ONE City Challenge

[JuliaSet]

http://www.immortalcities.com/nileonline/wiki/index.php/One_City_Challenge

"OCC" is the quick way to say "the One City Challenge".
OCC is a community contest on the Theoris server. The rules are simple: play with only one city. This way you can play with only the free scarabs given at the beginning, and still reach immortality (getting palace level 22 cost only 7 scarabs).
Ultimate goal is to immortalize and get tomb. Anyone can join.

[Michlo]

One would need to be very patient to endure such a challenge, that's for sure.

Good luck to anybody this crazy. heh

[NoteVan1]

Clicky link for the lazy (http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/group.php?groupid=10)

A few of us have also put -OCC- in our city names to stand out.

And yes, I expect it to get very tiresome waiting for upgrades for only one city. That's why I'm still playing on Sabah as well.

[Kerrbear]

Well, I won't be buying scarabs, but as long as we get free ones in-game from quests (or whatever the case may be :rolleyes:), I will probably expand past the one city if I can. But I won't be making that decision until we actually start seeing some free ones coming in :eek:

[Timhotep]

This is a nice idea but too much for my patience.;)

[sakasiru]

Sounds interesting. I planned to do something like this already, though I will found a second city once I gained enough scarabs for this in-game. :)

[Siptah]

ok i will try to put down a list with participants and an occ ranking list.
i will do it here and edit it since this is probably easier to maintain than the group thread... please notify if you are missing on the list. An extra list might be good later on since we won't be able to compete with the multiple city players. Might also be fun to see if different ressources play a big role in this one.... right now it is still kind of pointless ;-)


#1 7) NoteVan (Gold) (1S) (L2)
#2 19) Aoskar/Blinkkin/Iconoclast (Emeralds) (2N) (L3)
#3 22) Ramiz Africanus (Bronze) (5S) (L2)
#4 36) DustysMomma (Bronze) (6S) (L2)
#5 44) Sheeba (Cedar) (15N) (L2)
#6 50) Men Maat Ra/Siptah (Kohl) (1N) (L3)
#7 58) Fenehk (Gold) (1S) (L2)
#8 60) Aguakay/Deguakay (Cedar) (3S) (L3)
#9 80) RandySpanx/Spanx II (Emeralds) (16N) (L2)
#10 81) Jaguaruna/Caesarion/Andrelvis (Emeralds) (13S) (L2)
#11 92) Kosminsethep/Kosminhotep (Henna) (2S) (L2)
#12 114) Pegasus Epsilon (Bronze) (13N) (L2)
#13 116) Amun Nefer (Emeralds) (7N) (L2)
#14 124) Nubiti/Niempie (Gold) (3N) (L3)
#15 160) Hotepefer (Oil) (1S) (L3)

[Nighteyes]

considering joining. But I may wait until I immortalize on a world or they start up another one.

[Sable]

i'll join. i'm in 26N under the name of cheops.

[NoteVan1]

I'm surprised I'm in the top 10 with all these people that seemingly planned out everything they were going to do in advance. I doubt I'll still be there after the next rank update, and no way I'll keep up when people get their 2nd city, but at least I always have that little note that says (High: 2) :o

P.S. if you want to keep track of the ranks of the OCC then it may be better to start a new thread so it'll be in the OP.

edit: it just updated again and now I'm rank 34 :(

[Deguar]

Vagrant Aguakay (Rank: 34) (High: 34) (Age: 1 years)

I expect this to be the highest I ever reach and start plummeting shortly. All I've done all day is ship out cedar to folk, I haven't had time to try and find perfume and jewelry. Whereas some folks are actually heading for that magic L4 palace or already have it, so once the rankings get updated down I will go :)

But I will have managed to get 9 other players cedar today and I'm fairly chuffed with that.


Deguakay of Sabah

Hetephinushr of Raka (59N) Sandals and Leather
Rakheben of Amunsesh (49N) Sculptures and Bronze
Rawaset of Setger (80N) Jewelry and Gold
Perdjyamun of Rate (99N) Perfume and Oil

@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@

Aguakay of Theoris

Hetekonpolis of Osirisiret (3S) Cedar

[Asterix~]

My henna city is not easy to maintain, but thankfully kohl is right above and oil above kohl so I may see some purchasers soon.

[NoteVan1]

Unfortunately there is no emerald traders in my market range (level 2). However there are 2 cedar producers in that range and oil is made right across from me so I can get the perfume needed (thanks hotepefer) and hopefully more ships soon.

I can see my rank dropping soon. By some miracle it went up with the last update.

Vagrant NoteVan (Rank: 18) (High: 2)

No matter what rank I am, they can't take my highest rank from me. :cool:

[Caesar Clifford]

Nubian traders sold me the 25 emeralds I needed for L4 upgrade.
I only see 2 L4's in top 100 so not too many yet.

[riisen]

Would it be considered "cheating" if you founded a 2. city, but still stayed within the limits of the 10 scarabs?

[Czech Centurian]

Would it be considered "cheating" if you founded a 2. city, but still stayed within the limits of the 10 scarabs?

Well, it wouldn't exactly be one city any more...

[Siptah]

well i am not sure if the scarabs are a main reason to do this..... certainly no reason for myself and some others... some of us are supporters - so violating the 10 scarabs rule (that doesn't exist) is no cheating, but a 2nd city would be ;-)

[Fenehk]

There is basically only one point in doing this: Never found a second city. Scarabs have nothing to do with it. Monuments are irrelevant. Do whatever the heck you want, just never ever make a new city.

[Deguar]

The name of the challenge is the..

ONE city challenge

It's not really about staying within the 10 scarab limit as some are intending buying them anyway for things like ad removal etc.

