Turn 224 Emancipation Victory.
Shaved another 12 turns off my previous attempt.
After trying out Purity last game I don't think I'll pain myself going that route again, and with the locations of Xeno being pretty far out, I'll stick with Supremacy and knockout some playtesting.
This game my goals were to test some early game tech paths and check the strength of 2 external 1 internal coastal routes.
City Planning:
With goals in mind, when I started exploring paths, I revealed more inland spaces before I revealed all my coastline and as expected I got my station drops to the interior as I wanted. This served 2 purposes, blocks forward settling from my neighbors and sets up my coastline for city expansion.
First 2 expansions and my station friends:
I set to expand cities in the healthiest areas first but fewest turns to start was also taken into account so I went NW W NE SW as it was furthest out. After those 4 cities I went to the sea and set up my titanium city first then another on that island and 2 on the northern islands. 2 late mid-game cities were built, 1 for oil to the far NE, and one south of capital as a defensive city.
I used 2 workers pre-Master Control(T115), after master control I spammed an additional 7 from my boosted production capital. Spammed Generators except for 2 mines in the capital. Watching my Energy info I maintained a net positive energy rate if my trade routes were excluded from the count. with trade routes I was about earned between about 50-80 EPT pre-Organics, 100-150 EPT until I had Xenomalleum on T185 which boosted me to 325-350ish range. I always forget about trying to tech towards Planetary Engineering to get the +1P on generators, it just seems to far out of the way but then again that is a lot of hammers and unlike Xenomalleum it comes with the tech no building required.
Military:
Very peaceful game this time, only 1 war, with FI(T180).It lasted 9 turns, I saw her massing troops w/spy and then they started to heard north so I purchased 5 armors and setup a wall at my southern flank. I lost 1 armor and coerced a peace treaty w/Fidele which had a institute so I saved myself from going into bionics. Note: before this war started I scouted westward with a Cruiser to establish trade route paths to PAU which came in quite handy.
Other than that I stationed 1 artillery and 2 armor at my NE oil base which saw a few massive movements from Hutama but no declarations.
In all I maintained an army of 8 Armor, 2 Rangers, 2 Artillery and 1 Cruiser.
Trade routes were always maintained with Hutama, Elodie and Brasilia then ARC after their death. For the majority of the game I was at friendly status with 4 AI, towards the end only 3. Brasilia was conquered by ARC but the AI even seemed to maintain peace among themselves for most part.
Technology:
Noted all techs w/turns completed and if Steal Science boosted:
Pioneering 18> Chemistry 31> Engineering 43> Robotics 70> Ecology 73> Physics 77> Genetics 80> Computing 91> Alien Lifeoforms 96> Autonomous Systems 110> Planetary Survey 111> Fabrication 121> Alien Biology 123> Biochemistry 126> Organics 134> Cognition 140> Communications 146> Orbital Networks 154 w/1SS> AI 158> Synthetic Thought 165> Collaborative Thought 170> Bioengineering 175 w/2SS> Power Systems 176> Tactical Robotics 179> Biometallurgy 188(10SA)> Cybernetics 190 w/1SS> Autogyros 194 w/2SS(12SA)> Hyperconducting 200> Terraforming 201> Climate Control 204(13SA)> Neural Uploading 209 w/1SS> Genetic Design 210> Alien Genetics 211> Transgenics 213> Genetic Mapping 214> Biospheres 215> Civil Support 217(5PA)> Protogenics 218(Free)16SA
Because the game was peaceful I delayed Affinity Techs, this seemed to work to make the game even more peaceful as not having a dominant affinity means less flags the AI will have to trigger a war. I realize this is not the best strategy for MP games, because the scoreboard shows affinity level I should probably maintain parity with other top players to avoid becoming a target, just something I should keep in mind while fleshing out tech paths.
I only triggered 4 Affinity quests and 1 was bugged, I need to find that Affinity quest thread someone posted explaining all the different triggers/hidden quests.
