Please post your results and logs here. Paul has posted the game to his web site, and promises to best his 1775 record.

1700 BC - built Colossus
950 BC - The Republic
650 BC - built Copernicus' Observatory
400 BC - built Shakespeare's Theatre
100 BC - size 21
60 AD - Allied with all 5 neighbours
540 AD - Refrigeration
860 AD - Automobile
1580 AD - Apollo Program
1779 AD - Landing at AC

Here's the full log:

start with Alphabet, Ceremonial Burial, Code of Laws, Masonry, Monarchy
3900 BC - archer (hut)
3800 BC - Bronze Working (hut)
3750 BC - horsemen (hut)
3700 BC - chariot (hut)
3700 BC - revolution
3650 BC - found Ottawa, switched to Monarchy
3450 BC - built warrior
3400 BC - Pottery (French)
3400 BC - Writing (French), alliance
3250 BC - built warrior
3100 BC - Currency (hut)
3000 BC - built phalanx
2900 BC - legion NONE (hut)
2900 BC - Trade (hut)
2750 BC - Map Making
2750 BC - Mysticism (English), peace, share maps
2750 BC - share maps with French
2700 BC - Horseback Riding (hut)
2700 BC - peace with Aztecs
2700 BC - 25 gold (French)
2600 BC - legion (hut)
2450 BC - Warrior Code (Babylonians), peace
2400 BC - alliance with Babylonians, share maps
2400 BC - 50 gold (French)
2250 BC - 75 gold (Aztecs)
1950 BC - share maps with Babylonians, French, English
1850 BC - Construction
1850 BC - 25 gold (Babylonians)
1850 BC - 100 gold (Aztecs)
1700 BC - built Colossus
1650 BC - 25 gold (Babylonians)
1650 BC - 25 gold (French)
1650 BC - 50 gold (Aztecs)
1600 BC - built Library, disband warrior
1550 BC - built Marketplace
1450 BC - built Temple
1400 BC - Literacy
1400 BC - alliance with Aztecs, English
1400 BC - 50 gold (English)
1350 BC - built caravan
1300 BC - 50 gold (Babylonians)
1250 BC - share maps with English, Aztecs
1250 BC - built caravan
1150 BC - built caravan
1000 BC - Seafaring (French)
975 BC - 50 gold (Babylonians)
975 BC - 100 gold (Frecnh)
975 BC - 50 gold (Aztecs)
975 BC - 50 gold (English)
950 BC - The Republic - revolution
950 BC - built colosseum
925 BC - switched to Republic
900 BC - begin WLTSD (pop is 5), disband warrior
850 BC - 50 gold (Babylonians)
850 BC - 75 gold (French)
850 BC - 25 gold (Aztecs)
850 BC - 50 gold (English)
850 BC - 172 gold (beads caravan)
825 BC - Mathematics
825 BC - built Aqueduct
725 BC - end WLTSD (pop now 12)
700 BC - Astronomy
700 BC - 202 gold (hides caravan)
675 BC - Philosophy
675 BC - University
675 BC - 100 gold (English)
650 BC - built Copernicus' Observatory
650 BC - sell Colosseum, disband phalanx
650 BC - 50 gold (Babylonians)
600 BC - Medicine
600 BC - Banking (French)
600 BC - 50 gold (French)
600 BC - The Wheel (Celts), peace
600 BC - Iron Working (Celts)
575 BC - built University
575 BC - 381 gold (gems caravan)
550 BC - Bridge Building
550 BC - share maps with Celts
525 BC - 50 gold (Aztecs)
475 BC - 25 gold (English)
450 BC - Engineering
425 BC - 50 gold (Aztecs)
425 BC - 50 gold (Babylonians)
425 BC - 50 gold (French)
400 BC - built Shakespeare's Theatre, sell temple
400 BC - Polytheism (Celts)
350 BC - Sanitation
325 BC - built Sewer System
325 BC - begin WLTSD (pop is 12)
250 BC - Economics
225 BC - built Harbour
225 BC - 50 gold (Babylonians)
225 BC - 150 gold (French)
225 BC - 100 gold (English)
175 BC - built Bank
150 BC - Theory of Gravity
100 BC - end WLTSD (pop is 21)
100 BC - built caravan
100 BC - 50 gold (English)
50 BC - built caravan
50 BC - Invention
25 BC - 50 gold (Babylonians)
20 AD - Democracy - revolution
60 AD - switched to Democracy
60 AD - alliance with Celts (Allied with all 5 neighbours!)
60 AD - 50 gold (Aztecs)
100 AD - Chemistry
100 AD - 50 gold (French)
140 AD - Gunpowder
160 AD - built Isaac Newton's College
180 AD - Explosives
200 AD - built engineer
200 AD - 50 gold (English)
220 AD - Feudalism
220 AD - 237 gold (caravan)
240 AD - built Stock Exchange
260 AD - Navigation
260 AD - French break alliance
300 AD - Physics
300 AD - built caravan
340 AD - Chivalry
360 AD - 50 gold (Celts)
360 AD - 50 gold (Babylonians)
360 AD - 50 gold (Aztecs)
360 AD - 50 gold (English)
380 AD - Magnetism
420 AD - Metallurgy
460 AD - Electricity
500 AD - Steam Engine
540 AD - Refrigeration
540 AD - 258 gold (caravan)
560 AD - built Super Market
620 AD - Conscription
660 AD - built engineer
660 AD - begin WLTPD (pop is 19)
660 AD - 150 gold (Celts)
660 AD - 75 gold (Babylonians)
660 AD - 50 gold (English)
680 AD - Industrialization
740 AD - The Corporation
760 AD - end WLTPD (pop is 24)
800 AD - Refining
820 AD - built Darwin's Voyage
820 AD - Steel
820 AD - Combustion
860 AD - Automobile
860 AD - 264 gold (caravan)
860 AD - 50 gold (Celts)
880 AD - built Superhighway
880 AD - begin WLTPD (pop is 24)
900 AD - Electronics
920 AD - built Factory
920 AD - end WLTPD (pop is 26)
940 AD - built Hydro Plant
940 AD - Atomic Theory
980 AD - Mass Production
1020 AD - Leadership
1020 AD - 50 gold (Celts)
1060 AD - Nuclear Fission
1060 AD - war with French
1080 AD - built rifleman
1100 AD - Tactics
1100 AD - built rifleman
1160 AD - Genetic Engineering
1200 AD - Machine Tools
1200 AD - 50 gold (Celts)
1200 AD - 200 gold (Babylonians)
1200 AD - English break alliance
1240 AD - Mobile Warfare
1280 AD - Miniturization
1280 AD - sold aqueduct
1300 AD - built Oil Platform
1300 AD - sold sewer system
1320 AD - Computers
1340 AD - built Research Lab
1340 AD - Robotics
1400 AD - Flight
1420 AD - 50 gold (Celts)
1420 AD - 300 gold (Babylonians)
1420 AD - 75 gold (Aztecs)
1440 AD - Nuclear Power
1440 AD - 100 gold (Aztecs)
1480 AD - Radio
1480 AD - 200 gold (Babylonians)
1480 AD - 100 gold (English), alliance
1500 AD - 50 gold (Celts)
1510 AD - Advanced Flight
1510 AD - peace with French
1530 AD - Rocketry
1530 AD - 100 gold (Babylonians)
1550 AD - The Laser
1570 AD - Space Flight
1580 AD - built Apollo Program
1590 AD - Plastics
1610 AD - Superconductor
1620 AD - Communism (Aztecs)
1640 AD - Combined Arms
1670 AD - Fusion Power
1700 AD - Espionage
1730 AD - 15 structural done
1740 AD - Stealth
1754 AD - Recycling
1764 AD - Launch Spaceship (arrival 1779)
1765 AD - build barracks (then some tanks)
1766 AD - Environmentalism
1769 AD - Amphibious Warefare
1769 AD - built Solar Plant, sell hydro plant
1770 AD - built Mass Transit
1772 AD - Future Tech, begin WLTPD
1775 AD - Future Tech
1779 AD - Landing at AC

