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Old February 3, 2004, 08:35   #1
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Single City Cultural Victory Possible?
I am currently playing a game where I have a city dedicated to culture. On Emperor level I somehow managed the Colossus and Mausoleum, JSB's, Magellan's, Newton's (missed Shakespeare's to an AI prebuild!), TOE and Universal Suffrage as well as relatively early Temple/Library/Cathedral/Colloseum and Heroic Epic. Which IMHO isn't too bad for one city.

Many of these are now producing double culture, I am getting 64 culture/turn at about 320 turns into the game and am currently about 8,800 culture, so I would indeed make it to 20,000 in another 180 turns or so (maybe cut down a few turns if I get the UN/SETI/Internet etc)

But I can't see any way given the current pace of the tech race that I or the Incas won't get to a Space Race victory first.

And if the tech had been so slow that the Space Race techs wouldn't be accessible before he end of the game, then I wouldn't yet have the wonders to give me the culture to get to the SCCV!

Has anyone here ever won an (Epic Game) Single City Cultural Victory (without Space Race turned off?)
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Nope, but remember the space parts now requires learning more or less all the tech in the game. So you may have more time than you planned.
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Yes, monarch game on a tiny map, won by a pretty high margin (spaceship parts not yet available to anyone) It definitely helps to be on a tiny map. Good starting location a must also. The trick of course is to play with only one city.
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wow , you play an empire building game and dont build an empire
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I won on emperor using a fantastic start as the Dutch. fun game. I think standard or large archipelago.
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Smiley I though you meant 20K for one city are you talking about a straight OCC game?
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Old February 6, 2004, 21:42   #7
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yes, straight OCC, Babylonians (for cheap religious and science buildings)
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each to his own perhaps, but if it so easy to beat the game at highest levels with one city , then time for a new game me thinks
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each to his own perhaps, but if it so easy to beat the game at highest levels with one city , then time for a new game me thinks
its not sooo easy. its generally get a decent start and hope no one snuffs you out. I imagine OCC deity or sid would be near impossible.
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maybe now, but i guwess someone will find some loophiles to exploit it soon enouggh, same as i n civ 2
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I can't speak to OCC, I can say straight Sid is not a lot of fun.
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i still ejoying the lower levels.... once i feel invincible at all civs i will go up a level
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i still ejoying the lower levels.... once i feel invincible at all civs i will go up a level
good god

all 31 (32) civs? per level? zounds.
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Rasputin I just noticed the Spanish forum and I am surprised you have not mentioned it.

It has more post than all the forums for AC combined and not too far behind all of the CivII forums. That would seem to be incredible.
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i did an emperor occ as greece once, but i restarted a few times to find a fabolous start (and it was).
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i did an emperor occ as greece once, but i restarted a few times to find a fabolous start (and it was).
yeah, need that fantastic start for an upper level occ.

no shame in that, is there?
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Nope. Always gotta have the following: River, coast, luxury resource, and hills.
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good god

all 31 (32) civs? per level? zounds.
yes i always play a differnt civ eachh game to get a fun feel for the game..
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Rasputin I just noticed the Spanish forum and I am surprised you have not mentioned it.

It has more post than all the forums for AC combined and not too far behind all of the CivII forums. That would seem to be incredible.

hmmm maybe i need to learn anlother langauge....


but apart from that , i dont see you relevance
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is this everyones definition of a good start.?? if i was to try a OCC ..... and how long does it taske in play hours to complete
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maybe now, but i guwess someone will find some loophiles to exploit it soon enouggh, same as i n civ 2
Possible, but I have extreme doubts for Sid. Already at emperor you need a good start and some luck later on as well. Civ3 just doesn't lend itself to 1 perfect city.........relatively ineffective SSC, 4 turn research cap, resource luck needed, AI not malleable through tech gifting, the list is quite long.
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Won a cultural victory on emperor with the Babs on AU 302 (?) - well, the OCC AU, then kept playing and won space race too. Thread should still be around in the strat forum (check the index). A lot of cultural wins in that one.
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a couple of hours????? geeeez i normaly still in BC time after a few hours play...

will have to see if i can finda downloadable log of a OCC win to see if io can follow it and play the same...
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It's pretty easy. Many turns end with just a "pray".

There was a decent guide kicking around also a while back.........most of it is still applicable to C3C.
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i guess not much happens most turns
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