The Impossible Walkthrough
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obsolete,
Thank you for this. I had a lot of fun playing a Specialist Economy using your game as a guideline. I've always enjoyed the Specialist Economy more-so than the Cottage Economy, but I never realized that great people also yielded the +3 beaker bonus. That was a huge tip, thank you! They say you're not around anymore, but if you do come back, I want you to know that you helped out my game considerably!
I just played a Specialist Economy last night with Isabella of Spain on Monarch. It was a small map becase I can't play anything else or my computer bogs down. I was just playing around, and had an interesting game. I ended up founding every religion (I did that on purpose) and I only built two cities the entire game. Yet even with only these two cities, I managed to remain the tech leader for most of the game. The game layout was two continents, I shared one with Mansa Musa and the other had only lonely Napoleon. Mansa Musa quickly rose to the tech leader by the classical era (I was focusing on the religions) and then when I started focusing on real techs, I landed Liberalism first, took Nationhood, and easily passed him up. However, unbeknownst to me, Napoleon had no rival to share his side of the world with, and built quite the empire.
The whole time I was afraid of Mansa Musa teching to the spaceship first that I refused to trade techs with him, instead I stated focusing on trade with Napoleon. Napoleon ended up with the tech lead in the end, partially due to my own stupidity.
Surprisingly Mansa Musa pulled off a Cultural Victory about fifteen turns before I was able to launch my spaceship. Being curious if I was going to be able to win the space race, I said "just one more turn." About six turns before my final spaceship component was created, Napoleon launched his spaceship first!
I lost to both of them, but it was still a victory in my mind. I competed with two giant empires with only two cities, and only lost by about a dozen turns! I probably could have done much better had I planned better (isn't that always the case?
) or taken over Mansa Musa's empire after I had developed my cities.
The game speed was on Epic, and by the end, I was producing over 1000 beakers with just those two cities alone, and making over 200 gold per turn at 100% Science. I think I had over 60,000 gold in bank when I finished, and that was after paying tribute to Mansa and Napoleon all the time, sometimes in the thousands!
Even though I lost, I feel proud that I was able to accomplish so much with such a small empire on Monarch, and my Specialist Economy game got kicked up a few notches. I think I'm going to toy around with a Hybrid economy next game.
Thank you, obsolete. And thank you, too, Dier. If you hadn't bumped this, I wouldn't have seen and read this wonderful thread!