A few comments:

I gave away a ton of science. I stopped for a while after industrialization, but was on the verge of falling from a tech every 2 turns after Machine Tools, so I figured what the heck and kept on giving. It made a noticeable difference (I was at 100% science no taxmen, and was able to fall back down to 90% science a couple of turns later). The result was that the English and Aztecs were building spaceship parts in the 1600s.

Great neighbours. I was allied with all of them for a while, and even when the French declared war on me the only thing they did was kill a caravan (this caused the other four allies to declare war on them, which kept them busy).

I found that a lot of the later types of Freight which I could have built didn't have a demand anywhere, so I got a bit lazy about trying to send them off and just built food instead. I'm sure that cost me a turn or two of quick science discoveries.

3650- Build Love
3450- Hut, 50 gold
3400- Build Phalanx
3350- Celts destroyed by Sioux
3250- Writing
Hut, 50 gold
3200- Build Temple
3150- Contact English, Mapmaking, Peace
3100- Hut, 50 gold
Hut, Currency
Hut, 50 gold (what a turn!)
3050- Contact Aztecs, Peace, 50 gold
3850- Contact Babylonians, Pottery, Peace
3650- Literacy
2650- Contact French, Peace, 50 gold
2600- Contact Sioux, Horseback Riding, Peace, 50 gold
Aztecs, 25 gold
2500- Aztecs, 25 gold (suckers)
English, Mysticism, 25 gold
2450- Babylonians, 25 gold
Aztecs & Sioux, war (pushed 'em too far)
2350- Build Colossus (wow)
2300- Aztecs & Sioux, Peace
Babylonians, 25 gold
2250- French & English, war
Destroyed English Warrior
2200- Destroyed 2 French Archers
2150- Destroyed 2 French Warriors (finally my Archer is vet)
English, cease fire
Babylonians, war
2050- Pop 100k
2000- Trade
1950- Build Library
1900- Destroy Babylonian Warrior
1800- Destroy Aztec Chariot
1750- Build Caravan, Gems
Contact Russians, Feudalism, Warrior Code, Peace, 50 gold
Babylonians, Peace, 25 gold
Aztecs, Peace
1650- Build Caravan, Hides
1550- Philosophy, The Republic, Revolt
1500- English, Peace, 50 gold
1450- In Republic
Build Caravan, Hides
1400- WLTSD
1300- French sneak attack Caravan on hill, Caravan survives
1200- WLTSD ends, size 7
1050- Mathematics
950- Babylonians, Seafearing
925- Hides Caravan, 85 gold
875- Astronomy
Hut, Iron Working
775- Silk, 86 gold
750- Build Copernicus' Observatory
650- Construction
625- Build Aquaduct
600- Russians, Chivalry
Hides, 86 gold
400- Medicine
325- Pop 300k
250- Build Shakespeare's Theatre
225- WLTSD
200- Pop 400k
175- Pop 500k
150- Pop 600k
University
125- Pop 700k
100- WLTSP ends, size 12

20- Theory Of Gravity
80- Russians, The Wheel
120- Engineering
180- Build Issac Newton's College
240- Sanitation
260- Build Swer System
WLTSD
400- Bridge Building
420- Pop 2mil
Build University
440- Babylonians, Banking, Share Maps
460- WLTSP ends, size 21
Build Caravan, Wool
480- Invention
520- Democracy, revolt
Build Marketplace
540- In Democracy
580- Gunpowder
Build Bank
620- Chemistry
Build Caravan, Coal
660- Explosives
Build Diplomat
680- Establish Embassy with French (who have a city right outside Love)
700- Economics
Build Engineers

At this point I checked this thread out, realised I wouldn't make a decent landing time so I stopped. I think I got off to a great start, but began failing bacause of unfreindly AI. I attempted to win them over with science, but ever time I tried they turned nasty again next turn, and would never sign an alliance. What did I do wrong?
Also, I stopped bothering to mention all the times I switch between war an peace with the AI's, because it changed ever 3-7 turns with most of them.

Could this be thanks to MGE? I am told that MGE AI's are a lot nastier, perhaps I should reinstall my original cov for OCC. But perhaps its just me making excuses, and the flaw is my handling of the AI, which I will now work on.

Anyway, can anyone point out flaws in my game, because I know I should have done a lot better.

Sigh, oh well, perhaps i'll do beter next time.

Graag

Graag

Perfection is far away, but not 1700's given this start! I made several errors ranging from commencing WLTCD without starting a Sewer at size 12 to early mismanagement of city resources to trading for dead end science.

1) I did build Darwin's but it was a wash in the overall AC date. I needed more freight for a one turn Apollo.

2) Had four allies! French being the most hostile. And Aztec and Sioux eternal. Dissolved alliance with the English with demand of A' Flight-later irrelevant war.

3) As our map provider did and no doubt Paul will do, I should have been a bit less stingy with science gifts-though I did give a lot away in gifts and demands.

4) Didn't matter in the game, one should never developed Combined Arms between Space Science as I could have developed Amphibious Warfare and as it turned out, the English developed AW!

5) Sold on no pollution controls but two free engineers.

6) Wish I'd developed NF instead of Flight….but this may not be correct.

7) French alliance was a nuisance in the beginning….they founded a city with overlapping resource tiles. Anyone have this problem?

8) I think there should be two accolades in this competition: One for Multi-player and one for V2.42 and less. I used V1.07.

9) Log stuff: I tried that year money thing but it is a bit tedious. I liked that folks included their wonder commencement/complete log entries.

10) I have trouble deciding whether to develop Democracy or workin' Paul's Science progression. I guess the idea is to get refrigeration fast and delay the democratic WCTPD stuff until the land is developed sufficiently.

11) Question: Is there any consistency with what sciences choices we will be given due to the same starting position? ( ie given we develop the same sciences, will we have the same choices throughout the competition or is it random? Guess hut science makes the rationale of this question more confusing!)

