RB20 - Miller Time

[mike p]

2030 AD Found Augsburg.

2031 AD Corihuayarianicalooglahglhasn founded. It grabs some corn and gives us more cultural pressure to flip Mastuyama.

2032 AD Great Engineer born in San Fran, may not get another golden age, since that's our second GE. We can always spend them to possibly pick up one more future tech before the buzzer.

2033 AD Ereen asks to join our party. And there's a revolt in Darhan.

Texcoco is founded and I bump GOODNESS up to 70%.

2034 AD

2035 AD At 70% GOODNESS we're only -17 gpt and have 9500 gold in the bank. Do I hear 80%?

2038 AD Whoa! Did I just black out there for a while or what? Our Koch's Golden Anniversary Age ends and we're running a 920 gpt deficit. But I'm keeping up the GOODNESS. Sirian can clean up the mess in the morning.

Tokyo falls and Japan is destroyed. Which means we can plant two more cities there.

2039 AD Tegea founded north of Tokyo.

2040 AD Irkutsk revolts and joins our party. Reminds me of that old Yakoff Smirnov bit about how "In America, you can always find a party, but in Russia, the Party always finds you."

Here are the latest two cities we've built.

This game has been a lot fun. Thanks for putting it together and letting me in Sirian. We've got a 1600 point lead on Mansa with ten turns to go. Don't blow it!!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/56599/Miller_AD-2040.Civ4SavedGame

 

[Iustus]

LOL!

I agree, very fun game.

I love to see our American blue mixing with Cyrus' tourquise on the left side of the map. It is the perfect revenge for all of the hole filling settlers the AIs have inflicted upon me in the various incarnations of Civilization.

It looks like Peter managed to save himself, he was the only one of the 'unfriendly' AIs that did.

-Iustus

 

[Tatran]

Sirian can clean up the mess in the morning.

He started it in the first place.
The game could've used some more action, but the AIs were too
chicken to attack us.
The game has been a good learning curve.
"You stopped trading with us" is a permanent hit, while "You agreed
to stop trading with our worst enemy" only last 10 turns ? and
therefore not cumulative. This feature won't be used by me again,
same thing as the nuclear plants.

 

[Sirian]

My Diablo Thursday has moved to Wednesday, so I won't get this started (much less done) tonight. However, this is the last at-bat and the rest of you are waiting in the dugout, so I do want to say that it's been a pleasure playing with and getting to know you all.

I probably still have a few "hard challenges" left in me, but this game has been more aligned with my "easy fun" urges. Enough challenge and uncertainty to keep it interesting, but nobody sweating any bullets, leaving plenty of room to leave off the heavy pre-turn consultations and engage in some clowning.

I only wish Charis were around. He'd have enjoyed this one. Not that any of you know Charis, but he and I dragged some Realms Beyond Diablo players over here at the end of 2001 to play the original RB1. Of us two, I'm the gameplay geek while he's the roleplay geek, and this game had enough roleplay to win a Charis Stamp of Approval (although if he were running it, it would have had even more, of course).



LAST CALL!



Everybody's drinking Miller tonight, and the final beer is on the house.



See you for the cleanup in the morning.


- Sirian

 

[Sirian]

1940AD: Some of the cities I planted a couple of rounds ago have panned out as I anticipated. The boldest of these was Guam, which stands ready to advance to size 6 next turn without ever borrowing Oakland's tiles:

19 to 3. I'd say we won that battle.


Dark Blue Dot maxed at 12, Black Dot(TM) maxed at 6:

Red Dot maxed out and set for no growth:

Aryan, once a cultural giant, now beaten in to its cage:

We actually control two tiles in its first ring!

Note the Iron Mine. That has to go. I send a unit out to pillage.

I checked the city screens for more illegal mining operations and note two sources of Copper. We are trading for one, but the other is illegal. I pore over the map, focusing on our roachy sites.

Eventually I find the culprit, which is then brought in to compliance with the law:

I realize that there are some advocates for allowing aluminum mining, arguing that it would make a good beer container, but I am positive this would impact the taste and it's better to stick with glass bottles.




An offending Iron Mine north of Madras will have to be razed:

(Once it comes within our control, that is. ... Which it WILL.)


I am quite pleased to notice that Honolulu has become such a cultural powerhouse that its territory is now conected to the "lower 48" states:

Finally, even my adventure on the shores of Lake Okeechobee has panned out:

Although I am told people have to be careful of the local alligators.

 

[Sirian]

2041AD: Glorious. Simply glorious.

