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What I would like to know is how your supose to keep up with the AI civs in terms of technology in deity. It seems to me that it is impossible to keep up with them early due to their decreased costs and that your best bet is to simply build up a big military and bully them. Is this right, or is there another way to keep technologically equal to the AI in deity?
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of Candle'Bre
Apr 1999
time: 05:21
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I've always had my best success by letting the AI do the heavy lifting. In the very early game, if you're fast, you can smash a couple AI's to hobble their their growth and keep yourself in tech. Once you grow your empire a bit, sell luxuries to stay in the game, and join wars of opportunity (basically, join in the inevitable gang bangs that occur), and you'll generally go far.
And, since we've got 1337's in our midst, I figured I needed some translation practice, so I give you an excerpt of the Gettysburg Address....
40ur5c0r3z and 53v3n y3arz ag0z, 0ur 40r34ath3r’5 roxx3d th33 3ngli5hz g00d, cuz w33 b33z bad m040z. N0wz, w33 R 4y7ingz a l337 civil warz, 7ez7ingz 70 533 i4 w33 5ti11 b33 bad m040z.
(t3xtz c0ntinu3z int0 5om3 0th3r b0ringz 5tu44z).
-=Vel=-
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quote:
Originally posted by I-iZ-1337
I iz way 2 1337 4 languagez. 1337nez comez fromz th33 skillz I haz dem0nstratedz in thiz threadz... I iZ tr00l33 a 1337 haxxorz ifz I haz madez up th33z savez... m33 thinkz j00 iz a11 jealoz if j00 iz tryinz t00 bringz m33 downz.
Az I saidz, j00 plaze th33 cha11engez onz th33 tablez, talkz iz cheapz, actionz sp33k louderz thanz wordz, I wi11z showz j00 whatz I canz d00. |
Here's the best I can come up with:
I am far too elite to be restricted by the boundaries of languages. My abilty to be "elite" comes solely from the skills that I have demonstrated in this thread... I am truly an elite computer hacker if the .SAV files can be proven false... I believe that you are, in fact, envious if you constantly attempt to degrade me.
As I said, you create these challenges. Talk is cheap, and actions speak louder than words. I shall show you what I can do.
Hrm... still sounds arrogrant even in correct English.
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Barchan
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drifting across the sands of time....
Nov 2001
time: 05:21
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Originally posted by I-iZ-1337
I iz way 2 1337 4 languagez. 1337nez comez fromz th33 skillz I haz dem0nstratedz in thiz threadz... I iZ tr00l33 a 1337 haxxorz ifz I haz madez up th33z savez... m33 thinkz j00 iz a11 jealoz if j00 iz tryinz t00 bringz m33 downz.
Az I saidz, j00 plaze th33 cha11engez onz th33 tablez, talkz iz cheapz, actionz sp33k louderz thanz wordz, I wi11z showz j00 whatz I canz d00. |
Admittedly, I'm not "hep" to the 1337 "jive" (or whatever it is the kids are speaking today), but here's my best translation effort:
"I have extremely limited language skills, but by making up my own baffling rules for grammar and spelling, I can easily hide that fact. As I see it, eliteness comes from the fact that I say I have it. By saying that I would have to be a master hacker to have made up the save file, I can hopefully decrease your suspicions that I did in fact make the whole thing up. I have a serious inferiority complex, along with paranoid tendencies, and think you are all trying to prove you are better than I am."
"Therefore, by puffing myself up and issuing arrogant boasts and aggressive challenges, perhaps I can intimidate some of you into not questioning my self-proclaimed eliteness at all; nevertheless, I will solicit your game challenges anyway with the hope that I will ultimately prevail in the end. Secretly, though, I fear that you are in fact better than me and will tell it to the world after you beat me."
Forgiveness if I've not gotten that quite right, but it's the best I can do with such alien script.....
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I-iZ-1337
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0kz d00dz, h33r iz th33 1337 h4xx0rz cha1133ngez. Tin33 mapz, panj33a, sma11 landmass33z. 1337 Romanz civz, 1337 deit33 levelz, randomz p0nentz. Conquerz th33 worldz az fazt az j00 canz (a11 vict0r33 conditionz iz on, but conquezt iz th33 goalz), no otherz r00lz, show uz j00r skillz. I wi11z d00 th33 mapz t00 and pozt th33 savez, t00 sh0wz h0w 1337 I iz. Pr00ve j00 can winz withoutz j00r 1337 mortalz.
I iz bettinz n0 onez wi11 b337 my 1337 h4xx0rz timez.
 Attachment: caezarz 0f th33 1337 h4xx0rz, 4000 bc.sav
This has been downloaded 18 time(s).
Last edited by I-iZ-1337 on 13-08-2002 at 19:06
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alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
time: 06:21
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quote:
Originally posted by Edrix
Here's the best I can come up with:
I am far too elite to be restricted by the boundaries of languages. My abilty to be "elite" comes solely from the skills that I have demonstrated in this thread... I am truly an elite computer hacker if the .SAV files can be proven false... I believe that you are, in fact, envious if you constantly attempt to degrade me.
As I said, you create these challenges. Talk is cheap, and actions speak louder than words. I shall show you what I can do.
Hrm... still sounds arrogrant even in correct English. |
yes, you are right, but look, look at words.
Admire their beauty, listen to the sound of them .
Words like "boundaries", or "envious"
ahhh, such poetry,doesn' it just oozes charm, history, richness.
In short : civilization
(p.s.: eugh, don't take this post too serious,ok .
please )
sounds more like a duel than a challenge to me :b
Well, who's taking it up??  
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quote:
Originally posted by I-iZ-1337
0kz d00dz, h33r iz th33 1337 h4xx0rz cha1133ngez. Tin33 mapz, panj33a, sma11 landmass33z. 1337 Romanz civz, 1337 deit33 levelz, randomz p0nentz. Conquerz th33 worldz az fazt az j00 canz (a11 vict0r33 conditionz iz on, but conquezt iz th33 goalz), no otherz r00lz, show uz j00r skillz. I wi11z d00 th33 mapz t00 and pozt th33 savez, t00 sh0wz h0w 1337 I iz. Pr00ve j00 can winz withoutz j00r 1337 mortalz.
I iz bettinz n0 onez wi11 b337 my 1337 h4xx0rz timez. |
All right, dudes. I present to you the elite hacker's challenges. Tiny maps, Pangea, small landmasses. The elite Romans, on the elite Deity difficulty level, with randomized opponents. Conquer the world as fast as you can (all victory conditions will be allowed, but conquest will be the primary goal). There are no other rules; simply show "us" [don't know who he means by 'us'] your skills. I will compile the maps, as well, and post the .SAV files to prove my ability to be elite. Prove you can win without your elite mortals. [No idea what that sentence means]
I am willing to wager that no one will defeat my elite hacker times. [hacker times?]
You know, it's prossible he's just kidding about all of this. It probably is a DL, making fun of 1337 speak. I don't think that 1337 speak is recognized as intelligent ANYWHERE on the internet anymore, so he's probably just trying to get a rise out of us.
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12-08-2002 11:57
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Good one, Theseus! And Player, the translation is:
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