The nature of the challenge as I understand it is to cope with the hand you are dealt, expanding to a second city changes that hand. It also means instead of having only one resource you'll have two, not to mention the extra five shop plots you would have with two cities making a huge advantage in flexibility :)


Deguakay of Sabah

Hetephinushr of Raka (59N) Sandals and Leather
Rakheben of Amunsesh (49N) Sculptures and Bronze
Rawaset of Setger (80N) Jewelry and Gold
Perdjyamun of Rate (99N) Perfume and Oil

@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@

Aguakay of Theoris

Hetekonpolis of Osirisiret (3S) Cedar

[Cazy]

I don't know, it seems to me too many good and active players are joining this challenge, which looks very interesting and original now, but will shortly become a pain for them and for others that enjoy interacting with them :). It is exciting in a way but takes away many aspects of the game and limits the experience.

Maybe I'm egoistic but I wish fewer players had joined this club. :(

P.S.: The only other place I heard about OCC was Civilization. Is that where it was taken from?

[Siptah]

I don't know, it seems to me too many good and active players are joining this challenge, which looks very interesting and original now, but will shortly become a pain for them and for others that enjoy interacting with them :). It is exciting in a way but takes away many aspects of the game and limits the experience.

Maybe I'm egoistic but I wish fewer players had joined this club. :(

P.S.: The only other place I heard about OCC was Civilization. Is that where it was taken from?

Hey Cazy - i am happy at the moment that i chose that... (couldn't be different as of now, couldn't it ? ) and i am very happy that we are so many. for us it is of course nice the more we are... i know it will be a pain and that we may have longer times in which we cannot do anything but: it might be more interesting and i think we are preserving one aspect for us that got smaller and smaller in sabah: looking for trades all the time. look at it this way - in sabah you can (i guess you are cazamun) produce all the goods yourself - you only need some of the raw materials, which you probably get through direct trade. in Thoeris with OCC going on i can only produce 1 or 2 lux goods without getting to much basic good problems. it may require more changes in labour allocation and of course much more trading. so i think it does not limit the game experience. and if it does... most of us are still active in sabah :)

and besides - i could not handle 8 cities in the end... i would have to leave Sabah soon to play a "full" thoeris account.

[Fenehk]

I don't know, it seems to me too many good and active players are joining this challenge, which looks very interesting and original now, but will shortly become a pain for them and for others that enjoy interacting with them :). It is exciting in a way but takes away many aspects of the game and limits the experience.

Spot on. See, I already have a full grown empire in Sabah that continues to flourish and requires much time from me to continue to grow. But at the same time, I REALLY wanted to join in on the opening of the new world. Fully knowing that I can't possibly keep track of a whooping eight cities, hopping in on the one city challenge seemed like the perfect plan.

It is limiting, it is a pain. That's another aspect that I like a lot. My first empire grew almost too quickly for my taste despite handling it like a slob. I never really planned anything at all and I'm still gaining rank and I'm still on my way to immortality. I'm almost entirely independent even now that I have one of each luxury shop in the game. I want more obstacles to overcome. And what better obstacle than to be forced to trade for exactly everything in the game except one measly resource?

I'm already facing several difficult decision in my one-city empire on Theoris, and there will be more to come. With only one resource and restricted market reach, I won't be able to compete on the market, I won't be able to make as much bread and will be forced into direct trades much more. On Sabah, this is something I rarely ever did, since I landed in a well developed nome with cheap goods all around.

In short, it's a perfect mix of being able to join in on the fun of a new world without having to leave the old one behind, and creating new obstacles to make it a prolonged, refreshing and difficult experience. I do lose some aspects of the game, but I can already enjoy those in full on Sabah. And in turn, I gain aspects. I'm forced to be much more careful, scheming and willing to trade. Something a lot of players already do on Sabah but I never had the need to. This way I'll absolutely be able to enjoy every aspect of what Nile Online has to offer!

[NoteVan1]

Ya, pretty much. I don't even feel like I'm doing any work in Sabah anymore. It's just grinding in between palace upgrades. There is no real work and I almost never have to trade anymore.

At least now I'll have other restraints besides time and it will take a lot more effort to get things done. Games lose interest when there is no sense of accomplishment.

...I need to smack my little brother around for using ever possible cheat in every game he plays without even trying to beat the game normally. Mario Kart? Pokemon? "Hey, look at all these medals I won by cheating".

.... :mad:

(We need more emotes)

[Tinkerbell]

#1 7) NoteVan (Gold) (1S) (L2)
#2 19) Aoskar/Blinkkin/Iconoclast (Emeralds) (2N) (L3)
#3 22) Ramiz Africanus (Bronze) (5S) (L2)
#4 36) DustysMomma (Bronze) (6S) (L2)
#5 44) Sheeba (Cedar) (15N) (L2)
#6 50) Men Maat Ra/Siptah (Kohl) (1N) (L3)
#7 58) Fenehk (Gold) (1S) (L2)
#8 60) Aguakay/Deguakay (Cedar) (3S) (L3)
#9 80) RandySpanx/Spanx II (Emeralds) (16N) (L2)
#10 81) Jaguaruna/Caesarion/Andrelvis (Emeralds) (13S) (L2)
#11 92) Kosminsethep/Kosminhotep (Henna) (2S) (L2)
#12 114) Pegasus Epsilon (Bronze) (13N) (L2)
#13 116) Amun Nefer (Emeralds) (7N) (L2)
#14 124) Nubiti/Niempie (Gold) (3N) (L3)
#15 160) Hotepefer (Oil) (1S) (L3)

I quoted this cuz I wanna laugh as each one drops out in turn. I also notice JuliaSet who started this thread is not a member which is funny in itself!

Good Luck!

[Fenehk]

I quoted this cuz I wanna laugh as each one drops out in turn. I also notice JuliaSet who started this thread is not a member which is funny in itself!

Good Luck!

I quoted this because I wanna laugh at you quoting something else. Har, look at how amused I am.

See what I'm doing, Tink?

[NoteVan1]

I quoted this cuz I wanna laugh as each one drops out in turn. I also notice JuliaSet who started this thread is not a member which is funny in itself!

Good Luck!I quoted this because I wanna laugh at you quoting something else. Har, look at how amused I am.

See what I'm doing, Tink?

Let's my current rank is 13. Tink's current rank is...23

OH SNAP!

P.S. I double quoted this because I can double quote. :cool:

[Tinkerbell]

Let's put it this way. You all claim that you are gonna rob yourselves of the fun of multiple cities & the full game, just cuz you are too cheap to spend a couple of bucks on a few measely Scarabs?

LOL

I bet you all surrender & join the rest of us!

[NoteVan1]

Let's put it this way. You all claim that you are gonna rob yourselves of the fun of multiple cities & the full game, just cuz you are too cheap to spend a couple of bucks on a few measely Scarabs?

LOL

I bet you all surrender & join the rest of us!

I have 4 cities already in Sabah. Let me tell you that the fun of playing them is long since gone, I HAVE played the full game. This however, brings a new challenge to the game and gives me a reason to want to play.

And being cheap has nothing to do with this. This game is live. That means that this game has been accepted as being completed as is. Not taking suggestions? Not fixing bugs? Not cool. What you call "curve balls" and what you call:

Server outtage? No problem. Love it!

Production stoppage? Bring it on!

Lost shipments? I want more of them!

I can roll with the punches. I want to be hit EVEN harder in the future

I call shoddy workmanship and not listening to the consumer. TM has not proven that they deserve my money and therefore will not receive it.

Now please take your holier than thou attitude and brown-nosing back to Reed where he will probably ignore you too.

[Andrelvis]

Let's put it this way. You all claim that you are gonna rob yourselves of the fun of multiple cities & the full game, just cuz you are too cheap to spend a couple of bucks on a few measely Scarabs?

LOL

I bet you all surrender & join the rest of us!

You assume too much. I, for example, will be purchasing and spending scarabs, just not on new cities. And actually, multiple cities aren't very fun... it's just more of the same, with extra work and little extra fun. Getting back to having just one city, I am having loads of more fun than I was at Sabah; as NoteVan said, it was becoming kind of a grind.

[Caesar Clifford]

And up untill now I had the complex that Tink just hated my guts. Ha was I wrong, it's not just me so I can start to live again now.

[Tinkerbell]

All joking aside for the moment. Let's talk reality...

I know you all love the game as much as the rest of us, or you wouldn't still be here.

Join us in the full game! :)

[NoteVan1]

I love the community far more than the game. It's what is keeping me here. And I don't have to pay to be involved in it.

[Quibish]

Fun Assassin (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Fun_Assassin/811943)


I'm not joining the OCC, I just thought you guys might enjoy the song.

[hotepefer]

Tink: Why is it bothering you that we have chosen a different path to immortality?

Do you get a commission on scarab sales?

[Tinkerbell]

Tink: Why is it bothering you that we have chosen a different path to immortality?

It doesn't bother me at all. You are all always free to choose your own path. I am just suggesting that you do not dig yourself a hole & live to regret it later in the game, when all the 2nd cities pop up.

This is not about me. It is never about me. It is about you & I'm just trying to help.

Help is what I do!

Do you get a commission on scarab sales?

LOL

[hotepefer]

I tried multiple cities in Sabah. Founded my third shortly before Theoris opened.

I wanted to try something different. OCC seemed like an interesting challenge.

If I find I don't like this, I'll just drop out, change my name (I will be sure to capitalize it next time...does anyone know how to fix that?) and spring up somewhere else. Exception: I won't drop out until at least one OCC member achieves immortality. If I am the last of the original group, I will persevere.

[Fenehk]

There's no chance I could find the time to manage two full empires, Tink. That's why I'm keeping up my growth on Sabah while trying something new on Theoris. I'm still playing the game with four cities and two monuments, and I'm still having fun with that. I don't need to join you in the full game because I'm already in it!

I'm afraid I do percieve this as being about you. You want to "help" people by making them play the game the way you want them to. I'm sorry, most of us had made up our minds about the OCC long before the new world showed up. It'd be more helpful if you didn't try to tell people what to do.

And it still has nothing to do with scarabs. Sorry if I'm coming across as unusually whiny, you must've hit a nerve or something. Just let me help you out in return: Don't try to tell people what to do when they've already made up their minds.

[spidus]

Sonds like a good chalange to me ok if i join in Olpontis 4s city dionysias

[dirty_gypsy]

Count me in. Username is dirty_gyspy and my town is gonna be Lawlport -OOC- (will gladly take some cedar for some boats....i should have henna to pay you back once done)

[Siptah]

guys this is nothing to join - it is not a clan or something. it is just something we are doing. if you want to do it too it's cool. no asking if you can join please - just do what you feel. however if i see an "occ" in a city name or read here or get a scroll that someone is playing occ i will gladly put him on the ranking list in the forum group.

[Tinkerbell]

And it still has nothing to do with scarabs.

Ahem, I read the General Wall.

and

How fast can you delete all your forum posts? Sample...

NO can be a free game. We don't know how many free scarabs we'll get yet, it's too soon to judge how far you can actually get unhindered without paying. I suspect the next update will introduce the scarab rewards. THEN we can start crunching to see how much of an obstacle scarabs will be.

[Fenehk]

Uh. What's your point?
Have I missed something? Or are you just being even more incoherent than usual?

