoring CS elimination quests. In general, Arabia with Bazaars are the best choice imo. Either pay close attention to diplomacy and get DoFs, or don't and don't get DoFs. Imo, it's best to avoid DoFs. Build forts (or even citadels) at your borders and garrison them. RA spam is powerful. Win before the AI get's nukes.

3. I'm not a pro, so I can't really answer this, but from my own experience, farms and the techs that improve their food output are a priority. Buildings that save food when the next citizen in born and buildings that add food are another priority. Finally, ensuring enough happiness to cover the population is important, so in a normal game (ie not OCC) India are a good choice of Civ if you specifically want to have a few super-sized cities, but you already know that.

 

[Agent Cooper]

Culture OCCs are more about production than anything else. Overall, Darius is the strongest OCC culture gamer, closely followed by Gandhi. Maps, city state types and their attitudes are random. Production is not.

Yes, production is important especially for essential wonders, but gold is imo the key to a cultural win. A civ like Arabia will drown in gold with the bazaar and why build when you can buy a factory, a museum or a Broadcast Tower right on the spot with ease? For Siam gold = CS allies = food + culture in abundance and the occasionally free military unit

 

[apocalypse105]

Arabia is olso good for one citie challenge because you can trade a lot of your luxury resources away with the bazar

 

[KevinMiles90000]

elite players use germany for OCC cultural victories

 

[Lokos451]

Culture OCCs are more about production than anything else. Overall, Darius is the strongest OCC culture gamer, closely followed by Gandhi. Maps, city state types and their attitudes are random. Production is not.

I'd put Egypt in the running too, 20% wonder speed translates to mucho production. But yeah...Golden Ages are your only real hope of keeping up with the production/gold outputs of the AI's.

Siams bonuses are all very well and good on paper, but towards the end of the game it's difficult not to get outbought by Immortal+ AI and lose a good deal of his UU. India effectively gets a smaller but more stable culture/happy boost, and another GA, two if you work it right.

Didn't think of darius in those terms before, but his UU is going to translate to easily 12-20 more turns of golden ages. Nice tip! .

 

[AznWarlord]

Didn't think of darius in those terms before, but his UU is going to translate to easily 12-20 more turns of golden ages. Nice tip! .

Plus Chichen Itza, and taking the right policies, popping GL's all at the right time, Darius could net a GA well into the 60-80 turn range. I'm not sure how Chichen Itza stacks with the UA, but I'm thinking it's 50% and then 50%, so a 10 turn GA would =

10 + (10*.5) = 15
15 + (15*.5) = 22.5

22.5 for a natural GA, then 22.5 from GA in Piety Branch, plus any GL's you pop would add their own GA's at a diminishing scale. Also, if you build the Taj Mahal, which you could easily do during this massive GA, it would add another 22.5

 

[fmlizard]

I just bagged my first Immortal win as Kamehameha. OCC Cultural. The big key for me was the Moai, Great Artists settled as landmarks, and getting to Hermitage early.

Moai can really be awesome if you have lots of coastline. I was getting several 5 and 6 culture coast tiles.