<Bevan> skrev i meddelandet
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> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:38:02 +0900, Bevan <> wrote:
>
>>Hi all
>>When playing BTS what is the general opinion regarding automating
>>production and or citizens
>>
>>Hope you all have a great 2008
>>Bevan
>
> I agree about automating workers however what I was referring to was
> the icons in the city screen where you can turn on or off, automate
> production, automate citizens, emphasize food etc.
> Bevan
I do that a lot now. However, if you change to producing something
different, the city often automatically wants to reassign specialists to
optimize whatever one is trying to do. For example, in a recent game I set
my GP farm to produce a late Wonder, and when I did that, the game
reassigned all the specialists except the engineer and a scientist into
priests (that city had no less than six temples, as well as six
monasteries,
and a shrine and one or two religious Wonders, so it could run a lot of
priests). Of course, this was done for the hammers that priests supply. I
had (much to my amazement) founded six religions and still hadn't popped
prophets to found two of the shrines, so I decided that this time, at
least,
the game knew what it was doing. (I was running merchants because I wanted
a
Great Merchant for Sid's Su**** later on but decided to take a break from
it.)
I have never before founded six religions in a game on Noble level.
(Before the game ended, I had founded shrines for five of the religions.)
To
top it off, I discovered that for once, I could probably also have founded
Buddhism. Most of the other civs lived on another continent and started
to
fight each other for space very early, so I suppose when one of them had
founded Buddhism they had other things to do than get first to
Con****ianism
or Taoism or Islam. (I did get several messages about Great Generals being
born in "a country far away".) Well, actually they lived on two continents
with just a couple of water tiles between them. There was one huge
continent
and one quite big continent - big enough enough to accommodate two
civilizations. (Mine was quite large too.)
The only neighbour on my continent was Tokugawa, and the barbarians very
kindly took him out early on (and then I took Kyoto from the barbarians
and
made it mine). Then I made haste to build the Great Wall! If it hadn't
been
for those nice barbarians, the game would obviously have been quite
different.
For a long time, the only neighbour I knew was Hannibal, who lived on
the
quite big continent and also colonized an island continent between my
continent and his. But he made no attempt to attack me or settle on my
continent. When I could build caravels (I was unable to cross over to his
home continent with galleys or triremes), I discovered that he had a good
amount of space to expand into on his own continent as it was, and anyway
probably had to prioritize his army because his neighbour to the north was
Montezuma, and they didn't get along. Also, Hannibal was a Hindu like
myself
whereas Monty had been converted to Buddhism, founded by one of *his*
neighbours further east, across the sound between the quite big continent
and the huge one.
The full roster of civs (nine) was as follows:
Elizabeth of the English (myself). I love playing as her, but now I'm
going
in for other civs, because playing as Liz can't get much better than this.
I
won a culture victory in the 1880's and was compared to Augustus Caesar!
That doesn't happen often to me. (I built most of the ancient Wonders, and
Taj Mahal, and Chichen Itza, and Cristo Redemptor + the Eiffel Tower + the
3
entertainment Wonders, and I also founded Civilized Jewelers and Sid's
Su****.)
Tokugawa probably did not have much of a garrison, and I suppose one of
his warriors popped a goody hut with several nasty barbarians in it.
Perhaps
they were joined by some other barbarian; they were out in force early.
Hannibal. He asked me to join him in a war against, Montezuma, and I saw
no reason not to. I sent over some redcoats and cavalry and three
trebuchets
and even captured a city which I gave to Hannibal. Its area later started
to
shrink because of Monty's cultural influence, so then Hannibal gave it
back
to Monty (his vassal at the time), but he was still very grateful to me.
We
formed a Defensive Alliance, and when Hammurabi attacked me, Hannibal
declared war on Hammurabi. Later, Hannibal and I formed a new Defensive
Alliance
Montezuma, who apparently targeted Hannibal in all his wars except
towards
the end. For a period, he became Hannibal's vassal, but then he became
independent again and proceeded to attack Asoka of India, who had founded
a
city at the eastern edge of his and Hannibals' continent. (Monty asked me
to
join him in the war, which I had no problem refusing to do.)
Hammurabi, who was annoyed with me for most of the game. He made a
failed
invasion of my lands. Just before the end of the game, he finally offered
me
an Open Borders agreement.
Augustus, who was cautious for a long time but did trade with me.
Asoka, who was cautious for a long time, but did trade with me, etc.
Kublai Khan, who was cautious, etc.
Joao of ****tugal, the founder of Buddhism; he hated me, but he lived at
the other end of the world and was quite insignificant.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that quite late in the game, Hannibal
vassalized
that little island continent (three cities) to Isabella of Spain, who of
course became a Hindu like Hannibal and hence had to like me.
A final note: London was by the sea, with four seafood tiles, and the rest
was hills or forest or forest tiles by a river. And later on, gold was
discovered in one of my mines in the fat cross. So I suppose only a
complete
moron could have lost this game. However, I did not exclaim: "Hah! Too
easy!" and roll a new map.
Öjevind
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