Usual disclaimers! Here it is:

Edited to include a Tom DeMille like Log preview:

3650 To 1950 BC Colossus
925 To 825 BC Republic Established
825 To 600 BC Size 12
550 To 425 BC Copernicus (loglapse here?!)
375 To 200 BC Shakes
225 BC to 80 AD Size 21 (from size 11 due to French war)
960 to 1040 AD Darwin's
1160 to 1380 AD Size 26 (from size 19 -terrible science progression to refrig. In 900 AD)
1700 to 1752 AD Apollo (Don't think Darwin helped me much !)
1710 Space Flight
1800 to 1815 Launch to AC

Log edited to include Space advance:

3650-0-Founded Ottawa-Established Monarchy
3600-2-Researching Writing
3450-8-Hut barb/run away from legion
3350-12-Something destroyed by Souix-First Contact/Russians-Peace/Ignored tribute
3250-17-Writing to Currency-Size 2
2950-34-Currency to Trade
2850-38-Hut none hut horse
2750-43-Contact/English-Peace/Tributed Mapmaking-Size 3
2600-55-Hut Trade
2500-63-Construction to Mysticism
3450-67-Russians Destroyed by English-Hut barb/destroyed the little horsy
2350-75-Contact/Souix-Peace/Traded for Horseback and pottery/Refused Alliance
2250-83-Contact/Aztec-Peace/gifted them Construction
1950-108-Colossus to library-Size 4 around here
1750-125-Gave Construction to English and then Writing for Alliance/Gifted 100 gd.-Allied with Souix/gifted 75
1700-206-Library to caravan
1600-50-Caravan to caravan
1450-68-Literacy to Philosophy
1200-50-Alliance formed with Aztec
1150-----3rd caravan to Coliseum
1100-62-Philosophy to Republic to Medicine
975-80-Traded for warrior code with English/exchanged maps-Traded for Wheel with Souix/exchanged maps
925-24-Revolting
900-Coliseum to marketplace
825-24-Est. Republic-Commencing WLTCD
775-12-Gave Aztecs Literacy/gifted 50 gd
750-21-Marketplace to Temple
700-361-Gave Philosophy to English for sympathy and traded for Engineering with Souix/gifted 200! Switched to Aqueduct Freight for 200 to York
675-393-Aqueduct to Temple
650-239-Temple Medicine Contact/French-demanded money tribute/War
600-237-Took some juggling but we got size 12 and now the tax rate is 0/80/20 working hard for Mathematics and Astronomy
550-228-Mathematics to Astronomy-70/10/20
525-487-Trade/Copper to London for 200+gd 0/80/20
500-503-Traded maps with Aztecs and gifted for 25
450-725-Traded for Iron working and refused to war with Aztecs (they just declared war with each other) Traded maps-Hut Polytheism-Trade Sioux gifted us for 100gd
425-472-Copernicus to City Walls-Trade/gems Nottingham for 364 10/70/20
400-267-Banking to Sanitation-Changing to Bank 50/40/10
375-335-Bank to Shakes
350-399-40/50/10
250-613-Sanitation to Sea Faring (want to grow before University) Sold Temple
225-54-Sold Coliseum Commencing WLTCD 10/70/20
200-261-Shakespeare's Theatre to Sewer System-Just lost none archer to French Chariot Traded for Feudalism/gifted 200 from Sioux-Size 11!
125-16-Seafaring to Invention-Sewer System to harbor-Made Alliance with French by giving them Construction and Mathematics/gifted 50gd
50-64-Two turns ago, finished Harbor to City Wall (Sioux have Chivalry)
25-46-Invention to University
…………

1AD42-City Wall to improvement
40-150-Univercity to Theory of Gravity-Changing to University-Traded for Mono with Aztecs/gifted 100-Traded Maps with English/gifted 200
60-139-University to Caravan
80-154- Size 21 (end WLTCD)
100-241-Theory of Gravity to Economics Trade for Chivalry with Sioux gifted 200 French have attitude-Alliance dissolved. The are overlapping Ottawa's Resources
160-252-Chemistry to Gunpowder
180-312-Stock Exchange to diplomat
220-432-Gunpowder to Chemistry-diplomat to caravan
280-592-Chemistry to Explosives-Caravan (26shields)
300-540-Bribed Barb Big Horsy First Engineer to Issacs
400-855-Democracy to Bridge Building (?) -revolting
460-91-Est. Democracy Used two caravans to complete Issacs.
480-----ISSAC's to Engineer
500-149-Bridgbuilding to Leadership
520------2nd Engineer-Camels
540-227-Leadership to Mellurgy
560-220-Gave Astronomy to Aztecs/gifted 75
580-155-Metallurgy to Conscription
620-595-Conscription to Theology(two deadend choices) Trade with London/Coal/357
660-783-Theology to Navigation Had to Bribe another Big Horsy
680-736-Formed alliance with French/gave conscription/gifted 25gd
700-746-Navigation to Physics
740-677-Physics to Atomic Theory
780-605-Atomic Theory to Magnetism-Major Barbarian uprising
820-523-Magnetism to Electricity
840-758-Gems for 225
860-798-Electricity to Refrigeration
900-641-Refrigeration to Steam
920-774-Killed Barb leader
940-757-Steam to Railroad
960-897-Gave Aztec University/gifted 100 Gave Sioux Conscription/gifted 75 Commencing Darwins
1000-1102-Railroad to Industrialization-100/0/0
1020-14-10/90/0
1040-27-Darwins to supermarket-Industrialization to Tactics to Corporation
1080-----Corporation to Steel Supermarket (way too late! Lot of 3 turn science.)
1140-----Steel to Electronics
1160-190-Commencing WLTPD
1200-150-Electronics to Refining
1260-112-Refining to Combustion
1280-103-Factory to Hydro
1320-157-Combustion to Automobile
1380-97-Automobile to Mass Production-Hydro to Superhighway(Size 26 was reached at the right time from 19 after two engineers reduced by two)
1440-84-Mass Production to Machine tools
1460-----Superhighway to Coastal Fortress
1480-142-Machine Tools to Mobile Warfare
1500-159-Coastal Fortress to Improvement
1510-206-Mobile to Miniaturization
1530-288-Miniaturization to Computers
1540------Offshore Platform to Improvement
1550-67-Computer to Robotics
1560-177-Research Lab to Freight
1570-100-Robotics to Flight Bribed a camel
1590-202-Flight to NF (only non redundant science) (Trade units=12) Finally remembered to sell Sewer
1610-290-NF to Radio
1630-258-Radio to Advance Flight Trade with 338 gd
1660-969-Advance Flight to Rocketry-Got greedy and lost 10 years. (Trade units=18-2 for trade)
1680-907-Rocketry to NP (only relevant science)
1700-------NP to Space-Manufacturing Plant
1710 ? Space Flight to Plastics
1720-Finished terraforming Grass to woods (78shields railroad will fix that) 382 and 135 gd trade
1752-914-Plastics to Laser Apollo Built (82 shields only one non shield tile of pollution-15 Trade units/Dip/rifleman/none horsy/settler and two engineers)
1762-1726-Laser to Combined
1770-2202-Combined Arms to Super-Cancelled Alliance with English on Demand for Advance Flight
1778-2722-Super to Fusion
1786-1075-Fusion to Amphibious 100/0/0 (ship: 15 0 0 1 1 0) Still allied with Aztec and French
1800-410 Launched AC 1815 War with the English
1801-747-Just let the English steal Fusion! Damn….but no other space ships-First tank
1802-178-Bribed two Aztec Ironclads
1815 AC Arrival Brian Mulruny the Cruel

But the time I got to AC, The English had knocked the Sioux for silly. Glad I didn't give them Advanced Flight! No rival space ships! 1779 is awesome! (Don't know how I could shave more than 7 or 8 turns off…but 20ish turns?! Tom Got Automobile 860AD! Damn! My 1380 Auto date….) What a position!

