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[Induktio]

I'm assuming you're getting every tech in 4 turns?

Yeah sure, I could probably research some cheaper techs from IA in 4 turns with 10% science. MA techs seem to be a lot more expensive so I have to go around 60-70% science.

You may find it beneficial to put the farms in a cxc pattern. That would obviously mean many more cities crowded into that same area.

The advantages of a cxc spacing are no maintenance costs needed for aqueducts, plus each city will produce an additional 1gpt from wealth. Fully corrupt bigger cities, of course, only produce the same amount of gold from wealth as a size 1 city.

Ideally, your cities would each be around size 6, working 2 irrigated, railroaded grass tiles and supporting 4 scientists each. Areas with less amounts of grass tiles will support fewer scientists per working citizen.

Yes, the layout got quite a suboptimal because I just plopped towns randomly between captured opponent towns. Next time I might as well raze everything that doesn't fit the pattern.

CxC spacing is probably the most optimal one, but with ~150 towns and 1300+ citizens the game got enough of a micromanagement nightmare already.

An alternative I thought about using in future games is this kind of a spacing:
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cxcx
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If there was a straight river running along the edge of the cities, no aqueduct would be needed. Each city gains 5 tiles to work with. On grassland, that adds up to 5*4 +2 =22 food produced. That's enough for 11 citizens, but if there's a +2 food bonus, it can reach size 12. The best thing is that it shouldn't look like as horrible as the most extreme version of ICS.

 

[Alpha Killer II]

China / Monarch
Umm, this game I (Canada, o-m-f-g) had to take over Netherlands (North America) and the Hittittes (Mexico) to get complete control over the Americas (I dont trade terroritory or World maps wit AIs so they wont be able to steal my land

PS: My Armay!!! (strongest one in the world too) >=D

PS: The imposter me (Maya) is the same color on world map, he is in India, dont get his base confused wit mine

 

[Alpha Killer II]

CAII will probably tell...

This game is using Quintillus' map. I am the Greeks and started out in France. I got bottled up pretty quickly, but luckily I bashed in the skulls of the Byzantines and Egyptians. Carthage has been my ally through most of this, despite the fact that they had only 2 cities (now up to 4, one of them given to them, by me). I am also supplying them with Iron and Horses. :/ I plan to keep them mired in my wars while I expand, and then take them out later when I can spare the troops.

I had a fierce, long battle with the Dutch for control of the Mediterranean. They fought hard, throwing many swords at me, but I managed to gut their right side. I am now fighting the Iroquois, and have a massive stack headed towards London on the western coast of Africa, bypassing all their other cities, in hopes of grabbing the dyes that they guard.

Unit support is killer, even in Monarchy.

Look at my empire in world map, all u need to do is have alot more troops, expo (expand) alot more then switch to Communism

 

[Ansar]

New game, new civ:

My core. It needs some work, mostly because I have some jungle to the west and because I didn't start off with any food bonuses. Lots of shields, though.

Fighting agains the Greeks in the Ancient Age is tough, especially with only Javelin Throwers. I'm pretty sure I was extremely lucky winning those fights. I hope to get rid of the rest of the Greek lands (or leave them OCC - they could always work as a nice new-age tech giver [being scientific, of course ]) before the end of the Middle Ages.

 

[Diviner]

i never knew how to research this quickly you guys do, although i am tech-brokering always. middle ages before christ with only 40% science, industrial age before 1000 AD with 50%...

 

[LLXerxes]

Celts - Domination

I started out in the South-Central part of the Western continent, China was in the north. I stole some of their iron by building a city way in the north, pumped out some Gallic Swordsman, ripped right through them. Then I finished settling my continent and started to explore west (I went west but ended up on the Eastern Continent) where I met the Inca and Arabs. I built a few cities in the south, one Inca city culture flipped to me (because I built temples in each of mine) and they attacked me (rop rape, to be exact). Luckily, they had no horses or saltpeter, but tons of Crusaders. It took maybe 300 years, but I finaly sized them down to a small one tiled island in the south and made them pay some nice gpt to me. Then my cities just expanded from the temples and I won.