[Siptah]

c'mon fen... that's cool


and tink: good to you have you back on the funny post fraction...

[Tinkerbell]

Uh. What's your point?

Honesty

Try it some time

[Fenehk]

I am. I have no clue what you're on about. Please explain.

[Tinkerbell]

I am.

Perhaps in your "mind"

I have no clue what you're on about.

The first part of your sentence is the first honest one you have ever made.

Please explain.

I did already. You cannot read, either?



ONE City Challenge

http://www.immortalcities.com/nileonline/wiki/index.php/One_City_Challenge

"OCC" is the quick way to say "the One City Challenge".
OCC is a community contest on the Theoris server. The rules are simple: play with only one city. This way you can play with only the free scarabs given at the beginning, and still reach immortality (getting palace level 22 cost only 7 scarabs).
Ultimate goal is to immortalize and get tomb. Anyone can join.


JuliaSet's link (You remember this, no? It is the Thread Post) goes to this...

One City Challenge
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The OCC, or "One City Challenge", is a community contest on the Theoris server. The rules are simple: play with only one city in order to ultimately immortalize oneself in a tomb.

Playing with one city means a player can use just the free scarabs given at the beginning to reach immortality -- getting a level 22 palace costs only seven (7) scarabs.

Here's a very tough question for you. Get an adult to help if necessary.

Why did JuliaSet put the part in bold?

[Fenehk]

Perhaps in your "mind"
Yes, if I can't see it myself, I obviously need some help, right? That's why I'm asking people to explain when I don't get something. Not because I want an explanation for the fun of it. As far as I know, I've never lied one on these forums, nor intentionally left out something relevant. Honesty is a virtue.

I did already. You cannot read, either?
Apparently not... It seems you're too smart for me.



JuliaSet's link (You remember this, no? It is the Thread Post) goes to this...

One City Challenge
From Nile Online Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search

Information
The OCC, or "One City Challenge", is a community contest on the Theoris server. The rules are simple: play with only one city in order to ultimately immortalize oneself in a tomb.

Playing with one city means a player can use just the free scarabs given at the beginning to reach immortality -- getting a level 22 palace costs only seven (7) scarabs.

Here's a very tough question for you. Get an adult to help if necessary.

Why did JuliaSet put the part in bold?

"This way you can play with only the free scarabs given at the beginning, and still reach immortality"? Well, I'm not her, but I'd guess it's to highlight the fact that people who don't want to pay for scarabs and don't believe they'll ever get enough for free can still reach immortality?

Are you trying to point out the irony of me preaching the whole free scarab thing, then hopping off to play in a style that doesn't rely on me getting scarabs? If so, I am still playing on Sabah, consuming scarabs at a high rate, and I'm not going to stop that.

I know you're just trolling me, but you're seriously not good at getting your point across, Tink.

[Amun Nefer]

She never said she was going to join it. She wanted it to be a way to stop people from complaining about scarabs. (Hope you don't mind me posting that Julia)

[Siptah]

hey tink,

fen is still playing with full cities/using scarabs in sabah. and i am quite sure that for him scarabs are the reason to do it with one city. i guess most of the original occ team thinks that way. in fact only 2 people so far told me that they are doing it because of the scarabs and fen is not one of them.

oh and another sentence for tink:

the success of achievements bows to the whole box of eggs, not just to that one still in the chicken

[Selket72]

Figured I would try the OCC too :p
Selket <The Slick> Oil Just finished my upgrade to lvl 4 palace. 11N

So far it has not been too bad as I am so busy with real life stuff I dont have much time to play ;)

[Selket72]

Oh btw... What is the Ranking based off of?
Is it how much junk you have in your warehouse or what?

[blinkkin]

Oh btw... What is the Ranking based off of?
Is it how much junk you have in your warehouse or what?

http://www.immortalcities.com/nileonline/wiki/index.php/Ranking_calculation

It looks like total buildings level in city is more important than stockpiled goods in warehouse. Whenever I upgraded something my rank was going up, while collecting goods it was going down.

[Andrelvis]

Perhaps in your "mind"



The first part of your sentence is the first honest one you have ever made.



I did already. You cannot read, either?



JuliaSet's link (You remember this, no? It is the Thread Post) goes to this...

One City Challenge
From Nile Online Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search

Information
The OCC, or "One City Challenge", is a community contest on the Theoris server. The rules are simple: play with only one city in order to ultimately immortalize oneself in a tomb.

Playing with one city means a player can use just the free scarabs given at the beginning to reach immortality -- getting a level 22 palace costs only seven (7) scarabs.

Here's a very tough question for you. Get an adult to help if necessary.

Why did JuliaSet put the part in bold?

Tink, you see, the thing is, when I started the idea for the OCC, it was also I who, after making the necessary calculation, told people they wouldn't even need scarabs for doing the OCC. The main reason for that was that most, if not all, of the joiners were already playing in Sabah, so they could be worried about having to spend double the scarabs in order to participate.

That's all there is to it, the OCC isn't a 10-scarab challenge, it's just a one city challenge, exactly as the name says. And in any case, this isn't a NO clan or anything of the like, it's just a bunch of people doing the challenge because it's a new way to play, and because it's fun to do so.

Do you have any further questions?

[teddytramp]

I have one... how can one become part of it?
I was so worried when my friend sent me the link to this game that it would take over my life (I get addicted to these kinds of games). This sounds like a perfect way to limit myself.

[Amun Nefer]

Just keep it at one and add OCC to the name of the city. :)

[teddytramp]

Thankyou!

[hotepefer]

Also, there is a social group forum.

Click on "Quick Links", then on "Social Groups". You should be able to find your way from there.