I happily gave the AI advanced flight, even space flight . The aztecs built around 3 structurals and the English 2. It kept them allied with me (they demanded the tech), which allowed me to keep building my spaceship without having to worry about military units. And I figured that they just weren't well enough developed (no city above size 12) to outpace my 1 a turn spaceship part building.

I edited my log to include a log preview like your's. Man, I screwed up by not giving away enough science so that I had to develop Seafaring and Bridge Building and some other advances....many years lost in that time!

Also the late year refrigeration date reveals a bad Science progression.

I caught the French too! Whew! But I was so mad I cancelled the alliance rather than give away science....but later I begged forgiveness and we were allies again....I have a temper when I play this game !

I never met the Babylonians! They were around though. I think I managed my allies poorly as I just request gifts early without giving science first and sharing maps early. You did get a lot more gifts!

Nice game and log....I'll keep at it.

Mila took Brian by the hand and led him unto Eden which he renamed Ottawa.Little did they know the OCC frustrations that were to come:

3650BC-govt-Monarchy-Ottawa
3450-warrior
3350-Writing
3300-hut-archer
3200-hut-Horseback Riding
3150-contact French-trade Mason for Pott-peace
3000-hut-50 gold
2950-hut-barbs-contact Aztecs-peace
2900-chariot..KIA
2850-library-start Collossus
2650-Currency...Trade not offered-hut-archer-hut-Literacy
2500-contact English trade Pott for Map-alliance-share maps-50 gold-trade Aztecs Lit for Myst tribute 50 gold
2300-Construction
2150-gift Lit to English and French-Writing to Aztecs
1800-hut-trade!
1750-finish Collossus
1700-Philosophy-Repub..math not offered-revolt
1650-govt-Repub
1600-temple-English gift 50
1550-start "we love" size 4
1350-end size 7
1300-gift Construct to English-50 gold-trade Aztecs Trade for Warrior Code-share maps
1200-Seafaring
1150-hides caravan
975-gems caravan
925-Math
825-colliseum
750-Astronomy..Med not offered-contact Babs-gift trade-50 gold
725-harbor
675-start "we love" size 7
650-aquaduct-start Cope's-gift repub to English-100 gold
600-trade Babs Construct for Banking-hides arrives in Nottingham 140 gold
575-The Wheel
550-end "we love" 12 sell colliseum
500-Babs gift 50-English cancel alliance-trade Aztecs Monarchy for Iron Working
475-French settler in city radius-gems arrive in Teotihuacan 400
450-Medicine-finish Cope's-start Shake's
425-"escorting French settler away-Babas gift 50
375-French are close Lyons 62/44
350-Engineering-trade French Seafaring for University..demand they withdraw..war-Babs gift 100
325-French settler,warrior terminated
250-Sanitation-peace with French
225-Bab caravan arrives from nineveh +8
150-sell temple-lux>0
125-Gravity-finish Shake's
100-English demand 100..war..English horseman terminated
50-start "we love"-Babs gift 75
25-sewer-start Ike's-contact Russians..war..Russian horseman terminated
---------------------------------------------
AD1-Invention
20-Bab caravan arrives..new route +10
100-Democracy-gift Sanitation to Babs
140-end "we love" 21-revolt-gift 50 gold to hostile French
200-gift Invention to Babs
220-govt-Democracy-gift Invention to English-peace
240-babs offer 300 to attack England-refused-French sneak attack exploring horse...Mr Ed survives by a sliver of red-gift Iron to Babs
260-Economics
320-Sir ikes finished
340-Gunpowder-French dip terminated
360-French horse terminated
380-chemistry-build university-cease fire with Russians-trade Babs Gunpowder for Navigation-ask for gift..alliance dissolved
420-Explosives
440-gems caravan
460-Metallurgy
480-engineer-trade Russians Gunpowder for Bridgebuilding..no alliance-gift gunpowder to French-Invention to Aztecs-Navigation to English
500-Physics
520-musketeer-English buzzing all around
540-Magnetism
560-engineer
580-Electricity..Refrig not offered
620-Steam Engine-build bank
660-Refrigeration
700-Railroad-supermarket-start Darwin's-no Auto pre reqs offered
740-Conscription-science goes from 701 to 642..trade routes unchanged..this has been a strange game-French are screwing me by occupying squares under ceasefire..I hate this game sometimes..fortunately i havn't started "we love" or it would have been ended by the French
780-Industrialization-sign alliance with French against Aztecs
800-start "we love"
840-Steel-only Feudal,Atomic and Commie offered-gift RR to french English and Aztecs-peace with Aztecs-none have Feudal or won't trade at least-city covered with French allies inhibiting engineers..they will pay
880-English declare war
900-Feudalism-end "we love" 24-sell sewer-gems arrive in York 80 gold..geez
920-sell aquaduct
940-The Corporation-offered Chiv,Atomic and Poly
980-Chivalry
1020-refining-no auto pre reqs offered
1040-Darwin's-Electronics-Combustion
1060-Automobile
1100-research box changes-should have had Mass Prod
1120-Mass Prod-offered Atomic poly and recycling-trade Russians Physics for Poly
1140-super highway
1160-Leadership-French pay 250 to declare war on English
1200-Tactics
1240-research changes again..should have had Machine Tools
1260-Machine Tools-Mini not offered-hydro plant
1280-spice freight-gift physics to English-ceasefire-gift RR to Aztecs-cease fire
1300-Mobile Warfare-wool freight
1320-food freight
1340-Miniaturization
1380-Computers-spice arrives in Paris 540
1400-Robotics-research lab
1420-French cancel alliance
1440-Flight-radio not offered-manufacturing plant-wool arrives in Newcastle 168
1480-Atomic Theory-Aztecs steal Sanitation-no war
1500-howitzer
1510-Radio-food freight
1520-food freight-English break cease fire..Mr howie seeks repercussions against English chariot
1530-Advanced Flight-armor-start wonder
1550-Rocketry-Space Flight not offered
1560-trade Russians Conscript for Commie
1580-Space Flight
1590-Apollo
1610-Plastics-no pre reqs offered-Babs want alliance-signed-50 gold
1640-Espionage
1670-Nuclear Fission
1690-Babs gift 50
1700-Nuclear power-French sneak attack
1730-The Laser-Super conductor not offered
1740-15 structs
1752-Amphibious Warfare
1754-Babs gift 100
1760-Super conductor
1764-6 comps-Babs gift 50-peace with French
1778-Fusion Power-sell research lab
1780-3 mods-launch
81-walls
82-barracks
83-coastal fort
84-armor
85-howitzer
86-armor-French elephant sneak attacks tank...hehehe
89-Manhattan Project
91-nuclear missile-nuke Paris
93-English sneak attack-nuclear missile-nuke Newcastle
94-armor
1795-arrival AC

A frustrating game with the tech choices and science changes.I must have lost a million turns.I never did build a stock exchange

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Its normal to be weird here and weird to be normal~ Brain

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CtG

2300 BC Colossus
1450 BC Gov: Republic
725 BC Copernicus
450 BC Shakespeare
200 BC Size 21
140 AD Isaac Newton
260 AD Refrigeration
640 AD Darwin, Automobile
920 AD Computers
1280 AD Apollo
1645 AD Arrival on AC

Aurelius, I can't find the post with my tech path right away, but I think I forgot to mention Democracy in that. I usually try to get it after Gravity. The ability to set science at 90 or 100% can help a lot, especially in this game. I also do a WLTPD after Dem if I can still get some growth from it, but that wasn't possible in this game.

