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Just had an idea... I was thinking on how to win by covert space ship. Apart from all the details, there was one thing bothering me: in order to launch the ship at the same moment the Apollo program was build, we needed 2 large prebuilds, both for the SS casing and SS engine. Both are 640 shields. All the other parts, including Apollo, can be prebuild with nukes (500 shields). Only decent prebuild available is our palace (currently 700 shields)
This is perhaps a wild idea, and certainly a bit of a dirty trick, but what if we use the casing itself to prebuild the casing? Let me explain... you can only build the casing when you've got Apollo. So, build the wonder, change a city to casing, and raze the city in which Apollo is built. Immediately rebuild the city, and pump it to correct size. Start on Apollo again, in some other city.
This will leave the SS exterior casing still building in the city of your choice, as only at the start of a build a check is done if all prereqs are present (e.g. resources). I'm not sure how the game will react if the build would end before Apollo is rebuild, but with proper timing, there is no need for panic.
Any obvious oversights from me? This is all untested, of course, and I agree it could be called an exploit. It's just a thought excercise for the moment, which might give new ideas.
DeepO
This is perhaps a wild idea, and certainly a bit of a dirty trick, but what if we use the casing itself to prebuild the casing? Let me explain... you can only build the casing when you've got Apollo. So, build the wonder, change a city to casing, and raze the city in which Apollo is built. Immediately rebuild the city, and pump it to correct size. Start on Apollo again, in some other city.
This will leave the SS exterior casing still building in the city of your choice, as only at the start of a build a check is done if all prereqs are present (e.g. resources). I'm not sure how the game will react if the build would end before Apollo is rebuild, but with proper timing, there is no need for panic.
Any obvious oversights from me? This is all untested, of course, and I agree it could be called an exploit. It's just a thought excercise for the moment, which might give new ideas.
DeepO
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