Smack talk goes here for ChaunceyDoodles’s game!! Game URL: https://playyourdamnturn.com/game/ec9b3353-e442-4945-b59d-7404924e8ab8
Second turn into the game, and I have begun my master stroke. WIthin 10 turns, you all shall be kneeling at the feet of Rome, begging for our scraps.
Oh God oh God oh God. Things have gone terribly wrong and it’s only the second turn. My empire is in ruins. All is lost.
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So, I’ve just finished researching Battleships, Tanks, and Democracy. How are you guys doing?
I scrapped mine. I needed the metal for my Star Destroyer.
I found some horses. I tried to eat one. It didn’t taste too good.
I made the same discovery with stone. Useful, but tooth-breaking and tastes terrible. Ah, the challenges of developing science in the primitive world.
Does EVERYONE have to watch the stupid Romans on their game load screen? I want to see the SUMERIANS! Stupid Trajan! I don’t want to see him every damn time!
Pottery is MINE! I call dibs on all things clay-related.
DANG IT!
Feels like the game is finally starting to move out of the early moves where you have so little to do because you have hardly anything to work with …
I’m having trouble with amenities and trying to decide if I should obliterate a nearby city-state that is crowding me. I mean, I’m supposed to be a warmonger and all, so…
Build granary, campus, holy site, military thingy …those things that you unlock through tech that take up a whole square usually come with amenities
While there are benefits to befriending city states, owning their city is pretty nice too
OH MY GOD! I FINALLY FOUND ONE OF YOU! CHRIS! YOU WERE RIGHT OVER THERE THIS WHOLE TIME?!
Well, so . . . note to self for next game, you probably need a few defensive units for your empire. Lost two cities so far, one of which was obliterated (disappeared from the map) - it was my second largest city. I knew Brazil was a shitty country with nefarious motivations. I’m going to hopefully recapture the other city I lost before I run out of money paying for soldiers!
Wait, wait. I mean, everything’s FINE over here . . . we’re strong, wealthy, and progressing toward world domination right on schedule. No. Ahead of schedule! We’ll probably win the game before Christ is born. Take that, Christianity.
Those fucking Brazilians! Next time I see them I’m going to give them a piece of my mind!
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Sorry for delay, had weird PYDT glitch
Okay, so YAY! I WON A SCIENCE VICTORY! I cannot believe you guys let me do that! Thanks!
And it only took us close to three years to finish this game! Yeesh.
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First off, congratulations, Joel!
I started the game not wanting to do Science. I’ve done it too often, and it seemed like the only real way to win the game. So I started off trying for religion and quickly realized that I wasn’t going to be able to do that . . . then I switched to trying for Culture. If I had focused on it from the start of the game, I might have been able to win it - but no, boring science victory wins again. I found trying for a Culture victory was wwaaaaaay harder - but kind of satisfying. The main problem is that they don’t make it obvious how to win with Culture - you need more tourists, but how do you get those? Culture? No, high culture only raises your own tourists and only minorly affects other countries’ tourists. It takes a whole combination of not-so-obvious things from national parks, works of art, archeologists, resorts, old religious buildings (which ended up helping), and then research the right technologies - which takes longer because you’re not focused on science.
On top of that, you are supposed to send spies to destroy other civ’s cultural achievements (which lowers their tourism. If Joel hadn’t had such a high tourism, I would have definitely been closer to a victory . . . but sending spies just isn’t my style and it sounded exhausting to make them, send them, and then see if they could be successful . . . but yeah James and I should have cooperated to take you out.
Good game! I hadn’t played Civ in a long time, and this was a fun exercise.
It was definitely interesting and a fun game. Not sure I want to play for another 3 years on a new game, but it was definitely fun.
I think I’d like to try Civilization: Beyond Earth. That game is supported by PYDT as well. It doesn’t get a lot of love because veteran Civ players are really put-off by not having historical leaders in the game and they also complain that the AI is pretty lackluster. I personally don’t care if I play against some fictional person vs. Gandhi and the AI problem can be mitigated by only allowing human players.
It came out eight years ago and it’s still pretty pricey for a game that old, but people do find it on sale in various places for cheap on occasion, so…