Best players

[Eyes_Of_Night]

LOL 50%? There has NEVER been anybody to ever go 50/50 with me. I mean in the past 2 years the best of them are lucky to be maybe 20/80. Who do you think is actually going to believe that? lol ANd lest face it, you're the 8 day champ.

P.S. Do you even know what catacombs means?

[SlowwHand]

Strategyking makes a Civ living off talking newbies at the Zone into League, then munching them up for points.

One of the downsides of League's structure.

[cavebear]

Best Players?

Sounds like Tourney time to me. I will henceforth open a thread for the 2001 Players Tourney. Add the points and structure will be better this time!

[deity]

Markus,
How come you have so much pollution with only 20 shields?

[deity]

Originally posted by Rasputin
umm for us mere mortals, can some one please do a tutorial on how to get 50 Gold per commodity in Trade per turn ....

This is obviously one of this hidden explanations in manual

This needs to be explained Markus.
I know we did tests together but it still doesn't make sense. Unless you explain it I continue to believe it is a bug.
Eyes says it's not though.
Does anyone else follow this?

[markusf]

Originally posted by deity
Markus,
How come you have so much pollution with only 20 shields?

when you get mass production, all size 20 and above cities have HUGE pollution. I believe this is a size 38. If i where to build mass transit it would reduce pollution to about 5 or 6.

[DrFell]

Originally posted by deity


This needs to be explained Markus.
I know we did tests together but it still doesn't make sense. Unless you explain it I continue to believe it is a bug.
Eyes says it's not though.
Does anyone else follow this?

Connect the cities with roads and then railroads, maximize trade in each city (roads everywhere, superhighways etc), and make sure the trade route is to another civ (doubles per turn trade). Obviously in this case Rome is a city similar to Babylon in size and trade production to create large routes - it can be done legitimately though, tested it out using cheat mode and i have +22 routes with my own cities and +45 routes with another civ, and none of these cities were as trade optimized as Babylon is in the pic.

[boann]

well i don't understand why there are no units in the city
to support.
at this point in the game , most of the time is war with someone.
unless this is a SP game and you made peace with the ai's or
how can you get away with not supporting your capital city ?

maybe this is a dumb rookie question , but i still would like to know

[markusf]

Just for fun i went and created 2 cities in cheat mode, to see what kind of trade i could get. I took a screen shot of what it would look like in 1x and 2x. Not much difference really

[Berzerker]

Carnide....I'd have to say no. I've never been impressed with his game, he's too simplistic. Species could probably be on there. Berzerker and Crusty? Kind of in the same boat as Carnide. Never played MarkE so I don't know. Suas is not a top tier player

Well, Carnide is better than me so I may be in a third or fourth tier. But Mark E and Suas are very good players. Those cities are impressive, Markus! I have to struggle to get a civ over 5000 total science and you can do it with 2 cities. Well, I'm sure I can get more than 5000 if I play a game to the end with all the city improvements, etc.

[Rasputin]

Stil lcvant see how this can be done, if it takes trade to a foriegn civ na dthat civ needs to have citys of similar size.. Then a few points come to mind.

Most players who claim this type of trade, do so in MP games where they are so far ahead of any opposition it snot funny, so no way the opposition has that size city.

secondly if this is SP, it doesnt count as this is MP , and the poll was for MP best player, and erven if it is SP. the AI never builds citys that big that quick in the game...

So agai ni ask, how is ti possible, without cheating to achieve this type of thing...

As you see above in Markus second pic, you see that in 1x there is not enoguh food to support the city and it is quickly dying , so would need many food caravans to survive...

Please explain more, I know eyes wil lbe best for a blow by blow description of how this is done...

[DrFell]

Your assuming noone else is building these kind of cities - if your ally's doing the same thing then you can get these huge routes easily.

[StrategicKing2]

Jesus, goto cheat, create 2 citys aways apart, give them ever city improvement, take away all tech after freight is delivered and you can do even better then this. Want to get even get more crazy? Make the colossus have no experation date. Got even more time? Build many citys and find the ones with the best supply and demand.

[SlowwHand]

Is it Strategyking, or cheatsking?

Only inbred desperate players would do something like that.
Look at the referenced game and think a minute.
Markusf? never mind.

[Rasputin]

ok hands up all those that have been involved in an MP and I stress MP game, where by 1000AD , two civs had massive citys large enough to maintain this type of trade.....

I see a lot of this can be done in Scenario game sstrictly setup to do this, also via cheat mode, but as this is a MP Forum and a MP Poll, I would like some MP answers.....