16-11-2010, 15:26 | #21 |
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Wow, Ultimate ICS !!
Spaceship victory before 230 turns.
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16-11-2010, 16:44 | #22 |
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This isn't ICS. This DPHCP (Densely Packed Hexagon City Placement).
This kills MP and GOTM imho. Firaxis did not even bother to set a minimum city distance!
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They did, the picture is from a mod without minimum city distance.
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16-11-2010, 17:25 | #24 |
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My god, it's full of cities...
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16-11-2010, 17:45 | #25 |
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Good fun don't you think. Wonder what level that was done on btw, couldn't exactly see that in the RBCiv thread.
Spaceship before 230 is pretty fast imo even on lower levels. Sulla posted that someone on CFC managed to research the entire tech tree in 200 turns on deity level. Curious to read that.
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I do. It doesn't value the geography at all, and I think it's a nice and important part of such a game. Here you just invade the tundra and that's fine. Plus it becomes a no-brainer, where is the strategy there ? Might as well play Tic-Tac-Toe. Feels weird to me, I never thought about ICS before reading about it online.
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16-11-2010, 23:00 | #27 |
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Invading the tundra just doesn't work. Early on the city tile gives 2 food, 2 hammers and 1 gold. You can't get a city to size 4 without food bonuses, and on tundra this will get difficult. So you need multiple maritime CS, but if you can pull that off you are already winning. ICS could be a way to win, but it's not guaranteed you get there.
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16-11-2010, 23:06 | #28 |
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Yes, basically you need maritime city states to provide you with food, but that's often the case, and quite early on in the game. Otherwise, change "tundra" to "whatever is a bit better but still not great".
BTW, someone has to create a huge (and pink) "SPAM CITIES" smiley ; that could be handy.
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You make it sound too easy. You need 500 gold to pull it off.
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17-11-2010, 00:29 | #30 |
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That is from what I've read. Gold seems aplenty in Civ5 btw. Sell your resources. And don't forget the arcade-style missions triggered by the city states.
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