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[samson]

This isn't a contest.

This was just another game in a series of attempts at early AC. Solo and I, and others before, are trying to determine what elements, both strategic and chance, make for the earliest landing dates on Deity. You're welcome to add your insights.

Since scenarios based on Solo's river map have already produced 500 BC landings (OCC on Deity), there's not much of a challenge with premade maps. We're using first attempts on standard random maps (small, medium or large), standard rules and Deity setting with 7 civs, raging hoards. Rehomed caravans are considered a cheat by some, so we're avoiding that (and other more obvious ones.) Any style of play is allowed. Discoveries of what works or doesn't work are as rewarding and welcome as the result.

[Ecthy]

Thanks to Blaupanzer for informing me about this thread

HA HA HA!!!

you say I don't tell you I'm joking? look at my location field, there's a smiley there.. what else could I do?

that signature also contains a smiley, yet a stick-out-tongue one

smilies = joke

And then, as a French, making only MY country responsible for WWI is quite a naughty move...

BTW, the verse in my sig is the first stanza of the Germans' Song, you'll hardly call Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, a 19th century writer, a Nazi

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
you say I don't tell you I'm joking? look at my location field, there's a smiley there.. what else could I do?
And then, as a French, making only MY country responsible for WWI is quite a naughty move...
BTW, the verse in my sig is the first stanza of the Germans' Song, you'll hardly call Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, a 19th century writer, a Nazi

I am very sorry that the smiley in your location field doesn't appear as a smiley when it appears on my screen (neither does the one in your signature, and that is precisely why I started wondering whether you were joking or not).
I am very happy that those smileys are where they are (and I thank you for that).
I don't think I have made ANY country responsible for ww1 anywhere.
I was able to sing the first stanza of the Germans' Song long before writing my first post on this forum (unfortunately I am also just old enough to have heard Nazi songs sung by Nazi singers (namely SS troops) with my own ears, and I confess I feel a bit chilly in my back, just writing about them now, 57 years later).
Thank you again for those smileys.

[Blaupanzer]

La Fayette, having seen it personally makes it forever real in a way that others can only imagine. I find this type of game to be a great release for memories of that sort. No real children in the line of fire, no real mothers crying, no losing real friends to the police state, no real crippled veterans to remind us later what we did then. The game is fun, but it has its limits in terms of how the real world looks and feels when these things go on. Keep civin'.

[ancient]

Originally posted by FireDragon
Samson:
I once railroaded myself to an AI city for trade, but in my game the AI used the railroad as a spy superhighway and stole techs by the dozens. Did you have that problem?

You can make choke points along the rail. just make fortresses along the rail with to units in it.. it slows down spys and gives you a chance to expell them.. the more choke points the better they work.