Is this OCC stuff supposed to be so easy?

[Ribannah]

We landed on Alpha Centauri in the year of 1910, had all the tech, never lost a single unit.

Some of the highlights:

-4000 Founded our only city, Castle Gobs
(2 Whale, 1 Buffalo, 4 River squares)
-2750 Peace with Japanese
-1700 Size 4
-1600 Peace with Mongols
-1550 Peace with Americans
-1500 Colossus
-1200 Library
-1050 Peace with Spanish
-925 MONARCHY
-900 Alliance with Mongols
-875 War with Japanese
-850 Marketplace
-800 Granary
War with Americans
-475 Peace with Japanese
-400 Bribed Barbarian Trireme (NONE)
-200 Hanging Gardens
War with Greeks
-175 WLtKD
-150 Size 8
-100 Peace with Vikings
-75 City Walls
-25 REPUBLIC
1 Aquaduct
WLtCD
80 Size 12
120 Philosophy (hut)
160 War with Vikings
480 King Richard's Crusade
Cease Fire with Vikings
820 Beads to Koyoto (300 Gold)
840 Copernicus' Observatory
Silk to Kyoto (410 Gold)
900 War with Spanish
940 Peace with Japanese
Gave The Republic to the Japanese
960 Shakespeare's Theatre
980 Salt to Kyoto (128 Gold)
1000 University
1060 Sewer System
WLTcD
1100 Harbor
1160 Bank
1300 Size 24
WLtCD cancelled
Japanese build Marco Polo's Embassy
1340 DEMOCRACY
1360 Isaac Newton's College
1540 War with the Vikings
1560 Gold to Kaupang (429 Gold)
1600 Salt to Kyoto (121 Gold)
1610 Leonardo's Workshop
Coal to Kyoto (121 Gold)
1630 Stock Exchange
1650 Engineers
1670 Supermarkt
1700 Grassland/River into Hills/River
1758 Darwin's Voyage
1760 Peace with the Greeks
1766 Power Plant
Peace with the Spanish
1768 Peace with the Greeks
1770 Peace with the Americans
1782 Size 27
Gold to Aarhus (156 Gold)
1796 Hoover Dam
1800 Super Highways
1802 Mass Transit
1816 Gold to Trondheim (900 Gold)
1818 Offshore Platform
Transformed Mountain into Hills
1822 SETI Program
1828 Oil to Trondheim (300 Gold)
1840 Gold to Trondheim (900 Gold)
1844 Manufacturing Plant
1854 Food Freight #16
1855 Flight
1862 United Nations
1863 Airport
1868 Gold to Trondheim (450 Gold)
900 Gold from Mongols for War v Spanish
1870 Space Flight
1871 Apollo Program
1872 Peace with the Spanish
1873 Plastics
1879 500 Gold from Greek for War v Vikings
War with Japanese (ally of Vikings)
1882 Superconductor
1883 SS Module (Habitation)
1884 SS Module (Life Support)
1893 SS Module (Solar Panel)
1895 LAUNCH (15/3/1)
1896 Peace with the Japanese
Peace with the Vikings
1898 Lighthouse
1901 Great Wall
Gold to Trondheim (474 Gold)
Sneak Attack by the Japanese
450 Gold from Mongols for War v Vikings
1903 Adam Smith's Trading Co.
1905 J.S. Bach's Cathedral
1909 Cure for Cancer
WLtPD
1910 APLHA CENTAURI

Score = 510 (66%)

- Rib -

[Sten Sture]

Congrats! That has got to be the most wonders built in an OCC game.

Were your opponents so close that you needed SETI and Hoover Dam?? It seems like you were progressing enough to just build a Research Lab and a power plant.

[Smash]

No its not supposed to be easy but it is(relatively speaking).The concept seems very difficult indeed but the fact that you are puny and weak all game seems to confuse the game.By the time it figures out you are gonna win its usually too late.

That and all the ground work done by the "founding fathers".

[Oldman]

It kind of depends on the Scenario, I'm playing Toms occ15, where you're right next door to the romans, and they're aggressive sods!!!

But the question is Ribannah, which difficulty setting are you on? i didn't see you mention it on your log, maybe i just missed it...

[Scouse Gits]

Well done Ribannah - it may not be easy, but it sure as hell is easier than taking on the world at deity and a game lasts slightly less than a couple of lifetimes as well.
Not to detract from your success, but have you looked at Paul's Guide to OCC? It really is an invaluable resource.
Good civin'

[Edit - typo]
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"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
[This message has been edited by Scouse Gits (edited August 21, 2000).]

[Ribannah]

I only play Deity.
The game version is Ultimate Classic (same as MGE).

Took a peek at Paul's guide, but have still to find & try many little tricks. It's very different from more-city games, I still find myself wanting to build wonders such as the Pyramids!

Btw I had a very interesting random map (small), with a large inner sea I couldn't reach AND two separate oceans. Had to bribe a Barbarian ship to sail the southern one, which proved very useful.
More than one option for a starting location, too (rivers inland or small delta at the coast - which I took).

- Rib -

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