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  • #16
    I've been noticing this mostly in the early game, when corruption is not an issue and when using an entertainer would unnecessarily slow my growth. We're talking less than 6 towns.

    In fact, had it been after Expansion was over, I'd never have noticed. But when there's only 3 or 4 rows(cities) and maybe (edit)double that in citizens _total_, anomolies are hard to miss.

    Additionally, once your important cities have grown enough that you have enough commerce, I doubt that rounding anomolies crop up nearly as often, though I haven't put pencil to paper on it.

    Hermann - this is probably a very easy amount of MM to add to your bag of tricks - nowhere near as cumbersome as a settler pump or worse, a settler pump sharing tiles with a worker pump. All it requires is that you create slider slack with the Research slider before taking the slack back in with the luxury slider. Since the slider is a trial-and-error sort of interface anyway, it's a rather small variation on your normal mouse-clicks.

    But yeah, if I'd found it on purpose, that would be something truly extraordinary for me.
    Last edited by ducki; March 13, 2004, 01:58.
    "Just once, do me a favor, don't play Gray, don't even play Dark... I want to see Center-of-a-Black-Hole Side!!! " - Theseus nee rpodos

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    • #17
      Help! Could somebody give me a link or three to useful AARs or DARs in this context? Searching for "Dominae anything" produces an appalling number of hits of extremely dubious value to this question. Thanks.
      "...your Caravel has killed a Spanish Man-o-War."

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      • #18
        Specifically, the ability to save up a bunch of gold for unit upgrades and wreck some AI empires?

        Well, I don't know for sure, but I think it's a good bet that AU502 - which is supposed to start this weekend - will produce several such DARs.

        -Arrian
        grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

        The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Arrian
          Specifically, the ability to save up a bunch of gold for unit upgrades and wreck some AI empires?

          Well, I don't know for sure, but I think it's a good bet that AU502 - which is supposed to start this weekend - will produce several such DARs.

          -Arrian
          Actually AU501 has several DARs that deal with that specific thing. Though wading through might be a task. I can point you to my own DARs in that game as I did slow research on writing for the sole purpose of saving up gold for warrior to swordsman upgrades to wreck Japan. And then I researched slowly again for gold for horseman to knight upgrades to affect a genocidal war on the Hittites and Sumerians.

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          • #20
            I'd look at the QSC timelines over at Civfanatics. You can check several different approaches to a map and see how people make cash, push the tech rate, and/or expand.



            I remember in QSC15 I went for as much cash as possible. Think Moonsinger had a bit more cash than I did, so check her timeline. (checking the Excel spreadsheet she had 1493g to my 1417g, at 1000BC... nice river start with a Cow)

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            • #21
              Arrian: AU502? I haven't quite finished AU501 (at 64% toward a domination victory).

              Rotherill: I have slogged through those, except for the post-game thread, though not with that specific problem in mind. Thanks, I'll re-read yours.

              Aeson: thanks. That sounds like what I have in mind. vmxa1 had mentioned Dominae's.
              "...your Caravel has killed a Spanish Man-o-War."

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