Here's my log starting from the point where Tom saved the game:

you seem to get a fair amount of help from the ai.I'm gonna try the "give all science" plan.More early caravans also.

Awesome position and awesome result!

Concerning when to research Democracy, I suspect the decision is related to terrain and surplus food and not so easily put into a formula.

Au

Congratulations! Is this a record? I know 1803 was the old record, but I'm wondering how you would determine records in OCC.

After reading your OCC guide, I wasn't very sure about what type of game qualified as a record.

Also, in the strategy section, you mention that sometimes you may want to buy a granary -- have you bought a granary recently, or is this a older way of doing it?

And don Don, I credit Brian Mulroney with the great starting techs and location. The computer must have detected my leaders name and decided I need all the help I could get.

Nice game! Did you really have to give the English all that money! Were they your ally? Money is so tight in my games that I almost always go to war over it.

Does anyone ever take money when an ally request your assistence in a war? I almost always do.

Paul, nice charts! Very telling stats.

Vik, are you in this contest? You should be!

i plan on trying this one out, but i don't think i could get it finished before the two weeks are over. lot of stuff happening at work.

No, I would never give money to an ally when I can dump one or two obsolete techs and pump them up to Worshipful. The English were hostile, and they would periodically demand money. Early in the game I told them no once and they didn't go to war. But by the next time they demanded money I didn't think they'd hesitate.

I've also noticed that many times I don't get the "demand tribute" option with my non-allied neighbors, I think it's whenever the conversation starts with the "We offer peace and respect your boundaries" spiel.

Paul: You are a deity at this game - this is unbelievable.

Perhaps once my log is up you guys might like to tell me where I made my big errors - other than forgetting a hydro plant completely!!!!

vik: We all expect your entry next session

Tom: Thanks for a magnificent map

This is beginning to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech and I came last!
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Scouse Git[1]

OCC#2

Trying for Patent Fast Start

3700 -
3650 - Monarchy (government) - start to mine home city square
3500 - hut Archers - OttawaLiverpool founded - building Settler
3200 - Currency - city square mined
3150 - hut 50 gold - rush complete Settler
3100 - Settler - rush complete Warrior
3050 - Warrior - OttawaLiverpool now Size 2 - buiding second Warrior
---- French Civilisation destroyed by Barbarians - Hooray
3000 - contact English Settler - exchange Masonry for Map Making - Alliance
2950 - Warrior - start Colossus
2900 - share maps with English (Lond 2; York 1)
2850 - hut Horseback Riding
2750 - Wine now roaded Settler heading home
2700 - OttawaLiverpool now 3 (Settler has 'b'ed) f:8 t:9 S:6

Any comments on this approach to initial growth
Acknowledge original idea due to Smash & arii

