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Miriam OCC
Well, it wasn't a pretty victory but I got the job done so I thought I'd take a moment and brag...er..I mean to say...talk...about it a bit. 
It was my fourth OCC game. I started my first Baisc One City Challenge about a week ago with Cha Dawn and won on my second try. I also won on my second try with Miriam, unless you count the game that I didn't proceed with due to my random starting location not being on the coast.
Settings were again random maps, directed tech, transcend level, regular-sized planet and other default settings. I played Ironman but not Ironman setting due to the crashes I still get in SMACX. The gang included the Spartans, UoP, 'Borgs, Gaians, PK and Data Angels.
My first attempt was also a Peace victory challenge. It seemed that by 2250 there was a lot of pent-up anger that eventually spiralled out of control during a communications blackout. So this time, after 100 years I was often deliberately at war with a far-flung faction that posed no threat to me. It seemed to strengthen my relations with the others. The Spartans were perfect for this.
I did find the UoP declaring war against me in the endgame due to running Wealth. Zak futilely sent a few green sealurks up against one of my seaformers but no harm done.
My worst military action was due to a late game worm rape. Actually it wasn't worms, it was a big pile of locusts. My single defensive air unit, a wimpy locust, lost against the first one. So I lost a quite a few sea crawlers before I got a R3 chopper built.
I built no boreholes or condensers and only three mirrors to postpone eco damage, but Lal was just out of control which meant some fluctuations in sea levels in the endgame.
The trick, if there was one, was extensive crawler poaching of pactmates' resources. If Aki ever broke Pact, I would have been dead in the water. I just kept pumping out sea crawlers or regular crawlers if I didn't have a tidal harness open. Aki had a bad habit of building sea cities on top of my sea crawlers but I just ignored her.
The only SP I bothered with was the ME and Ascent. Really that is all you need. On my first attempt I got the second tech-doubling one but I just missed it this game. I believe I if I can get either the ToE or the Collider I can build the Voice in a future game; but it didn't happen this time. In fact, I had to use every trick in the book including cash loans from the AI, and inward crawler retraction and redemption to beat Lal. To me, this tainted the victory a bit. So I am going to try it without any loans in a future game. As well I wasn't able to build a hab dome which would have been more optimal.
The game ended in 2321. I only got to 66%, How to Raise a Nerve-Stapled Child.
As with my Cult victory, if anyone wants a .sav of the Miriam OCC, let me know.
It was my fourth OCC game. I started my first Baisc One City Challenge about a week ago with Cha Dawn and won on my second try. I also won on my second try with Miriam, unless you count the game that I didn't proceed with due to my random starting location not being on the coast.
Settings were again random maps, directed tech, transcend level, regular-sized planet and other default settings. I played Ironman but not Ironman setting due to the crashes I still get in SMACX. The gang included the Spartans, UoP, 'Borgs, Gaians, PK and Data Angels.
My first attempt was also a Peace victory challenge. It seemed that by 2250 there was a lot of pent-up anger that eventually spiralled out of control during a communications blackout. So this time, after 100 years I was often deliberately at war with a far-flung faction that posed no threat to me. It seemed to strengthen my relations with the others. The Spartans were perfect for this.
I did find the UoP declaring war against me in the endgame due to running Wealth. Zak futilely sent a few green sealurks up against one of my seaformers but no harm done.
My worst military action was due to a late game worm rape. Actually it wasn't worms, it was a big pile of locusts. My single defensive air unit, a wimpy locust, lost against the first one. So I lost a quite a few sea crawlers before I got a R3 chopper built.
I built no boreholes or condensers and only three mirrors to postpone eco damage, but Lal was just out of control which meant some fluctuations in sea levels in the endgame.
The trick, if there was one, was extensive crawler poaching of pactmates' resources. If Aki ever broke Pact, I would have been dead in the water. I just kept pumping out sea crawlers or regular crawlers if I didn't have a tidal harness open. Aki had a bad habit of building sea cities on top of my sea crawlers but I just ignored her.
The only SP I bothered with was the ME and Ascent. Really that is all you need. On my first attempt I got the second tech-doubling one but I just missed it this game. I believe I if I can get either the ToE or the Collider I can build the Voice in a future game; but it didn't happen this time. In fact, I had to use every trick in the book including cash loans from the AI, and inward crawler retraction and redemption to beat Lal. To me, this tainted the victory a bit. So I am going to try it without any loans in a future game. As well I wasn't able to build a hab dome which would have been more optimal.
The game ended in 2321. I only got to 66%, How to Raise a Nerve-Stapled Child.
As with my Cult victory, if anyone wants a .sav of the Miriam OCC, let me know.
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