Okay, let me preface what I'm about to say with this: I created this account for the express purpose of telling you all this.
I was (well, am) playing a game on Civ V as the Celts on Emperor (may be King, but I'm pretty sure it's emperor). Anyway, things went pretty well; I built up my empire (holy warriors+celts=win, btw), waged war, expanded, etc, all as I normally do. By the 1600s, my score was a good third to a half larger than that of most other civs. I was on track to get a cultural victory. Then Persia entered the Modern era around 1620 or so. In 1716, he entered the atomic era. He was in the information era by the 1800s. He completed the Apollo Program in 1750.
My only question is this: how? I've logged in well over 200 hours into Civ V, and have never seen anything even close to this. I thought I was doing well by hitting the industrial era by the 1750s or so. Let me give you his stats, as recorded in 1750:
Population: 47,363,000
Crop yield: 1,009
Manufactured Goods: 967
GNP: 2029
Land: 8,200,000
Soldiers: 488,303
Approval: unknown; I was #1
Literacy: 80%
Again, how? And perhaps a better question, how did he not steamroll the world by then? With those stats, and the subsequent advantage over other civs, I would have gotten a domination victory well before the 1800s. Sigh... I don't know. I think I'm going to give up that game lol. He suddenly became hostile, and I'm a long way from the utopia project.
I was (well, am) playing a game on Civ V as the Celts on Emperor (may be King, but I'm pretty sure it's emperor). Anyway, things went pretty well; I built up my empire (holy warriors+celts=win, btw), waged war, expanded, etc, all as I normally do. By the 1600s, my score was a good third to a half larger than that of most other civs. I was on track to get a cultural victory. Then Persia entered the Modern era around 1620 or so. In 1716, he entered the atomic era. He was in the information era by the 1800s. He completed the Apollo Program in 1750.
My only question is this: how? I've logged in well over 200 hours into Civ V, and have never seen anything even close to this. I thought I was doing well by hitting the industrial era by the 1750s or so. Let me give you his stats, as recorded in 1750:
Population: 47,363,000
Crop yield: 1,009
Manufactured Goods: 967
GNP: 2029
Land: 8,200,000
Soldiers: 488,303
Approval: unknown; I was #1
Literacy: 80%
Again, how? And perhaps a better question, how did he not steamroll the world by then? With those stats, and the subsequent advantage over other civs, I would have gotten a domination victory well before the 1800s. Sigh... I don't know. I think I'm going to give up that game lol. He suddenly became hostile, and I'm a long way from the utopia project.