What is the fastest Space Race victory you've ever had?

[CivGuy61]

Hi guys. For some reason I love to win by space race but the earliest I've ever beaten the CPU on Noble is by 1999. What is your fastest space race victory? And if so how did you do it?

 

[Xanikk999]

About the late 19th century for me.

 

[drkodos]

Mid 1600's on Prince.

I actually enjoy the Space Race. When you go for it real fast it often requires neglecting the miltary so a lot of games I end up fending off invasions as my last SS parts are coming online.

The key is tech path, getting the core cities primed for major production, and sychronizing some of the finding of techs with the construction of important wonders/components.

Great Engineers are often the key, for me, so getting to Fusion quick is a priority. That GE I often use to build Space Elevator (about 70% of it, at least).


Some games I avoid getting the Elvator and concentrate of Industrial infrastructure like Factories and Coal Plants in cities AFTER beelining to Rocketry and getting Apollo Program built ASAP.

Aluminum is vital. So too is copper, even if you have Iron, make sure copper is still coming into the Empire. I forget which SS part production is sped by it, but at least one is.

I like putting the Ironworks in a city with rivers and grassland tiles I can workshop and watermill to grab all the hammer bonuses and then run State Property. I think the Grassland ironworks seems counterintuitive, but it maximizes hammer production with State Prop civic you can easily have a base of over 40 hammers without a single mine.

Basically I concentrate on tech and economy. I avoid all the cultural techs on the top of the tree (with exception of Alpha for trading--but even that is actually not essential for a Space Ship!)

 

[marioflag]

space races victory have been always my worst games.My best result was around the end of 19th century

 

[DevilJin]

drkodos, what was the size of the map? It couldn't be standard or bigger, for sure.

 

[drkodos]

drkodos, what was the size of the map? It couldn't be standard or bigger, for sure.

Warlords.
Huge.
Fractal.
Marathon Speed.

 

[adhiraj.bose]

1950 with Russia, but that was in a RFC game. I'm presently testing civs with which can tech up the fastest, I got India in 1975, but mostly because I was held back due to three plagues. Now trying with china, the game sucks already

 

[Manco Capac]

EMP, normal speed, standard size, 1640 AD.

 

[nerdfighter13]

The mid 1800's on Warlord. Large, Marathon. I haven't been able to break 1900 since moving up to Noble a few weeks ago.

 

[jarhead_leif]

19th, I think??

 

[jarhead_leif]

2046AD

Seriously

 

[joanne]

Did anyone else notice that this thread is six years old?

Anyway, on topic: early-mid 1800's for me. Although I'm currently aiming for late 1700's in my ongoing Justinian game

BTW, I thought I'd mention that it is actually possible, believe it or not, to get a space win in the BC's by abusing settler diff+marathon speed+huge maps+huts on+no barbs. The user iggymnrr did it for HoF twice - here's a really fascinating write-up of one such game; highly recommended reading.

 

[jarhead_leif]

I noticed you always end your post with a link.

 

[AdamCrock]

adhiraj.bose is necrophiliac this time

edit: next -> Tachy.... just went along for the ride I guess no hard feelings though - better not insert some emoticons here - less chance of being detected by Tachy ; )

 

[joanne]

I noticed you always end your post with a link.

You know you play civ4 too much (and wasted way too much time on the forums) when you include a relevant link in each and every one of your posts

 

[rfcfanatic]

1958 as Catherine on Chieftain
1971 as Charlemagne on Warlord
1966 as Genghis Khan on Noble

 

[CivNoobie]

i've always wanted to ask this: how do you win space victory?

 

[jarhead_leif]

i've always wanted to ask this: how do you win space victory?

You're kidding, right?

 

[Manco Capac]

adhiraj.bose is necrophiliac this time

edit: next -> Tachy.... just went along for the ride I guess no hard feelings though - better not insert some emoticons here - less chance of being detected by Tachy ; )

Haha, yes! Newbies are such necrophiliac. Oh, fail about white letters when I quote. Also, sometimes, I change the forums font, detecting hidden stuff.

 

[Manco Capac]

You're kidding, right?

You cannot grasp the true form of CivNoobie!