Preventing Diplomatic Victory?

[Maccabeus]

GRRRRRRR!!!

I was all set for my first non-histographic victory ever. Most of my spaceship components were built, and the exterior casing was due to squeak through in 2049. (Best I could do, though I even tried planting forests on formerly irrigated land to speed it along.)

Even if I didn't quite make it for some reason (like accidentally nuking Seattle--I meant to test the range on an ICBM and then deactivate it; instead I dropped it on my own city), I was hoping I might squeeze in the last couple thousand points to a cultural victory.

I forgot that the Americans had beaten me to the UN Building. With just over a decade to go Lincoln got himself elected chairman and BAM! I was out.

Is there anything I could have done short of declaring war and dropping the bomb on the UN?

 

[LaRo]

IMO, this is a case where reloading is ok.

Answer to your question: you could have bribed all others ai to join you in a war against americans so maybe americans won't call a vote.

 

[allhailIndia]

Nuke the UN, it's more fun!!! :flamedevi:

 

[Maccabeus]

I don't think nuking Seattle in and of itself kept me from winning. There were no critical components being manufactured there, and the only problem that developed that I'm aware of was that my workers all had to go clear away the pollution and restore the rail network and irrigation. But, of course, I might certainly have nuked some other city where I had built part of the spaceship and destroyed it. That would have been bad...

Unfortunately I don't think I had saved recently before the Americans called the election. Lessee....I'd have to go all the way back to 1964. I think I was just developing rocketry about that time.

Only bright spot--when I went back and played a few turns after victory, to test it, the tree planting worked. The ship would have launched in 2047--still not much of a margin of error, unfortunately.

Lastly...I don't think I could have gotten a war against the Americans. Right at that moment everyone was turning on the English after almost wiping out the Germans. The Germans had been large but primitive--they had gone bankrupt while I was tech-trading in the final stages to keep my science high. I don't know why the English were considered vulnerable, except that they might have been a very small amount behind the others in technology.

 

[LaRo]

Originally posted by Maccabeus
Unfortunately I don't think I had saved recently before the Americans called the election. Lessee....I'd have to go all the way back to 1964. I think I was just developing rocketry about that time.

Autosave, you can load the ten previous turns.

 

[Maccabeus]

Good point...I never thought of that.

OTOH, if I went back to when I was still developing rocketry I might be able to beat the Americans to the UN anyway......

 

[LaRo]

Originally posted by Maccabeus
Good point...I never thought of that.

OTOH, if I went back to when I was still developing rocketry I might be able to beat the Americans to the UN anyway......

But this is cheating!

 

[Maccabeus]

Er? Going back to the autosave isn't cheating, but going back further is?

 

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Maccabeus
Er? Going back to the autosave isn't cheating, but going back further is?

Reloading is a great way to learn. Just treat it as a loss and reload for experimental purposes only. (UN is one of the few "must have" wonders.)

 

[Maccabeus]

*sigh* It's a moot point. The autosave must not be working right, because it ain't there.