Civilization V Solo Reports

[T-hawk]

Thanks Zherak, fixed.

Spain's luck factor is off the charts. It takes several dozen map rolls to find a particular desired natural wonder, and several times that to luck-walk the settler directly into it rather than cheaty-reloading. Even just taking any halfway decent nat wonder still means 20 or so tries.

Shoshone's luck factor is actually very low, maybe the lowest of all the civs in fact. The ruins are not luck on a huge map. There's always tons of them to find. The median total is still at least a dozen. And the Shoshone eliminate the luck factor in the results, always getting a good dozen.

The majority of the luck factor isn't civ specific. It's in the map rerolling to find a strong capital site. Every game on my site involved map rerolling to find a top 5% or so starting location. And actually the Shoshone even mitigate this more than any other civ too, since the land-grab ability means more tolerance of possible terrain configurations.

So I think the Shoshone would indeed have the best chance-per-restart at beating those times. Although I don't really know how the science civs (Babylon/Korea) hold up. But that's next on my list to try.