1st Apolyton CIV3 TOURNAMENT : 15-30/November/2001

[Adagio]

I just started the game, so far so good. One city taken due to culture. If I can win this game I'll be happy since my last game where on warlord level At least I at present time have most landarea (atleast if I look at the nations I have met

Though it puzzles me why we have to play the Babylonians instead of the Greeks

Anyway, let me get back into the game to see for how long I'll survive. Wish me good luck

[mharmless]

Been having a riot of a time myself so far. I don't normaly play as a non-militaristic civ, so been... interesting. I've been at war with everybody save the greeks and romans (too far away). Chinese, Egyptians, and Persians are dead already, and it is only the early middle ages.

Income is directed 100% into taxation, despotic government. 25 cities right now, so 96 free millitary units. Presently paying out over 60 a turn to support my armies, on top of the free ones. The only research I did all game was to get warrior code at the begining, everything else has been extorted from the AI for peace or picked up in a goody hut.

Roughly a quarter of the map is under my thumb right now, am positive that I can secure a domination victory by the early industrial age.

[DaBear]

Originally posted by Dev

oh and anybody moving their initial city spot one tile to the **** can be written off as save game whores

/dev

Somthing you might want to try @ 4000BC is wait you settler and move your worker first... it allows alittle more sight before starting.

[Karhgath]

My score is about 2500 right now, and I could win any of the victory type if I wanted, I allowed the other 2 civs(greece and egyptian) to survive, yeah, I'm a nice guy =) I have the tech and culture advntage. For half the game, greece was the elader, with me in second, but I started a lot of diplomatic manipulation and got everyone(we were 4 back then, Chineese were still alive) to turn against them, and with my tech advantage(I had mech inf and modern armor, while greece had normal tanks and infantry) I conquered all their nearby city and expanded my civ slowly, without much trouble. I stopped before corruption started to grow out of control, and watched the show =) Then everyone except china signed a peace treaty, so we all ganged up against them, and I took most of there cities, which were near my capital, so corruption was not a problem.

The game was really fun(and easy). I did a lot of diplomatic manipulation, all the wars were because of me, and most of the game I was peaceful, working on my culture, and nothing else. When I was ready to attack, I had no problem capturing and keeping cities.

So, which victory type gives the most points BTW? I will probably conquer all but one city, and win by space race, to get the most possible points.

Oh, and it's only 1880 AD right now =)

[ixnay]

Probably wont win anything here, oh well. Diplomatic victory in 1880 with the chinese, egyptians, and romans destroyed.

[Roland Ehnström]

This sounds like fun - I'll start my game right now!
-- Roland

[Eli]

Bah.

I'm in the middle of the game now. But there is no way I can get 2500 points! *sigh* And this is my first Regent game.

Anyway, half of the time I was busy with annihilating the Persians and building the Forbidden Palace. After it was built I also started gaining stuff from the ex-Persian cities.
The Chinese and the Aztecs built 3 cities in the middle of my empire, eventually I swallowed them all.
Currently I discovered that I dont have iron, and now my forces are busy with conquering Beijing to get it. Thank god that there are 3 saltpeter resources near my cities, less useless invasions.
I got the Workshop, the Sistine Chapel and the Colossus, and my cities are producing a fair ammount of culture, but it doesnt seem enough to get to 100k total by 2050.

Until reading Karhgath's post I was planning to stop expanding and building the spaceship... But now I think about conquering the Aztecs to get few more hundreds of points.

[Robert]

I destroyed the Egypts and the chinese.
I'm currently busy destroying the Persians.
Then my empire occupies about 50% of the world.

I'm thinking about razing the persian cities.
I have 1850 points right now (1600 AD)
I hold all resources, after I finished the persians I'll have everything double.

Romans and greeks are tough, Aztecs modal powered and the zulu's will be my next victim

2500 points huh.............. hmmmmmmmmmm
must be possible

[mrknightly]

Hi all!!

My game is done.

Next tournament should be at emperor level. Regent is somewhat less than taxing.

[Frank Johnson]

1906 points with a space race victory in 1876.

Maybe I'd score more points if I threw all my nukes at the enemy capital on the last turn? Nah.

Progress was easy enough. Stole about 7 cities to culture in the early going, and used diplomacy (and a huge defensive wall!) to keep anyone attacking me on the ropes. The map is mangled besides my territory. Seems like I managed to strike the perfect balance keeping the AI knocking its self out back and forth. Oh well.....is 2500 the high? Well Mark give me the most impressive defensive display award. I think I deserve it take a look. I think I was a bit paranoid, but I won right?

[Frank Johnson]

File doh.......

[gus_smedstad]

Here's my save game, Domination win in 1764, score 2548. However, oddly enough it only lists a score in the 1600's before you hit "end turn". I believe it's because in order to win I build 4 new cities (already done in the save game), and territory makes up a big part of your score.

No doubt I could have increase my score by carefully increasing population while keeping my territory under the critical mass needed for the Domination win.

I found this one relatively hard, because I had to found some distant colonies to get Horses and Iron, and I never did get Saltpeter. Or rather, not until I already had tanks and was wiping everyone out.

- Gus

[Gaius Marius]

Thatwasthisclose

1870 AD Cultural victory. Mere turns, one I believe, before the Egyptians completed their spaceship.

3046 Score.

Regent rocks. Emperor is cool too. Dissing difficulty levels is retarded. People play on whatever they enjoy. Every civ player should have someone to stand behind them while they play and whisper in their ear "....remember that time you lost on Chieftain....?"

Anyway, we'll see if this holds up. Taking out Persepolis early was the key, I think. Bowmen rule.

[Out4Blood]

Using score as a basis for victory is gay. Max score is achieved by playing anal retentively and NOT winning for as long as possible (i.e., AD 2050). It'd be a heck of a lot better to use "earliest victory" as a yardstick.

[Gaius Marius]

Vaild, if homophobic point. (of course, one could call me retardophobic after my last post - I guess will just have to both deal with it). However, I think "quickest victory" tilts the contest as much against the builders as "highest score" might against a conqueror - but Civ IIIs scoring system (which I don't fully understand) seems in my experience to be pretty balanced in valuing victories - download a few of the saved games here - its a good, controlled test of that.