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in the game that I am currently playing, my empire has developed very much in isolation from the rest of the world on a medium-sized continent in the northern hemisphere. Contact with the other civilisations was established rather early via Marco Polo's Embassy, but I did not sent units out until the late 1700s when I established trade routes with four large Greek cities located on the other side of the sea that devides my continent from the central one. I have been lucky as far as wonders are concerned: Marco Polo, happiness wonders (except Hanging Gardens), Hoover Dam and SETI are all mine.
It is 1878 now and I have eleven huge cities with excellent infrastructure (including manufacturing plants in all of them). Thanks to superhighways, advances have been coming in every three turns or so during the last few decades and I have all three spaceship technologies. Three turns ago, I finished the Apollo Programme and started building spaceship components in all cities.
The main continent is dominated by the Greeks who seem to have done quite a bit of conquering and own 24 (!) cities at the moment. On the same continent, the Persians are down to 8 cities and the Spanish down to 6 cities. On a smaller continent in the southern part of the map, the French have also 6 cities.
Just before this turn, I got tons of messages about Greek cities building spaceship structures. I do not know whether the Greeks have technology for components and modules (I missed the U.N. and have failed to reestablish my embassy), but it cannot be far away for them. It appears that, for the first time, I find myself in a space race that I could actually lose. As much as I enjoy this late game drama, I would very much like to beat them. Since capturing Athens is not really an option (it's located in the middle of the Greek empire and I've neglegted my military a bit), the question is which spaceship configuration is most efficient in my situation. My cities are very productive (Veii produces only
38 resources, but the other cities produce 45 - 50 resources each turn) and profitable (income of almost 800 gold per turn with taxes set to 100 %), but my treasury is still low (ca. 250 gold) due to the amount of rushing I've been doing until now.
I remember a similar situation from a Civ1 game, where I managed to catch up with a spaceship that had only three modules, but all 16 components. In my Civ2 games so far, I have always had the time to build the complete spaceship, so I have not paid detailed attention to its design, but I think it is different from the
Civ1 spaceship in having some propulsion and fuel parts at the front. From a speed perspective, is it better not to build all the components to save the time required to build the structures necessary to connect the "front components"?
If so, do you know the exact number of components affected?
I could imagine that those of you who play the game more regularly than I do have some experience with rapid spaceship construction (although I suppose you would never let another empire become a serious competitor in the space race), so please feel free to comment on my approach. As always, any advice will be much appreciated.
With regards,
Verrucosus
in the game that I am currently playing, my empire has developed very much in isolation from the rest of the world on a medium-sized continent in the northern hemisphere. Contact with the other civilisations was established rather early via Marco Polo's Embassy, but I did not sent units out until the late 1700s when I established trade routes with four large Greek cities located on the other side of the sea that devides my continent from the central one. I have been lucky as far as wonders are concerned: Marco Polo, happiness wonders (except Hanging Gardens), Hoover Dam and SETI are all mine.
It is 1878 now and I have eleven huge cities with excellent infrastructure (including manufacturing plants in all of them). Thanks to superhighways, advances have been coming in every three turns or so during the last few decades and I have all three spaceship technologies. Three turns ago, I finished the Apollo Programme and started building spaceship components in all cities.
The main continent is dominated by the Greeks who seem to have done quite a bit of conquering and own 24 (!) cities at the moment. On the same continent, the Persians are down to 8 cities and the Spanish down to 6 cities. On a smaller continent in the southern part of the map, the French have also 6 cities.
Just before this turn, I got tons of messages about Greek cities building spaceship structures. I do not know whether the Greeks have technology for components and modules (I missed the U.N. and have failed to reestablish my embassy), but it cannot be far away for them. It appears that, for the first time, I find myself in a space race that I could actually lose. As much as I enjoy this late game drama, I would very much like to beat them. Since capturing Athens is not really an option (it's located in the middle of the Greek empire and I've neglegted my military a bit), the question is which spaceship configuration is most efficient in my situation. My cities are very productive (Veii produces only
38 resources, but the other cities produce 45 - 50 resources each turn) and profitable (income of almost 800 gold per turn with taxes set to 100 %), but my treasury is still low (ca. 250 gold) due to the amount of rushing I've been doing until now.
I remember a similar situation from a Civ1 game, where I managed to catch up with a spaceship that had only three modules, but all 16 components. In my Civ2 games so far, I have always had the time to build the complete spaceship, so I have not paid detailed attention to its design, but I think it is different from the
Civ1 spaceship in having some propulsion and fuel parts at the front. From a speed perspective, is it better not to build all the components to save the time required to build the structures necessary to connect the "front components"?
If so, do you know the exact number of components affected?
I could imagine that those of you who play the game more regularly than I do have some experience with rapid spaceship construction (although I suppose you would never let another empire become a serious competitor in the space race), so please feel free to comment on my approach. As always, any advice will be much appreciated.
With regards,
Verrucosus
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