Anyway, LIKE I SAID, that iron mine -will- come under our control:

A massive product release is about to take place in Madras, where the new GI Joe dolls are going to be unveiled. (Now with Kung-Fu Action Grip(TM)!) Stocks were up on anticipation of strong sales.


Shazam:

Ooh. Those GI Joes are selling like hotcakes. Look at that market penetration!

Note the aluminum mine circled in yellow. That will have to be shut down.


2043AD: The Last City is founded:

All hail the power of Miller Lite: tastes great -and- less filling!

 

[Sirian]

2044AD: The Beer Taster's Academy is founded in the capital:

There's no such thing as "too much research in to brewing techniques".

Also, to reduce the millions of highway deaths our nation suffers each year, we are looking in to making it illegal to drive while intoxicated. A strong subgroup called Mothers Against Drunk Driving have been gaining support, and the beer lobby is fleeing before their wrath. Stay tuned!


2046AD: "The Last City to pop borders. News at eleven!"

2047AD: The last stubborn anti-Buddhist, anti-American holdout comes preaching his false doctrines:

Yeah yeah yeah. Talk to the hand.

 

[Sirian]

2047AD (continued): ZOMG! The stores in Yokohama ran out of GI Joes!

Customers are rioting in the streets, demanding the chance to buy American.


Oh, and for our Flashback Segment(TM), we bring you this clip from three years ago:

The game had to rain on my parade by giving us The City That Comes After The Last City.


2050AD: That's All Folks!

 

[Sirian]

 

[T-hawk]

SIXTY-ONE happy faces in Okeechobee?

And you have TWENTY-THREE Deer according to that shot (about five posts up by the time I posted this)?

 

[Sirian]

Except for one barely-disconnected island in the northeast and three tiny islands in the west, our entire nation ended up as one contiguous landmass -- including all of our Mongolian holdings, Honolulu, and even most of our gains in Japan.

Amazing.


Peter lost his third city to barbarians in BC years. He never recovered, but did survive.


If this game doesn't win the All Time Tree Huggers Lifetime Achievement Award, I don't know what else could.


In this universe, the number one seller of breakfast cereals is General Mills.


Now for something truly all-American: Out of control DEFICIT SPENDING!

The dark blue flat line is the zero marker, illustrated for us by Napoleon's Ghost.


The people of Portland have built a statue to the Hermitage Architect, for this alone has made their city great:

We built 136 cities and flipped more than half a dozen. Not quite 150 cities, but pretty darned close:

When you can drink more than the guy who oversaw the collapse in to the Great Depression, that's something special!

Now if only we could get those MADD women off our backs, we could proceed with the party. After all, who cares if you die on the road on the way home. Life's too short to worry about stuff like that. ... Right?


Thanks for tuning in and putting up with my uniqueness. The efforts of this fine team carried me more than I carried them.

See you down the road somewhere.


- Sirian

 

[mihau]

you have TWENTY-THREE Deer according to that shot

not chopping forests leads to extremes

Good game!

 

[Kodii]

lurker's comment: Wow, that was a great game to lurk in. Congratulations on that win! It was fun all the way through

 

[Strauss]

What time is it?



I already wrote my final speech after my last turnset, so I will keep this one short:

Thanks for a great game guys. This is easily one of my favorite SG's, only beaten by the original Chaos SG. And great to see Sirian still playing SG's!

 

[Liquidated]

For so "boring" a game, what a total blast to read. Amazing how all those roach motels just bloomed and took control of their area.

Great game all, entertaining posts and good to see sirian not even holding out until rb20 finished before commiting to his next sg lol.

Cheers!
-Liq

 

[Xerol]

Now 10 more turns!

(Got a final save for us?)

 

[pindicator]

This was my favorite thread to lurk in quite a while. Sirian always does a great job of making a turnset an entertaining read, and the other team-members were no slackers in that department either! I appreciate the time-lapse world map photography: it's like watching a beer stain spread over a couch at a frat party.

 

[Sirian]

(Got a final save for us?)

Final Save

 

[Iustus]

Was fantastic fun, a big thank you to everyone!

That GNP graph makes me laugh out loud. You can see where our golden age almost brought us to solvency.

I think that is the most cities I will be founding for a long long time.

I had a blast building all those settlers, even if mike declined to post a shot of all the settlers I left him to use! I was suprised we wasted less than 20 of them.

Who says the AIs do not like to war with each other, we were the only civ that was not involved in a single war, including never instigating a war.

-Iustus

 

[Pvblivs]

Great game guys. I'm heavily impressed how whole empires vanish from one replay screen to the other And - this was AI work, not yours. You just filled up the space.

AI city placing revenge, that is what makes Iustus satisfied, if I'm remembering correctly, that is.