Is there a formula for reputation?

[johnmcd]

I don't use subvert city if I'm trying to win this way, it seems to break the rules for my money. Also it may be easy on a small map but I only ever play huge, where they have a shed load of cities. Last time I tried it I don't know if I'd properly worked out how reputation worked too, so I may have been handicapping myself further. I'll give it another go and see how I do.

[SCG]

quote: Originally posted by johnmcd on 10-07-2000 06:28 AM I don't use subvert city if I'm trying to win this way, it seems to break the rules for my money. Also it may be easy on a small map but I only ever play huge, where they have a shed load of cities. Last time I tried it I don't know if I'd properly worked out how reputation worked too, so I may have been handicapping myself further. I'll give it another go and see how I do.

I personally find it easier to win by subverting all AI cities on a large map vs a small map. The reason is that you have so much more economic power when you have room for lots of extra cities. The expansionist AIs' cities are cheap, and you can grow them into huge money generators quite quickly, while those AI keep founding new ones for you since they have room to expand (no need to found your own cities) and with the extra money, you can buy even the largest perfectionist AI city next to its capital. The perfectionist AIs will tend to have the same number of cities reguardless of map size, so the smaller the map, the harder they are to take out. As for reputation, all I ever do is subvert cities untill they decide to make war (no rep hit), max taxes for 1 round and then go on a coordinated buying spree when the cities are 1/2 off If you line up a couple caravans or freights to go to AIs you're not at war with and have a lot of cities, you can sometimes buy off an entire empire in 1 round if they have railroad or you have lots of engineers. For democratic AI, I'll box them with whatever units and wait for them to sneak attack or revolt to talk to me.

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[johnmcd]

quote: Originally posted by SCG on 10-09-2000 08:04 AM I personally find it easier to win by subverting all AI cities on a large map vs a small map

Hummm, this may be true but I clearly didn't express myself clearly. I should have started a new paragraph with my second sentence. I meant winning with a spotless reputation on a small map may be easier than on a large map as there would be fewer occasions when you would be forced into kissing and making up, and so fewer irritation iterations to perform to get the lot.

[johnmcd]

Hummm, even if it is true it didn't need to be said twice.
[This message has been edited by johnmcd (edited October 09, 2000).]