Is this possible?

kimmygibler · November 6, 2001, 21:00

I could be crazy but...
What about trying to to force another civ to win a OCC. You have to pick an ai civ, make sure he doesn't build any other cities. Then ensure his survival and get him a spaceship victory. (by giving him a lot of stuff)Am I crazy, is this even worth trying?

TCO · November 6, 2001, 22:12

It might be hard to induce them to build spaceship parts. Maybe if you had one going yourself?

Julius Brenzaida · November 12, 2001, 04:54

It could be fun ...
The way I see it, one should do everything to win, except launch and attack and destroy all other civs.
What I am afraid of, is that the AI wouldn't launch himself. Yes, I think I should build the slowest spaceship and launch it to provoke the AI. It always seem to wait for you

But it should be possible ...

Father Beast · November 13, 2001, 19:54

Tt is a fascinating idea. I have a saved game of an ICS game I was playing. I'm going to try isolating and penning in the indians and giving them a bunch of techs. conquer everyone else while I'm at it. I'll see if I can make this work.

It might not work. that Ghandi is a warmongering bastard.

freshman · November 15, 2001, 16:22

Sounds like a huge challenge - the hardest part, IMO, would be to get them to build the spaceship in a reasonable amount of time with one city - they need to be encouraged to rush-buy - they need to be encouraged to build a factory, etc...
You could gift them tons of gold.
You could do all the mining and RRing for them to help out their production.
If they started building military units, you could try to sabatage their production

Father Beast · November 25, 2001, 20:17

Bump!

I'm still working on it. I'll use freshman's ideas. if I sabotage, they may be even more dedicated to military. the only thing I want to sabotage is Smokey Da Nuke Project.

Smash · November 28, 2001, 00:16

will an ai with 1 city ever build a SS part?
somehow I don't think so.

You could use the high score plan of pounding ai to one city then gift and gift and gift.And hope.I think the timer would run out......

Scouse Gits · November 29, 2001, 21:01

Yes!
I remember my first game at Deity having a "Zoo" city. It kept asking for techs from time to time which I provided. I was trying to build up a huge empire before starting the space race. Next thing I know "Ding Ding" ... Poitiers builds SS Structural! (Alas the next thing built was a settler!) It probably looked good beside all those Archers and Catapults.

One way you can help the AI city to grow is to feed it some food caravans. Later on build Apollo and start building your spaceship. When the AI realises there is a race it MAY just concentrate on a spaceship, providing you donate the necessary techs.

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SG(2)