 

[LLXerxes]

I found the old save yesterday on my computer and finished this one up this afternoon-
Carthage - Histograph Victory

A quick sweep of the Italian peninsula took care of them quickly. I would have had more of Macedon if the Celts were smart enough to SAVE the cities and not destroy them. :undecided:

 

[LLXerxes]

Byzantines, my first regent game.

It's the middle of the Middle Ages. I'm at war with the Maya (cyan in the southwest, there are two cyans in this game) getting help from the Inca. I'm about 3rd out of 7 teams on the histograph.

 

[Taras Bulba]

there are two cyans in this game

i was about to say... that would ge a crazy civ if it got like that, because to me, it didn't really look like the map had big wars (main cities with no culture), and it would be very weird for an AI to get like that on Regent

 

[LLXerxes]

i was about to say... that would ge a crazy civ if it got like that, because to me, it didn't really look like the map had big wars (main cities with no culture), and it would be very weird for an AI to get like that on Regent

I'm playing a game with all the new Civs from Conquests, so not only am I confused about two Cyan's, but the Portueguese and Korean purples are pretty similar.

 

[Diviner]

some of my most enjoyable games

CATHERINE / REGENT / DOMINATION / 2027 AD

THEODORA / REGENT / SPACE RACE / 2044 AD

ABU BAKR / REGENT / DOMINATION / 1806 AD

OSMAN / REGENT / CULTURAL / 1912 AD

MONTEZUMA / MONARCH / DOMINATION / 710 AD

 

[Dezzilisk]

Awesome! Turko America

 

[ThinkTank]

@ Alpha Killer: which map where you playing on in the game you show in post122?

 

[T.A JONES]

What a bunch little puny empires!. Would someone please post an empire with some meat on its bones so all can see what real map looks like?!

(Jeez, like since when did countrys only make up of 10 citys? whats more, only 10 countries make up an entie world! #@*#! )

SHeesh! for the love of Sid/civ, Lest we not waste what has been put before us and ever max out these 'huge' maps having no fear of lag like those in civ4.

 

[Demi_Neophyte]

Somewhat big:

Spoiler :

Cheiftain/Greece/Continents/Civ3(no expansions)/histograph loss.

One of the first games I did somewhat well in.
Black square = capital city
Green dot = Babylonian city
Blue dot = German city
Red dot = Roman city
(I got the Roman's capital, after the other civs got everthing else.)

I can't remember the American/Chinese wars so their cities aren't marked.
You may notice the vast amount of unclaimed space in Rome, this is because of how far behind they fell and the fact that they wasted their cultureless cities by drafting defence.

 

[Diviner]

and ever max out these 'huge' maps having no fear of lag like those in civ4.

hehe my computer is too weak to confront civ4, whats more, even civ3 huge maps tend to overwhelm my CPU. so i just stay at standard

 

[Taras Bulba]

you want big? this is big....

just finished the Mongols, then Japanese, then Dutch, then finally the French wars all in quick sucession... the war with Rome was a long time ago, but was also my first

Spoiler :

this is after i bombarded the heck out of the Dutch with my Cruise Missiles, and disband alot of my Stealth bombers to hurry the production in the recently captured cities..... i basically got rid of all of my bombers

and i have about 6 or 7 Modern Armor Armies down by Scadanavia

PS-note, i was coming out of Fascism (my wartime goverment) to Democracy (my peacetime goverment) when i have games like that
PPS-that is Contantinople and Andrianople that are crazily culture filled

 

[T.A JONES]

Hey Tarus that is a huge map but IM talkin about using the editer. I had something more like this in mind,but bigger still (this is only 206x206)

Spoiler :

Sorry I don't have any pics of fully exposed maps at the moment.

As you see with this one it turned out that bit of land pictured above was the just the tip of the iceberg!.
Came to be a land mass in almost equal proportions to the one I had cast off from, so you kinda get the idea of how big alot of the empires can get, not just one or two

You get many civs carving up weaker ones with massive armys ranging in the 2oo's and up.

 

[Ansar]

I'm the yellow civ, Egypt.

 

[Diviner]

coward isle ^^