High Priestess in Space - Succession Game

[Hydey]

Good work EL CIV

[El Civ]

Thanks Hydey As the game progresses my weaknesses will show more. I'm not yet competent in the micro management and inner workings of Civ. That's the very reason I decided to play this game. I'll try not to be an anchor.

[El Civ]

Cheat question

I've been busying myself in the Great Library and have a question. I read over Xin's game cheats and wish to know what is considered allowable and what is not, so I don't corrupt this game.

1. The "ZOC Avoidance Trick"
2. Airbases within city radius
3. Cost effective rush buying (i.e. incremental buying of units and improvements to lessen the overall cost)
4. Turbo settlers

I'm trying to improve my gameplay but not at the risk of mucking up this succession game. Thanks.

[Scouse Gits]

Airbases are generally considered a 'cheat' (not my opinion - but I was overruled by the community) the others are all OK

SG[1]

[Scouse Gits]

... and good work El Civ

SG[1]

[Messer Niccolò]

From the top of the mountain

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Airbases are generally considered a 'cheat' (not my opinion - but I was overruled by the community) the others are all OK

SG[1]

SG[1] & (2), as mentioned I'd like to join but - for this week - my home PC will be offline so, what I can do is only to stare amazed at my PC (in the office ) and join you all praising for the spaceship launch.
Btw... Airbases?
We really will have airbases?
Naaaaa, I don't believe...

Mr. Niccolò the Heretic (and since I'm an heretic I'll not come down from the mountains, I fear to be burned or whatever by the "enlightened").



building (for being more enlightened) the Lighthouse would be appreciate.

From the top of the mountain, truly yours,
Mr. N.

[Scouse Gits]

Welcome aboard, Messer Niccolò. There are a few people to play before your turn comes round -- hopefully your PC will be back on-line by then ,,,

SG[1]

p.s. Be aware - We burn heretics!!!

[Marquis de Sodaq]

My home pc has been acting stragely of late. Put me on the list of players, but skip my first turn. I plan to reinstall my operating system to cure the computer's woes. If that doesn't work, I could be in trouble...

[La Fayette]

STYOM then?
(otherwise I can play tomorrow)

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by La Fayette
STYOM then?
(otherwise I can play tomorrow)

Hold your horses; I have the save and will play it today/tonight/tomorrow morning.

STYOM

[Julius Brenzaida]

As there are already many players and as I am already "engaged" in 5 other, I don't feel able to play this one.
But I will watch carefuly

I see it as a monster with 200 little cities producing each 2 beakers
Estimated time to make a turn by 1750 ad : 5 hours, not including the nervous breakdown

But please don't run away, I may be wrong

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Airbases are generally considered a 'cheat' (not my opinion - but I was overruled by the community) the others are all OK

SG[1]

How about 'black-clicking'?

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida

Estimated time to make a turn by 1750 ad : 5 hours, not including the nervous breakdown

Sacrilege!

Besides, we'll be looking down at you pagans,from AC, by 1650 !!

Brother STYOM

[El Civ]

Alas my PC must be in communication with that of Marquis. In addition to the program error ("Civ2.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows") my PC is now sometimes simply re-booting itself while Civ is running. I can scarcely play for 15-20 minutes before it happens. I hope to get it fixed by my next turn, even if it means a clean wipe and a reinstallation.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

1000: After nearly 3000 years stuck lighting candles and washing the High Priestess's unmentionables in holy water, STYOM rises to the role of Space Advisor. 'Brothas and Sistas, we need a rocketship!', he cries.

*blank looks all around*

In the meantime the Lighthouse will at least let us get a little closer to the stars...

Goals: Get some land somewhere else and build on it. More cities.
Another wonder after LH - Colossus or MPE? tough one there.

Plans are mooted for a deliciously sleazy city at the northern tip of our tiny island. STYOM likes our build orders except for the Barracks in Three Forks - probably we would do better to have a Settler, Camel or some kind of unit to explore, at this stage of the game. Not wanting to give up the shields, we switch to a Temple for now.

975: *racks brain to remember whether blackclicking is allowed. Does it anyway *
Three Spoons founded; starts Warriors
Some workers rearranged to max shield output in Glastonbury.

950: Lighthouse in Stonehenge! Caravan started.

900: Temple in Three Forks>Settlers started.

875: Silk Caravan in Slim Buttes>Settlers started.
Trireme sails from Glastonbury>Settlers started.
Warrior rushed in Three Spoons.

850: Polytheism discovered>researching Philosophy for the freebie.

825: Plan: build a new city on continent to the north, see if we can rush Colossus there and set up a 2-city trade scheme between it and Stonehenge (HG).

Egyptians move their capital to Heliopolis

800: Nice 2(+?) special site located to the north.
Babylonians start Pyramids.

750: Stonehenge builds Gems Caravan>starts Caravan. The site to the north is whale/gems/fish/wheat!!

725: Men-an-Tol builds Silk Caravan>starts Settlers.
Temptation Isle founded>starts Warriors.

700: Vikings are almost done Pyramids. This bodes ill, as the Babylonians will likely switch to Colossus next turn.

675: Pyramids in Trondheim. Chinese switch to Colossus, Babylonians to GL.

650: Settlers in Three Forks>starts Caravan. Settlers in Glastonbury>starts Caravan. Warriors in TemptationIsle>starts Colossus.

625: Philosophy discovered>Wheel>researching Republic (on the road to Democracy and SoL).

STYOM retires to dream of the stars... and hopefully get the High Priestess's underthings out of his mind

We should be able to rush Colossus if necessary next turn. We seem to be stagnating a bit - there's only one other city site on our maps, and not a good one at that

Nonetheless, things look OK - for now. Science crawls along at 10 turns/tech. My successor may wish to use the Settlers soon to come on line to pump up TemptationIsle, or convert one of the build orders to a Trireme and explore a bit more.