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solo
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Lowell, MA USA
Jan 2001
time: 05:12
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For early landing attempts, I limit the number of cities and concentrate almost entirely on trade, but for conquest games, the more cities the merrier, and I would lean towards ICS, and would buy or capture the Pyramids ASAP.
[This message has been edited by solo (edited May 15, 2001).]
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geofelt
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Neptune Beach,Florida,USA
Jan 1970
time: 00:12
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After hanging gardens, I like pyramids over colossus in sp play, even on deity. The best super science city will have colossus, but it still can be quite decent if you build it in the city with hanging gardens. Pyramids seems to make the rest of the game go easier. In particular, it keeps you out of trouble by keeping the food box at least half full as a reserve.
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EdwardTKing
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England
Aug 2000
time: 05:12
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I prefer Pyramids to Colossus; my logic being:
a) Colossus is a one city wonder. Pyramids benefits all cities.
b) It is rare for a city to be high in both trade arrows and shields. It is easier to build wonders in a high shield city; but the Colossus is of less value in a high shield oriented city. It is difficult to build wonders in a high trade city where the Colossus is most beneficial; you usually have to wait for trade technology and Caravans. The Pyramids can be built in a high shield city (and often rush finished before acquiring trade) where they are fully useful.
c) Colossus expires; the Pyramids do not.
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Filip
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Sweden
May 2001
time: 06:12
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The first wonder I build is usually and preferably the Pyramids. When you build it, especially combined with Monarchy, you can build many settlers fast and get a lot of cities in the beginning of the game. Then you can use 5-7 cities to build caravans and the rest of the cities to expand and explore. If you're good and have a bit of luck you'll probably have every wonder in your possession.
Don't aim for the Colossus until you get the Hanging Gardens, especially when you play in deity mode. Everybody knows how good the HG wonder really is, making one person happy, and later, when you get more cities, one person content. One more good thing is that you can wait a while before building temples, concentrating on building settlers.
But Colossus and HG in the same city, now that's something. It's pretty easy to get 'we love the emperor day' with the two wonders combined with a temple, three cheap troops and Monarchy. Remember, Monarchy + 'we love the emperor day' makes Republic in the city. Use the advantages with Monarchy and Republic at the same time. Now make sure that you build Copernicus Observatory and the other 'one city only wonders' in this city.
After you get the Great Wall and Sun Tzu's you can sit down taking it easy for as long as you like, building up an army automatically upgraded with Leonardo's Workshop. When you get Steam Engine you just take your Ironclads and attack every enemy coastal city one by one. Because you have every important wonder, your enemies will stay in the bronze age for as you like, defending their cities with only warriors and phalanxes. They don't stand a chance.
Of course, this only works with playing against non-humans.
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Dr.Oogkloot
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I though Hanging Gardens used to be preferred....have things changed in the last few months?
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15-05-2001 12:39
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