If you capture (or raze) the rival's capital city while the spaceship is in flight, the spaceship will be destroyed and they'll have to start again on building it. (A bit unrealistic, but I guess it's for game balance.)
Yes, well, I should have said "the only one where I paid attention to the time."
If you tap your Pause key it will pause the game timer. Assuming you're interested in getting a more accurate idea how long you actually spent playing the game, of course.
Indeed, I agree. Wonders should really be built with their primary benefits in mind, not the side benefit of the extra GP points.
Personally, I think it's more when you have the luxury of choosing and picking locations for each world wonder that you tend to spread them out in different cities (to avoid contamination of Great Person points you don't want, for instance). On the other hand, when you're playing in a highly competitive game, you usually won't have a choice of cities to build wonders in. You'll often have just one city that happens to have good enough production to build your wonders, so the same city that builds your first wonder will tend to be used in attempts at building other wonders (at least in the early game).
My single player games usually last from a couple of hours to a few dozen hours. (I had one game that I spent close to 100 hours on.) That'll usually be over the course of 1-30 days, depending on how busy I am.
Indeed - each new level requires 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13... extra XP.
Indeed, I agree. Wonders should really be built with their primary benefits in mind, not the side benefit of the extra GP points.
Personally, I think it's more when you have the luxury of choosing and picking locations for each world wonder that you tend to spread them out in different cities (to avoid contamination of Great Person points you don't want, for instance). On the other hand, when you're playing in a highly competitive game, you usually won't have a choice of cities to build wonders in. You'll often have just one city that happens to have good enough production to build your wonders, so the same city that builds your first wonder will tend to be used in attempts at building other wonders (at least in the early game).
That's my experience from multiplayer games, anyway. Of course, in single player things are different, and you might be able to afford having multiple cities build different wonders in the early game. (All this is assuming you're building wonders at all, and aren't rushing out an army instead.)
My single player games usually last from a couple of hours to a few dozen hours. (I had one game that I spent close to 100 hours on.) That'll usually be over the course of 1-30 days, depending on how busy I am.
Multiplayer games I'll spend many months on, though. Some take over a year to finish. It's great fun, as long as you have the patience for it!
Indeed - each new level requires 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13... extra XP.
If Ive won by 1000AD then so be it, mostly it takes a mite longer (marathon /huge)..I have my own house rules too, to make things fairer, without having to indulge the excrutiating ai diplo lovein that often occurs...)
Oh yes, I'm sure of that too. I was just offering a friendly alternative opinion.Im 100% sure RJ was only talking about SP games. I know he plays at least Immortal lvl (or something even more self flagellating)
Depends... you'll want to be careful though, because excessive whipping can cripple your economy and potentially kill your game if you don't know exactly what you're doing. If you're whipping, the general rule is to ALWAYS wait 1 turn so that the penalty for whipping on the first turn goes away (unless it's a very urgent situation - eg an enemy army is on the city's doorstep).
You certainly need economic type buildings (such as Libraries and the like) in at least some cities. It is (almost always) impossible to win the game with practically no research. A colossal ancient empire with a dying economy will not last the distance unless the game is played with very few players on a very small map.
) They are diverse and they kill two birds with one stone. They increase your research and they're good for a culture border pop.I feel that no city should go without a Library. (Actually that's kind of like real life.
With your military conquests, it sounds like you would benefit greatly by bringing along more siege units such as catapults, trebuchets, cannons, artillery. When you attack cities, you should use these units (or bombers or ships) to reduce the city defenses to 0% by bombarding first. After doing that, you should send in your siege units first, even if you lose several in the process, as they will damage many defenders. After the siege, you use your normal units like city raider units and so on. This works well because combat favours the healthy over the injured.
