The most fun sport in Civ 2...

[KnightOfNi]

Settler "round the world rallye". I start a new game and try and get my settler round the world as fast as possible without building anything.
Stupid but fun

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Ni !

 

[duke o' york]

This sounds daft. In the vast majority of games you'll need a boat to get all the way around unless you start right next to one of the poles. You'd need a city to build a trireme to get the settler all the way round, and you'd probably need the Lighthouse as well to do it quickly.

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in vino veritas

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Originally posted by KnightOfNi:
Settler "round the world rallye". I start a new game and try and get my settler round the world as fast as possible without building anything.
Stupid but fun

Hehe. Even more fun, build a "round the world road" with that settler! Great to do on the Mediterranean Map.

 

[GenghisK]

Funny and surprinsing facts:
1) This thread was really old (april) and it's still surviving, because...
2) ... all of you have really fun sport too!

I see, I'm not the only penguin-twisted-brain of this forum

Last thing. Another fun sport I found. When at peace with a nation, spot on of its boat (warship or transport, doesn't matter) then surround it wiht 8 of your ships. It can't move any longer

wait a bit and you'll have a sneak attack from this civ

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[Arrian]

Back before I starting playing Diety, one of my favorite things to do was beat the AI to all the wonders... that, and making sure that the Top 5 cities were all mine - and built originally by me.

Another fun thing is reducing the AI's last city to size 1 w/no units, building little cities directly adjoining it and then making peace. If they're lucky, they can build one or two units, but unless they have water access, you will never have to see an AI unit again (aside from the periodic suidcidal sneak attacks). The world is your oyster...

 

[duke o' york]

Will they not just starve to death?

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in vino veritas

 

[starlifter]

Another fun thing is reducing the AI's last city to size 1 w/no units, building little cities directly adjoining it and then making peace. If they're lucky, they can build one or two units, but unless they have water access, you will never have to see an AI unit again (aside from the periodic suidcidal sneak attacks). The world is your oyster...

I assumed everyone knew about the "Pet City" end-game strategy. Just build a city on each side of the surviving AI city, and either WLT_ day to balloon the sizes and/or join engineers. Use the terrain in the AI city's radius, even if it is not ideal for you at the moment. Use a spy/military units to push his citizens off the land. Put a fort between your city and his. Destroy any useful improvements, like factory, offshore, harbor, supermarket, etc.

When you are done, you'll have all terrain except his city square, and maybe an ocean square. If he has a whale, finesse it from him by providing an irrigated chunk(s) of land and moving his citizens when he grows. His city will be stuck at size one, or maybe 2, with one or two shields of production.

When you're done, the AI will never produce another unit (in Republic/Democracy) beyond the city defender, esp. if you don't let him have Fundy when you swamp him with free techs.

 

[starlifter]

posted July 02, 2001 04:17 AM

Will they not just starve to death?

In practical terms, it is not possible to starve an AI city to death, since an AI will not build a city on the right terrain to force a finesse starvation (e.g, mountain or glacier).

The AI will, however, build Engineers/settlers that are doomed. As the AI city starves (you're taken/blocked all terrain around it except it's city square), the new engineer will die as the food is exhausted. If the AI city produces an "odd" number of excess food and you son't block all terrain, the cycle may continue.

 

[civ007]

I like to build cities in unlikely places. Usually this involves putting the city on the edge of the map board. (Near two wales or something). Then I would change the ice to grass land (eventually) and see how big it would get.

(On CIV 1 you used to be able to look at your score and extra land would be created on the edge of the world).

I'll also get the AI down to just one city and then build cities above and below (or to the left and right) and slowly take all the food and shields from that city.
(I'll also take spies and destroy everything in the city. If it's not the capital then they can't even build a palace because the spies will destroy it before it finishes).

Kinda sad. But something to do if you've conquered everyone and want to keep playing for a while.

 

[Goatman]

Global Warming:

Do anything and everything possible to cause global warming several times.

e.g. Use a lot of NUKES

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[noughmaster]

Do anything and everything possible to cause global warming several times.

Yes.

I love doing this. You can turn the whole planet into desert and swamp. If you're in Fundamentalism, you can just go around in tanks blowing everybody up, like in Mad max.

 

[Morgasshk]

Like "thealien_83"
I find a small civ and try to nurture it a bit and like seeing the powergraph go in jumps as I pump him full of money and techs...Pity the stoopid **** of a civ usually doesn't do anything with the stuff I've given him - ie - Give him Mobile Warfare and he still uses marines to attack... and doesn't expand even though he has 20000 to quick buy units - and units that are more advanced than his surrounding enemies... I think, and hope that Allies and friends in CivvIII will be more effective at helping out etc...

Morgasshk

 

[starlifter]

Yes. I love doing this. You can turn the whole planet into desert and swamp. If you're in Fundamentalism, you can just go around in tanks blowing everybody up, like in Mad max.

I can't wait to see your GOTM 6, Mr. Global Polluter noughmaster, LOL!

 

[noughmaster]

I can't wait to see your GOTM 6, Mr. Global Polluter noughmaster, LOL!

Actually, I refrained from doing it because of the score (although with 20 I shouldn't have worried). I think there were about 5 nukes set off in the whole game (not all by me and some were intercepted by my SDI), but I cleaned everything up.
What do you think Matrix would do about a -ve score? If we change to the new GR system, I might do a pollution game.

 

[starlifter]

What do you think Matrix would do about a -ve score? If we change to the new GR system, I might do a pollution game.

Now, that would be funny! Planning on pollution and turning in a crap world in a GOTM

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[greenie]

This is MAJOR sadistic!

Esp in the mid-game, I like to go around with high attack units, quite often ships to do coastal raids, and later on Stealth Fighters, and simply go around crippling the AI infastructure by killing all settlers, Engineers, Carvans, Freights and Diplomats. I will also use spys to level AI cities to have no improvements, poison the water supply, pillage and transform the land to produce nothing.

And thats when I being kind! No wonder my friend calls me a Barbarous fiend!

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- Greenie

" Let us take by
cunning what we would
take by force"