Tuesday, March 20, 2007

It's been a while since I played Civ so I was pretty rusty and it took me a little while to get the hang of everything again. I was pleasantly surprised to see I had a lot more land than I remembered. In fact, I've been expanding so much establishing so many settlements that it's getting out of hand with all the building I have to do with all of them. Each turn there are about 10 cities that have completed their most recent building and need to be assigned another one to build. I've also started to settle in a whole new continent where there's only one other civilization: America. Lucky for me there are a few sources of aluminum on this continent which I've already begun to take advantage of because it's what I need if I'm going to win the space race. Just by looking at my overall score in the game so far and how much land I've obtained, I probably won't have to win the space race at all to win the game. Looking at my victory statues, I'm looking to win the game by domination (owning 39% of the worlds population and 64% of the land) and by time (having the highest score). Currently I own 59% of the land but that will soon change since I am now on the American continent.

At this point of Civ, the game has been going really slow. I've improved every single tile of land on my main continent and connected each improvement with all the cities so my workers are basically worthless and don't have anything to do now. The only thing that there is to do anymore is keep improving the land I just acquired from Japan (which is almost finished) and extending the borders of each of my new cities so I can aquire as many resources and land as I can. Aside from that, all the land in the game is pretty much owned by a civilization so there isn't much more expanding to be done, and I really really don't feel like going to war again. This late in the game it's pretty much pointless to start a war again and I have no need for any more land, I have enough trouble maintaining the land I have now as it is. All there is to do basically is to improve the land I haven't yet, maybe, if I get too bored, build the necessary units to launch a rocket into space, and wait until all the turns are up.

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