So I'm playing a Sid level game - just for the lols, not trying to do anything but experience Sid.
I'm putting into practice a few suggestions made by the regular min/max'ers here, but not so much the cheaty things, just the max'ing of Workers and the min'ing of buildings etc.
Anyway, it's currently 800AD and I'm doing ok. It's a Huge Archepeligo and I have one massive island and two nice 8/9 islands all to myself - currently stat'ing about 12% of the land area. About right for my share of 8 civs in all.
Arabia have decarled on me already, but their invasion was pretty lacklustre, just four units, two of which the AI seemed to dispand rather than use. I made peace quickly and we're Polite again.
But it's just so boring.
No Wonders to build, no buildings to bide my time, no way of combining my economy with a Republic and a large army for anything like the near forseeable and the techs are coming so slow as to be tedious - Just entered Medieval and it's like 15 turns to Monotheism.
Luckily, many of my workers are running out of use with nothing left to do and a huge distance to Railroads, so I'm joining them to towns for now to improve my tech rate and reduce my costs - but, jeez, I have a gazillion towns and about 20 soldiers, half of which are Warriors
Even with 12% I still don't get any Iron... and only 1 Luxury... LOL. The ease with which the AI let me settle my two extra islands is also worrying for later-game resources...
It's fun and all playing the game in this kind of pointless Sid level scenario, just for the experience, but, boy, am I bored. It just feels like I'm waiting to die, at whatever point the AI decides it's time to kill me. Everyone's polite ATM, but that doesn't mean anything, as the Arab invasion proved.
What really annoyed me was, early on, why it was I needed 50 turns per tech. My profit per turn is 20 gold, even with a massive Science percentage, I have a gazillion towns, but nothing at all is touching my 50 turns per tech.
I know the AI gets bonuses, but why does the player also get de-bonus. I started a Monarch level Huge game to help break the monotony and there's no 50 turns per tech there, and I only have 5 towns!
I'll let you know when it decided to kill me. Feel free to throw up any advice you think you might like to give, can't guarantee I'll use it, especially if it's a convoluted tunnel of doom or hook/unhook or manipulate tiles and wars to buy techs etc, but if it's simple and straight forward I probably will try to adapt it into my play-style.
If you just want a quick lol, predict the date I die!
You winz the internetz if you guess the right date!
.
I'm putting into practice a few suggestions made by the regular min/max'ers here, but not so much the cheaty things, just the max'ing of Workers and the min'ing of buildings etc.
Anyway, it's currently 800AD and I'm doing ok. It's a Huge Archepeligo and I have one massive island and two nice 8/9 islands all to myself - currently stat'ing about 12% of the land area. About right for my share of 8 civs in all.
Arabia have decarled on me already, but their invasion was pretty lacklustre, just four units, two of which the AI seemed to dispand rather than use. I made peace quickly and we're Polite again.
But it's just so boring.
No Wonders to build, no buildings to bide my time, no way of combining my economy with a Republic and a large army for anything like the near forseeable and the techs are coming so slow as to be tedious - Just entered Medieval and it's like 15 turns to Monotheism.
Luckily, many of my workers are running out of use with nothing left to do and a huge distance to Railroads, so I'm joining them to towns for now to improve my tech rate and reduce my costs - but, jeez, I have a gazillion towns and about 20 soldiers, half of which are Warriors
Even with 12% I still don't get any Iron... and only 1 Luxury... LOL. The ease with which the AI let me settle my two extra islands is also worrying for later-game resources...
It's fun and all playing the game in this kind of pointless Sid level scenario, just for the experience, but, boy, am I bored. It just feels like I'm waiting to die, at whatever point the AI decides it's time to kill me. Everyone's polite ATM, but that doesn't mean anything, as the Arab invasion proved.
What really annoyed me was, early on, why it was I needed 50 turns per tech. My profit per turn is 20 gold, even with a massive Science percentage, I have a gazillion towns, but nothing at all is touching my 50 turns per tech.
I know the AI gets bonuses, but why does the player also get de-bonus. I started a Monarch level Huge game to help break the monotony and there's no 50 turns per tech there, and I only have 5 towns!
I'll let you know when it decided to kill me. Feel free to throw up any advice you think you might like to give, can't guarantee I'll use it, especially if it's a convoluted tunnel of doom or hook/unhook or manipulate tiles and wars to buy techs etc, but if it's simple and straight forward I probably will try to adapt it into my play-style.
If you just want a quick lol, predict the date I die!
You winz the internetz if you guess the right date!
.
