On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:26:22 +0100, "Öjevind Lång"
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><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
>
Thanks Ojevind for sharing your game it sounds like it was fun, and
winning at Nobel level is something I have never managed, I haven't
even managed to ever win with 9 civs but I enjoy it
Bevan
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