Power Democracy strats?

[Scouse Gits]

Just a quick mod on (2)'s suggestion - I find that you have to use the mouse for the first change of city - click on the arrow symbol - and then hold down the arrow key to scroll through the empire in less than a second...

SG[1]

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by ramses II.
My own interpretation of power democracy:........
2. At least 5-7 military units per city ........

ramses II ...your games seem to reach baroque proportions. Are you sure you don't mean Paranoiac Democracy?

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SG(2)

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits


ramses II ...your games seem to reach baroque proportions. Are you sure you don't mean Paranoiac Democracy?

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SG(2)

Yeah in games with a demo strat I rarely have over 100 military units, until maybe the late endgame.

Diplo's, counterattackers and some defenders at key points should do the trick.

[Scouse Gits]

I think Ramses is really a rabid rodent who just pretends to be perfectionist...

SG[1]

[DrSpike]

Hehe yeah.....it's what happens when ICSing barbarians try to civilise themselves too quickly.

[ramses II.]

@SG<1+2>
Power Democracy means: I've got the power ...
to convince the rest of the world that democracy is the superior government.

George W. Bush is a power democrat ...

[rah]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Just a quick mod on (2)'s suggestion - I find that you have to use the mouse for the first change of city - click on the arrow symbol - and then hold down the arrow key to scroll through the empire in less than a second...

SG[1]

When we first started playing MP, I used to use the arrow key to scroll through, but occasionaly it would lock the game and we'd have to reload it. (it never happened in SP). I don't know if it the patches fixed that particular bug because honestly I haven't tried it since I realized that it might cause a problem. I do remember it being a reported problem at one point.

Time is of the essence especially early in the game when you're whipping through the turns. Even more critical when I'm trying to sneak in a smoke between turns.

[War4ever]

Originally posted by ramses II.
@SG<1+2>
Power Democracy means: I've got the power ...
to convince the rest of the world that democracy is the superior government.

George W. Bush is a power democrat ...

you could include just about any USA president of that ..... some had better results than other s

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by rah
Even more critical when I'm trying to sneak in a smoke between turns.

rah *cough* for shame! *cough* give me another!

SG[1]

[rah]

Yes, it can be inconvienent. It always seems that whenever I walk away, a wonder gets build and sometimes I don't notice. The other night, I'm rushing to philosophy only to find that another civ got it quite a few turns before but I didn't see the notice because I was puffing away. Or missing an embasy being established or having a tech stolen. But the worst is losing an exploring unit to another civ. You come back and it's your turn, and you're thinking, I thought I had someone out there. "OH WELL, time to run out and get another beer"

RAH

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

rah!

First the no-seatbelt admission (admittedly, you have reformed), and now we learn that rah smokes!

My respect for mods is diminished

Now, since we're discussing scrolling through huge numbers of cities... does anyone use the city advisors with a custom build queue? I've tried it with mixed results.

[Bloody Monk]

STYOM,

Curious as to how/in what way you customized the queue and how it helps...

Monk

[War4ever]

hehe, personally i like to send it back to Ming when he tells me he is going to take a leak hit the button by accident

Rah, yeah nothing worse than losing that unit to God only knows what, and i have made that philo mistake before, or even worse the HG one

i would like to know about the city queue as well?

[rah]

Sending on to ming when he's pissing is fun.

Yes the HG one. You rush back from a smoke, have to choose a tech to research, choose pottery, finish your turn, check the top 5 cities, and see that HG WAS JUST BUILT.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

In games with many, many cities, I used to make a custom build queue to be used when you put the city on 'auto-build' on the city menu. You can edit the queue the city manager uses in game.txt, IIRC (It might be rules.txt )

Now, when I found a new city, I usually go riflemen-engineer-caravan-caravan-caravan-caravan ad nauseum build order. But before, as a perfectionist, I would go (defender)-engineer-temple-library-marketplace-aqueduct-bank etc... and had a build queue so that I wouldn't have as much micromanagement.

Now that I know micromanagement is a big key to Civ2 success, I don't do that anymore.