It was the best of very long times.

[gridlore]

Just managed a fun trick in Civilzation IV. I had a Golden Age last 60 turns. At the Epic play speed, Golden Ages normally last ten turns, so how did I manage this trick?

• I built the Mausoleum of Maussollos, which increases Golden Ages by 50%.


• I used a Great Prophet to start the Golden Age.


• I completed the Taj Mahal right after that, which added another fifteen turns (building the Taj automatically starts a Golden Age.)


• I completed the Quest of the National Sports League buy building the required number of Coliseums. Another fifteen turns added.


• Finally, I had two Great People (one Prophet, One Spy) that I had no other use for, fo I burned them to extend the Golden Age.

Sixty turns of increased revenue and culture, lower build times and increased Great Person generation. By the time it was over, the Japanese Grenadiers and longbowmen were being crushed beneath the threads of my advanced tanks, mechanized infantry, and mobile artillery. Sumerian blimps were blown out of the sky by jet fighters. And I had all the nukes in the world.

Kneel before Zod!

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[nodrog]

See, you did it the hard way - or rather, you earned the result. Me, the last time I played Civilization I had fun with the saved-game editor. I started the game with an arsenal of ICBMs, and my response to barbarian incursions was apocalyptic (and did far more harm to the beseiged city and to the environment than the barbarians would have, but I sure showed them who was Number One around here! Don't mess with ME.)

I also concocted a weapon I called “Nightfall,” after the Asimov short story. A civilization that challenged my pre-eminence would be hit by a plague of blindness/madness - i e, I'd go into the saved game and zero out their civic improvements, their tech level, their money and their food, and reload the game. The now-unsupported units besieging my cities would immediately disband, and would come the announcement that “Such-and-so has fallen into Anarchy!” That put paid to them; many turns later, I might encounter roving bands of Such-and-sos.

What the heck, it was amusing to see what I could do. I'd spray Settler units randomly across the map, like a bad planetfall; too bad for the ones that landed on ocean, but I'd then have cities founded on every continent…