Let's Play Civilization IV!
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supermario566
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Ah, Civilization.
Once, when playing Civilization III, I traded my code of arms in to Britain...
IN EXCHANGE FOR $999,999,999,999,999,999 GOLD A TURN.
"This offer will most likely be accepted."
HELL YEAH. RICHEST PEOPLE EVER. (After about three turns, I realized I either had $5,600,430,200 or $999,999,999,999,999 before going back to zero and continuing this process.) Eventually, I became the richest country in the nation, Britain was the poorest. (Having -$999,999,999,999,999,999... This will go on until the game glitches from all the numbers. And yet they were STILL able to pay us.)
...Did I mention I got another code of arms the immediate next turn? Yeah. Completely in my favor.
Once, when playing Civilization III, I traded my code of arms in to Britain...
IN EXCHANGE FOR $999,999,999,999,999,999 GOLD A TURN.
"This offer will most likely be accepted."
HELL YEAH. RICHEST PEOPLE EVER. (After about three turns, I realized I either had $5,600,430,200 or $999,999,999,999,999 before going back to zero and continuing this process.) Eventually, I became the richest country in the nation, Britain was the poorest. (Having -$999,999,999,999,999,999... This will go on until the game glitches from all the numbers. And yet they were STILL able to pay us.)
...Did I mention I got another code of arms the immediate next turn? Yeah. Completely in my favor.
Ignore me.
Heh, nice!
Yeah, Civ4 doesn't have anything like that. Especially as you can't trade more gold than you have at the moment, and you can't owe more gold-per-turn than your current profit intake (so if you're breaking even you're not allowed to make any trade like that!)
Plus, it's very hard to get someone to offer you a gold-per-turn deal in this game.
Also, this LetsPlay will continue again tomorrow. Slowly. Because Mond's still celebrating his three-day Christmas and I'll be gone visiting relations.
Which is why I'm putting my episode up tomorrow and flumping a big load of pressure on Mond!
Yeah, Civ4 doesn't have anything like that. Especially as you can't trade more gold than you have at the moment, and you can't owe more gold-per-turn than your current profit intake (so if you're breaking even you're not allowed to make any trade like that!)
Plus, it's very hard to get someone to offer you a gold-per-turn deal in this game.
Also, this LetsPlay will continue again tomorrow. Slowly. Because Mond's still celebrating his three-day Christmas and I'll be gone visiting relations.
Which is why I'm putting my episode up tomorrow and flumping a big load of pressure on Mond!
Last edited by Plasma on Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
What about this?impmon08 wrote:This and baba yetu is all I know about Civ4.
Somebody founds Christianity. I'm guessing one of Team Green... wherever they are!
I start work on The Hanging Gardens. Because I ALWAYS run into problems with sickness in my cities! And if I can keep healthiness up enough, I won't have to switch to Environmentalism later on in the game!
Let's talk about The Colosseum! Basically, this building is... sorta different from the rest, as it's directly related to the amount of gold you assign to culture (which I can't assign yet, not until I research Drama). Yes, assigning culture is one way of increasing happiness normally, but this really gives it a boost!
Aand I get another Great Prophet - only this time, I actually have a Holy City!
Oh, and it's Tipu Sultan, not Tippu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. Although he would've been pretty awesome to have!
I build the Dai Mao as Mond builds the Colossus and Cerulean City goes up a notch! A good year for all, I think!
Two barracks, a stable (gives free XP to mounted units) and an archer? Y'know, for the sole inhabitant of the entire continent, he sure is protective!
The Hanging Gardens are mine! And from the looks of it, I managed to take it right from under Mond's nose... AGAIN!
Things are looking up for me now!
Lets see...
Large army on coastal city + a settler + building a boat...
OH WOW, HE'S ACTUALLY GOING TO SPREAD TO THE OTHER CONTINENT!
.....even though Triemes are military boats, not unit-carrying boats. Hm, well, it's a start.
HAH! The Greek are not interested in talking! Man, what a change from real history!
Really though, it's because a human team's ally will NEVER talk with another human or human-ally! All the trading and war business is left to the player(s).
However, they can still tech trade with other AI teams.
Still, it's quite hilarious to try talk to them!
I'll never get tired of this!
INFO GRAPHS!
daisies, Mond's had quite a lead so far in the game! But at least I've managed to catch up with Greece now!
...which makes it sorta odd that he's slipping in military power. Unfortunately, I never had power to begin with, or I'd try taking him on!
