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  • What have been some of your "ultimate challenge adventures " in SP?

    OCC remains one for me to try some day.

    In the past I can remember waiting to launch to AC until hopefully all the world was full of fully developed cities all trade routed to an ecologically enhanced (yes they allow you to transform their ground when you have a carrier with a couple stealth fighters watching over their riflemen defended city) remaining Babylonian city with greatest trade potential.


    **The game as allways was deity, RH, wet-warm, archapelago, large world, 7 civs. restarts allowed for AI's destroyed.

    Goals in this game that kept the interest alive for me until cycling through endless cities finally fried me was:

    a)To find the GREATEST INITIAL CASH OUTLAY of gold on establishment of a trade route.
    I do remember getting near 2000, for oil on demand once, and around 1000 occasionally for stuff.

    b)To seek the GREATEST SIZE TRADE ROUTE
    memory says it was around 24 or 26 not sure.

    c)to see what the HIGHEST POPULATION could be reached by the deadline

    d)to try to keep the TOP FIVE CITIES blue (my civs color) through the game.
    Usually n/p

    e)Keep SPOTLESS REPUTATION throughout game

    Who me be despicable?

    f)see if HIGHEST CIV SCORE could be reached this way or by fastest bloodlust conquest.
    Can't remember highest score but one of my Son's "Bogus Ben" of the Bogus still has the title on it in my family before MP. It was way up there. On the older (amiga)versions of civ we would often max the game out as it had an upper limit of pop before it crashed. I don't think it would let you have quite 100 million.

    g) last but not least~ GET ALL WONDERS.

    This is very hard to do and can not remember accomplishing it totally, tho I got the best ones. In old civ I think I did it as there were fewer wonders.

    Those were mine what are/were yours?

    What are some results in the above catagories you would like to share?

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    The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus
    The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus

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    Here is my personal SP challenge: keep all AI civs intact and alive until 2019, then wipe them all out at once.

    I've tried this several times, but have not been able to pull it off so far. One of three things will happen: (1) one of the AI civs kills another (before I achieve diplomatic control), (2) barbarians wipe someone out early on, or (3) I don't have quite enough "oomph" to conquer the world on the final turn.

    I'll keep trying, though. :-)

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    [This message has been edited by JERandall (edited May 12, 2000).]
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    • #3
      In old civ you got a higher score for the longer you remained at peace before the end, so you had to do your dirty work very early and select that one Baylonian Perfectionist city to trade with and keep alive so you didn't conquer the world while you build. You must remain at peace with this city to have a decent peace bonus on your score

      Also the highest possible initial cash trade bonuses are when you deliver a demanded later commodity like oil or uranium,

      AND AND AND

      the city you sent it from demands something from the city you deliver to.

      Say Crustyhavn supplies demanded oil to Babylon, and Babylon has gems that Crustyhavn demands, then with one fell swoop you have a 2-way demand score!!! Eurika!!
      The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus

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      • #4
        Interesting idea JERandall.

        My favorite way to take out an AI civ it to capture its capital, then bribe the remaining cities so they stay intact. Takes a bit longer if capital moves a few times.

        BTW there was a Joey Randall across the street from me when i was a kid in Fresno.
        The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus

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        • #5
          My favorite was breaking the 20,000 point barrier. Rah had a 16,000+ game, I was damned if I was going to let that stand.

          I've never been so bored in my life... it took months. I finally launched the ship early once I crossed 20,000. 30,000 is possible using the food caravan trick
          Never again...
          Keep on Civin'
          RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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          • #6
            My fav was a 100x100 map, non-restarting 7 civ, all out attack fastest conquest. Talk about a slow way to go fast! I don't think I ever finished that one. Exploring the map was really fun, and attacking everything I found instead of waiting until I had a superior force kept me on my toes.

            20k, I almost died of boredom getting to 10k... I salute your competitive vindictiveness!
            Be the bid!

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            • #7
              The only thing that kept me going was beating Rah! Brotherly love
              Keep on Civin'
              RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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              • #8
                Never tried the food caravan trick. I have read about it tho. An increase of 50% from that alone!?!?! Pretty nice scores I'd say!
                I hear ya on the tedium of it all, getting so many cities going.

                But that would be a great challenge!
                The journey itself is the thing~Odysseus

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                • #9
                  No, it isn't really a challange, just a waste of time.
                  Eliminate all AI cities but one.
                  Build Max Cities.
                  Terriform the entire planet to maximize food
                  Start building food caravans
                  EVERY STINKING TURN, MOVE ALL THE DAMN FOOD CARAVANS... hit enter.

                  Challange, nahhhh... just boring as hell.
                  Never again!
                  Keep on Civin'
                  RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                  • #10
                    I am (unsuccessfuly) trying to beat Dave's record in fastest conquest on a small map,but cannot beat 100bc (i did it 3x on 100bc and several times before 1ad).
                    However,i'll not rest until i break that barrier :P
                    My life, my rules

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                    • #11
                      I tried to earn the "Magnificent" title in one game, just to see what it would take. That required about 20 size 25 cities and about 2/3 of the wonders, for a 6500 or so score. That was enough for me.

                      I usually play deity, seven civs, raging hordes, large map, and limit myself to eight or ten cities. This makes the game go faster, and large land area makes the expansionist AI more of a threat late in the game. I almost always finish with a spotless reputation and don,t usually need to bribe cities. Bribing units, however, is another matter.

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                      -Edward VII, Prince of Wales
                      Old posters never die.
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                      • #12
                        What is the top name you can get? I try to win as quick as possible, so usually I only end with a score of 2000 or so, and named the Lion Heart

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                        • #13
                          I like the earliest (whatever) challenges. It's really boring managing a lot of cities and not really much of a challenge out-producing the AIs (even with their production cheats). And it's not a challenge at all winning a war against the AI...

                          SmartFart - . I was really lucky that game.

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                          • #14
                            Actually, instead of winning the most, how about winning with the least? Take Crusty's initial list and reverse it. Winning with the least amount of cash, no trade routes, worse reputation, no cities in the top 5, etc. We've already done no wonders (easier than it looked), fewest cities (one), etc. I can't imagine trying to manage 20 very large cities, I only have the patience to manage one science city and about 10 smaller ones.

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                            • #15
                              Steve Clark - not meaning to be cute here, but all I'd have to do is leave 5 AI cities standing and go to AC to do what you're describing. In my typical ICS game, I never have any city in the top 5, never set up trade routes, and always finish with an atrocious reputation.

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