End with science ?

Mimicracra · December 26, 2000, 23:37

I tried to have the end with science and have built obelisk and the 2 other things needed but nothing happens...??

Didymus · December 27, 2000, 10:33

control-g shows your progress toward science victory.
When the # in upper-right >= 60% (and you have 10+ controllers and 10+ sattelites), the bar at the top starts flashing. When you hit it, it starts a ten-turn countdown. At the end of the ten turns, the Gaia Controller fires up and you win.

Your problem may simply be that you haven't "launched" yet.

Radius of Obselisks depend of # of sattelites. Have 17+ sattelites for best radius (8).

Note: Obselisks can be built in sea, and in allied territory.

Don't feel bad: I read posts assiduously for a couple weeks before I finally figured all this out. Activision didn't bother explaining any of this -- the manual sucketh big time!

JC Denton · December 27, 2000, 14:43

what do the 60% represent? 60% of the world map covered? what exactly increases that number? how far you can "spread out" the obelisks (to cover the most area)?
sorry if this is a stupid question,
Activision should have explained it in the Great Library or at least in the manual.

Didymus · December 27, 2000, 17:25

quote:

Originally posted by JC Denton on 12-27-2000 01:43 PM
(1) what do the 60% represent? 60% of the world map covered?

(2) what exactly increases that number?

(3) how far you can "spread out" the obelisks (to cover the most area)?

(4) sorry if this is a stupid question,

(5) Activision should have explained it in the Great Library or at least in the manual.

(1) Yes

(2) More Obselisks and a higher coverage radius. The most efficient pattern would be hexagonal, but you want to place them on your borders to extend into your rivals's territories. I place them on the borders and then fill in as needed.

(3) Max radius = 8 tiles, I think. (with 17+ sattelites). Min radius = 5 tiles (with 10 sattelites, the minimum). I've read that 20 sattelites gives the max radius, so this may be wrong.

(4) this is the help section. it's okay not to know all the answers.

(5) Yes, they should have done, but they didn't. So they're the fools.

JC Denton · December 27, 2000, 22:56

Great, thank you very much
people in this forum are at least willing to help and don't make fun of every sentence you say

BrianNYC · December 30, 2000, 02:28

This was, to say the least, extremely helpful. Thanks a million.

One question though. How did you know what Ctrl-G did?

Moose_Flyer · January 2, 2001, 01:45

"CTRL-g" is printed on the back cover of the CTP II manual listing keyboard shortcut keys.

Like everyone else, I was trying to figure out the science victory. Just for added info, in my game I built 37 satellites and 46 obelisks (on a large map) and still only got an effective radius of 8 from the obelisks. I trtied building more than 10 controllers but the game only recognizes the first 10 and the extras don't seem to help. You can put obelisks, just as with any other public work, in any ALLIED territory as well as your own. I "discovered" that late in the game, and would have been helpful building my road networks seeing as I had 2 Allies.