QSC-c1 "Irritated Mao" game progress.

[meldor]

(91-100)
We become a republic in 710BC.
Clean out barb camp in 690 BC.
Just as the worker complete the road to our second source of iron, it instantly exhausts.
Disperse another camp in 630 BC.
Furs come on-line in 590 BC.

(101-110)
390 BC first colony is buitl on second land mass.

(111-120)
Not much going on, lots of building and not much else.

Meldor 570 BC
Meldor 370 BC
Meldor 170 BC

 

[stwils]

Here are my 1st 10 turns for this round

China 775bc-570bc

Beijing gets swordsman/set to swordsman

750bc
Macao pillaged by barbs

730bc
Macao pillaged again by barbs

710bc
We get Republic/set to Monotheism

690bc
We enter anarchy
All our cities are smoking

670bc
Civil Disorder everywhere
English request an audience
we trade maps

650bc

630bc
Everything is chaos and on fire

610bc
Tating warrior beats barb horseman
We are now a Republic
But things are still on fire and the place is filled with smoke
I move luxury slider up

590bc
we have built a settler and will build more
set tsingtao to Library
And order seems to be restored

570bc

settler moves nw nearer England
Oops. I hit something by mistake and there is one worker building a fort or something

 

[stwils]

I have tried to send the save.

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Can't seem to upload it and file is now too big to send as an attachment.



stwils - working on it

 

[stwils]

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Q1_stwils_bc570.sav

I hope this worked.

stwils

 

[cracker]

Originally posted by stwils
... All our cities are smoking ... things are still on fire and the place is filled with smoke

I hope I'm laughing with you because this has me laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes and my side hurts.

 

[stwils]

stwils

 

[stwils]

Turns 570bc-370bc

Tatung warrior kills barb horseman
Tatung burning
I move another warrior into town to help with disorder

550bc

I straightened out worker building fortress (stopped him)
settler moves into position to build new town next turn

530bc

Tatung still on fire
I fortify warrior. Now there are 2 fortified there. Hope that helps
New settler moves south to unsettled spot
Anyang founded
Hangchow gets spearman/set to temple

510bc
I HAVE to do something about Tatung's blaze. Moved luxury slider again
new settler moves nearer southern coast
Beijing gets barracks/ set to Pyramids (who knows, we might just get it)

490bc

Tatung is at last at peace
And their warrior kills another barb horseman
Chengd gets galley/ set to build another. (you never know when one might sink)

470bc
Shanghai gets temple/set to swordsman

450bc
New worker in Tatung moves to furs
our new galley moves and encounters barb galley. we sink it!
Xinjian gets temple/ set to Library

430bc
Our galley sinks as another barb galley watches
Tsingtao gets Library/set to swordsman
News keeps coming that all sorts of civs are building the Pyramids. I wonder if they will get them before we do.

410bc

390bc
The English build the Pyramids.
Beijing switches to Cathedral

370bc

 

[stwils]

Oh, and the save

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Q1_stwils_bc370.sav

Stay tuned for the last 10 turns.

stwils

 

[hotrod0823]

Here are the mini maps of all games submitted so far:

This doesn't include maps for Stwils, Borealis and Cracker.

 

[LKendter]

Well the maps do prove that the AI can have a totally different game from the same position.
I definitely see the differences in Germany.

If you compare some of the peaceful games (for now ), India developed differently.
The same spot in my game has 2 English cities, but has 2 Indian cities in Theos game.

 

[stwils]

Last 10 turns 370bc-170bc


350bc
Shantung founded on the southern coast

310bc
Thought I would mention that barb galleys are everywhere and move swiftly
I move a swordsman down south where there has been a barb crouched for a long time

290bc (we have gotten lots of improvements but I have not noted them here in the log)
We move our swordsman near the crouched barb
Our galley carefully moves near coast to avoid sinking. But meets a barb galley face to face.
Our galley fires on the barb galley and sinks it! But we are wounded.

270bc
Our swordsman down south of Tatung attacked the crouching barb, killed him, and is now a veteran and stands ready to defend the coast. He also destroyed the encampment!

250bc.

Swordsman is fortified
Galley is told to wait a turn to heal. (Hope that is the way it is done.)
Galley's turn appears again and again and though I click on wait, nothing happens. Finally I move it. (I think I know what was wrong. It was in unclaimed land and not ours. Will try next time to move it to Shantung and see if we can get it healed there.)

230bc
workers work. (I rarely mention tham, sorry)
Moved galley into Shantung and hit space bar. Maybe that will help.
Cheers arise - not sure why yet.

210bc
Our palace expands
settler moves to unsettled land. But it is almost too small to build on. So he will move on.

190bc
Zulu impis come to the border
We launch another galley
Ghandi offers contact with Babs for 70 gold. We try to bargain
We get contact for 60 gold.
Hammurabi appears. We could trade maps but he wants too much gold
We get Engineering/set to Invention

170bc
Hangchow is burning
I move warrior into city to calm things.
Move new galley.
Move wounded galley into Shantung and press space bar again hoping to heal it

 

[stwils]

Here is the save

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Q1_stwils_bc170.sav


I felt like I went no where during my 30 turns. We did get lots of temples, swordsmen, cathedrals, libraries, settlers - but we never got our galleys going to discover the other civs that most of the rest of you have discovered.

