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MacUser is offline MacUser
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Olathe, KS, USA
Jul 1999
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I finally won a occ!!! Remove this text

Taking Smash's advice to heart, I built a 15-1-1-1-1-1 on tonights OCC game and I MADE IT!!

This is the FIRST time that the AI hasn't whacked me during the OCC game! The big difference, I think, is that I have quit using MPG for single player games and am using the original Civ II for OCC. Between a friendlier AI, gifts and being stuck out on an island far away from the blood-thirsty AI, I finally had a decent chance. And, no, I didn't play Diety. I just wanted to hopefully win at least ONCE!

No log. Nothing to brag about. Just wanted to share the joy of colonizing space!

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kcbob is offline kcbob
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Kansas City, MO USA
Dec 1999
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Be careful what you wish for...

Go back to MPG, play at raging hordes. It can be done! BUT, (there's that big BUT again), be prepared. I just tried my old ICS strategy in my latest game and got waxed. I'm afraid that "once on OCCer, always an OCCer".

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Carolus Rex is offline Carolus Rex
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Sweden
Jan 1970
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Congrats!!!

Edited: Can you believe I had to edit this message??? And yes, I only wrote the "Congrats!!!" part...

Carolus

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Oldman is offline Oldman
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Livingstone, Lord Protector of London
Apr 2000
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Well done MacUser!!! nice one!!

kcbob, so you've had trouble reverting to normal play after occ too? i got creamed last weekend by the french?!?!

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Dec 1999
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First, let me say what I forgot to say in my first post... kongrats, no wait, cungrats, nope, that's not right, congratz, hold on, congratts... I give up, how do you misspell comgrats?

Seriously, congratulations MacUser. It is a great feeling, n'est-ce pas?

And yes, Oldman, it's tough to go back. Although, some of my problem is that I select "random" on most of the options when generating a world and sometimes get stuck on an island. (I'm not a big naval person)

Now that I think about it, your French comment just gave me an idea for a thread. Thanks.

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Tom DeMille is offline Tom DeMille
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Jan 2000
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Well done MacUser Good luck ever being able to play a proper ICS strategy again.

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LOL@kcbob!

Edited: Yes, had to edit this one too?!

Carolus

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Emperor
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Nov 1999
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Well done MacUser! I only ever played one OCC - 9, I think? (The road along the South Pole) Landed in 1825 about 200 years after most others! I had no trouble reverting back to ICS - everyone to their own.
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Mao is offline Mao
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Congrats MacUser...now...if only I could win...

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Jun 2000
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Welcome to OCCers Anonymous.

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Originally posted by tonic on 08-08-2000 08:10 PM
Welcome to OCCers Anonymous.


Wait...him or me?

I do OCCs...just haven't really been able to win with anything spectacular. Now and then I do beat the AI by like one year...but that's about it

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MacUser - is there another similar thread somewhere? I would swear that I have already replied (with many congratulations) to this somewhere, but it certainly ain't here!!!

Many congratulations - and kiss ICS goodbye

Good civin'

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Sloth is offline Sloth
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Jul 1999
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Won my first OCC...at Deity. Won many in past...but at king level.
What really saved me: airbases!!!

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Dec 1999
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Airbases?!?!

Tell me your tongue is firmly placed in your cheek, Sloth. Airbases?!?!

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Di- d, Did, Did he say AirBases?!?!?!?!!?

Mao is offline Mao
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What's wrong with airbases? He might have had a city near many hills, and the airbases gave him extra food. Or he might have set up a perimeter of airbases near his one city, so that he can scout ahead.

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I think their point is that the "official" apolyton OCC rules consider airbases a cheat, so they should not be used.

But hey, if you're just playing for fun, then who cares.

Mao is offline Mao
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A cheat? I think it's kinda nice, you can have forward bases all over the world basically right?

SCG is offline SCG
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Jun 2000
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couple of points - according to paul's OCC page, it doesn't forbid airbases, only airbases on hills within the city radius.

Second point: you can add me to those claiming the title of this thread

My first try was on Sten Sture's 4 whales comp game. no log, but then I was just trying to get the game in in a few hrs (took me about 5) Actually, I'm rather impressed with myself for the 1929 landing considering all the things I did "wrong"

I started out with bad hut luck (1 archer, 25 gold, 1 tech total) and only got about 4-5 techs (no gold) from the AI. never even got an alliance (v1.07c). Question here would be how many techs does it take to get an AI up to worshipful - i kept getting peace treaties, but that I was worthless to make an alliance with. I wound up being a republic around 1880BC and kept getting my caravans killed. I got 2 trade routes out in the BC, but didn't get the 3rd route until I sent 3 caravans out at once to give the AI raiders multiple targets (once they broke the peace, I kept getting gold or state-of-the-art tech demands, and just didn't want to give up that much for peace.

while i was getting my 2 discoveries per round most of the game, I didn't bother to check the list of needed discoveries, so in the early 1800's when I was trying to get space flight, i found out i needed to discover monarchy/feud/chiv etc first (tried to trade for techs, but the AI at this point was demanding things like automobile for the right to talk to them )

Also I miscounted the number of shields i needed and wound up with 75 shields instead of 80 when building the ship, so that slowed me down as well. Other mismanagement included not watching which bar (L/T/S) was adjusted when I was fiddling with the science rate and having my temple sold or my city going into disorder Also had the misfortune of having my NON settler killed off not long after industrialization. Other minor things were forgetting to sell things like the granary and the aquaduct until I was running out of gold trying to rush buy SS parts. All in all I'm happy though

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SCG: darn, I've never really got the hang of that tribute thing, guess it will be a long time until i make prince

*goes off and starts gifting gold and techs*

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King
Kansas City, MO USA
Dec 1999
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Actually, I was wondering about the time spent on building airbases. But now I've just remembered (sheepish look) that the city doesn't build them, engineers do.

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