2650 - Writing
2500 -
2450 - Wine mined giving f:7 t:11 s:7
---- Tacitus: most powerful: Canadians:1 English:3
---- Barbarian Archer wastes self against NONE Archer fortified on Northern mountain Choke
2150 - Literacy - offered both Trade & The Republic (gnash teeth) choose The Republic
2150 - OL size 3 f:7 t:11 S:8 - half way to Col
---- Aztec Chariot (damaged) contacts us - Uncooperative - give Literacy - Peace - 100 gold
2050 - contact English - no money
2000 - hut Mathematics
1800 - rush complete Colossus
1750 - Colossus - switch to Library f:6 t:17 s:9 - met Aztec Diplo ...
1750 - contact (cordial) Aztecs - exchange Monarchy for Mysticism - Masonry for Alliance - refuse maps
1750 - contact (cordial) English - 25 gold
1650 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - no joy
1650 - contact (cordial) English - 25 gold
1550 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - still no maps
1550 - contact (cordial) English - 25 gold
1550 - rush complete Library
1500 - Library, The Republic, Revolution
1450 - Republic - 20% luxuries needed until Temple
1450 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - swap maps
1450 - contact (cordial) English - 25 gold
1350 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - 75 gold
1350 - contact (cordial) English - 50 gold
1350 - rush complete Temple - crank up for WLTSD
1350 - Barbarian Archer to NE
1300 - start WLTSD @ size 3
1300 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - 50 gold
1300 - contact (cordial) English - no joy
---- Pliny - Happiness - Aztecs:1 English:2 Canadians:5 (there are two more out there)
1250 - rush complete Diplomat - Barbarians getting closer
1200 - realize I have forgotten to switch to food production - duh!
1200 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - 25 gold
1200 - contact (cordial) English - no joy
1100 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - 25 gold
1100 - contact (cordial) english - no joy
1000 - Philosophy, Construction, rush complete Coloseum
1000 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - 25 gold
1000 - contact (enthusiastic) English) - 50 gold
0975 - bribe Barbarian Archer (NONE) - 61 gold
0975 - end WLTSD @ size 8 f:17 t:39 s:12(-2) sci:46 tax rate:1.1.8
0950 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - 50 gold
0950 - contact (cordial) English - "Our patience wears thin"
0925 - contact allies - share maps with both
0900 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - 50 gold
0900 - contact (cordial) English - "Opwt"
0900 - rush complete Marketplace
---- Aztecs develop Currency
0875 - had to bribe another Barbarian Archer (OL) - 61 gold will disband him at OL
0850 - conacted by Aztec Diplomat - swapped Philosophy & Construction for Iron Working & The Wheel
0850 - contact (worshipful) Aztecs - no joy
0850 - contact (receptive) English - give Construction - end of conversation (Worshipful)
0800 - Archer returns to OL - Warrior disbanded
0800 - contact our worshipful allies - nothing from Aztecs - 50 from English
0775 -
0750 - rush complete Aqueduct
0725 - Trade (at last), Aqueduct - guess what I'm building now?
0725 - set up for WLTSD
0700 - WLTSD starts @ size 8
---- Exchange The Republic for Pottery from the English
0650 - Caravan (Silk) sets off for London
0625 - contact worshipful allies - Aztecs 50, English "Opwt"
---- Ur (Babylonian) builds Pyramids
0600 - Caravan (Gems) sets off for Tlatelolco
0525 - end WLTSD @ size 11 (a few food problems on the route)
0500 - Caravan (Coal) set off for somewhere - commodity not wanted
0500 - OL @ size 11 f:22 t:49 s:15(-2) sci:43 tr:2.2.6
0500 - contact worshipful allies - Aztecs 50 gold - English "Opwt"
0475 - Medicine
0450 - Food Caravan
0425 - Aztec trireme sighted
0400 - complete circumnavigation of South Pole - not a single hut!
0375 - contact worshipful allies - Aztecs: 100, English: 25
0350 - Food Caravan#2
0325 - incremental rush FC
0300 - Food Caravan#3, The University
0300 - contact worshipful Aztecs - get Polytheism (Oh goody!)
0300 - contact enthusiastic English - 25 gold
0250 - contact worshipful Aztecs - 100 gold
0250 - contact cordial English - "Opwt"
0250 - food Caravan#4
---- York (English) builds Great Library
---- English switch to Copernicus' Observatory - Yikes!
0200 - no joy from allies
0175 - Food Caravan #5
0175 - Gems @ Tlatelolco - 346 Gold
0175 - incremental rush Caravan
0150 - Seafaring, Food Caravan#6 apply to Copernicus' Observatory
0150 - our allies have both "Opwt"
---- SG2 joins the hunt
0125 - Copernicus' Observatory
0125 - coal to Canterbury - 130 gold
0125 - London just decided it doesn't want Silk anymore!
0125 - give Aztecs Trade & English Iron Working both now worshipful
0100 - our worshipful allies have empty purses!!!!!!!!!
0075 - Food Caravan#1
0075 - hold caravan going to London - advance about to happen
0050 - Engineering
0050 - Bl**dy Barbarians appear INSIDE my choke defenses!
0050 - Silk to London 168 gold
0050 - contact allies - English: 50
0025 - Barbarian archer on hill takes Archer fortified on mountain down to mere slice of red - get vet status
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0001 - Food Caravan#2
0001 - worshipful allies - Aztecs:25, English:50
---- Aztecs build Hanging Gardens
0020 - Food Caravan#3
0040 - Food Caravan#4
0040 - Barbarian Leader - 150 gold
0060 - Food Caravan#5, Invention
0060 - allies - Aztecs:50, English:25
0080 - food Caravan#6
0100 - Food Caravan#7 - 6 Caravans = Shakespeare's Theatre
0100 - allies - 50 gold each
0100 - bribed Aztec Catapult on my doorstep (came round the pole)
0120 - Shakespeare's Theatre
0120 - sold Colloseum
---- Sioux build Lighthouse
0140 - Banking - no Demo on list
0140 - food Caravan#2
0140 - disband Catapult buy Harbour
0160 - Harbour
0160 - allies - Aztecs:50, English:Opwt
0180 - Food Caravan#3
0200 - Food Caravan#4 (SG2 wants to buy MPE[to get more alliances, techs & cash] - SG1 holds out for INC)
0200 - allies - Aztecs:50, English:Opwt
0220 - Food Caravan#5, Theory of Gravity
0240 - allies - Aztecs:50, English:"Opwt"
0260 - Food Caravan#6
0280 - allies - Aztecs:50, English: give Invention & Banking get 50
0300 - Food Caravan#7, Democracy, Revolution, Democracy!
0320 - allies - Aztecs:50, English:maps
0340 - Food Caravan#8 = INC (except that finger fumble leaves 1 caravan outside)
0360 - last caravan goes in for INC
0380 - Isaac Newton's College, Navigation
0380 - allies - Aztecs:50, English:50
0420 - Food Caravan#1
0440 - Sanitation, allies - Aztecs:50, English:100
---- Cardiff completes KRC
0480 - Food Caravan#2
0500 - Bridge Building
0520 - Food Caravan#3, allies - Aztecs:50, English: give Navigation get 100
---- Tenochtitlan completes MPE
0560 - Food Caravan#4, Physics
0600 - allies - Aztecs:50, English:100
0620 - Food Caravan#5, Gunpowder
---- English came to swap for Mono - we refused - they give us 50
0660 - Food Caravan#6
0680 - Magnetism, allies - Aztecs:50, English:"Opwt"
0700 - Food Caravan#7, OttawaLiverpool now @12 f:27 t:81 s:15(-3) sci:292 tr:1.0.9
0740 - Copper Caravan (London bound), Chemistry
0760 - Bank
0780 - allies - Aztecs: Monatheism & 50, English swap Physics for Warrior Code and give 50
0800 - Explosives,
0820 - University
0860 - Spice Caravan, Economics, allies - 50 each
0900 - Galleon
0920 - Metallurgy
0940 - Engineer
0960 - Spice Teotihuacan 240
0980 - Engineer, Steam Engine, WLPD size 10
---- London build MC
---- Barbarian raiding party on doorstep!
1020 - Sewer System
---- Cardiff builds GW
1040 - City Walls
1060 - Railroad - allies - nothing
1140 - Electricity
1160 - Food Caravan#8 = Darwin
1180 - Darwin's Voyage - Refrigeration, Industrialisation
1180 - Copper to London - 86, allies - Aztecs:25, English:50
---- contact Babylonian elephant - peace
1200 - Supermarket, Feudalism
---- York completes Magellan
1260 - Gold Caravan,
1280 - The Corporation
1300 - Wine Freight
---- Tenochtitlan builds Oracle
1340 - Food Freight#1, Steel, WLPD stops @ 21
1360 - allies - english:100
1380 - Refining
1400 - coal Freight
1420 - Electronics
---- Peasants revolt near OL
1460 - Food Freight#2, Combustion
1500 - Automobile, Cruiser (now Vet)
1510 - Gold Caravan to Nottingham 254
1520 - Mass Production
1530 - Mass Transit
1540 - Conscription, allies Aztecs:25, English:50, Babylonians refuse Alliance
1560 - Stock Exchange, 150 for Barbarian Diplo, Coal to London 157
1570 - Superhighways, Chivalry,
1580 - Wine to Babylon 722
1590 - Silk Freight, Leadership,
1600 - Aztecs - nothing, English swap Steam Engine for Communism get 100 gold
1610 - Wine Freight, Atomic Theory
1620 - Food Freight#3, bribe Babylonian Caravan (Beads)
1630 - Tactics,
1640 - Food Freight#4
1650 - Machine Tools, go for Recycling - only viable alternative is Flight
1660 - Food Freight#5
1670 - Recycling, contact Celts accept Peace for 200 gold - give them Railroad
1680 - Food Freight#6
1690 - Food Caravan#7, Miniaturization
1700 - Recycling Centre,
1710 - Offshore Platform, Computers,
1710 - Silk to London 321
1720 - Research Lab, Flight
1730 - Factory; OL size:23, f:50 t:147 s:54(-4) sci:896 (3 Eins) tr:3.0.7
1730 - Wine to Tlatelolco 275
1740 - Spice Caravan, Radio
---- Coventry grants Women's Suffrage
1750 - Food Freight#8
1752 - Food Freight#9, Advanced Flight
1754 - Food Freight#10
---- Tenochtitlan builds SoL
1756 - Food Freight#11, Mobile Warfare
1758 - Food Freight#12
1760 - Food Freight#13, Rocketry
1762 - Food Freight#14
1764 - Food Freight#15, Nuclear Fission, Beads to Hastings 92
1766 - Food Freight#16
1768 - Food Freight#17, Robotics
1770 - Manufacturing Plant production 74 - d*mm*t
1772 - Food Freight#18, Space Flight
---- Coventry builds Eiffel Tower
1774 - Apollo Program
1776 - SSStructural#1, Nuclear Power, Spice to Ur 420
1780 - SSStructural#3, Plastics
1786 - SSStructural#6, Espionage
1792 - SSStructural#9, The Laser
1798 - SSStructural#12, Superconductor, lose Engineer to hunger
1800 - SSStructural#13, lose Engineer to hunger
1802 - SSStructural#14, city shrinks to 24 - so I learnt something the hard way
1804 - SSStructural#15, Combined Arms
1816 - SSComponent#6, Fusion Power
1822 - SSModule#3, Launch (1837 - a personal best)
---- Aztecs build SETI
---- Render self invulnerable and discover I forgot the Hydro-plant - curse loudly
1837 - Land AC - Brian Mulroney the Cruel 35%

I think I was lucky, got my tech tree in a muddle and lost a lot of time in the late opening, early middle game - but please comment.