I paid Ghandi well for contact with Babylon. But then ended up not trading maps with Hammy.

stwils

 

[JaxomCA]

Stwils, to heal a boat, it has to stay a whole turn in a city without moving.

About the burning cities, when you are in a republic, your warriors are not doing military police duty anymore. The only way to improve happiness is with luxury resources, the luxury tax or hired entertainers. Buildings like temple or cathedrals make unhappy citizens content and luxury resources makes content citizens happy. A merketplace will increase the effect of luxury resouces when you have more than 2.

When you get to the point where you have to raise the slider above 20%, it is time to stop the growth in your bigger cities and make serious plans about acquiring more luxury resources. Many of my cities stayed at size 9 for a very long time, I wanted to build universities before cathedrals so I stopped their growth when they reached size 9. Except in the early stages of the game, I rarely use 20% luxury tax. I prefer to have smaller cities until I can acquire the luxury resources to let them grow to full size.

I hope this help you a little.

 

[stwils]

Yes, Jaxon, it does help. Thank you.

I had forgotten about the military not helping with city disorder when you are in Republic.

As for the galley, I kept trying to skip a whole turn with it. For awhile I pressed the "wait" button. Then later the space bar. I think I did not have it actually back on land to wait until my last turn. Not sure.

And thanks for suggesting other ways to help with disorder. I think I did push the luxury slider too high for awhile.

This game has so many levels to "conquer," but I love it.

stwils

 

[JaxomCA]

Stwils, luxury resources are very important. I always put a high priority on gaining control of them. When you begin to expand, you should always consider where are the luxuries and which one can you claim if you set your mind to it. The higher the difficulty level of the game, the higher the value on luxury sites. Not only do they help with happiness, but they are also a useful trading tool for later in the game. Getting a monopoly of any resources is always a very good thing. Here are some screenshots to illustrate what I mean.

York was settled first, my first settler went there to create Shanghai, where I rushed a temple as soon as I could. Later on, I always rushed any cultural buildings as soon as I had the cash to keep cultural control over the wines.

I did not put a high priority on this luxury as it is not a very productive site. I was lucky the Zulu neglected the area, but part of the reason he did was because of the blockade I made early on. After settling Hangchow, the gem was still unclaimed so the next settler created Anyang.

This is something I noticed around 170 BC, lots of ivory to be claimed. I prepared two settler pairs and here is the result from later in the game.

The harbor will connect the ivory to my capitol. Furthermore, my workers will make roads to connect the neighbors and this allowed me to trade for their luxury sooner than would have been possible otherwise.

 

[cracker]

More details of my turns 91 to 120

750 BC (turn 91) – Settler out of Beijing. Workers out of Shanghai and Xinjian. Hacking away and Indian units fishing for a great leader. 3 elite victories with no GLs.
730 BC (turn 92) – Discovered Invention . Sacked a camp in the northeast hills for 25 gold. Captured Bombay with a lone elite horseman; no GL.
710 BC (turn 93) – Courthouse in Canton. Workers out of Xinjian and Shanghai.
690 BC (turn 94) – Worker out of Canton. Trade Feudalism to Greece for Monotheism, Monarchy , 38 gold, and world map. Renewed ROP with Shaka. Set Embassy with England. They have 12 turns to go on the Great Library.
670 BC (turn 95) – Workers out of Xinjian and Shanghai. (A zulu galley is sighted by the north Jungle coast, the contact monopoly will soon be over.)
650 BC (turn 96) – Workers out of Xinjian and Canton. Earned 25 gold from a Ghuzz camp. (the Zulus outflank the north choke point with a settler and a conscript warrior.)
630 BC (turn 97) – Temple in Beijing. Library in Tatung. (the Zulus found Mpondo inside the choke point; we have 17 turns of ROP and 10 turns of alliance remaining.)
610 BC (turn 98) – Discover Gunpowder . Library in Nanking. Workers out of Beijing, Xinjian, and Canton. Courthouse in Tientsin.
590 BC (turn 99) – Marketplace in Tsingtao. Worker out of Beijing. Destroyed Madras (the scared to death bug again.)
570 BC (turn 100) – Workers out of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin, and Xinjian.


