Iron Works or not?

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq
I'll try to post a screenshot once I get the coal plant built. Or should I wait for a hydro plant, instead? Electronics will be discovered within 10 turns or so.

Definitely get the Hoover Dam. With your production, it should be easy to complete. Someone else has Hoover Dam? Then still wait for Hydro (assuming you have a river, of course).

[Marquis de Sodaq]

There is a river, but I built Hoover Dam in another city. Paris, (completely railroaded, size 15 and growing) is now up to 172 shields per turn. Manufacturing plant is still a ways off, tho. O well, nothing costs more than 90 shields anyway (it isn't a coastal city) right now. Too bad, one turn ships would be quite a rush.

I need to build a few settlers in a neighboring city to free up the tiles for Parisian workers. They are grassland, but might bump production up a bit more...

[Catt]

Forget building settlers - change the other city's laborers to specialists. If you're already at 172 shields, a nuclear plant and a manufacturing plant will push it up over 225 -- you might have a city that produces a stealth bomber (240 shields) in 1 turn -- truly a behemouth of a production center.

(Of course, don't risk your game for a great production center -- but if the game is in hand, I'd love to see a monster city -- I think 've had a 200+ shield city 3 or 4 times, but not much more.)

Catt

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Catt
(Of course, don't risk your game for a great production center -- but if the game is in hand, I'd love to see a monster city -- I think 've had a 200+ shield city 3 or 4 times, but not much more.)

Catt

I'll probably focus it on maxing shields, as the game is mine to lose. It's 1000ad, I lead in score by something like 900 points; I have a 1-4 tech lead over all AIs; I'm bleeding the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place civs for about 400g/turn, and control vast resources. I still have much conquering to do, but am only taking on one or two weenie civs at a time. This will probably be my last game on regent.

I have had the habit of playing until around this point in tech, then restarting. Recently a friend challenged me to actually finish a game, and this one is the result. I'll post a screenshot of the city eventually, considering I've devoted a thread to it.

[Theseus]

I must not have been paying attention...

You got this IW mofo going at 1000AD??!!

Hmmrrpphh... coughs... monarch... coughs again.

[Darth Vader voice]

The iron is strong with this one.

[/end Darth Vader voice]


(credits to Arrian for that one)

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Theseus
You got this IW mofo going at 1000AD??!!

Ironworks completed in 740ad

The caveat is: The game is on regent, huge map, 16 civs, standard tech values

Here's a screenshot of 1010ad

[Theseus]

That's awesome.

What are you doing with so much gold?

[candybo]

Not worthy. nope. nadda bit. No worthiness here

[delsolsi]

This is from a game I finished today. Its late modern age so not as impresive as Marquis de Sodaq because I have every improvement to help production. But still is the best I've ever had.

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Theseus
That's awesome.

What are you doing with so much gold?

Thanks!

The gold is for my colonies. I have about 20 cities in the 95% corruption zone. I've been sailing about, and plopping down settlers whenever I find a valuable resource or luxury. Instead of waiting 60 turns for something to get completed, every 5 turns or so I rushbuy everything being built there. It knocks the coffers down by several thousands each time. Spy activity can cost a bit, too, so I save up for that.

delsolsi, I hope to achieve that level of production as soon as the manufacturing plant is available... It's too cool to pump that many shields each turn.

[Zanzin]

OMG!! 200+ shields! this is madness.

I've never ever gotten the right conditions to build iron works....I really want to now!! Hopefully in my next game, fingers crossed!

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Zanzin
OMG!! 200+ shields! this is madness.

I've never ever gotten the right conditions to build iron works....I really want to now!! Hopefully in my next game, fingers crossed!

This is my first IW. I will undoubtedly build it every time I get the chance now!

[Catt]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


Yes. I checked it in a game with a crappy one-shield-island-city. It could build the IW. Of course, I did not even try it. Soon after, the coal depleted. The right to build the IW remained. Apparently, the IW capability is a fixed flag in the data structure of the city.

Playing my first game of v1.29f, and I had iron deplete from an IW-potential city - I lost the ability to build the IW! Don't know if it is the fact that the iron depleted, a change to v1.29f or something else weird.

BTW - in the same game I also had an amazing RNG string - significantly rarer (unless I did the math wrong) than the Tank-Busting Spearman! Check out the Minitourney III spoliers thread.

Catt

[delsolsi]

Originally posted by Catt
BTW - in the same game I also had an amazing RNG string - significantly rarer (unless I did the math wrong) than the Tank-Busting Spearman! Check out the Minitourney III spoliers thread.

Catt

Whats an RNG string?

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by delsolsi

Whats an RNG string?

List of results from a Random Number Generator. More properly a pseudo-random number generator, as modern deterministic computers algorithms are incapable of producing truly random numbers. However, a decent computer-RNG is virtually indistinguishable from truly random numbers. In the future, your computer may be equipped with a quantum-RNG to produce truly random numbers for encryption.