record attempt(yes I am nuts:D )

[debeest]

The barbarian attack bonus (or penalty, at low play levels) applies only to barbs, and only when they're attacking -- not on defense.

The real formula for battle resolution, my second point above, applies across the board, so the advantage or disadvantage of any attacker or defender is actually greater than you would expect. Power inequalities are emphasized.

I suppose the AI always attacks settlers &engineers first for the same reasons that it attacks dips & spies and caravans & freights first -- they're easy targets, and they're usually much more valuable than military units.

[shade]

Originally posted by debeest
I suppose the AI always attacks settlers &engineers first for the same reasons that it attacks dips & spies and caravans & freights first -- they're easy targets, and they're usually much more valuable than military units.

luckilly this isn't done so in real life(these days),whiping out civilians is still considered an atrocity.(I think I will implement this in my game,when I again start working on it,in 5-6months so little time===> killing settlers and engineers atrocity factor 1 if they're in their borders and factor 0.5 when in yours,caravans factor 0.75 not in your country, 0.3 when in your country(smuggling its an occupational hassard) ,spies/dips factor 0.5 when you never did a thing wrong(no stealling techs ,poisoning,bombing,bribing cities,...) down to 0 (when you didn't do anything else,global community then sees your dips/spies as millitary units wich are a tread) )

Japanese got bought up English are next.
(damn french are demo=> anybody any hints to get them back to some lower gov??(or do I just bomb some happiness stuff )

Shade
PS:this will stay a record attempt,but most probably won't become a record.(254% fundi so it will go up a little when back in demo but not enough before 2020)

[Jaguar]

Bad shade! stay faithful to the one and only civ2!

[shade]

I will never my civ2
I really this game

Shade

[Smash]

you still at this?...you are nuts

just think of all the stuff you have learned for next time

[shade]

Originally posted by Smash
you still at this?...you are nuts

just think of all the stuff you have learned for next time

Yep still at this,and Yes I am nuts,It's my way of living
(I really like those christmas-smilies )

And there WILL be a next time(but probably not within the first 6 months,still have to finish this one,and I 'm going to squeeze everything humanly(and inhumaly)possible out of it )

Shade

[shade]

My way or the highway...

After the death of the Spanish kingdom, the Imperial wrath was focused on the Japanese (and partially on the English) Republic.
Because their politicians used the annexation of the Spanish Kingdom to place fear, for The Empire, in the harts of their ppl the costs of bribery became quite high. Also, the fake image they created caused the rise of many partisan rebellion groups when a city was taken. But in the end they all had to surrender (they just disappeared, as if the Hand of God had whipped them out of history, when their last city was taken .Many Imperians saw this as an Omen. They said it was the voice of God, which was telling that the Empire had a 'Holy Quest' to bring all ppl together under One nation. ) After the annexation of the Japanese Republic forces were directed towards the English Republic. Although they always claimed that 'The Empire' could not be trusted, it were almost always their troops who were violating new Imperial soil. An other difference with the Japanese Republic was tat their politicians were better word-weavers. ("Word-weavers": Imperial term: A person who can speak with such conviction that everyone believes him (even if it's not true))
This had a nasty side effect for our troops, every time a city was taken there was an enormous amount of partisans appearing near the city.
Luckily this didn't hold us back too much and by 1914 the remains of the English Republic were in chaos and therefore taken over by the Empire, to create order again in those cities.
After the annexation of Exeter the English Republic ceased to exist. Now it will be the Job of the Empire to clean up the mess the partisans made (the destroyed a lot of things).
After the annexation of Exeter all partisans again seem to have disappeared. Again there are Imperians saying this is an Omen, but unofficial sources say they retreated to the Democratic state of France.
Since this can't be backed by a decent proof, The Empire can't just attack the Democratic State of France.

This is were the English/Japanese vs. Empire war ends.
[Note: always bare in mind that these are translations of ancient Imperial texts, and therefore some words are translated not entirely as it was written originally. e.g. the word God didn't exist in the Imperial Language, they spoke of "The One Who Created Everything And All, He Who Lives and Judges At The End Of All Life, He Who Is And Isn’t, Will Be And Always Has Been"(It's a lot shorter in the Imperial language but since they use a different alphabet it's impossible to write it down here.)]

The current score would place me at NR 41 in the Hall of Fame.

Shade

[Carolus Rex]

Re: My way or the highway...

Originally posted by shade
the current score would place me at NR 41 in the Hall of Fame.

The only way is up then!

Carolus

[shade]

Liberté,Égalité et Fraternité.