Virtues:
3 Prosperity > 8 Industry > Knowledge
Trade:
Autoplant Quest popped T99
So for the first 153 turns of the game I was always using 1 trade route for internal Capital boost and 2nd/3rd were sent external. When my island cities had
developed trade routes they immediately began boosting Quyen. After turn 153 I switched mainland cities from boosting the capital to boosting Quyen, as my mainland-coastal cities trade routes with Tiangong ended I put the Trade convoys to sleep and purchased a replacement Trade vessel to boost Quyen. After the boost switch I transferred trade convoys to my late mid-game inner cities as their Trade depots were completed.
Capital trade routes were used initially for stations and as they were destroyed I sent them out towards my neighbors. FBO was my quest station so I killed it and sent TR to New Babylon which had spawned far NW just off coast. After Elodie killed Hekima Station I established route with Brasilia and then ARC after they captured Cidadela.
After boost switch Quyen trade routes were all international until Okiema(sp) spawned late mid-game and I wanted to abuse that food for my surplus.
All in all, 8 Coastal Cities, 16 International trade routes. Either to Le Ceuor/Prosperite or Magan/Ayaana.
This net me 257
/237
Boosts to Quyen were 147
/61
, this was best felt through:
11T Cynosure
8T Xenomalleum
10T Emancipation Gate
End of game Screens:
My Shorthand turn by turn notes:
Shaved another 12 turns off my previous attempt.
Spoiler :
After trying out Purity last game I don't think I'll pain myself going that route again, and with the locations of Xeno being pretty far out, I'll stick with Supremacy and knockout some playtesting.
This game my goals were to test some early game tech paths and check the strength of 2 external 1 internal coastal routes.
City Planning:
With goals in mind, when I started exploring paths, I revealed more inland spaces before I revealed all my coastline and as expected I got my station drops to the interior as I wanted. This served 2 purposes, blocks forward settling from my neighbors and sets up my coastline for city expansion.
First 2 expansions and my station friends:
Spoiler :
I set to expand cities in the healthiest areas first but fewest turns to start was also taken into account so I went NW W NE SW as it was furthest out. After those 4 cities I went to the sea and set up my titanium city first then another on that island and 2 on the northern islands. 2 late mid-game cities were built, 1 for oil to the far NE, and one south of capital as a defensive city.
I used 2 workers pre-Master Control(T115), after master control I spammed an additional 7 from my boosted production capital. Spammed Generators except for 2 mines in the capital. Watching my Energy info I maintained a net positive energy rate if my trade routes were excluded from the count. with trade routes I was about earned between about 50-80 EPT pre-Organics, 100-150 EPT until I had Xenomalleum on T185 which boosted me to 325-350ish range. I always forget about trying to tech towards Planetary Engineering to get the +1P on generators, it just seems to far out of the way but then again that is a lot of hammers and unlike Xenomalleum it comes with the tech no building required.
Spoiler :
Spoiler :
Military:
Very peaceful game this time, only 1 war, with FI(T180).It lasted 9 turns, I saw her massing troops w/spy and then they started to heard north so I purchased 5 armors and setup a wall at my southern flank. I lost 1 armor and coerced a peace treaty w/Fidele which had a institute so I saved myself from going into bionics. Note: before this war started I scouted westward with a Cruiser to establish trade route paths to PAU which came in quite handy.
Other than that I stationed 1 artillery and 2 armor at my NE oil base which saw a few massive movements from Hutama but no declarations.
In all I maintained an army of 8 Armor, 2 Rangers, 2 Artillery and 1 Cruiser.
Trade routes were always maintained with Hutama, Elodie and Brasilia then ARC after their death. For the majority of the game I was at friendly status with 4 AI, towards the end only 3. Brasilia was conquered by ARC but the AI even seemed to maintain peace among themselves for most part.
