Civ fans: One City Challenge?

[lazarus]

Anybody ever try this? I just won my first one (on a fairly easy level, haven't worked up to deity just yet).

It's really interesting. No resets, except that you have to back up if you find an advanced civ in a goody hut.

And your priorities change a lot when you just have the one city.

[sniffa]

1. hmmm

not sure i foLLow.

you mean, pLay a game of civ with onLy your capitaL? what about the other civs?

[lazarus]

2. Just one city

I can't remember all the rules, but basically, you have to have just one city, and never build another one. Before you hit a goody hut, you save, and reload if you get a new city out of it.

I've won three of them so far. It's totally different, actually. You only build 4 or 5 wonders, for instance.

Other civs are, hopefully, your friends. They're how you get a big tech boost, and trade. If possible, I'll build the UN to make sure they stay happy. (I failed to get it on a recent game and got wiped out just as I had discovered Space Flight. Darn it.)

Of course, you have to have a city site with more than two specials. I got lucky on this last one and had three; I turned the 4th spot into forest, and got silkworms!

[lazarus]

3. My one city in this game

just hit a population of 3,510,000. I launched my spaceship after the Spanish, but they won't be arriving until 1921, while I should get there about 1906.

[NewHampshireDem]

4. I've never tried that one before ...

Sounds good to me. I think I know how I'll be spending tomorrow :evilgrin:

Of course, it is going to be difficult for me. My general strategy is to make as many small cities as possible until the map is completely full, then let 'em start to grow.

[lazarus]

5. Here's a tip or two for you

You only need 5 wonders.

Colossus is critical, then Copernicus' Observatory. Follow that closely with Shakespeare's Theatre and Isaac Newton's College.

I usually have the Colossus built and monarchy established by 2000 BC. If I haven't gotten them by 1000 BC, I quit and try again.

Once you have Shake's, you can sell off your temple and colosseum, and not worry about happiness again. Get to Democracy as fast as possible.

If you can, pick up Darwin's Voyage and the UN. But don't worry about it if you can't.

After that, you just worry about Apollo Program, and build your spaceship.

Your city should be producing 80 shields (after paying upkeep on units) by this time. I'm usually bringing in triple digits in trade, too.

Finally, I don't consider it cheating to restart until you get a good map. But the rules are, large map, seven civs, raging hordes. No restart on goody huts unless you accidentally found a new city with it.

My best start so far? I pulled a map that gave me three specials (with a fourth produced in a forest later), 6 civ advances, including bronze working, and two settlers. That kicked butt, I had the spaceship landed by 1900.

Again, this is just on Chieftain level. I'm about to move up to Prince. I've seen people whip this up on Deity, which is just insane.

[NewHampshireDem]

6. Sounds good ... thanks for the tips ...

And, BTW, I always restart if I get a crappy map :) No sense fooling around in the middle of a desert, a massive swamp, etc. There's no way around that fact.

[lazarus]

7. I just tried Prince level

launched my spaceship just now in 1868.

[Moloch]

8. Would this be on archipelago?

so the other civs can only have one/a few cities?

It's rather difficult, I've done it under Prince.

[lazarus]

9. random

I've done it on a big continent shared with three other civs, which rocked, because I got tons of trade, etc.

[Moloch]

10. Ahh...

I will have to try that, so far I've only done it on archipelago.

[lazarus]

11. Yup, that's the key

I just got a spaceship launched in 1865 on Prince, on to King level!

Sadly, no other civs on this island, so I had to divert to build a trireme. No big deal, the other nations got into a pretty nasty war; at the end of the game, there were only two left besides me.

[NewHampshireDem]

12. I'll have to dig out my copy of Civ I ...

I tried it several times yesterday with Civ III but I don't think it is possible because of the way Civ III deals with trade and resources. :(

[lazarus]

13. Yeah, I think you're right

I never played Civ1, but Civ2 is perfect, anyway. :D

[7th_Sephiroth]

14. i did it with 3 civs in 3

i got iron working and made 50 swordsmen

[Chovexani]

15. That sounds interesting.

I'm always up for a challenge. This sounds like it would be geared toward my style of Civ play anyway, since I almost never go for military conquests. Not unless another civ does something that REALLY pisses me off. :)