(English translation for who needs it:
Freedom,Equality and Brotherhood)

As you might already suspect the French civilization has been destroyed and their territory and cities have been annexated.

After the annexation of both the Japanese and English Republic troops were send to the evil democratic empire of France. Although their civ was always rated number 2 on Worldscale, their land is totally retarded, few roads and railroads and barely enough irrigation. After the capture of the city of Brest their Democracy collapsed as a house made of carts.
But evil as they were they changed their government to Fundi .
The next few years can be described as Hunting down and conquering 2 capitals and bribing the hell out of the other cities.
The entire war took 6 years (only because there was no unit close enough to take over the last city a turn sooner).
When all this was finished the Empire could start rebuilding itself and clean up the mess the other nations left. Because now all treads had been annihilated the ppl asked for a new Democratic Government. Celebrations and feasts were held everywhere and population boomed (from 130M to over 200M in only 7 years).
While this kept going on research went up again, over 200 engineers work day and night to build a better world and the last few years clean up the huge amount of pollution. There are also some military units cleaning up hundreds of old fortresses, which the enemy left behind.

Now the Imperial Hegemony is almost complete. Only the city-state of Delphi remains. Hopefully they will appoint a new ruler soon because the one at the moment seems to be blind, deaf and stupid. Look at one of the things he said in the last diplomatic contact.
"Your civilization makes us laugh. We agree not to crush you in return for the secret of conscription."
How foolish can one man be???
Only 1 little city-state with probably no more then 10 units versus an Empire of over 180 cities and an army so big it wouldn't even notice it if it crushed their city-state accidentally.

Here ends an other part of history.

Shade
PS: little Question to Rah,Ming or whoever did something similar, is it normal that in a democracy with so many cities natural unhappiness is so huge???
E.g. no lux gives me only 5 or 6 cities not revolting and I see an enormous amount of BLACK (jep not red) faces. Also a single entertainer can change let’s say 5 red +1 black (this is at 30 or 40%lux) change to 2 happy +3 content and 1 red??
(This is petrifying)

[moi]

Re: back again

Originally posted by shade
I followed your advice and changed to Fundi(and there are a hole lot of things that aren't mentioned or correct in the manual about Fundi=> only 8 units free ,No corruption,and like stated only 50% of the trade can be used for science=> before this game I thought they meant you get your (science/2) but it means that you can't make your science rate higher then 50%

no no no no, fundy means BOTH you cannot set a rate higher than 50% AND your research is halved

[shade]

Well at the moment this ain't a problem anymore since I'll never have to go back to Fundi.

LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY

Shade
(almost 600% and rising )

[shade]

new update

Voila made a new update to the Historiae.

Hope you all liked the story up until now.(even in the horrible English,where mare's get slaughtered during revolution )
But I have some bad news.Due to my coming exams there will be no time for playing,so the next update will not be till somewhere mid February. (Although I rather like to play)

At the moment all seems quite "good" ,despite the 15-20 pollutionskulls popping up each turn.I have almost doubled my personal highscore(some 322%,not much I know),but chances to reach the highscore in the HOF is quite slim.(only some 90 turns left and still over 70 cities to found).
But pulling this all up to a decent level will be a quest I 'll face next year

current state looks like this:
*Modern age
*Democracy
*30%LUX
*1tech/turn
*still some 270 techs
*still some 70 cities to found
*only other civ is nuts(only one city and bullying me )
*hell of a lot pollution
*268.990.000ppl( little more than Belgium )
*611% ( still 1400 to go )

Shade

[Smash]

well...you're still in the "easy" part.

real fun starts with food freights.....

[shade]

real fun starts with food freights.....

I'd really enjoy this part but I still have to do so much,upgrading my cities to something usable,discover like 300 techs(includes the future techs),build some 70 cities,improve the retarded countryside the French/English/Japanese left me ,clean up the enormous amount of pollution,...
=> quintiple my tradearrows would be nice(also the number of engineers quintipled would be nice but sadly enough I have no magic rod )

THE EMPERIAN HISTORY WILL CONTINUE

Shade
(btw is it me or are there a lot less ppl on these fora since new year??)

[Xin Yu]

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btw is it me or are there a lot less ppl on these fora since new year??
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That's what they called 'graveyard'. Some people moved their discussion topics to civfanatics due to the server problem happend here last week.

I'm also interested in scoring but it is just too time consuming. Therefore I'm working on a utility project which can let me perform city management function directly from memory. It can save a lot of city management time. Once that is done I may try to break some records myself. Now however I can only play some Cic scenarios and try to break records there.