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- From: soelex@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (Alexander T. Soe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: Civ--The Bloat Strategy
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 04:15:14 GMT
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- Message-ID: <14inciINN540@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Jul21.211510.14804@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Keywords: Civilisation, King and Emperor Levels
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- In article <1992Jul21.211510.14804@csi.uottawa.ca> mfournie@csi.UOttawa.CA (Mark Fournier) writes:
- >
- > A friend of mine put me on to the Megabloat strategy. Simply put, the
- >Megabloat Strategy is:
- > 1)Use units to build cities
- > 2)Use cities to build more units
- > 3)Repeat
- >
- > Basically, you build nothing in your cities but barracks, granaries,
- >and/or city walls, which help produce, strengthen, and protect your units. You
- >build your cities close together--about 3 or 4 squares (sometimes less). They
- >will never grow very large, but that's OK; with the dissatisfaction levels at
- >king and emperor level, you don't want big cities. Stick to primitive forms of
- >government and go on a rampage: it's amazing what hordes you can produce with
- >two dozen cities and despotism. I tried this strategy, and was nearly in a
- >position to collect the pre 1500 bonus for conquering the world--and that was
- >at king level!
- >
- > Mark Fournier
-
- I think someone already came with this one called "Mongol-Horde" strategy,
- just a month or two after the game came out. Also, Computer Gaming World
- magazine has it's own version of this strategy. But, you should know that
- Sid made Civ.exe version 3.0 to foil this strategy.
- Also, I think the most points you can have is not just conquering the world
- the quickest. One must populate the world, get as many future advances
- as possible, build large cities in right location all over the world, leave
- only one enemy city alive while you do this, and land your space ship just
- before you retire or take the poor city. This should give you the most
- points from population, wonders, advances, and spaceship.
-
- I am surprised that this game is still being played. I guess I am seeing
- the next wave of players after the big rush just after the introduction.
- I know that the rest of the initial players (and I myself) realized how
- addictive this game is and have decided to quit it. Did anyone not finish
- the Civ Anonymous School?
-
- alex
- soelex@four-lab4.berkeley.edu
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