My stats for paul's table are:

1837

-3650 -1450 300

-1750 -125 120 380 1180 1774

-175 -125 -50

66(63) -11(52) 62(120) 36(156) 15(171) 21(196) 15(211) 40(251)

-525(size 11) 1340 - yes I know this is awful

Thanks for the fun - I shall now try and read some more of your logs

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Scouse Git[1]

sorry bout the space bar again email me if you want the save!

About the gifts: I saw that the French captured some barb leaders so I knew they still had to have money. That's why I sometimes asked several turns in a row. Normally I don't ask gifts that often unless I'm pretty sure that they didn't give me all they had (or were willing to give).

The English had Knights and I really didn't think I could stand against them. Bribing a couple of units to fight for me would've been just about as expensive as the 700 I paid for peace.

I just felt paranoid about them coming down, tresspassing on my city squares (thus costing me science in a period where my science "budget" was tight @ 2 turns), pillaging my mined wine or farmland, possibly croaking my NONE Settler or an Engineer.

Those are the decisions I hate, and perhaps I was overly paranoid given the AI of 2.42.

Okay here it is. I just realized I forgot a few techs, including math & astronomy. I'll probably have to edit this for clarity...

Tech City
Year Gold Gained Improvement Misc
3700 0 BW, Alpha, CerBur, CoL, Mas, Mon
3650 0 Monarchy, found Ottawa, start warrior
3500 56 50gp(hut)
3450 58 Warrior Start Coll
3350 62 Curr
3200 68 Trade(hut)
3050 74 WC(hut)
3000 176 Meet Aztec, get 100gp trib & peace
2950 180 Map Meet English, give WC get Map, peace
2700 191 Myst
2350 219 Horseman(hut)
2200 381 Pottery Capture barb leader
2150 298 Collossus 50gp from Aztec and English
2050 199 Build Granary
1700 228 Writing Build Silk Caravan
1450 264 Build Gems Caravan
1350 276 Literacy
1300 168 Marketplace
1200 38 Library
1200 145 Seafaring Aztecs, give Lit get Seafaring + 100gp
1100 60 Harbor
975 36 Phil, Repub Temple Revolution
900 198 Iron English, give Repub & Trade, get Iron, alliance, 150gp
850 204 Build Beads caravan
800 214 English dissolve alliance
750 428 Cons Gems Cara arrives in Nottingham, 208g
725 435 Build Hides caravan
700 440 Aztec declare war, start WLTCD(5)
650 339 Walls end WLTCD(7)
625 413 Aqueduct Silk cara arrives London, 202gp
400 479 Banking Meet French, declare war
375 487 English declare war
350 699 Beads cara arrives in York, 204 gp
325 316 Med Cope Hides caravan arrives in Texococo, 74gp, capture barb leader, 150gp
225 173 Horseback Bank
AD 1 239 Engineering Give English Seafaring & Const, get peace
100 249 Sanitation
160 65 Shakes Start WLTCD(10)
200 71 Univ
280 37 Sewer
300 37 TheoryGrav
320 43 Give Aztec Trade, Repub, get peace & map
340 47 Build wine caravan
380 53 Invention
400 69 Give English Invention
420 95 Give Aztec Invention, give French Invention, Sanition, Republic, get map
440 121 Aztec declare war
460 121 Navigation End WLTCD(21)
520 205 Economics
600 317 Demo Revolution, give Aztec Nav, Writing get peace
620 41 Isaac Disc 3 turns
640 109 Sneak attack by English, lose wine caravan
680 177 Physics Major barb horde
700 165 Stock Exchange
760 73 University
780 185 Give Aztec Banking & astronomy, give English Nav & Phy, get peace
800 185 Magnetism build coal caravan
840 297 Metallurgy Galleon Give French Seafaring, get peace
880 409 Chemistry Build Gems Caravan
900 771 coal caravan to Teothuacan, 250g
940 891 Steam Eng build spice caravan
980 1132 Give Aztec Wheel, Steam Eng, Univ, Gems Caravan to Texoco, 210
1000 1240 RR
1040 1299 Elec
1060 443 Refrig, Explo Darwin Capture barb leader
1080 449 Conscription
1100 455 Engineers
1120 449 Industrialization Supermerket 100gp(hut)
1160 455 Corp Give English RR, Industrialization, Give Celts Gunpowder, Industrialization, get peace
1200 411 Refining English getting in way, ask to leave, declare war
1220 429 Factory Spice Caravan to Cardiff, 306g
1240 535 Steel First pollution
1260 636 Engineers
1320 838 Combustion Forgot to decrease taxes
1340 861 Wool caravan, 2nd pollution
1360 862 Start WLTCD(19)
1380 632 Automobile
1400 597 Superhighways
1420 603 Electronics 3rd pollution
1440 609 build spice caravan, 4th pollution
1460 282 Chivalry Hydro End WLTPD(21), 5th pollution
1500 434 MassProd
1510 459 MassTransit Caravan to Orleans, 168g, French declare war
1520 532 food caravan
1540 678 Chivalry
1560 1514 Leadership Spice Caravan to Technochtitlan, 684g, 3 trade routes, 21, 21, 22
1570 1590 Tactics Wool caravan
1590 1677 Machine Tools
1610 1801 MobileWarfare
1630 2089 Miniaturization Wool caravan to Teotihuacan, 202g
1640 1915 Platform
1650 1950 Computers
1660 1797 ResearchLab
1670 1914 Robotics
1690 2154 Flight Trade routes all at18
1710 2099 NuclearFission
1720 2045 ManuPlant Production at 88
1730 2091 Radio
1750 2146 AdvFlt Trade routes all at 16
1754 2160 Rocketry sell temple
1758 2263 NuclearPower sell granary
1762 2417 Space Flt sell aqueduct
1764 2432 Apollo sell sewer, all trade routes at 18
1766 2552 Plastic Structurals
1770 2609 Laser
1774 2649 CombinedArms
1778 2689 Supercond
1782 2709 Fusion
1788 2854 AmphWar
1794 3109 Stealth French declare war, done with structurals start components
1800 3279 Recyc
1806 3534 GeneticEngr Done with comp, start mod, trade routes back to 16
1812 554 Environ Finish SS & launch, expected 1827, trade routes back to 18
1813 639 Fighter Some encroachment by French
1815 809 Communisum Bomber
1818 1064 Espionage Bomber
1821 1303 GuerrilaWarfare
1827 1547 Land AC

I will edit in my log during the day.

Had some trouble with timing of WLTCD and having enough food available, and made a mistake with my third trade route, but overall I am pretty pleased with this one.

