Ronald's Adventure 56

[Ronald]

In the spirit of Christmas, the more you give the better. Who gifts the most techs to the AI by 1600 AD

I wanted to enable tech trading asap, so I beelined very quickly to alphabeth (hunting, fishing, mining, mysticism, pottery, writing, alphabeth)

My first city was Christkindle for some research boost with the gold



and a double pink dot for Santa Claus and South Pole to grab as much land as possible:



By 1AD I had all the cities I wanted to settle and gifted already 42 techs



The biggest problem between 1AD and 1000 AD was to stop Hannibal to destroy Mansa. I bribed him 3 or 4 times to stop the war.
Here the situation at 500 AD:



Again, more gifting, making sure nobody gets hurt.

This is the gifting development:
1000 AD 60
1250 AD 95
1400 AD 110
1500 AD 121
1550 AD 139
1600 AD 197
The tech pace of the AI was so bad, it didn't matter when I gifted the techs. Only Mansa researched a few useful ones. I just had to make sure, that I started with mass gifting early enough, so that I could gift everything I had.

After the massive gifting and choosing the favourite civics of the AI, the vote was very easlily won.



Final score: 197 gifts + 10 for diplomatic victory: 207

It was a fun game, thanks t-Hawk for the holiday special.

[athlete4life10]

GG Ronald. I never thought of putting cities on wealth/research. I'm sure I could have flew through some more techs to get some more trade bonus had I done so. Also, it occurs to me now, the 2 cities I never settled could have helped me research more as well. Oh well!

[T-hawk]

Nice land grab, you got all of the southern area plus more towards Frederick than I did. Did you have any economic trouble with that fast expansion? I did.

And I see Sid's Sushi in that last screenshot, always worthwhile, even just 5-6 food means 2-3 extra cottages or specialists per city.

197 + 10 is the leading score so far, we'll see if it holds up; congrats if it does!

[Ronald]

Nice land grab, you got all of the southern area plus more towards Frederick than I did. Did you have any economic trouble with that fast expansion? I did.

And I see Sid's Sushi in that last screenshot, always worthwhile, even just 5-6 food means 2-3 extra cottages or specialists per city.

197 + 10 is the leading score so far, we'll see if it holds up; congrats if it does!

I had some trouble, research came almost to a hold, but early libraries with scientists + cities building research/wealth solves this problem.

Sushi gave me 6 extra food



Here is a shot of my wonderful capitol Santa Claus at 1600 AD: