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[Ision]

Dexters,

also, I have never seen a single AI destroy and dominate a crowded continent, this quickly. I believe it was a 'freak' map. One of those maps that jsut falls for 1 civ perfectly. Arabai has now has 4 of the 5 Irons over there, and virtually all of the horses. I noticed that the Capitol and core cities are surrounded with cattle, wheat, wine, and lots of rivers.

[dexters]

I've seen plenty of strong AIs in my own pangea/continents games. Of course most of the time, because I'm actively in the game, I usually play the spoiler lending generous aid to the top civs' main rivals and usually, that's how I overtake them. This is especially true when one of these giants stay in a war for far too long. Given communism, the AI's Industrial/Modern era war gov. has been tweaked for the better, I'm looking forward to the new challenge.

I believe it was Theseus who set out a list of general environmental variables that would create these monsters.

Usually, you need a warm planet (not a lot of deserts) 4 billion years old (medium mountains) and a large map (probably larger than standard) and some others. Perhaps Theseus can remind me/correct me on what his initial treatise was.

I am looking forward to C3C but the game won't arrive until tomorrow, so I'm having to finish my last game of PTW as well. Also on Monarch.

Mind showing me a save of your game?

[Alex]

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[Nikolai]

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