Technology:
Noted all techs w/turns completed and if Steal Science boosted:
Pioneering 18> Chemistry 31> Engineering 43> Robotics 70> Ecology 73> Physics 77> Genetics 80> Computing 91> Alien Lifeoforms 96> Autonomous Systems 110> Planetary Survey 111> Fabrication 121> Alien Biology 123> Biochemistry 126> Organics 134> Cognition 140> Communications 146> Orbital Networks 154 w/1SS> AI 158> Synthetic Thought 165> Collaborative Thought 170> Bioengineering 175 w/2SS> Power Systems 176> Tactical Robotics 179> Biometallurgy 188(10SA)> Cybernetics 190 w/1SS> Autogyros 194 w/2SS(12SA)> Hyperconducting 200> Terraforming 201> Climate Control 204(13SA)> Neural Uploading 209 w/1SS> Genetic Design 210> Alien Genetics 211> Transgenics 213> Genetic Mapping 214> Biospheres 215> Civil Support 217(5PA)> Protogenics 218(Free)16SA
Because the game was peaceful I delayed Affinity Techs, this seemed to work to make the game even more peaceful as not having a dominant affinity means less flags the AI will have to trigger a war. I realize this is not the best strategy for MP games, because the scoreboard shows affinity level I should probably maintain parity with other top players to avoid becoming a target, just something I should keep in mind while fleshing out tech paths.
I only triggered 4 Affinity quests and 1 was bugged, I need to find that Affinity quest thread someone posted explaining all the different triggers/hidden quests.
Virtues:
3 Prosperity > 8 Industry > Knowledge
Spoiler :
Trade:
Autoplant Quest popped T99
So for the first 153 turns of the game I was always using 1 trade route for internal Capital boost and 2nd/3rd were sent external. When my island cities had
developed trade routes they immediately began boosting Quyen. After turn 153 I switched mainland cities from boosting the capital to boosting Quyen, as my mainland-coastal cities trade routes with Tiangong ended I put the Trade convoys to sleep and purchased a replacement Trade vessel to boost Quyen. After the boost switch I transferred trade convoys to my late mid-game inner cities as their Trade depots were completed.
Capital trade routes were used initially for stations and as they were destroyed I sent them out towards my neighbors. FBO was my quest station so I killed it and sent TR to New Babylon which had spawned far NW just off coast. After Elodie killed Hekima Station I established route with Brasilia and then ARC after they captured Cidadela.
After boost switch Quyen trade routes were all international until Okiema(sp) spawned late mid-game and I wanted to abuse that food for my surplus.
