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Okay, two points right up front. I play solitaire, and my idea of a good time is _not_ running around the map wiping out all vestiges of other civs.
I much prefer the steady tech advance, culminating in a spaceship to AC.
And of course, having a sufficient military strength to fight off whatever number of AIs I call up.
With Civ II, I was well onto being able to do just this, winning more often than losing. (I'd still be playing Civ II but for some strange thing that went wrong, causing all city names to refuse to print, or come up as square blocks. This endured through numerous reinstalls, and a couple of Computer changes.)
Now on Linux, I discover that the old original Freeciv, once a raging "destroy 'em all" game, has eased up(in 1.14), allowing some diplomacy, and a lot of trading. So I've gone for it.
Unfortunately,what I can recall of my old Civ II strategy for winning the Space Race does not work.
I put up my cities, as much as possible, on, or next to irrigated fields, preferably with two whales offshore, or a Whale and a fish, or just the Whale or the fish.
I head for Monarchy first, to gain the benefit of increased production, and I've tried varioius next steps, Trade right away, Bridge Building right away, Triremes right away, and still I find myself working along in 1300 A.D. with an army consisting of phalanxes, and some nasty AI coming after me with muskets.
I've read the Manual section on Technology , without getting any the wiser.
Obviously, I'm not quite doing something right, or doing something wrong.
Anybody got any hints?
Thanks,
Jim
I much prefer the steady tech advance, culminating in a spaceship to AC.
And of course, having a sufficient military strength to fight off whatever number of AIs I call up.
With Civ II, I was well onto being able to do just this, winning more often than losing. (I'd still be playing Civ II but for some strange thing that went wrong, causing all city names to refuse to print, or come up as square blocks. This endured through numerous reinstalls, and a couple of Computer changes.)
Now on Linux, I discover that the old original Freeciv, once a raging "destroy 'em all" game, has eased up(in 1.14), allowing some diplomacy, and a lot of trading. So I've gone for it.
Unfortunately,what I can recall of my old Civ II strategy for winning the Space Race does not work.
I put up my cities, as much as possible, on, or next to irrigated fields, preferably with two whales offshore, or a Whale and a fish, or just the Whale or the fish.
I head for Monarchy first, to gain the benefit of increased production, and I've tried varioius next steps, Trade right away, Bridge Building right away, Triremes right away, and still I find myself working along in 1300 A.D. with an army consisting of phalanxes, and some nasty AI coming after me with muskets.
I've read the Manual section on Technology , without getting any the wiser.
Obviously, I'm not quite doing something right, or doing something wrong.
Anybody got any hints?
Thanks,
Jim
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