RBD11 SG - One City Challenge

[LKendter]

Preturn -
Lee can't figure it out, for he thought is family would not need to rule again.

One last time, I fire the animators.

1792 AD - An incomplete turn???
Culture = 17969, and counting. Game over very shortly.
1794 AD - Culture = 18066. Well, somebody gets to play after me
1796 AD - Our workers get board yet again.
1798 AD - Hit the enter key
1800 AD - Hit the enter key
Peace treaty between Japan and Rome.

1802 AD - Hit the enter key
1804 AD - Hit the enter key.
Peace treaty between Rome and India.
1806 AD - Hit the enter key
1808 AD - Hit the enter key
1810 AD - Hit the enter key. Uh, notice a patern here?

Summary - Culture is 18,842. Unless we cut to an absurdly low # of turns, this really is my last turn.

 

[Zed-F]

Jaffa, you're up...

 

[Jaffa Tamarin]

Didn't seem worth handing it on for Sirian to hit next turn twice

We built a Dam, and an Intelligence Agency, and upgraded stuff.

Everybody watch the replay and marvel at how quickly Rome folds.

 

[LKendter]

Originally posted by Jaffa Tamarin
Everybody watch the replay and marvel at how quickly Rome folds.

 

[Astral]

How was your rank?

 

[Zed-F]

Wow indeed on the Romans, I blinked during the replay and they were gone! India really took it to them, which is kinda surprising since they are usually so meek. Instead, this game they wind up as a superpower -- they were all set to gobble America next! Given a few years to consolidate, they could have been scary; of course, the AI doesn't know consolidate from a hole in the ground, and so India would probably have wound up overextending themselves and collapsing, but still...

Interesting to note that we weren't last in many of the categories that OCCs usually wind up last in, like population... that dubious honor fell to the Americans this time around. Of course they only had 2 crappy cities left at the end.

Oh, and our score was 1032, for the curious.

 

[Sirian]

Good game, guys. Nice and steady... and quiet.

If we had been less efficient, and needed another 100 years to amass enough culture... it would have been quite interesting, I think. India probably couldn't have conquered us, but he might have conquered the rest of em and beat us on domination.


- Sirian

 

[Carbon_Copy]

I haven't followed this game very closely (and it's over already! ), but I'm curious: what was your per-turn culture when you crossed the 10k threshold, and when did you do so? I don't think anyone mentioned the culture tally until Lee's last turn.

I just finished my first completed solo game (I've got a few others kicking around, but I don't have any desire to see them through to the end once victory was inevitable), and I am trying to compare your progress to the one-city culture progress I had in Thebes until I just ended it on a UN vote, and incidentally, my first diplo win. I almost LOST it due to bungling no fewer than seven spy plantings within a 40 year period in Salamanca...it took some real expensive gifts to get Hiawatha back on my side (free Electronics, real cheap Mass Production, and free Radio probably tipped the scales to me), and I never DID get that spy planted .

 

[Zed-F]

Hmm, I'd have to check but judging from Sirian's comments on his 1355-1455 turn I'd guess we were somewhere around 10000 culture total and gaining about 80 culture per turn by 1350.

 

[Carbon_Copy]

I made some bonehead culture moves, like not building the Hanging Gardens or Great Library in Thebes in favor of finishing the Lighthouse (which turned out to not be necessary in order to cross to the other continent anyhow...which I never did do), or having it build Sun Tzu instead of the Sistine Chapel, but I probably would have won on civ-wide culture first, anyhow. I was just under 50 turns away from that culture victory (53k civ-wide culture and gaining just under 1000 per turn) if I couldn't break the UN stalemate, and probably just as close on the space race if I went all-out science.

All in all, it was a pretty bizarre game. The valentine's day patch gave me a goodie hut army right off the bat (I also got a goodie hut settler on turn 1), it's also the only game where I've been the aggressor in every war fought (not just every war I fought, every war, period, but there were only two, and both instigated by me...there were fewer than max opponents on a standard map, Regent difficulty, so the AIs got pretty sedentary). Also the first time that I've ever had a captured enemy capital show up in the top five list as one of MY cities (My FP/Intelligence Agency city, #3 overall, Berlin...poor Bismarck). Also, over the course of the game, I don't think I lost more than 10 units, total (all but one occuring in my ancient conquest of Germany), I never fired a piece of artillery, and I never built a War Chariot since I couldn't connect a horse until after I learned horseback riding...Bismarck had the only horse on that half of the continent in Berlin's radius, so that's why I was so aggressive out of the gate.