[eyeofhorus87]

I am quite tempted to join this, even though I'm not experienced with this game at all. However, I started Sabah a week before beta ended, and this way I could be on both servers without them both becoming similar very quickly (and not having to pay for scarabs on two servers :p). I think for now at least I will hold back on making a second city

Serket

[Kosminhotep]

Just for the record, I'm *not* doing the OCC, I don't recall saying so anywhere, so if you see me building my second city in Theoris, don't say "the OCCer dropped out, it was too much for him" ;)

[Tinkerbell]

Just for the record, I'm *not* doing the OCC, I don't recall saying so anywhere, so if you see me building my second city in Theoris, don't say "the OCCer dropped out, it was too much for him" ;)

I don't expect people to drop outta OCC cuz it was "too much for him". I expect them all to drop out cuz it is

too little for them.

Why deprive oneself of 90% of the game when Scarabs are only 40 cents each? I can "almost" understand players using their 10 free Scarabs until they run out, but not at least getting a 2nd City?

Man-o-man

[Kosminhotep]

OK, that's just too much even for me. THEY ALREADY PLAY THE FULL GAME IN SABAH!

[Tinkerbell]

OK, that's just too much even for me. THEY ALREADY PLAY THE FULL GAME IN SABAH!

Brace yourself!

My posting in this thread is not about you!

My purpose is to help New Players not get sucked into this foolishness. As I posted

Good Luck!

Everyone who drops out gets a

Well Done! from me, cuz I want them to totally enjoy this excellent game as much as they can!

[NoteVan1]

What do the people who reach immortality on 1 city get from you?

Seriously, I'm so bored with this game that I would quit all-together before making a second city in Theoris. If anything, when I reach immortality on Sabah and IF I start over there I'll get more than 1 city.

[blinkkin]

My purpose is to help New Players not get sucked into this foolishness. As I posted

Good Luck!

Everyone who drops out gets a

Well Done! from me, cuz I want them to totally enjoy this excellent game as much as they can!

First of all no one if forcing players to play OCC. I didn't see anyone recruiting newcomers. I can give informations, but I'm not saying "Hi join OCC, I'll be fun etc". Secondly OCC isn't one way road, you can always quit challange and found another city.

You're making a somekind guru of yourself, but who'll listen to person saying this:

I am now TOTALLY surrounded by CHEATERS & it is much worse than I expected.

You don't have embargo on game's knowledge, so why you're forcing people to play by your imaginary rules? Try single player game, it'll probably work better for you :rolleyes:

[Kosminhotep]

My purpose is to help New Players not get sucked into this foolishness.

You shouldn't worry this much about new players, they can surely think for themselves. And "foolishness"? You should choose your words more carefully, methinks. It's a challenge, some like it, some don't. Personally, I'll go for the 2 cities challenge. You make too much of this, and I'm not going to bother replying anymore.

[Andrelvis]

Tink, you see, the thing is, when I started the idea for the OCC, it was also I who, after making the necessary calculation, told people they wouldn't even need scarabs for doing the OCC. The main reason for that was that most, if not all, of the joiners were already playing in Sabah, so they could be worried about having to spend double the scarabs in order to participate.


I don't expect people to drop outta OCC cuz it was "too much for him". I expect them all to drop out cuz it is

too little for them.

Why deprive oneself of 90% of the game when Scarabs are only 40 cents each? I can "almost" understand players using their 10 free Scarabs until they run out, but not at least getting a 2nd City?

Man-o-man

What part of what I had said didn't you understand Tink?

[Cazy]

Living two full lives at the same time is tedious, I agree. But isn't anyone going to leave Sabah at some point? Aren't all the players seeking immortality and then move on? I will soon and then Theoris will be my only (virtual :D) home. With only one empire left, OCC would seem a little unsatisfactory. To me, of course. Maybe others will find pleasure in completing this sisyphean task. But I and the rest of the players in Theoris will lose some trade partners, as I expect OCC players to trade mainly between themselves (based on the affinity of being part of the same quest) and not have the volumes of goods we're used to have in a developed world.

Being fortunate to have started on a resource I didn't produce in Sabah, I intend to continue this way and only pick the complementary resources to the ones I had in my previous incarnation. Cedar, bronze, henna, gold first time. Emeralds, leather, kohl, oil this time. That's my challange :)!

[Siptah]

That is exactly what i was thinking this morning Cazy (since reaching the end in sabah is coming near) ... and why i decided to build that 2nd city...
i guess the fun of having to trade for much can be enjoyed with 2 cities that make the same luxury good as well and even more since i can handle larger volumes of materials.
however i won't walk into the "i make everything myself" trap this time which made sabah more a chat than an actual game for me.
and i don't think that the players who stay to one city only will only trade among themselves.

[Jacquou Le]

Am I late to join in this OCC? :o

I've just changed my city name from "Greenland 1" to "Greenland - OCC"

[Amun Nefer]

There's no actual sign up process and there's no time limit. Just have one city for the whole game that's it.

[KaWan]

I'll be participating in the OCC. Just started :P

[VinZee]

count me in :) city Djedu in 42S

[thespian]

I don't expect people to drop outta OCC cuz it was "too much for him". I expect them all to drop out cuz it is

too little for them.

Why deprive oneself of 90% of the game when Scarabs are only 40 cents each? I can "almost" understand players using their 10 free Scarabs until they run out, but not at least getting a 2nd City?

Man-o-man

I read this, but the words I see are:

I would not have fun doing this. Therefore, it is not fun.

Thes.

[CatharsisQueen]

I didn't want to start a new Theoris character without losing my Sabah counterpart. Free of course doesn't include the cost of scarabs.

[abana]

I am playing in bothe worlds, I haven't bought any, yet.