All in all, 8 Coastal Cities, 16 International trade routes. Either to Le Ceuor/Prosperite or Magan/Ayaana.
This net me 257
/237Spoiler :
Boosts to Quyen were 147
/61, this was best felt through:11T Cynosure
8T Xenomalleum
10T Emancipation Gate
Spoiler :
End of game Screens:
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My Shorthand turn by turn notes:
Spoiler :
8 AQ FBO
16 OERQ
18 TD
23 Hekima inland
27 V3
30 Ocean Q Start
34 Re8, Q Boost
40 QF,OER5 (TR = 24T-Starts 2/5, 2T on Re goes to 1)<- Lie, drops to 0-2/1-4 Re took 2T
42 Lab6 (TR0-3/1-5)
43 V4
45 TDQ (19T on TR 1-3/2-5),(Can build TD+TV+TC in 21T @ cur P)
47 Co
51 QTV(TR 1-3/4-4)
52 TDQ,AQ OccHaz
58 TC,QTC
60 NS/Boost
62 V5
63 RF,TR>Hekima/FBO
65 QRe,QTR>Cap 1-2/3-5
67 Wo
68 NF,NO
70 AP
71 -11H,QCl
72 N$TD,TC
75 QUF
78 NCl
79 Ra (AP Done)
80 Ra
81 QLab (UF done)
82 Cy,NRe
83 V6+7
84 Co
85 UFQ,QAP,AQDogEngDone
86 NAP,GS (TR 11S10E)
89 Co
93 SA
96 V8 AQ FamEx(bugged oil what oil)
97 AlP,QCy
98 HS
99 APQ,TCQu,QTVQu,NTV
102 Ph
103 Ne
104 NCy,GO$TD+TC
107 Vi,QAlP
108 NAlP,GCl
109 TR
111 ^MC,HO$TD,-11H
112 H$TC
113 QTV,NTV,GRe,SSSS
114 V9,HCl
115 Wo,QPh
116 Wo,NPh
117 Wo,NViQu,GCy
118 Wo
119 Wo,QVi,HRe
120 Wo
121 Wo
122 Co
123 QOb,GAP
124 NLab,HAP
125 Co
127 WR,NNe
128 QNe
129 V10
130 Co
131 GRS,2xSS Hyperconducting
133 LC,GWR
134 Col,NWR,G$TV
135 QWR,HWR$TV
137 Co
138 GPh *Broke promise not to Exp
139 QTR,NTR,HVi
140 UF
141 V11,HS,GViAQ SkyMine
142 NRF,HWR
143 QHS
144 GAlP,GRO$TD+TVx2
145 Ob,NGB
146 FH
148 SS,GLab,HLab,GRRe
149 QFH
150 CC,NFH,TO$TD2xTV
151 GOb,HAlP,KO$TD2xTC
153 G$TV,GRCl,TCl
154 ^MT,HNe,KCl
155 GNe,KPh
156 QRF,+1SpyCC
157 QCo,NMR,GRPh,TPh,+2SpiesSpecDel/FHQ
158 SO$TD2xTV
159 QNL,KRe,HUO$TD2xTV
160 V12,GNL,HFH
161 V13HSQ,GRAP,SCl
162 QSW,NAr,TAP *Brasilia conquered by ARC*
163 SW,QMD,KAP,HUCl
165 SPh
166 ^QCy,NAr
167 NL,HCy,HUAP
169 GFH
170 NAr,HTR
171 ^PP,KLab
172 SAP
173 HRF,GRWR$TV,KVi
174 NAr
175 HAr,TWR$TVCr *Troops massing from Elodie/Hutama* $5xAr before upgrade hits
176 GHS,KAlP,RO
177 ^QXe,NLS
179 HCC,GRVi
180 CeC,TRe,KTR,S$OS,R$TD *Fi DoW*
181 NArt,GTR,HUWR$TV,*LCS Launched*
182 GRLab,KCy
183 V15 TCy,RCl
184 SRe$TV
185 MD,QBF$TV,GMD,GRQuCyAlPFHNeTR,TAF,KNe ^Xenomalleum Done^*Crashed Elodie Satellites+CulperLodge+1spy*
186 RRe
187 NTH
188 QRD,HRD,SVi
189 QTH,KSH,NRD,HRD,HUVi,FOb(16TML)AQ Beauty Orbitor *Offer Elodie Peace w/Fidele* Accepted*#Free insitute#
190 RD,QTH,GRD,RAP
191 QRD,SWR
192 HUPh
195 TLab,KRF
196 HUCy
197 TVi
198 KRD,SLab
199 TAlP.HURe
200 ^QEG,RVi$TC
201 TFH,SFH
202 $3xTC,HULab,RPh
204 ^QEG(10T),HUAlP
205 RWR
206 FNL
207 GRRD,TNe
208 SCy,HUFH