Aaaand MORE sickness! Fortunately, being once again a coastal city, I can just build a harbour to fix that!
IT'S TEAM GREEN! Man, I was wondering when they'd be showing up! And woo, they're worse off than me!
And Yaqob seems to like making threats of imminent warfare to me. OH HO HO, THOSE SILLY ETHIOPIANS!
....I'll kill them all!
HAH! the only reason I discovered them is because they actually managed to build enough so that their empire is visible from the Dutch island!
...wait, FUCK!
Also, we have Saladin. Yeah, when you meet one Empire of a team, you automatically get contact with the other Empire too.
SPY SAPPIN' MAH CULTURE!
Yeah, those bastard Maridians are trying to get my city over to their side! It's sorta an even-even split who'll win the other city over at this point.
FFFFFFFFFUCK GOLDEN AGES!
And oh hey, I found Arabia!
....oh god, Team Green are on the same continent as each other too! This is going to be a real pain in the booty for me to win!
Well FINALLY, he's started colonizing that bloody city! Geez, I was wondering how long he'd take about it!
I think now's a good time to check in on the victory condition scoreboard!
The only really noticeable thing there is that Mond and Co. have an entire 42% of the world's population! That's not good!
Òkay, that's REALLY not good!
Also, it looks like they've nearly taken all of the top half of the continent. Bang goes my chances of expanding to there, and my ship tech isn't good enough to be able to reach out to the third continent!
At this point, my best hope is that there's a fourth continent in that unexplored spot down there! I think I still have a tech lead over Mond, so there's a good chance that I'll get the necessary boats first!
OH HELL! Mond just built the Great Library I was building! ONE TURN AWAY!
No... just THREE PRODUCTION HAMMERS AWAY!
God! DAMNIT!
Anyway, I take the last bit of land left on the continent, a small patch of plains above a desert, to find Saffron City! Sure, the expenses are gonna be massive (the further away a city is from the capital, the more cheddar it costs to maintain it), but it's still better than nothing!
Aaaaaand it instantly gets ransacked by barbarians!
Now that was just REALLY bad luck! Especially since there was only about two squares that it could've spawned in for that to happen!
I create The Apostolic Palace, which is a MASSIVE benefit to me! Basically, this is like an early-game United Nations - in that it allows Empires to vote on different stuff (ranging from holy wars to peace treaties to outright Diplomatic Victory), but ONLY if they have a city with my religion, and ONLY with the amount of votes proportionate to the number of cities they have with my religion in them!
...except that Mond is the only one to have Taoism! You can't actually start making voting choices in The Apostolic Palace until THREE teams are able to vote on stuff!
So much for a turning point for me! Ugh!
Also, I take up spying! ....except I don't have a real use for him, so I just use him to sabotage a building. IN YER FACES, AMERICAN SCUM!
LAND AHOY! I was able to build a Caravel and explore the open seas! And find dry land!
At least, I hope there's land. This looks like just a small island to me...
Woop, a new religion (well, to the Dutch)! Even though it really doesn't matter much to me, it does mean that the Ethiopians, who've been mooching off their ally's religion, just lost his chance to get one of his own!
Aaaand another Great Phrophet, Tsong...kha..pa? How the heck do you pronounce that?!
Ah well, he's a Buddhist anyway! Sure, in this game, it really doesn't matter WHAT religion a great prophet is, but I don't actually have anything to do with him other than to make him contribute to The Printing Press!
Wooooo, Hagia Sophia! This World Wonder makes ALL your workers work 50% faster - FOR FREE! Yeah, this is a BRILLIANT one to get.... if you WEREN'T TRAPPED IN A SMALL PENINSULA BY THOSE EFFING AMERICANS!
Also, woo, Lavender Town! Like Saffron City, it's really not going to get much of an environment benefit where it is, but at least it's safe from barbarians!
Even if there is one, y'know, RIGHT THERE! Good thing it can't touch me while I'm inland!
Also woo, I finally make actual physical contact with my ally!
Yes, we went 5,240 years without ever actually seeing each other. No, it's best not to question how on earth we managed to be able to trade tech like that. Just roll with it.
At least it has it so that you can't trade resources with each other!
Y'know, they've built up quite a lot since we last saw them! That's actually pretty impressive!
...but not as much as Greece! Geez, they're like rabbits!
