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Barington
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London UK
Aug 2000
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Yes reputation does not seem to affect final score in any way. The main purpose of keeping a spotless reputation is that it is essential to being able to wage war under a representative government (Republic or Democracy). I always keep a spotless reputation through the game because I do not ever use Communism or Fundamentalism and I only play Bloodlust rules (NO Spaceships). I just find winning under Democracy much more interesting.
eg plotting to provoke the AI to attack; using dips and spys rather than Howitzers etc.
PS I never build the reputation enhancing wonder Eifel Tower as that only helps when you have lost your Spotless rep.
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johnmcd
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Edinburgh
Oct 1999
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Yeah, but it is a nice challenge. I've never managed to win bloodlust with a spotless reputation. I've come close though.
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Barington
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London UK
Aug 2000
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Respect to you for finding it easy. I just find it more difficult to win spotless under democracy than going to fundy and shooting up the AI.
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Barington
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London UK
Aug 2000
time: 05:12
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Yes; think that works best when the AI have no troops on your territory but you are in fact trepassing on theirs. Of course you have to be at peace rather than just a cease fire for the option to appear. I try to avoid cease fires, accepting peace whenever it is offered after the cease fire offer. (Unless of course I am fairly sure they will pay for a peace)
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johnmcd
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Edinburgh
Oct 1999
time: 05:12
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I don't use subvert city if I'm trying to win this way, it seems to break the rules for my money. Also it may be easy on a small map but I only ever play huge, where they have a shed load of cities. Last time I tried it I don't know if I'd properly worked out how reputation worked too, so I may have been handicapping myself further. I'll give it another go and see how I do.
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SCG
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of less than all that I see
Jun 2000
time: 00:12
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quote:
Originally posted by johnmcd on 10-07-2000 06:28 AM
I don't use subvert city if I'm trying to win this way, it seems to break the rules for my money. Also it may be easy on a small map but I only ever play huge, where they have a shed load of cities. Last time I tried it I don't know if I'd properly worked out how reputation worked too, so I may have been handicapping myself further. I'll give it another go and see how I do.
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I personally find it easier to win by subverting all AI cities on a large map vs a small map. The reason is that you have so much more economic power when you have room for lots of extra cities. The expansionist AIs' cities are cheap, and you can grow them into huge money generators quite quickly, while those AI keep founding new ones for you since they have room to expand (no need to found your own cities) and with the extra money, you can buy even the largest perfectionist AI city next to its capital. The perfectionist AIs will tend to have the same number of cities reguardless of map size, so the smaller the map, the harder they are to take out. As for reputation, all I ever do is subvert cities untill they decide to make war (no rep hit), max taxes for 1 round and then go on a coordinated buying spree when the cities are 1/2 off  If you line up a couple caravans or freights to go to AIs you're not at war with and have a lot of cities, you can sometimes buy off an entire empire in 1 round if they have railroad or you have lots of engineers. For democratic AI, I'll box them with whatever units and wait for them to sneak attack or revolt to talk to me.
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johnmcd
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Edinburgh
Oct 1999
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Hummm, even if it is true it didn't need to be said twice.
[This message has been edited by johnmcd (edited October 09, 2000).]
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