[dark angel]

I was playing Sabah for last 2 months, before that I was playing other online games. I must say that here I can :try" to challenge myslef, and that i swhat i`m going to do. Game is awsome, and I`d liek to be THE one who will do that with OCC.
Greetings to you all.

[Darg]

There's no reason why you can't achieve immortality while doing the OCC. It'll just take a long time. I'm doing OCC mainly because it's an extra challenge, I was playing Sabah and had 3 good cities and getting up around rank 300. I deleted that account the other day to concentrate on theoris. I was getting bored of the sameyness of what I was doing on Sabah. Hopefully this will be something new (and free :))

Don't be surprised if I come a raiding though, I plan on using everything I can to help me and if that means nicking the odd monument to boost production then so be it :D

[GaSplat]

Ashery has completed it. Went immortal (from Sabah) with only one city and one monument. :D

[NoteVan1]

Someone else on Sabah has only 1 L19 city. It is much easier though since higher ranked players give a lot better deals and trades are much easier to find.

Congrats to the guy/girl/e-person.

[Tinkerbell]

Question

When did OCC become One City AND quarry plots/Monuments?

[Amun Nefer]

when Siptah said so. ;)

[Siptah]

you mean the Siptah that does not do OCC ?

by the way everyone can play like he wants to do.... OCC is not like a trademark. everyone who puts OCC behind his name can interpret it as he likes in my opinion... he can even say it just means "only cool cougars" or "ozelots complete catastrophe" and get 4 cities...

[Amun Nefer]

But you did start it! :p

[Tinkerbell]

OCC

Pushed by players who don't do it, including JuliaSet, the Original Poster.

Funnier than hell...

[Amun Nefer]

Oh Tink :rolleyes: do you remember what the reason behind OCC was?

[JuliaSet]

Thanks so much for your kind words, Tinks, they were underwhelming. http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/710frogie.gif

When I posted http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/trumpets.gif, I had discovered that this existed and no one had posted about it. At the time, you will remember, everyone was whining about finishing the game with the ten starting scarabs. My point in posting was to point out that there was a way to finish the game by doing one city. I did not realize that by telling others that it existed, that I was obligated to do it as well. http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/Beating_A_Dead_Horse.gif

It is not my way of playing, but One City makes it possible to finish the game if players had difficulty in buying scarabs for a larger game. I've heard from several players that they refuse to get a paypal account or their countries do not have an option for it.

[Amun Nefer]

Couldn't have said it better myself Julia. :)

Btw, love the images. ;)

[Siptah]

OCC

Pushed by players who don't do it, including JuliaSet, the Original Poster.

Funnier than hell...

So true ! But some of the pushers still do it, like Fenekh or NoteVan.


nice answer Julia btw but seems like you interpreted more into Tink sentence as he said. he just said you pushed it, and by creating this thread you did i would say...

[Tinkerbell]

So true ! But some of the pushers still do it, like Fenekh or NoteVan.

Yes, absolutely! My support goes to the real OCC Players! I even go out of my way to trade with them.

As I said, I just jumped into this thread to give the other side of the story. The part about playing the full game until the free scarabs run out, like a quarry plot & 2nd city. Then, if they change their minds, they won't be behind the rest of us.

...then to try to talk them into buying scarabs later for their own good...

:D

nice answer Julia btw but seems like you interpreted more into Tink sentence as he said. he just said you pushed it, and by creating this thread you did i would say...

Exactly

Thanks so much for your kind words, Tinks, they were underwhelming. http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/710frogie.gif

When I posted http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/trumpets.gif, I had discovered that this existed and no one had posted about it. At the time, you will remember, everyone was whining about finishing the game with the ten starting scarabs. My point in posting was to point out that there was a way to finish the game by doing one city. I did not realize that by telling others that it existed, that I was obligated to do it as well. http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/Beating_A_Dead_Horse.gif

It is not my way of playing, but One City makes it possible to finish the game if players had difficulty in buying scarabs for a larger game. I've heard from several players that they refuse to get a paypal account or their countries do not have an option for it.

but there was no disclaimer in your thread post, JuliaSet. You said nothing about you not doing it or why you were not doing it. Neither were you the first. Tons of posts about it.

[NoteVan1]

So true ! But some of the pushers still do it, like Fenekh or NoteVan.

OCC 4 lyfe.

word :cool:

[Amun Nefer]

You'll cave at some point Note... ;)

[Fenehk]

Pah, cave? We're the moldy wooden pillars that support this MINE, baby! Diggin' it hard, keepin' the scene alive!

[Tinkerbell]

You'll cave at some point Note... ;)

lol

You caved immediately

[GaSplat]

lol

You caved immediatelyFor which you should be happy and congratulatory as another player "enjoys the full benefits of the game" ;)

[Tinkerbell]

For which you should be happy and congratulatory as another player "enjoys the full benefits of the game" ;)

I wonder if Amun's whiplash hurt much?

:D

[Amun Nefer]

*cracks neck* I was never actually part of it really, I just joined it because Sip asked me to, and you can't say no to Sip. :p

[Jacquou Le]

After a month of playing in OCC, I have to say that it's very challenging.

It's like you're about to have a shower after a hard working day, but waiting for the water heater tank gets refilled :D

[NoteVan1]

You'll cave at some point Note... ;)

Pff, you wish.

Let's see here, 6 scarabs for palace upgrades, 2 scarabs for pyramid construction.

That leaves me 2 scarabs to spend on other doodads. :eek:

P.S. a 2nd city isn't a doodad.

