To space: State Property or Corporations?

[Imploding]

* haha, some nice examples here: http://hof.civfanatics.net/civ4/challenge.php?show=game10&series=0

It's 'only' OCC, so much faster games, yet...
ozbenno: 1h30
neilmeister: 3h51
Pangaea: 21h20

haha, Impressive, what do you use your 21h20 min on? The OCC challenge looked like fun, so I'm thinking about getting it done. My estimate, is 2 houres
The OCC challange.. what is the ideal Civics.. Rep..Byro,Cast, SP, Pacifism?

 

[Pangaea]

I'm just slow... (but hopefully not dumb)

Don't know about ideal civics, probably depends on map (BFC) and strategy, but I went for preserving some forests (Nat Park) and environmentalism. National Park is probably needed anyway for health reasons (unlike normal games, you can't get all resources easily with trades), but the downside to that is you lock off coal so Ironworks isn't as strong. For clear advice, I would therefore suggest having a city on a river, even if it's a one-tile river. Why? You can't get power through coalplants, but you can via hydro power. It's later in the tech tree of course, but it will help. Wish I had thought about that earlier. Actually, I did, but didn't find starts with it (didn't bother with mapfinder).

Good luck, it's a fun/different game (if a little boring towards the end). Currently 1903AD is the date to beat (which I might have got myself, if stupid Mansa didn't 'cheat' his way to a diplo win in my second attempt).

 

[Fippy]

Slow play can be a sign for still enjoying those games very much, not negative imo