Arii Markus Space Race

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by markusf
lets see you do it.
You can't trade with the AI
you can't build wonders
You don't have huts.

Done. 706 AD. And this was not on a premade map. I saved a game at the beginning, made it scenario, eliminated huts, and eliminated the AI. It wasn't an interesting game. I just built near or on practically every trade special on the map. After I did that I mined some more trade specials. I am never going to do that again. It was so boring.

[DrFell]

Found this scenario sitting on my hard drive and decided to have a go at it. It looks easy, but I only managed to land 1521AD (even though I was 1/2 tech ahead of Markus in 1020AD ). It's a shame more people haven't had a go on this map, it's a good way of testing out different strategies without the AI interfering, and I'd like to see how well some of you early AC landers do on it - I found it suprisingly difficult.

[markusf]

ya i learned a lot here. I normally play on diety, but practicing on king on this map was a great way of testing strats. I found that i built way to many banks and stock exchanges. But in a real game you have to build up both

[DrFell]

Yeah I built too many unnecessary improvements too - should've sold improvements to raise cash for the ss parts. BTW when did you and Arii land? It'd be a great boost if I found out I landed before you

[markusf]

i don't remember we stopped when we first landed. Also this was sim turns, so we lost about 6 turns to reloads. My goal was to be able to replicate this in a normal. Sad thing is if you remove all the gold specials etc except for the first 2 cities. You will only land about 10 turns later. I was amazed to find that trade specials mean so little to the outcome... but i guess it makes sence.