Spoiler alert.

City State will get it. Then if you're like me you'll go to war with them out of frustration.

pg ofc

This post has been edited by sardoniclysane on Sat - Jan 5 2013 - 21:42:05

got great lib, got free theology

decided to settle further up the island instead of on the wine, because the citystates borders were expanded fast enough to block the barringer crater

so now im in this situation, god damnit this is bullshit

good news is, im babylon and can crank out bowman unique units and defend from this shit

also went tradition for +50% city def with a garrison, ty

could always play some defend your castle. Once you get mages it's gn8 game.

city attack is 1 hit-killing enemy warriors/archers

killed 8 units so far, lost 1

its the computers ability to have city sprawl. its basically op in the xpac
imo

ok, bye

thanks for spending all your production on nothing but military

a city state just captured a neighboring city state
never seen that

dont think ive ever seen citystates that border each other who are each allied with warring civs, which i assume is the only way a citystate would attack another

yes
and they razed the city

haha what

i love when you get beaten to a wonder and you reload and the computer does not build the wonder anymore. maybe they are spying and know if they need to or can wait..

turn 764, and i discover i have zero oil. fuck

game specs?

earth, huge, marathon, dif 6 (if i could somehow remove the tedious "diplomacy" from harder difficulties id play them more, but i honestly do despise not only the "you must trade everything always" but also the ui for it. why cant i just select a resource and see who i can trade with, why are you forced to go through each civ etc.

as it stands on a huge map its like adding a difficulty since the computer seemingly picks one civ that will steamroll everyone close to it until they have 35 cities and that alone makes science and culture hard to keep up with. im going to beat this setting at some point, but i think its time i did so not as ethopia.

turn 838
napolean completes the apollo project
i lead the world in culture, i have 2+ 5/6 social policies
i have 33% more production than the second place civ
i dont get why science is so completely out of whack on the huge maps. make 37 shitty little cities and somehow that equates to a huge science bonus, but not anything else.
maybe i need to try earth on a setting less than huge

napolean also had something like 60k strong army while the rest of the world had 3k-6k.

exploration is a big factor on science in huge earth, since techs gets cheaper the more iscovered civs that has already researched that tech

i get that, but it does not jive that the civ with 10x the military and has 10-20 puppet cities, and many others still in revolt, smokes everyone in science. it just seems that the base bonus to having a city is out of whack on a huge, marathon game. culture cant even come close to keeping up with the pace of science. by the time he finished i will have 3-3.5 social policy trees complete.
there is a strat thats based off of this anyway, insane city sprawl. i wonder if normal game pace will have any effect, or if its purely the size of the map that allows so many cities to exist.

This post has been edited by blind_chief on Mon - Jan 7 2013 - 12:53:11

size of the map

huge games end from science victory at like 1900 ad

sad, its a broken mechanic on huge maps. guess i could turn off science victory and see how a game goes.

I don't even attempt culture vics anymore. I think to unlock the achievement I'm going to have to play at retard level.

play as ghandi on a map with meni islands, one city challenge.

yes, yes, and yes



eric, i got 6 achievements for that

nukes, many nukes

ai turns take 15 mins
game eventually crashes or becomes impossible to reload save

babylon game update

im ahead slightly/keeping up with all other civs on science due to babylon unique passive

around 1700 AD, songhai, egypt, and byzantine declared war on me within 10 turns, i had just captured kuala lumpur (citystate) and had a decent standing army to defend. kyoto and babylon have great production

140 year war developed with byzantine launching ships from the south at antioch, i had artillery on the hills firing south/at ships, but there was so many ships the battle actually lasted 140 years. songhai was sending ships from the east at kyoto, and the citystate marrakech was attacking by land.

in this pic, i just made peace with egypt (didnt engage me at all, across the map), and songhai (no threat to me, hes a very weak civ), and just captured marrakech. my gold/turn is only negative because my trade routes are currently blocked by sea. happiness is negative because just taking marrakech (was at ~20 happiness for whole game until war broke out/trading stopped)

TIL shrines give +1 happiness

have also killed about 10 spies in the course of this game, everyones trying to spy on me with new spies and my special agent is murdering them all

victory details, leader (hiawatha) just hit atomic age, so still a ways off on science, too many people have been at war so not many research agreements are going on

byzantium has 4 policy branches done

i have a lot of military units, and many are very upgraded, so im going to be attacking a civ again in this game, songhai is very close i could wipe him out, but the time it takes it may be futile

i should probably go after byzantium but getting there is questionable

byzantines have 3 cities, all above 130 defense, which means i basically have to wait for satellites and nukes to even try to assualt their islands

my neglected culture is a huge missed opportunity, i have 2 commerce and 1 rationalism

if i would be able to finish rationalism before this game ends it would have been a huge boost

oh, i must have missed rameses hitting atomic, because he just finish apollo program at 1909

not going to be able to win this game, but it was fun

diety or immortal?

damn, vn1. Wilst try that.

this was on diff 6

new game

random leader
random map type
huge map
difficulty 8 (deity)
domination victory only

common sense tip to remember

if planning to go tradition social policy, dont build a monument in capital

the only drawback, though, is how far behind it seems to put you early on by not having that single culture source.

turn 30, ghandi has completed great library

turn 60, ghandi has completed petra

abandoned that game, it was silly

for the first time ever i have gotten spies before anyone else. stealing tech in 5 turns is vn1.

1030ad, fully upgraded spy, just stole 3 techs in 5 turns

maybe the time per stolen is related to the available techs to be stole? anyway, 6th tech stolen is now 8 turns

am i the only one who thinks spies and religion dont actually enhance the game at all?

yes, you are way behind in techs

and everyone gets spies at the same time, when the first civ reaches renaissance and each era afterward