My fellow Americans. I have a confession to make:
The biggest RB event of all time...and I blow it. I managed to corrupt my savefiles after my first session by playing for a while past my last manual save and then playing another game over my autosaves. Sigh.
So, I'll be brief. I wandered for a turn at the start, and ended up founding Washington a bit north of the starting place. On a plains hill and in range of stone. Two food sourced and stone seemed pretty good for an industrious civ. I also expanded fairly aggressively to the east. I'll attach two screenshots (which I do still have). The first shows where the early American cities went:
![[Image: earlyempirenc4.jpg]](http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3763/earlyempirenc4.jpg)
The next shows the great American achievement before the Common Era:
![[Image: washingtonpyramidsjg6.jpg]](http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5739/washingtonpyramidsjg6.jpg)
Yes, we went for the Pyramids and finished them (with a bit of chopping) in 655BC.
In addition to the two non-capital cities you see above, I also founded in the southwest near the seafood and the elephants.
By the time the Pyramids completed, I must confess that I took a couple weeks off (hence the savefile overwrites) to figure out what to do next. I had copper in the radius of the city-about-to-be-founded in the screenshot above. I had horses. I had cities with food. I had troops being built up. I had the Pyramids. I had...
I had no idea what to do next. With such a big, productive empire early on, and with Copper, victory was assured. A conquest/domination romp. A wonder/specialist culturefest. A combination of the above with a "race" to the spaceship. Since I could do everything, I found myself not wanting to do anything.
When I finally got back to the game, I'd decided to finish Mathematics, then set the research goal to "Mass Media" and go for a true diplomatic victory. Mathematics would open up the Hanging Gardens. I planned to make Washington a model city: trying to generate as many great people of all shapes and sizes and settling all of them right there.
But it was not to be. And so I'm afraid this 1/11th of the American die rolls will add little to the Epic 8 discussion. It was interesting to see the very non-even spread of civs. Very cool to get something via real rolls of a die these days!
For comparison purposes:
I built a worker first, then settler (New York).
I teched: AH, Wheel, Mining, Bronze, Masonry, Hunting (for Elephants), and Mathematics.
New York was founded near Rome, Boston nabbed the copper, and Philadelphia was in the southwest (near the elephants).
The biggest RB event of all time...and I blow it. I managed to corrupt my savefiles after my first session by playing for a while past my last manual save and then playing another game over my autosaves. Sigh.
So, I'll be brief. I wandered for a turn at the start, and ended up founding Washington a bit north of the starting place. On a plains hill and in range of stone. Two food sourced and stone seemed pretty good for an industrious civ. I also expanded fairly aggressively to the east. I'll attach two screenshots (which I do still have). The first shows where the early American cities went:
The next shows the great American achievement before the Common Era:
Yes, we went for the Pyramids and finished them (with a bit of chopping) in 655BC.
In addition to the two non-capital cities you see above, I also founded in the southwest near the seafood and the elephants.
By the time the Pyramids completed, I must confess that I took a couple weeks off (hence the savefile overwrites) to figure out what to do next. I had copper in the radius of the city-about-to-be-founded in the screenshot above. I had horses. I had cities with food. I had troops being built up. I had the Pyramids. I had...
I had no idea what to do next. With such a big, productive empire early on, and with Copper, victory was assured. A conquest/domination romp. A wonder/specialist culturefest. A combination of the above with a "race" to the spaceship. Since I could do everything, I found myself not wanting to do anything.
When I finally got back to the game, I'd decided to finish Mathematics, then set the research goal to "Mass Media" and go for a true diplomatic victory. Mathematics would open up the Hanging Gardens. I planned to make Washington a model city: trying to generate as many great people of all shapes and sizes and settling all of them right there.
But it was not to be. And so I'm afraid this 1/11th of the American die rolls will add little to the Epic 8 discussion. It was interesting to see the very non-even spread of civs. Very cool to get something via real rolls of a die these days!
For comparison purposes:
I built a worker first, then settler (New York).
I teched: AH, Wheel, Mining, Bronze, Masonry, Hunting (for Elephants), and Mathematics.
New York was founded near Rome, Boston nabbed the copper, and Philadelphia was in the southwest (near the elephants).