Has anyone ever won a UN victory?

[GodSpawn]

I was prompted to ask this question by another recent thread.

I've never been able to win a UN victory - I usually suffer a humiliating loss. Has anyone won via the UN victory?

PS: Ok, now I know you can't use italics in topic titles

[Libertarian]

It was my very first victory. It was such a let-down that I turned it off. You get a message box. Whee.

[Zardof]

Yes

I built the UN then put off an election until my closet rival declared war on me. I had a MP with every other Civ, and they all promptly declared war. I won by a landslide. It did feel like a cheesy win though. I too turn off UN option now in my games.

[GodSpawn]

Of course! Wait until the other civs are all at war against each other before going for the UN.

[jbavon]

...or bribe them

I have turned both UN and Space victory OFF, because they are simply too easy.

[dissent]

I did with ease. I wanted to try all the Victory types, so played a short game just for that. It was quite easy. I just signed a MPP with every civilization a couple turns before the UN was built. I won with a unanimous vote. Since then I have never played a game where UN victory was enabled. Kind of a worthless way to win IMNSHO.

[Andrew1999]

The time I won, my best friend voted against me and my worst enemy voted for me. I have absolutely no idea how they figure out who to vote for. At least in SMAC you could "lobby" the other factions.

[mattcj]

My first game... I built it, called for a vote, and won by a landslide (5-1 and 1 abstaining).

[jhigham]

tech trader

I won a game in which I played the tech trader bit, getting moocho $$ each turn, and they were happy that I was such a nice guy. It was the second win type that I got, after my spaceship victory.

It took me 4 turns from start to finish to build a complete spaceship, which I thought was pretty cool. I had 2 cities building ICBMs that I converted (just chance, it wasn't planned that way), otherwise it would've been 6 turns. Regent level. That same game is close to a culture victory, but the endgame is so damn tedious I have not gotten back to it yet.

[Redstar]

usually a tie for me

usually its always 3 votes for me..3 votes for some1 else and 2 abstains.

that said, this is how i lost my first and second game.

I used to click on this every turn...cause i figured no 1 would win.

But sometimes, for whatever reason, the majority goes for any1 but you.

I'm sure i coulda bribed them just before a real vote.

[Venger]

I figured both the Culture and UN victories would be sissy cheesefest wins, so turned them off...

Glad I did after hearing the confirmation in here...

I'd rather have the culture points keep going till the end of the game rather than an arbitrary X number wins, that gives you a chance to come from behind or get caught late...but to just stop at the X point finish line is WAY too easy.

How can someone NOT get a culture or spaceship or UN win?

And let's be honest, when was the last time the UN had ANY influence on ANYTHING? Korea?

Venger

[ancient]

nope, i always end up with everyone hating me, for some unknown reason..

[Xentropy]

Originally posted by Venger
I figured both the Culture and UN victories would be sissy cheesefest wins, so turned them off...

Glad I did after hearing the confirmation in here...

I'd rather have the culture points keep going till the end of the game rather than an arbitrary X number wins, that gives you a chance to come from behind or get caught late...but to just stop at the X point finish line is WAY too easy.

How can someone NOT get a culture or spaceship or UN win?

Er, UN victory, yes, I turned that off quickly. Same with spaceship. But a culture win is *not* easy.

Not because 80k culture is hard to get. That part is easy, yes. The difficult part is ALSO having twice as much as the nearest AI. I have yet to get a culture win despite always playing a high culture (though balanced) game.

The culture win is much more (at difficulties higher than warlord, anyway) about doubling the AI culture lategame than it is about hitting "X number".

[H Tower]

killing everyone esle is the best way to go about winning, playing civ isn't about being popular, thats why we play civ, we don't have anything better to do

[Adagio]

My first victory was my first victory in Civ3. And because it was really strange (as mentioned before) the best friend turns against me while the worst enemy votes for me, I quicly turned it off...

The spaceship victory is boring, because of that I have never got to the future techs yet So I turned that one off too...

The Culture victory I had only had (and won) once and is really cool, pretty hard to get that much culture