Y'know, I'm beginning to worry about Nijmegen. Not because it's awkwardly placed (although it's usually a very bad idea to build on a peninsula - unlike a simple coast, a peninsula has too many water tiles, which don't give a benefit to production), but because it's infringing on Ethiopian borders now. Even if you hardly ever talk to them, you really want to stay on the good side with other empires as best you can...
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electronic goat
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Unlocked Calvalry. Somehow, they keep getting killed by the Spanish, who barely even have mounted units. So tired of their ridiculous luck.Plasma wrote:I love perpetual wars, just because you can set up a huge bunch of defence units instead of attacking and watch your opponent squander his resources on pathetic assaults!
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electronic goat
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No, I was trying to fend off those daisies Spanish. Really should have killed them earlier.Plasma wrote:You weren't trying to defend with Cavalry, were you?electronic goat wrote:Unlocked Calvalry. Somehow, they keep getting killed by the Spanish, who barely even have mounted units. So tired of their ridiculous luck.
And now I know to settle off this daisies island! Huzzah!
Tourian is connected to the rest of my civilization and work on a farm begins.
I also completed the Mausoleum of Maussollos. Now all my Golden Ages last 50% longer!
And The Colossus, which gives me additional cheddar for all water tiles around my cities. And since almost all my cities are coastal, that's quite a bit.
Let's see how my ally is doing!
... not very good actually. He needs more workers. Also, his capital is at a population level of 6, and it's not even growing anymore. For reference, mine is at 16 and growing!
Meanwhile, Maridia is being surrounded by Russia. Nothing that a good war can't fix, though.
... or cultural expansion. I really need to get an army soon.
And Plasma completes The Hanging Gardens, my favorite wonder. And I would've really needed them, too! As soon as we hit industrial times, these +1 population and health in every city come in handy.
Right, guess I'll just build The Temple of Artemis. It really just gives cheddar and isn't especially useful, but more wonders mean more culture.
Maridia expands and steals one whole tile with absolutely nothing on it from Russia. Take that, Plasma!
Anyway, back to the wonder-building: The Great Library usually isn't very helpful, but it gives loads of culture. And that's all Maridia needs right now.
A Great Engineer is born and immediately killed off again to start a Golden Age.
Sure, I could've used him to finish the production of any wonder, but I'm building so many of them that a Golden Age should help more.
The Shwedagon Paya for example. It's much like The Pyramids, only that it unlocks all Religion instead of all Government Civics.
See? Done.
I only just noticed that both Zebes and Crateria seem really angry with me, although I have no idea why.
Good News: Somewhere, I completed The Parthenon, boosting the rate my great people get born by 50%.
Bad News: The Russians got their tile back.
I build some more work boats to get more food. Suddenly, Zebes doesn't seem quite as angry anymore.
I'm such a great ruler!
Building some roads through the desert because I got too many workers with nothing to do. There's no unemployment in my civilization!
The Sistine Chapel really just adds loads of culture everywhere.
There's also a barbarian boat there, but it seems to be chasing Plasma so I'll let it be.
I mean, it's totally not because I have no navy to speak of. Eheh.
I actually build some military units to see about that city of Plasma's the barbarians captured earlier. What he didn't tell me was that they didn't just capture but completely raze it. Whoops.
A Great Engineer! No idea what to do with him right now. Guess I'll just make him join Maridia.
Anyway, remember that barbarian ship? Yeah, it's still there, and I finished a Trireme just a little earlier.
THERE IS A FI-
... I mean I attack it.
VICTORY!
We're not Russia, after all. Can't have those guys hanging around there for ages.
I built Notre Dame which makes all my cities happier. And that's what I'm all about.
And another new city! I'm running out of names. Guess that's what I get for never completing any of the Prime games.
I make a Great Prophet join it as a Super Specialist for additional resources and culture.
THERE WILL BE MORE FIGHTING SOON I PROMISE
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[size=0]Still waiting for Vladimir Sack to become important.[/size]
[size=0]Still waiting for Vladimir Sack to become important.[/size]
Did I mention this forum has great Let's Plays?
Because it does. It really, really does. (although considering we have a genius writer and a person who's already done this thing before I'm not surprised.)
Anyway, I like the idea of two people doing it AT THE SAME TIME (in bed). If you stop now I will detonate that bomb under your car (or bike, because you're old)
Because it does. It really, really does. (although considering we have a genius writer and a person who's already done this thing before I'm not surprised.)
Anyway, I like the idea of two people doing it AT THE SAME TIME (in bed). If you stop now I will detonate that bomb under your car (or bike, because you're old)