[dark angel]

Tinker, I went through the whole subject and I must say that you are really against OCC. I did notice that you are also "Supporter" so you did buy scarabs already. You may say that I`m cheap because I`m playing OCC, but before that ask yourself what is your challenge in this game. I`m still playing Sabah and if I need something I just post it on the wall. First monuments I had to conq., second I just took from inactive player (80% done- now I regret that I didn`t try for sphinx). I`m playing Beta for last 2 months with two cities & 2 monuments - I don`t see any extra challenge, just collect goods, trade (fairly easy) upgrade ... etc. I see OCC as a real challenge, do many more trades, try harder, apply yourself instead of doing 2 best deals (gold,ems) and maybe another two who cares which (one for bricks, other for baskets & pots) . Have you ever thought about it ? For me it doesn`t matter if I finish first , I want to finish as a challenger.
But, and it is my opinion I can`t talk for everyone.
So, if you think that I overdid it sorry, but ... if anyone thinks that he/she agrees with what I say, please do so.

Thank you all for trades, companion, e-friendships.

DA

[Ramzez]

Why is it a challenge dark? Personally, comparing my new city to Sabah, its a walk in the park. Less cities mean less trades, less timers, less goods, less people to feed - overall, less work. On the other hand, more cities mean more daily trades, more timers, more goods, more people to feed, and consequentially much more work.

The greater the number of cities you have, the more things you have the juggle; and the harder it is to be efficient [since thinking about every eventuality just gets impossible].

[samrat]

This sounds like being on Lent forever.

My approach is not to pay Scarabs, but grow to the max level possible. Why bother about immortality on a server when everyday can be fun-ner?

Let's see how many keep this fast, and how many, having made the stupid decision to play ping pong in a soccer match, quit since they know now they can never catch up.

Who is the Greek god of abstinence?

[Amun Nefer]

Kronos XD (those who know that bit of mythology will get it ;)0)

You live in Bombay? o.o I thought you were German.

[abana]

All hail the diplomat!

[Amun Nefer]

/me bops abana good. http://forums.relicnews.com/images/smilies/damnyou.gif

[abana]

/me takes aim right back

[samrat]

how does it help you follow yourself to boredom where I live?

What you have just done is deploy the ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the man", "argument against the man").

It consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the source making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim.

The process of proving or disproving the claim is thereby subverted, and the argumentum ad hominem works to change the subject.

[PantherX]

/me looks around, ducks, and quickly exits stage left. :confused:

[mobius]

I'm in. 126N Highlander

[Deguar]

I'm in. 126N Highlander

Welcome aboard :)

One of the interesting aspects I've noticed recently is that leveling my one city is taking just as long as building and leveling three cities. I'm squirelling away to get an L13,and ,in the top ten at least, folks are also in that area of palace level with their three cities. Which seems to show that it's more an apect of time than anything else ;)

Mind you I think I went for a monument plot too early. It did put a significant crimp on trying to get the L12 at the time, with only one city to support its costs and I probably could have picked up sufficient limestone from the market to do the upgrade. Although there were also quite a lot of market fluctuations at the time as well and having bandit camps show up a few days after I snagged it neither of which helped matters.

Deguakay of Sabah

}deceased{

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Aguakay of Theoris

Hetekonpolis of Osirisiret (3S) Cedar

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Sevuakay of Sabah

Heteleuthera of Osirispen (6N) leather

[opilione]

i just started my first city today. i'm going into this game blind but the OCC sounds like painfully slow grinding and tweaking. i am SOOO in. :)

[NoteVan1]

Just finished upgrading my city to level 15. Any OCCers ahead of me?

The grind to gather goods for immortality is going to be a b*tch.

[PantherX]

If it wasn't against the rules I would start a 2nd account just to try the OCC challenge.

[Deguar]

Just finished upgrading my city to level 15. Any OCCers ahead of me?

The grind to gather goods for immortality is going to be a b*tch.

I'm on cedar, so I've got that covered :)

I don't keep any sort of check but I think you're at or near the front of the pack. My L14 is still just under 14 hours or so from completion. Trying to build a monument is hard work though with only one quarry to feed palace and monument construction :)

The best way to store for immortality or just to get lux goods is probably to hope for bandit events and contribute to them, I missed out on our first one owing to simply not having the labour to free up. The bread and limestone are going to be real interesting to try and accumulate though.


Deguakay of Sabah

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@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@

Aguakay of Theoris

Hetekonpolis of Osirisiret (3S) Cedar

@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@

Sevuakay of Osirispen (6N) Leather

[NoteVan1]

I've got the monument part covered, but definitely not enough to be meaningful to me, or at least can't afford to make as much limestone as I would like to.

Our nome has had bandits twice already (but no nubs) and I have contributed both times, but there is someone with 2 cities in my nome which has contributed about 70% of the soldiers both times.

[DustysMomma]

My nome has had bandits what seems like every other day. Abana & Ramzees (sorry if I misspelled!) have been knocking them out so fast they keep calling for reinforcments!

The problem I'm having is finding kohl & limestone. Nobody seems to want to trade either of them. Heck, I take things I don't use & then trade them with others for things I do use! However, everyone I've asked to trade for my bronze says they're not doing an army or aren't now & don't make sculpture. Uh, if you were on bronze, I wouldn't be asking you to trade me! If there is anyone out there that would trade me 1k of kohl for my bronze, please scroll me!

As for the limestone, I either don't get a response, or I'm told they don't have enough even for themselves. Surely there is someone out there who is trading it. I finally had to buy it from the market to get enough for the upgrade I'll start this afternoon.

[NoteVan1]

I'm selling/trading limestone. Having only 1 city, I'm finding I'm making more than enough to upgrade my palace and have some extra on the side. Send me a scroll in-game and we'll work something out.

