29-10-2003 08:58									#1
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I allowed multiple so you could vote for more than one if you aren't sure or think there's a tie.

I think it's clearly not France and likely not Spain, but I'm having a hard time deciding between the English and Dutch.

	29-10-2003 11:29									#2
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I like playing English. Love those immigrants.

	29-10-2003 13:03									#3
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I like playing the english (quick colonization) and the dutch (bigger&faster ship in the beginning).

	29-10-2003 14:52									#4
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not an easy one..............

I lie that the English got a much higher immigrant (emmigrant) rate.

The Dutch got a far more stable home-market.

The rest I hardly ever used. Except the Spanish, when I was just playing Invader

Can't remember the french........what was their special treaty?

	29-10-2003 15:26									#5
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I rely on the immigrants. Population = power in this game.

-Jam

	30-10-2003 00:46									#6
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Yeah...the English were powerful. Those immigrants just kept coming, and you could build up a powerful nation easily.

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	30-10-2003 01:27									#7
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Love the Dutch! So when is the second colonization coming out?!

So long...

	30-10-2003 05:49									#8
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Spanish
With Inca Gold = Skilled Workers instead of immigrants
English was too easy at Beginning
Yet you could always refrain from using the Spanish Boni :=)

	30-10-2003 11:25									#9
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The french cause much less unrest among the indians (a sissy trait )

	30-10-2003 16:28									#10
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I like the people you get with England.

	31-10-2003 02:08									#11
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English and Dutch most of the time, you could really get a good colony going with the English, and the Dutch economy was really good for raising armies.

On an off day id play the Spanish, and kill every native I could set eyes on .. which was profitable .. for a while, until they all were dead.

	31-10-2003 08:41									#12
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It's available on a source that has only the letters K A and Z in its name...

I bought it a long time ago but I lost my disc.

	31-10-2003 13:48									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar Ahem. Can someone point me to the Windows version of the game? Over here at Fun Unlimited (a video game store), the MS-DOS version (I think) is running for $25. A bit too much for me

Are they nuts ?!?!?!?!?!?

Such an old game and so much money..............didn't they realise that the world has turned already a couple of years?????????????

	31-10-2003 14:53									#14
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Windows version is available at a certain DOGS that go BELOW the other DOGS.

Go figure

If not, try classictrash.com

-Jam

	31-10-2003 18:05									#15
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i had my best games with the spanish when i got lucky and managed to get some good soldiers, or cannons early along with a galleon. for consistancy both the english and dutch are good but overall i like the english a bit better.

	12-11-2003 02:23									#16
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sorry, DB.

	12-11-2003 02:24									#17
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Dutch are my favorite in this game. they get much more money from trade with europe than others.
and more money means more stuff to you.


English skill of 50% more crosses is also great, but I think that there is a limit to how quickly you can get those immigrant to the docks in europe. can anybody confirm this?
and you can compensate this english skill by building few cathedrals and hiring few preacherts.

Spanish skill of 50% attack bonus against the indians is nice, sure, but you get minus 4 points in the colonization score for every burned indian village, that isn't nice.

French skill of less indian alert is worth nothing if you trade with the indians.

EDIT: and BTW, Great thread idea! I was about to post thread about same subject.

	12-11-2003 16:04									#18
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I would have to agree with the vote for English. More people is always fun.

	28-11-2003 09:10									#19
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I loved the Spanish and the Dutch. Lot's of money in both cases.

	28-11-2003 10:06									#20
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My favourite is The Dutch

Not only do they get the Merchantman instead of a caravel in the beginning (meaning more immigrants coming in the one voyage), I could land and set up shop in Argentina, buy silver from the Incas dirt cheap, and that would be the only source of funds I needed until I got all of my factories across the colonies built and populated. That would set me up for an easy war of independence.

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quote: Originally posted by Jamski Windows version is available at a certain DOGS that go BELOW the other DOGS.

Well for the life of me, I jusr can't seem to figure out what dogs you mean

Asmodean

	23-12-2003 17:03									#22
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On the higher difficulty levels I can't live without the French bonus - otherwise I end up with too much native restlessness. Any of the other civ's bonuses I can compensate for.

	02-03-2004 23:41									#23
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I always thought it was Dutch, hands-down. I mean, yeah, the English are okay, but a single fountain of youth neutralizes that pretty quickly.

	12-03-2004 17:42									#24
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I usually played the dutch as well.

	12-03-2004 19:08									#25
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Colonization is an excellent simulator of the real world, it seems: here, too, nobody cares for the French, and we all want to move to Amsterdam.

	16-03-2004 03:57									#26
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I liked the Dutch and the Spanish. The thing is, if as the Spanirds you begin away from the Incas or Aztecs, then you are really not going to do well. But if you land close to them, like in Argentina, then baby, 25000 gold from the Inca capital buys a heck of a lot of goodies.

	16-03-2004 07:11									#27
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It really does seem to depend where you land. I've tended to start in areas relatively dense with natives early on, which is perhaps why being the French has been so important to me (early conflict with natives = bad at higher levels.)

But you're right, if you land right near the Incas/Aztecs/Mayas being the Spanish might be better, and if you little early contact with either group of natives then the Dutch would probably be best.

	16-03-2004 07:56									#28
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I always played as the dutch or the french. I like the dutch for their free ship, or whatever it was. And I like the french for being french.

	28-07-2004 17:14									#29
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Are you all nuts? When you're the Spanish, you just get by even if you're not quite as great as the other powers until you get Cortes into the Congress and you find the Aztecs and/or Incas. Then send a Merchantman or Galleon full of Conscript Dragoons and start blitzing. You should rack in a TON of cash, more than enough to buy your way to whatever you want, and that is all you should need to put yourself to the win. English are OK, but as any other civ you can boost your immigration easily anyway.

	02-08-2004 21:14									#30
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The English

I bought another disk of this on eBay several months back for less than 10 bucks.