550 BC (turn 101) – Traded world map to: Abe for 41 gold, ROP, and his world map; Hiawatha for his map and 20 gold; Alex for 12 gold and his world map; Shaka for 19 gold and his map. Set ROP with Libby and got 25 gold and world map plus Libby is polite to us. (six turns of alliance with Shaka remain.)
530 BC (turn 102) – Workers out of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin, and Xinjian. Settler out of Beijing.
510 BC (turn 103) – Courthouse in Chengdu. Captured Delhi with a 1 horseman loss; only defended by two regular spears.
490 BC (turn 104) – Workers out of Xinjian, Beijing, and Nanking.
470 BC (turn 105) – Courthouse in Shanghai. Harbor in Tatung but we can’t trade with anybody because they have no harbors. Workers out of Xinjian and Chengdu. Trade world map to: Babs for 7 gold (max value); Persia for 1 gold (insulted at more); Russia for 2 gold; Alex for 3 gold; Hiawatha for 4 gold; Otto for 2 gold and his world map;
450 BC (turn 106) – Workers out of Xinjian and Nanking. Finally hooked up gems. Trade Cathy ROP for 8 gold and World Map; Alex ROP for 27 gold and World Map. World Map= Xerxes 1; Hammurabi 1; Hiawatha 2; Abe 6;.
430 BC (turn 107) – Discovered Chemistry . Aqueduct in Tsingtao. Worker out of Shanghai. (can make peace with Gandhi’s remains.) Our settler in the north peninsula has to run away from a barb hut that just appeared in his face.
410 BC (turn 108) – Library in Shantung. Killed a camp for 25 gold. Peace with Gandhi gives us Lahore, 3 slaves, 12 gold and his worthless map.
370 BC (turn 110) – Libby built the Great Library in London. Killed the camp on the north peninsula for 25 gold so the settler can go back. Trade Shaka Monarchy for 18 gold and World map since he is already a Republic.


330 BC (turn 112) – Marketplace in Hangchow. Spearman out of Bombay even though the citizen is still sad from being oppressed.
310 BC (turn 113) – Discovered Metallurgy . (Zulu ROP is about to end.) Marketplace in Nanking. Athens built the Pyramids and Shaka built the Hanging Gardens in the wonder cascade both as leftovers from the Great Library shift. Killed a Sakae camp for 25 gold. Shaka wanted us to break the peace with India but we trade him our World Map for 11 gold instead.

(here's a quickie table tracking the trade status over the recent turns.)

290 BC (turn 114) – Courthouse in Tsingtao. Marketplace in Xinjian. Russia got contact with England and traded for Zulus, America, and India. Abe just got Feudalism.
See table above:
Trade all contacts to Alexander for Theology , 8 gold, and world map.
Trade Zulus contact with the Iroquois for 52 gold.
Trade contact with the Zulus to Otto, Hammie, and Jerkses for 13 gold each plus map.
270 BC (turn 115) – Barracks in Hangchow. Library in Tientsin. Trade contact with India to Hiawatha for 6 gold and world map. Trade Alexander world map for 6 gold to clean him out.
250 BC (turn 116) – Library in Shanghai. Killed a camp near England for 25 gold. First time our military has not told us of a camp in over 2000 years.
230 BC (turn 117) – Settlers out of Xinjian and Tsingtao. Prebuilding Cavalry as Courthouses.
210 BC (turn 118) – Discovered Military Tradition . Cavalry out of Nanking. A Russian settler and warrior escort shows up over in the center of our continent far from shore.
190 BC (turn 119) – Worker out of Delhi. Blocking the Russian settler to save the Gems road.
170 BC (turn 120) – Library in Anyang.

Here are the save files:

570bc
370bc
190bc (had to substitute because 170bc was autosave at 135MB)

 

[JaxomCA]

Current standing toward a space ship launch (5,1 means 5 tech and 1 turn to reach the Industrial Age):

1. Charis, surprisingly is first with 5,1! Golden Age in progress.
2. Cracker at 5,3. No golden age yet, building Cavalry.
3. SJF at 6,4. Golden age in progress.
4. Zenga at 7,3. No Golden Age yet.
5. Jaxom at 7,4. Golden Age scheduled in 6 turns.
6. Lkendter at 7,6. No Golden Age yet.
7. Hotrod at 9,4. Golden Age in progress.
8. Meldor at 9,11. No Golden Age yet.
9. Steve at 9,none. No Golden Age yet.
10. Theos at 10,none. No Golden Age yet.
11. Stwils at 11,6. No Golden Age yet.
12. Borealis, no data yet.
13. Swiftsure, no data yet.
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[swiftsure]

sorry for delay ..... real life cropped up

only brief reports

750bc ningpo founded
690bc theology discovered,shanghai changed to sistine
610bc paoting founded

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Q1-SWIFTSURE-570BC.zip

550bc yangchow founded
450bc discover education
trading frenzy nets us feudalism,engineering,monarchy and chivalry

410 new bejing founded

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Q1-SWIFTSURE-370BC.zip

330 declare war on liz,york falls, golden age starts

230 london is captured

210 discover astronomy,trade astronomy to cathy for printing press,invention,w/m,7gpt and 10gp

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Q1-SWIFTSURE-170BC.zip

 

[LKendter]

Lkendter at 7,6. No Golden Age yet.
Correction: Golden Age occurs in the next 30 turns.
We also ride our way to a GA via England.
I also wanted wines in York.


Borealis, no data yet.
Just one player to go, and it is chart time

 

[Arizona_Steve]

I finished last night, launching my space ship in 1480AD (I'm sure nearly everyone beat that date). When I'm paying solo, I rarely micromanage my cities towards the end of the game - I'm sure this affected my score.

Is anyone creating a separate thread to report the rest of the game?