November 25, 2003, 16:20
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Emperor
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Accelerated Production
Want to try this out. Anyone else play with it in standard games?
Seems like it will really spice things up in the beginning, but I'm afraid of what the medieval to modern times is going to look like with the production and growth boons.
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November 25, 2003, 17:04
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Princess
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Don't have any experience with C3C yet (as it's not out in the Netherlands yet  ), but I always use accelerated production in my PTW games. It speeds things up so that the game in general is shorter. This way you can reach space race victory without having to play a whole week the same game.
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November 26, 2003, 00:27
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Does it rush the research a lot, or does science still have a nice even pace? (i.e., am I going to be researching Stealth in 100 A.D.?)
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November 26, 2003, 00:43
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The AI will be at Stealth in 100AD (or a lot sooner than normal anyway). If you want to go slower, suit yourself.
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November 26, 2003, 00:44
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The reason I say that is the food box is halved. So growth of pop is twice as fast. Each new pop yields more commerce. Do the math to see how that will effect the progression of tech.
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November 26, 2003, 08:12
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I've tried it a couple times when I thought I wanted a quick game. It's great in that you rock along in the early game and think you're doing fine. Then you meet the AI who kicks your bottom.
And I do mean kicks... at least at monarch level.
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November 26, 2003, 09:52
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Warlord
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I've played with accelerated production a couple of times, just to see what it's like, and it does speed up the tech gains, but not absurdly so. (i.e. no Stealth at 100 AD, at least not at Emp level).
I've heard some say that it makes the game easier for the human, but I haven't really seen any significant difference in the difficulty of a regular game and a game with AP activated. At the same time, I only played a couple of games with this option, so I can't say definitively one way or the other.
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November 26, 2003, 14:23
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Well, so far in this Emperor level game, I'm at 500ad, and even though the AIs are doing well (my start sucked, with only me on a medium sized continent), they aren't flying through the techs absurdly. They are only up to Free Artistry.
The other thing is I have it on Raging Barbarians. I wonder if that has helped slow things down?
I wish that the food box wasn't also halved.
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