Crazy Luck

[Qwertqwert]

I just started a new game, Epic speed (Marathon is too long for me), and I had the insane luck of getting to the Classical age at 3430 BC. I got both bronze working and iron working from huts, and then I found an iron resource near Bejing. I could be spinning out swordsmen in 2000 BC.

Anyone else have something like that?

[proviisori]

no such luck here

What was the difficulty level?

[Adagio]

I had a luck like that on Prince once, got 3-4 techs out of huts. This was my first game on Marathon, so I made a big mistake: I underestimated the babarians
None of the techs lead to archers, and I didn't find any Copper or Iron on the island

[padillah]

I don't know if you'd call it good luck but i got thee settlers outof huts once.

I didn't have to build settlers for years but my economy sucked!

Course, I have a hard time establishing an economy on anything but normal anyway.

Tom P.

[Badtz Maru]

Sometimes when I get really good luck with the huts I somewhat resent it, I feel like if I win that game it doesn't mean as much.

[Badtz Maru]

Originally posted by padillah
I don't know if you'd call it good luck but i got thee settlers outof huts once.

I didn't have to build settlers for years but my economy sucked!

Course, I have a hard time establishing an economy on anything but normal anyway.

Tom P.

How did you get settlers from huts on a difficulty above Warlord? Unless they changed something in the last patch, you can't get workers or settlers from huts on Noble and above.

[Qwertqwert]

Originally posted by Flamer(fin)
no such luck here

What was the difficulty level?

That game was prince...

But I quit that game, as always, terrible starting position (I was on an island, not even a big island)

[Yosho]

Re: Crazy Luck

Originally posted by Qwertqwert
I just started a new game, Epic speed (Marathon is too long for me), and I had the insane luck of getting to the Classical age at 3430 BC. I got both bronze working and iron working from huts, and then I found an iron resource near Bejing. I could be spinning out swordsmen in 2000 BC.

Anyone else have something like that?

In one game, on Emperor no less, I got farming, then animal husbandry, then horseback riding from three huts in a row. It was pretty amazing...

[Yosho]

Originally posted by Qwertqwert


That game was prince...

But I quit that game, as always, terrible starting position (I was on an island, not even a big island)

...why?

No matter how bad your starting position is, that kind of early-game tech lead you should more then make up for it.

[Qwertqwert]

Originally posted by padillah
I don't know if you'd call it good luck but i got thee settlers outof huts once.

I didn't have to build settlers for years but my economy sucked!

Course, I have a hard time establishing an economy on anything but normal anyway.

Tom P.

Yeah, it's hard to establish an ecenomy if you expand too fast.

[Qwertqwert]

Originally posted by Yosho


...why?

No matter how bad your starting position is, that kind of early-game tech lead you should more then make up for it.

My playing strategy absolutly requires contact with several other civilizations (I usaually play games with 16-18) and I can't contact them if I am on an island until I get astronomy.

[padillah]

Originally posted by Qwertqwert


Yeah, it's hard to establish an ecenomy if you expand too fast.

I find it hard to establish an economy at anything more than Norma speed. I have a build strategy and it gets thrown into a hizzy when the speed changes.

I've gotta find a better build strat for the other speeds.

Tom P.

[Yosho]

Originally posted by Qwertqwert


My playing strategy absolutly requires contact with several other civilizations (I usaually play games with 16-18) and I can't contact them if I am on an island until I get astronomy.

Well, it can be done. Last time I was on an island by myself, knowing that I could expand at whatever speed I wanted and that I wasn't going to be attacked except by barbs, I basically just focused on developing my economy and grabbing as many early-game wonders as I could, and by the time I got astronomy I was at about the same level as the AI's; I had some holes, but so did they, and I did fine.

[Qwertqwert]

I usaually hope to exceed the AI by Astronomy. Atleast technologolically. My strategy is to get technologies as fast as I can (and if possible prevent other countries from getting them) and avoid war. Then I get the Space Race victory.

[Bkeela]

Yeah, I have that kind of luck ALL the time, but usually in reverse. For instance, if I win a battle with a probability of 95%, I consider it a miracle. The AI on the other hand routinely wins with 30% probability or less.

Crazy luck alright.