T-hawk
Transcend
This Ends Here, one way or another.
First, X really isn't anywhere near domination. I'm sorry I ever brought that up in the first place. He'd have to capture every remaining city that isn't ours, and even then he probably wouldn't quite make it. F11 also still shows us as first in population, and remember that X has to clear DOUBLE that to win.
Second, I start investigating cities to see if I can find Xerxes' Apollo Program. There it is, completed, in the second city I investigate, Pasargadae. He's got plenty of all the resources, too. It should only be a matter of time.
Third, there's a wrong way and a right way to irrigate cities for population. Wrong = haphazardly irrigating half of each city's tiles. Right = leaving some cities at size 20 for shield production, and irrigating others all the way, since population increases geometrically with city size. Xinjian, Nanking, and Tsingtao are designated as shield cities due to mediocre maximum size potential and good shield production. Canton, Beijing, and Macao are designated as max population cities.
Fourth, what happened to the Mass Transits? That's one way to make playing this much less of a headache.
Fifth, here's another way to make this less of a headache. Let's go with 10% luxuries, just so I don't have to worry about happiness. Nobody will care if Satellites comes a turn later.
I hit End Turn, and X blows Heidelburg off the map.
1575 AD: Heh, in the same turn Persia signed France to alliance against Germany and then destroyed Germany.
I'm keeping our military production going at full speed. The more we have, the better deterrent for any attack X might think of making.
Persia now has 2 spaceship parts in production, and we sell him Satellites for 168 gold/turn.
I set research to Miniaturization; let's build the Internet for the fun of it.
With most of the Mass Transits done, I'm seeing no pollution on a turn more often than not, and the turns are flying by at about two minutes each.
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Persia wants to cancel our RoP that's been in place for at least a hundred turns.. could that be a bad sign?
1595 AD: Persia adds the Planetary Lounge to their ship. (Isn't that usually the LAST component? Heh.)
1615 AD: We get Miniaturization and give it to Persia for his 90 gold on hand (whee.) Now, actually, I'm seriously going to research towards and build the Strategic Missile Defense, Just In Case. The Internet completes on the next turn.
1635 AD: We bury the UN vote for the second time on my turn. X now has 4 spaceship parts in production; he's sure taking his sweet time here. At end of turn, he gets two more into his ship.
1650 AD: We've researched Smart Weapons, and X trades us 74 gpt plus ADVANCED FLIGHT. Yay, he researched something! Persia's up to 3 components done and 5 in production.
1655 AD: Persia added two more to their ship, and now have all 5 remaining parts in production.
1680 AD: Persia adds the Engine, which is one of the big ones. (I haven't been keeping track for sure, but I don't think the other big one, Exterior Casing, is in.)
We build the Strategic Missile Defense. It actually shows up in the City View screen, and looks pretty goofy there. And X pays us 437 gold/turn for the technology.
1685 AD: Persia gets Storage/Supply done. Two to go! I start saving the game every turn.
Then, a message from Xerxes:
We gladly hand over the 100 gold.
OK, how much longer IS this going to take? I go to the Espionage screen, and look down the list at prices to Sabotage Production. Pasargadae would cost a whopping 4708 gold to sabotage, and Antioch 5362. Investigation shows Pasargadae building an Army (sigh) and Antioch on an ICBM. Bactra would cost over 5k - bingo, there's the Thrusters due in one turn. After finding three more ICBMs (yeah, I'm blowing a fortune on investigations), I find Dariush Kabir which would cost over TEN GRAND to sabotage. Investigating that shows the Exterior Casing, also complete in one turn!
I save the game in 1700 AD, and the next turn:
More pictures to follow in next post. (Pictures in this post are in my webspace since the file server was flaking out.)
First, X really isn't anywhere near domination. I'm sorry I ever brought that up in the first place. He'd have to capture every remaining city that isn't ours, and even then he probably wouldn't quite make it. F11 also still shows us as first in population, and remember that X has to clear DOUBLE that to win.
Second, I start investigating cities to see if I can find Xerxes' Apollo Program. There it is, completed, in the second city I investigate, Pasargadae. He's got plenty of all the resources, too. It should only be a matter of time.
Third, there's a wrong way and a right way to irrigate cities for population. Wrong = haphazardly irrigating half of each city's tiles. Right = leaving some cities at size 20 for shield production, and irrigating others all the way, since population increases geometrically with city size. Xinjian, Nanking, and Tsingtao are designated as shield cities due to mediocre maximum size potential and good shield production. Canton, Beijing, and Macao are designated as max population cities.
Fourth, what happened to the Mass Transits? That's one way to make playing this much less of a headache.
Fifth, here's another way to make this less of a headache. Let's go with 10% luxuries, just so I don't have to worry about happiness. Nobody will care if Satellites comes a turn later.
I hit End Turn, and X blows Heidelburg off the map.
1575 AD: Heh, in the same turn Persia signed France to alliance against Germany and then destroyed Germany.
I'm keeping our military production going at full speed. The more we have, the better deterrent for any attack X might think of making.
Persia now has 2 spaceship parts in production, and we sell him Satellites for 168 gold/turn.
I set research to Miniaturization; let's build the Internet for the fun of it.
With most of the Mass Transits done, I'm seeing no pollution on a turn more often than not, and the turns are flying by at about two minutes each.
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Persia wants to cancel our RoP that's been in place for at least a hundred turns.. could that be a bad sign?
1595 AD: Persia adds the Planetary Lounge to their ship. (Isn't that usually the LAST component? Heh.)
1615 AD: We get Miniaturization and give it to Persia for his 90 gold on hand (whee.) Now, actually, I'm seriously going to research towards and build the Strategic Missile Defense, Just In Case. The Internet completes on the next turn.
1635 AD: We bury the UN vote for the second time on my turn. X now has 4 spaceship parts in production; he's sure taking his sweet time here. At end of turn, he gets two more into his ship.
1650 AD: We've researched Smart Weapons, and X trades us 74 gpt plus ADVANCED FLIGHT. Yay, he researched something! Persia's up to 3 components done and 5 in production.
1655 AD: Persia added two more to their ship, and now have all 5 remaining parts in production.
1680 AD: Persia adds the Engine, which is one of the big ones. (I haven't been keeping track for sure, but I don't think the other big one, Exterior Casing, is in.)
We build the Strategic Missile Defense. It actually shows up in the City View screen, and looks pretty goofy there.
And X pays us 437 gold/turn for the technology.1685 AD: Persia gets Storage/Supply done. Two to go! I start saving the game every turn.
Then, a message from Xerxes:
We gladly hand over the 100 gold.
OK, how much longer IS this going to take? I go to the Espionage screen, and look down the list at prices to Sabotage Production. Pasargadae would cost a whopping 4708 gold to sabotage, and Antioch 5362. Investigation shows Pasargadae building an Army (sigh) and Antioch on an ICBM. Bactra would cost over 5k - bingo, there's the Thrusters due in one turn. After finding three more ICBMs (yeah, I'm blowing a fortune on investigations), I find Dariush Kabir which would cost over TEN GRAND to sabotage. Investigating that shows the Exterior Casing, also complete in one turn!
I save the game in 1700 AD, and the next turn:
More pictures to follow in next post. (Pictures in this post are in my webspace since the file server was flaking out.)
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Our sweet little brother wasn't happy enough with all the gifts we gave him over the years, so he had to demand 100 gold and our TM? Actually, I'm surprised he didn't come after us sooner. Before we say how easy this game was, just remember how easily Xerxes could have wiped us off the planet when he had about 30 Immortals walking through our land. Thankfully, he never turned his huge military on us when we were not quite up to speed.
