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    Luckiest start

    I started a game with Catherine (actually, I'm working through the leaders alphbetically while waiting to get Civ 5), and had what I consider my luckiest start in all the years playing Civ IV.

    Founded Moscow right away. Start with mining so set research to Bronze Working. Move scout on to hut 2 spaces away, get a free tech, Bronze Working (!!). Note pops up telling me I have discovered copper near Moscow, its on a hill adjacent to the city! And its still just 4000 B.C.

    Any other starts out there that were almost too good to be true?
    Rule 37: "There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'."
    http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ 23 Feb 2004
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    Did you have food resources? The free tech is nice, but I would rather have corn, rice, cow, pig, etc. than copper. It's nice for an early rush, though, and that is a great start. I've had much better, though.

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    • #3
      Already had corn, cows and marble in BFC, getting the tech and finding copper there as well on the first turn of the game was the point.
      Rule 37: "There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'."
      http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ 23 Feb 2004

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      • #4
        Wow. You lucky son of a *****. That is one of the best starts I could imagine, and is certainly better than any that I've had. I don't think I've ever seen more than three different resources in one city's BFC, much less seen corn, cow, marble, and copper as those resources, with BW for free. I don't think you could get much better, without going into WorldBuilder.

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        • #5
          I think most people would be more concerned about the tiles and special stuff.
          Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Wyrda Edocsil View Post
            Did you have food resources? The free tech is nice, but I would rather have corn, rice, cow, pig, etc. than copper. It's nice for an early rush, though, and that is a great start. I've had much better, though.
            Yeah, you can get bronze with another city but for my capital I want it on a hill (of 1-2 extra hammers per turn), by a river (extra health), and with at least three food bonus items in the city radius.
            Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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            • #7
              You're right. the copper does not necessarily need to be in your capital's city radius, as long a you have a source nearby. The marble, though, gives you a nice production boost, along with making it easy to get an ancient or classical wonder, and is a fairly rare resource besides that. Having the copper and marble moved to a nearby location and replacing them with food resources, though, would have made for a better start. However, this is still one of the best starts I have ever seen, and would be very happy to have it.

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              • #8
                Starting on a coastal river plains hill with 3 ocean special resources, with flood plains and both marble and stone in my bfc. A great start.
                But my favorite was getting 12, yes count them, 12 free techs from my first 13 huts. I just kept laughing as I'd get another tech.

                Or the very first IV game I played, I started at the lowest level and on turn one popped a hut and got a settler. Due to never playing that level again, the only settler I ever got out of a hut.
                It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                • #9
                  I got 7 or 8 techs out of huts one game and that game was super easy. I can't imagine 12!
                  Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.

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                  • #10
                    Yeah, so easy that it was one of those games you don't finish because you know you've already won so early that you lose interest.
                    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                    RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                    • #11
                      In a recent game I started on a plains hill with marble or stone on it, it was a coastal city, started with an irrigated corn, clams, and fish for food resources.

                      The rest of the land was also quite nice.

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                      • #12
                        I captured an AI capital in a recent game and found it had 8 resources within its working radius, 3 fish, 3 crabs, iron I think and 1 other land special, cannot remember what it was.

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                        • #13
                          Yes, it's usually always quite beneficial to grab an AI cap early since they seem to always have better land than me.
                          It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                          RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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