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Zazazu:
How far you are into the color should affect things. Switching from a green tribal from a red creature is much easier if you were just barely red in creature. Most of my runs are Red-Red-Green-Blue. A few straight greens, two straight reds, and one straight blue. Two starting with blue that I don't remember the rest of. I have a lot of saved games, have I mentioned? And I'm still getting six available planets for new ones.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2008 September 29, 17:01:37
The main problem is that the maximum bonus for bribes is +120, and it's not difficult for other players to dislike you enough that this won't be enough. For whatever reason, I managed to get a trade route with one of the other cities on my continent. Meanwhile I continue to bribe everyone, which was enough to keep them from declaring war, but not much more.
There will usually be one side that is military or religious that you haven't ever gotten into an actual fight with. Gift THAT guy. Once he becomes yellow, send in your military air fleet you captured from your first continent and proceed to mow down anything attacking him, then tell him to attack another city. Provide the air support needed to make sure he successfully attacks and takes that city. Tell him to attack another city, repeat. Start buying his old cities while he advances. Continue until your buddy has killed all the other enemies with your support (don't actually take the cities, let him do it, then buy the cities), and keep buying them in his wake. You should be able to secure an economic win easily that way.
Gus Smedstad:
The implication seems to be that you should take at least 3 cities on your home continent with religion before starting the econ push. One of which is the econ city, of course.
Isn't taking 3 cities enough to prevent you from getting a Blue win?
- Gus
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2008 September 29, 21:28:58
The implication seems to be that you should take at least 3 cities on your home continent with religion before starting the econ push. One of which is the econ city, of course.
Isn't taking 3 cities enough to prevent you from getting a Blue win?
Answer: No, taking cities by your "native" method has no effect on your "meter" because your native method is the centered method. Taking more cities after that by blue means will move you towards blue anyway, you only need to flip 2 or 3 actual cities by blueness in order to become blue. But be warned, cities flipped when your ally joins you at the end are considered to be flipped by your native means! So buy out your ally entirely when he reaches the final enemy city (which will surrender to you without an alignment shift, in my tests, plus a single city won't be enough after what you've done).
Also, it is not strictly necessary to take out the 3 cities on your home continent by religious means, either: If you acquired an economic vehicle by means of goody hut, you can economically conquer neighbors even before leaving your own continent. At least one of your neighbors is likely to become implacably angry as a result, although it's possible that the neighbor you conquer economically eats all the other cities for you, so you can buy him off your continent entirely and/or use him as your designated ally.
Gus Smedstad:
Crap. Now I'm gonig to have to try this again, just to see how that works. I thought I'd be screwing myself if I took out those obnoxious neighbors through religion.
- Gus
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