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micje posted 03-23-99 01:34 AM ET
What's everyone's fastest victory (any victory) and transcendance victory? I'm talking about Transcend level (the only level if you take yourself seriously) Ironman (we count on your Intellectual Integrity) on a large map (Huge is too big, and standard is tiny.)
My fastest transcendance victory is in 2396. Room for improvement here guys! It was with the Hive. Usually I go for a diplomatic victory though.
My fastest victory was the the Gaians (which surprised me). It was a conquest victory in 2209. I was very lucky, I admit. Six factions on one continent and one on an island. I found a scout rover, crushed the Hive before 2107, and took one of his bases. Then I built several colony pods, lots of formers, rec. commons everywhere, and several network nodes. In my capital (had mineral bonus on rock, +7 min !) I built the Command Nexus. When my formers had built 3 forests per base, I started building roads towards my enemies. I the meantime I had researched nonlin. math and mobility, and started building impact rovers like my life depended on it, waiting until someone would declare war on me. At last Lal did. I had +20 impact rovers by then, and took out one of his bases within 2 turns. He surrendered. Next was UoP (the biggest after me, with more tech and pop, with bases in the monsoon jungle. But no plasma armor anywhere! They took me another 5 turns. Then Morgan bribed 2 of my formers (!) who were peacefully inspecting his road network. I declared vendetta, hacked my way through his probes, and took out a minor base. He surrendered. Then came Miriam, who had lots of infantry, so for her sake I switched to police state/power. (I would have chosen green too, but I never came to researching centauri empathy :-) . And I captured only 2 mindworms and 1 IotD. I make lousy Gaians! When I knocked at the doors of New Jerusalem with 1 impact infantry and 1 impact battery, Miriam surrendered.
That was in 2196. I now hoped that my allies would research mind-machine interface, so they could vote me planetary governor, and I'd win within a century, but they didn't. I also hoped that the Spartans would be reasonable and surrender spontaneously, but they refused to. So I had to blitz-build lots of lousy transport foils and gatling foils and take them across the sea. I took 1 sea base and 1 land base, and when I moved in my just upgraded fusion chaos rover, Santiago did the right thing. Game ends in 2209, 197% score. It was also my shortest RL game. Only 3 hours.
My second best was with the Spartans. 2225 MY, diplomatic victory.
Moral of this story: the AI really respects 20 Impact Rovers.
Thue posted 03-23-99 03:10 PM ET
Well, I have won on TI (with tech stagnation on) in 2261 on a huge map as gaians.
I just build as many cities as I could. When I was strong enougth I counqered 3 of the AIs (They are suicidal when you get too big, so I just had to wait for them to declare war). I woted myself leader when the option got available instead of digging out miriam and yang at the bottom of the map (I was at the top, and they both had huge, but less developed, empires)
I newer had had a huge army, but used all my resourses for facilities and secret projects. I counqered the AI's by efficien use of neddlejets, as none of them had been smart enougth to build their own air force.
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Author	Topic: Fastest TI victory on large map.
micje	posted 03-23-99 01:34 AM ET What's everyone's fastest victory (any victory) and transcendance victory? I'm talking about Transcend level (the only level if you take yourself seriously) Ironman (we count on your Intellectual Integrity) on a large map (Huge is too big, and standard is tiny.) My fastest transcendance victory is in 2396. Room for improvement here guys! It was with the Hive. Usually I go for a diplomatic victory though. My fastest victory was the the Gaians (which surprised me). It was a conquest victory in 2209. I was very lucky, I admit. Six factions on one continent and one on an island. I found a scout rover, crushed the Hive before 2107, and took one of his bases. Then I built several colony pods, lots of formers, rec. commons everywhere, and several network nodes. In my capital (had mineral bonus on rock, +7 min !) I built the Command Nexus. When my formers had built 3 forests per base, I started building roads towards my enemies. I the meantime I had researched nonlin. math and mobility, and started building impact rovers like my life depended on it, waiting until someone would declare war on me. At last Lal did. I had +20 impact rovers by then, and took out one of his bases within 2 turns. He surrendered. Next was UoP (the biggest after me, with more tech and pop, with bases in the monsoon jungle. But no plasma armor anywhere! They took me another 5 turns. Then Morgan bribed 2 of my formers (!) who were peacefully inspecting his road network. I declared vendetta, hacked my way through his probes, and took out a minor base. He surrendered. Then came Miriam, who had lots of infantry, so for her sake I switched to police state/power. (I would have chosen green too, but I never came to researching centauri empathy :-) . And I captured only 2 mindworms and 1 IotD. I make lousy Gaians! When I knocked at the doors of New Jerusalem with 1 impact infantry and 1 impact battery, Miriam surrendered. That was in 2196. I now hoped that my allies would research mind-machine interface, so they could vote me planetary governor, and I'd win within a century, but they didn't. I also hoped that the Spartans would be reasonable and surrender spontaneously, but they refused to. So I had to blitz-build lots of lousy transport foils and gatling foils and take them across the sea. I took 1 sea base and 1 land base, and when I moved in my just upgraded fusion chaos rover, Santiago did the right thing. Game ends in 2209, 197% score. It was also my shortest RL game. Only 3 hours. My second best was with the Spartans. 2225 MY, diplomatic victory. Moral of this story: the AI really respects 20 Impact Rovers.
Thue	posted 03-23-99 03:10 PM ET Well, I have won on TI (with tech stagnation on) in 2261 on a huge map as gaians. I just build as many cities as I could. When I was strong enougth I counqered 3 of the AIs (They are suicidal when you get too big, so I just had to wait for them to declare war). I woted myself leader when the option got available instead of digging out miriam and yang at the bottom of the map (I was at the top, and they both had huge, but less developed, empires) I newer had had a huge army, but used all my resourses for facilities and secret projects. I counqered the AI's by efficien use of neddlejets, as none of them had been smart enougth to build their own air force.