A mini tourney- Spoilers

[Theseus]

I'm in... Sir Ralph, why don;t you take a turn generating the new game?

[Harovan]

I will! As soon as I get home.

[Velociryx]

DANG! LOL...I've not even finished the mop up of the LAST game....You guys are *fast!*

But yes! I'm game!

-=Vel=-

[nbarclay]

I guess I'll play, the down side being the question of when I'll get back to my current game. It's funny how much harder managing an empire can be than conquering one for a person unwilling to delegate authority. The neat thing about the German supercontinent is that with a courthouse, a police station, and WLTCD, every city on the continent can be at least a little bit productive. The down side of that, though, is that I have an entire huge continent of cities competing for my rush-building gold and for workers to improve their terrain and asking what to build next when they do finish something.

Speaking of the current game, I've more or less decided to see if I can get a cultural victory before one of the AIs can build a spaceship, and to do so while still pursuing my usual tech-for-luxuries deals. But the playing time involved is going to be considerable, although things should speed up once I finish the terrain improvements I'll need.

Nathan

[Gen.Dragolen]

Literary License

Originally posted by Alkis
Btw do you deliberately change the names of everything? "Mouseketeers", "Moskba" hehehe

Alkis,

Just trying to channel some of the frustration cause by not being able to choke the s&*t out of a CC that so richly deserved it.

And I can't take credit for the Mouseketeers. Saw that one in another thread. Appropriate though.

As for the names, if hadn't been for Civ I, I would never have gotten interested in languages. I've managed to pick up a few (and some times more) useful phrases in languages like French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian... makes it more colourful when you can swear at them in their own language. And it's come in handy when I used to do tech support for an ISP: did one call all in French, and used to get Spanish only callers and I could at least pronounce the "No hablas espanol, por favor...." line that they gave us that told them to call a translation service.

And yes, I'm up for the next game. I'd even say that we could stick with Emperor level. I'm used to playing at Regent so this is a good learning experience.

After all, more sweat in training, less blood in battle.


D.

[Catt]

Originally posted by alexman
Arian - I did build temples, but they came after marketplaces. In some cities I buit a temple just so I can build a cathedral! After the university was completed, of course...

I think scientific civs are better off ignoring temples and using the luxury slider for happiness, especially if all cities are of similar size. It takes one commerce turned into entertainment to make one content citizen happy. That's the upkeep of a temple!

Good job Alexman! I do the same things whenever the random civ generator gives me a scientific civ. Religious is great for many reasons (plenty of threads on that already), but when you see those 60 shield (and 2 culture) temples, its time to start building the 40 shield (and 3 culture) libraries.

As you point out, there are plenty of different ways to make one citizen content, and my own knee-jerk reaction to start a temple build as soon as reasonably possible in all new cities -- this from having played a lot of games as Egypt or Japanese -- has finally subsided. It's all about exploiting the traits your people enjoy!

Catt

[Arrian]

Sir Ralph,

China, huh? Cool. I've been playing with them a lot lately.

archer rush... Archer Rush... ARCHER RUSH!

Oh, wait, the theme. Can I still beat the crap out of my immediate neighbors, and then attempt to set up an industrial age war with overseas civs?

-Arrian

[Harovan]

Sure I will too.

[Alkis]

Sorry boys but I' m not in. I hate wars in civ3, they are too random for my taste. And modern era warfare will take forever on my PC.

Have a nice time

[Alkis]

Something off subject, why am I a chieftain while most of you are Kings?

[Alkis]

I think I will do some magic to change it

Abra catabra abra catabra....

[Alkis]

Lol my magic was successful, I am a Warlord now

[Arrian]

Alkis,

It's post count. You get "promoted" after making a certain number of posts.

-Arrian

[Alkis]

I know, Arrian, but I was at 98 posts and wanted something to post about (anything)

[Arrian]

Well, for those interested, here is the saved game... which I consider to be pretty much untenable. Perhaps a great player could salvage it, but I don't think I can...