209 $An,FHS
210 RCy
211 TTR,SAlP
212 FAlP
213 TRD,RLab
214 ^EG Done^ QAn,STR,HUNe,FFH $An3xGS1xGG
215 RNe $An
216 $An
217 TRD,FRD$GG $An
218 Insitute Quest finally fires for free Protogenics
16 OERQ
18 TD
23 Hekima inland
27 V3
30 Ocean Q Start
34 Re8, Q Boost
40 QF,OER5 (TR = 24T-Starts 2/5, 2T on Re goes to 1)<- Lie, drops to 0-2/1-4 Re took 2T
42 Lab6 (TR0-3/1-5)
43 V4
45 TDQ (19T on TR 1-3/2-5),(Can build TD+TV+TC in 21T @ cur P)
47 Co
51 QTV(TR 1-3/4-4)
52 TDQ,AQ OccHaz
58 TC,QTC
60 NS/Boost
62 V5
63 RF,TR>Hekima/FBO
65 QRe,QTR>Cap 1-2/3-5
67 Wo
68 NF,NO
70 AP
71 -11H,QCl
72 N$TD,TC
75 QUF
78 NCl
79 Ra (AP Done)
80 Ra
81 QLab (UF done)
82 Cy,NRe
83 V6+7
84 Co
85 UFQ,QAP,AQDogEngDone
86 NAP,GS (TR 11S10E)
89 Co
93 SA
96 V8 AQ FamEx(bugged oil what oil)
97 AlP,QCy
98 HS
99 APQ,TCQu,QTVQu,NTV
102 Ph
103 Ne
104 NCy,GO$TD+TC
107 Vi,QAlP
108 NAlP,GCl
109 TR
111 ^MC,HO$TD,-11H
112 H$TC
113 QTV,NTV,GRe,SSSS
114 V9,HCl
115 Wo,QPh
116 Wo,NPh
117 Wo,NViQu,GCy
118 Wo
119 Wo,QVi,HRe
120 Wo
121 Wo
122 Co
123 QOb,GAP
124 NLab,HAP
125 Co
127 WR,NNe
128 QNe
129 V10
130 Co
131 GRS,2xSS Hyperconducting
133 LC,GWR
134 Col,NWR,G$TV
135 QWR,HWR$TV
137 Co
138 GPh *Broke promise not to Exp
139 QTR,NTR,HVi
140 UF
141 V11,HS,GViAQ SkyMine
142 NRF,HWR
143 QHS
144 GAlP,GRO$TD+TVx2
145 Ob,NGB
146 FH
148 SS,GLab,HLab,GRRe
149 QFH
150 CC,NFH,TO$TD2xTV
151 GOb,HAlP,KO$TD2xTC
153 G$TV,GRCl,TCl
154 ^MT,HNe,KCl
155 GNe,KPh
156 QRF,+1SpyCC
157 QCo,NMR,GRPh,TPh,+2SpiesSpecDel/FHQ
158 SO$TD2xTV
159 QNL,KRe,HUO$TD2xTV
160 V12,GNL,HFH
161 V13HSQ,GRAP,SCl
162 QSW,NAr,TAP *Brasilia conquered by ARC*
163 SW,QMD,KAP,HUCl
165 SPh
166 ^QCy,NAr
167 NL,HCy,HUAP
169 GFH
170 NAr,HTR
171 ^PP,KLab
172 SAP
173 HRF,GRWR$TV,KVi
174 NAr
175 HAr,TWR$TVCr *Troops massing from Elodie/Hutama* $5xAr before upgrade hits
176 GHS,KAlP,RO
177 ^QXe,NLS
179 HCC,GRVi
180 CeC,TRe,KTR,S$OS,R$TD *Fi DoW*
181 NArt,GTR,HUWR$TV,*LCS Launched*
182 GRLab,KCy
183 V15 TCy,RCl
184 SRe$TV
185 MD,QBF$TV,GMD,GRQuCyAlPFHNeTR,TAF,KNe ^Xenomalleum Done^*Crashed Elodie Satellites+CulperLodge+1spy*
186 RRe
187 NTH
188 QRD,HRD,SVi
189 QTH,KSH,NRD,HRD,HUVi,FOb(16TML)AQ Beauty Orbitor *Offer Elodie Peace w/Fidele* Accepted*#Free insitute#
190 RD,QTH,GRD,RAP
191 QRD,SWR
192 HUPh
195 TLab,KRF
196 HUCy
197 TVi
198 KRD,SLab
199 TAlP.HURe
200 ^QEG,RVi$TC
201 TFH,SFH
202 $3xTC,HULab,RPh
204 ^QEG(10T),HUAlP
205 RWR
206 FNL
207 GRRD,TNe
208 SCy,HUFH
209 $An,FHS
210 RCy
211 TTR,SAlP
212 FAlP
213 TRD,RLab
214 ^EG Done^ QAn,STR,HUNe,FFH $An3xGS1xGG
215 RNe $An
216 $An
217 TRD,FRD$GG $An
218 Insitute Quest finally fires for free Protogenics
