Superslug: Emperor

[superslug]

910 AD: I think I slid over the crest of the war weariness. A half an hour of switching taxmen to entertainers got things under control and the unhappiness doesn't seem to be increasing.

What's no doubt helping is that I'm no longer losing cities. France's offensive forces seem to have been destroyed. I'm using workers to build RR right up to a city border then go in and hit it with Sipahi. I've taken a half dozen towns in one turn alone as I'm meeting many more spearmen than Musketeers...

I do believe I'm going to continue.

 

[zerksees]

Two observations from you “whoops” image:

Are you doing RCP around the palace? It seems to me that there may be some benefit to this until you jump the palace.

Did you try the luxury slider to end the disorder? It might have been faster than changing all those taxmen to entertainer.

 

[superslug]

Originally posted by zerksees
Are you doing RCP around the palace?

No, I can't say that I did, which was a major mistake on my part, although, I guess I could still implement it now midgame, huh?

Originally posted by zerksees
Did you try the luxury slider to end the disorder?

Yeah, I did. Weeding out some taxmen proved to be cheaper than jacking up the slider. Besides, I'm kind of enjoying watching the ingrates starve!

 

[zerksees]

Originally posted by superslug
I guess I could still implement it now midgame, huh?

Better late than never, just depends on what you have built in the surrounding cities. If you don't have much infrastructure there (especially wonders which you can't rebuild), it might be worth it.

If you are planning to jump soon I think it would not be worth it.

 

[superslug]

I got beat out on Leonardo's by only two turns in this current game. Combine that with RCP, and I'm willing to bet I could have started warfare with a lot more Horsemen to upgrade to Sipahi, couldn't I?

Screw this game...

 

[Mazarin]

looking forward to your next game I'd probably suggest that you build your cities more conservatively: this should allow you to get some city improvements inside more quickly and the lower overall corruption could allow you to build much more military. This is only my opinion, however -you have more experience with ISC than I do, of course

 

[superslug]

More experience than you with ICS? Perhaps, but you do have the qualification of the top score of the level I'm playing at...

Anyway, what I'll likely try this go around is RCP for my production zone and ICS outside that. Of course I won't go back to fill in 'gaps' until the initial territory rush is over. Whatever the case, I'm going to play openings until I get one where I can beat the AI to Leonardo's...I'll update the thread then.

 

[superslug]

I've spent days playing out opening sequences, trying to improve my early game. I don't know yet if this particular attempt will prove more fruitful than the two dozen since my last post, but this screenshot should validate considerable improvement on my part! Not only am I the largest current empire, I've got four luxuries!

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/heehee.gif

 

[Darkness]

Superslug: Four luxuries is very nice. One question though: How good was the terrain around your start, 'cause 22 cities (by my quick count) is a bit on the low side for 690 BC? Did you have a settler factory or was that impossible? Or do you perhaps have a lot of settlers still on their way to city sites...?
Also one comment: Republic is still 32 turns away, and it's alsready 690 BC. It may be too early to tell, but IMHO your tech pace in this game is too slow and you'll get out of despotism too late to create a really efficient settler flood to grab some extra territory...

But, I may be a bit spoiled when it comes to early game situations. Remember how many retries it took me to get my current monarch level attempt going....

 

[superslug]

Is 22 cities low for 690? To be honest, I'm just happy to be outclocking the AI on expansion at that early a date. I'm afraid there's not that many Settlers out and about.

I do have a four turn factory, and that's really an accomplishment for me. You do have to remember that for the longest time I used my Pyramids strategy, rather than granary factories. Doing it "Bamspeedy" style is far superior I know realize.

In regards to Republic, I'm only on 10% spending because everyone else is at the same tech level, so I wouldn't be shocked to buy it from an AI before long (I check with them every turn).

Anyway, this may not be the game I continue on with, but I just wanted to note I've successfully excised myself off the Pyramids...

EDIT: Now that you mention it, Darkness, the terrain stinks. I'm going back to generating maps...

 

[Darkness]

Originally posted by superslug
EDIT: Now that you mention it, Darkness, the terrain stinks. I'm going back to generating maps...

Happy to save you some time...

I usually aim to have around 18-20 cities in 1000 BC, so that's why I said I though 22 cities in 690 BC is a bit on the low side. I'm not saying it's bad, but just that I'd like to have more...

 

[superslug]

Yeah, 90% of territory was either plains or jungle, so...

20 cities by 1000BC, huh? That at least gives me a good hard number to shoot for. I also plan on looking at several games 10ads to get some ideas of where I need to progress to.

To be honest though, I'd like to be able to hit 511 cities by 3999bc, though...

 

[superslug]

In my current attempt, I'm going to have Military Tradition in 680ad (which isn't too bad for me). I've already got almost a hundred horsemen waiting for the upgrade and the AI is paying me close to 500 gpt for techs and ROP's.

The only problem is, I have to work for ten hours and then go out of town to see my grandparents!
:rant: :suicide:

 

[superslug]

Okay, I found some time between work and travel to play a few turns. Either I overestimated what distance from a Palace has on the chance of culture flipping, or the Americans are really smoking me in that regard...anyway, see for yourself what happened:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/geez.gif

 

[superslug]

I just got done researching Military Tradition and made the selling rounds with the AI. Somehow I doubt they know they're investing in their own destruction. I mean, I should have, what, over a hundred Sipahi after the 20 turn deals at this rate?

 

[Aeson]

Maybe it's the city name... not a lot of cultural self esteem being named 472 I'd suspect.

 

[superslug]

Funny, I didn't spot that factor in the equation...

I admit 472 isn't a very creative city name, but given how tightly I pack my cities in, if I didn't number them, then before I'd know it, I'd be having towns like New Istanbul 42342342039809257312 or something.

 

[superslug]

I'm getting Conquests for Christmas, either from my family that day or myself the day after. Now that it's HOF legal, my enthusiasm for PTW has been obliterated...

Until my next thread, happy holidays, merry christmas and death to the AI!