Civ Version MGE
3650 Monarchy, Gretzkyville (They should rename it after the Great One)
3450 Warrior; French – Writ vs Monarchy Ally for Masonry (Celts destroyed by Sioux)
3350 Russians – War (with their Settler – I’m scared)
3300 Warrior
3250 Hut 25
3200 Literacy
3100 Hut - Pottery; English, Maps vs Pottery, Ally for Literacy, share maps (is this MGE??)
3050 Hut - barb horse (get that weak sh*t outta here)
2950 Hut 50
2900 Library
2700 Currency
2450 Barb Leader 150 (by Paris, there are two - thanks Frogs)
2400 Barb Leader 150 (this was a huge break! Decided to use money on improvements after the Colossus is done)
2350 Construction
2300 Babs – give them a couple of techs; Ally, share maps, give me 100
2100 Hut – Horseback Riding
1850 Trade?
1800 Colossus – Russians; cease fire, give techs, Ally, share maps, give me 50
1600 Coliseum (rushed)
1550 Sioux – give 50, give away techs, Ally, share maps, give me 250! Net 200
1500 Marketplace
1450 Republic
1400 Aquaduct; get Rep WLTCD (insufficient food)
1250 Caravan
1150 Settler to help irrigate; two more barb leaders 300!
1050 Caravan; Mysticism
0975 Caravan; England – give techs, trade maps, get 150
0950 Babs – give techs, trade maps, get 100
0925 Caravan
0900 Philosophy and University (Advance)
0875 Caravan
0800 Caravan
0725 Astronomy
0650 French; request war with Aztecs for 200… uh okay! Silk to London 154/+6; demand had changed
0625 University (improvement) ; Seafaring
0575 Harbor (back to WLTCD to get 12)
0550 Caravan; Babs – tech givaway, map trade, 50 to me
0525 Hides to Babylon 216/+9
0500 Medicine; Second Hides to Babylon 253/+9… WTF doesn’t give me 3 trade routes; D’oh – nothing else enroute, this will take a while
0450 Wheel
0375 Banking; Size 12? (Had been size 10 for a while)
0350 French – usual tech givaway, map trade, 50 to me.
0325 Engineering; Sioux – Warrior Code vs ?, Iron Working vs ?
0300 Copernicus; Russians destroyed by oppressive English Imperial warmongers
0250 Bank; Sanitation
0200 English – tech givaway, map trade, 200 to me
0175 Theory of Gravitational Stuff
0150 Sewer System; WLTCD; Babs – tech givaway, map trade, 150 to me
0075 Caravan
0050 Bridge Building (putting that extra settler to work!)
0025 Caravan
0001 Happy New Year!
0020 Caravan; Economics
0040 Wine to Babs 267 (finally trade route #3)
0060 Shakespeare’s Theater
0100 Invention; sell Coliseum (took three turns to find housing for the homeless people living there)
0120 Stock Exchange
0140 French; usual process, tech, map, 100 to me.
0160 Democracy, revolt until 0240! That is a long long time.
0280 Chemistry
0320 Gunpowder
0360 Isaac Newton’s School of Smarts, Navigation; Sioux 200; French 50; English 150; Babs 50 (AI not that smart)
0400 Caravan; Explosive cigars
0420 Caravan
0440 Van; Physics
0480 Dip; Magnetism
0500 Van
0520 Frigate; periodically over the next 50 turns I bribed barbs with my dip from the frigate
0540 Van; Metalurgy; Babs 50
0560 Bribe None Settler from Babs over by Aztecs(?); English 150
0580 Van; Electricity; Sioux 250!
0620 Steam Engine (contemplate Eiffel Tower)
0640 Engineer; (Romans Rip, that is 3 white civs)
0660 Engineer, Refrigeration, Gems 336; WLTPD
0680 Supermarche, Railroad
0720 Feudalism
0760 Industrialization; Sioux 250; Spice 196
0780 Van; Wool 62
0820 Corporation; Gold 290 (trade route, not total)
0860 Factory; Electronics
0880 English 200
0900 Hydro Plant
0920 Steel; Coal 248
0940 Walls (just in case) Wool 144
0980 Engineer; Combustion
1000 Van
1020 Atomic Theory
1040 Van; Size 23 (+/- a couple of turns)
1060 Van; Automobile
1080 Van; Sioux 250; English 100
1100 Superhighway; Babs 50
1120 Mass Production
1140 Mass Transit (for kicks)
1160 Van; Chivas Regal or Chivalry
1180 Van
1200 Van; Conscription
1220 Van
1240 Darwin’s; (I was waiting as long as possible to get the most beakers for the WoW) Leadership, Tactics; Wool 378, 487 Coal
1260 Barracks; Machine Tools
1280 Alpine
1300 Alpine; Mobile Warfare, barracks sold
1320 Van
1340 Van; Miniaturization
1360 Van (coal again)
1380 Van (wool again); Computers
1400 Research Lab
1420 Offshore Platform; Robotics; Coal 502
1440 Manufacturing Plant; Nuke Fission
1460 Van; French – want Conscription vs Polytheism, Okay. (should I build an elephant?)
1480 Van; Nuclear Power; Babs want Computers vs Communism, whatever, okay.
1500 Van
1510 Van; Laser; Wool 374
1520 Battleship because if you are going to take a turn to build a unit, go BIG
1530 Van; Flight
1540 Van
1550 Van; Radio
1560 Van
1570 Van; Adv Flight (no rocketry option)
1580 Van
1590 Van; Espionage
1600 Tired of building Vans, Start Seti for Apollo
1610 Rocketry
1630 Space Flight; Wool 200
1640 Apollo
1650 Structural; Plastics
1660 Structural; French want Tactics for Monotheism, okay, but I would have asked for something else…
1670 Structural; Combined Arms
1680 Structural
1690 Structural
1700 Structural; Superconductor; Aztecs ask for cease-fire, give tactics and conscription for peace, bribe unit.
1710 Structural
1720 Structural
1730 Structural; Amphibious Whatever
1740 Structural
1750 Structural
1752 Structural; Fusion Power
1754 Structural
1756 Structural
1758 Structural; Stealth – set science research to 0%
1760 Propulsion; Sell Lab
1762 Propulsion; Sell University
1764 Propulsion; Sell Library
1766 Fuel
1768 Fuel
1770 Fuel
1772 Solar Panels Module
1774 Life Support Module
1776 Habitation Module -> Launch
1777 Airport
1778 Stealth Fighter
1779 SAM
1780 SDI
1781 Port
1782 Barricks; French sneak attack with 2 fighters kills a couple of none chariots and some caravans - no big deal
1783 Tank - Stealth fighter eliminate local French defenders. Tanks, Alpines, and remaining 2 move units pillage French territory without risk of counter attack all remaining turns.
1784 Stealth Fighter
1785 Paratrooper (Sent to mountain fortress by Paris)
1786 Stealth Fighter
1787 Stealth Fighter
1788 Tank
1789 Stealth Fighter
1790 Stealth Fighter
1791 Land Alpha Centauri

You surprised me twice in your log, building a settler and revolting to republic without a temple or coliseum.

I've tried a few games of late where I did a WLT[Monarch]D to get an OCC Republic trade bonus, but it didn't seem to help. Has anyone used this tactic effectively? In this Whale/Wine game, it seemed like it might be a good idea as the high trade would allow a low luxury rate.... In this game, it is moot, but does anyone ever do a WLT[Despot]D to get food fast prior to Monarchy? (Probably not given we don't have marketplaces during construction of Colossus....food for thought.

CtG, the only time I'm in danger of breaking my space bar is when I'm angrily trying to get out of Anarchy fast without the Statue of Liberty due to a slip up. I was probably one of the few that read between the ears --I mean spaces