On the bandit front, my nome has had them twice (and no nubs). Each time 1 person manages to send at least 60% of the soldiers and claim most of the lux. I've managed to only get 415 lux between both events.

[Jacquou Le]

I'm considering to leave OCC. :rolleyes:

[Deguar]

I'm not getting much out of bandit camps either, the other players in what is a very active nome jump in first and heavily. We also have one person who always donates 50%+1 to the nubian traders :)

[04/25 @ 12:13 pm] You helped defeat the bandit outposts in Osirisiret! You've been awarded 500 [bread] , 75 [sandals] , 75 [sculpture] , 75 [cosmetics] , 75 [perfume] , 75 [jewelry] at Hetekonpolis OCC!

My biggest worry at the moment is the market has suddenly slowed down dramatically over the past day or two. I was selling enough bricks/pottery/baskets to be able to both feed the monument and run a bread deficit but that's come to a grinding halt. So I'm basically sitting around waiting for bread to come in at the moment. Maybe Cedar will pick up again with people starting to build shipping towards fourth :)

Deguakay of Sabah

}deceased{

@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@

Aguakay of Theoris

Hetekonpolis of Osirisiret (3S) Cedar

@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@

Sevuakay of Sabah

Heteleuthera of Osirispen (6N) leather

[Ozymandias]

It is now May 15. I would like to know how people are doing with the OCC challenge. Is it possible to enjoy the game? Have many people dropped out?

I have one city at this point and am currently upgrading to level 8. I am debating a second city but having played Travian I know more cities mean more work and I don't really want to be at this all day. Summer is coming. So I want to know will it be death if I don't go for a second city or can I survive? Can I compete?

Thanks for answers.

[Deguar]

It is now May 15. I would like to know how people are doing with the OCC challenge. Is it possible to enjoy the game? Have many people dropped out?

I have one city at this point and am currently upgrading to level 8. I am debating a second city but having played Travian I know more cities mean more work and I don't really want to be at this all day. Summer is coming. So I want to know will it be death if I don't go for a second city or can I survive? Can I compete?

Thanks for answers.

There are quite a lot of people doing OCC, not many of them visit the forum but whenever I hit the trade wall I always seem to end up with OCC trading partners ;)

As for surviving, I have a fine L17 Palace with a L5 monument on what is the worst resource in the game especially for a single city ie cedar. Playing OCC certainly has some challenges mainly owing to the lack of flexibility from having diverse markets, extra shop plots and labour etc etc. But that's the main reason I decided to go OCC in Theoris, I'd already done the 4 L22 palaces and 2 L5 monuments to immortality on Sabah so I wanted something different.

As for competing, I started on Theoris when it opened and strangely enough when you look at the top 100 it looks like it takes as long to do one city as it does to do four ~Grin~. Which suggests that it's more about the length of time for upgrades than anything else.

[Fenehk]

I'm having a load of fun. It gets a bit slow sometimes when people REFUSE to trade limestone... But that's okay! I don't play to be efficient, I don't mind just sitting around chatting idly for a couple of days before trying again. Even if it means I'm really just wasting time. Because wasting time is FUN. I still grind on with my four cities on Sabah... but honestly, I find myself even less active there because it's so easy to produce everything and buy everything with four cities...

[abana]

I am not tacing the challenge, but I decided a long time ago, that I need to build my two monuments, build up my cities, and save for immortality. The ONLY ones that I will trade limestone to, are OCC cities.

[DustysMomma]

Abana, always the sweetheart trading buddy!

By the way, I disagree that cedar is the worse plot for an OCC....I think it's bronze! Having something that requires so many resources to produce a lux good, you spend all yout time balancing so you don't run out, until the demand around you slows down, then you just stop making sculps.

[NoteVan1]

I'm still having a good time. Making a decent profit on the market and about 12 hours from now my palace will hit level 19. :D

Saving for immortality though, that's a whole other story.

[DustysMomma]

I'm still working on level 17 here. It's still fun, but a bit irritating at times. Partly because I can't seem to keep enough bread, now that the market has slowed, to get what I need for upgrades. While the market was hot, I was buying anything I could find below production cost and selling lots of bronze to buy orders for a profit. Now, all the other bronze producers in my area have flooded the market at 4 per and there are sell orders for sculpture at 99% of production cost. So this morning, here I sit on 3k in spare bronze. I'll have a sculpture order filled in about 3 hours & will likely shut down everything but bricks & ships at that time to increase my bread count.

On the upside, with all the upgrades taking forever now in Theoris, I can watch my monument on Sabah & now have enough spare limes that I can trade off a few. :)

[Ozymandias]

Thanks for all the replies. I guess I can do it too. Sounds like I had better put OCC at the end of my name otherwise Abana won't trade with me.

I think I got lucky getting emeralds. I never buy anything with bread - at least not so far. I've got lot's of people who want emeralds or jewelry and I just trade 1:1 or 1:1.26.

[abana]

I'll still trade with you, I just won't trade my limestone to anyone who isn't doing the challenge untill after I have two pyramids, 4 level 22 cities, and the 75000 for immortality. In other words, if you aren't doing the challenge, I doubt that you will get any.

[Deguar]

~giggle~

2747 = number of hours at current bread production surplus it would take me to make the 500000 bread for immortality. Thats 114 days ~grin~

Of course the fact that I have yet to break even 10k of bread and regularly spend the few K I do produce on luxury good imports plus maintaining the monument makes it even more improbable as I won't actually be able to start stockpiling until 22 rolls around.

Oh well will be starting my L18 in about 20 hours or so and maybe the cedar market will pick up as it did eventually on Sabah once the producers started going immortal ;)

Gotta love a dead market, my last sale was Friday although that's partly because I have so far refused to delist and relist to follow the undercutters down any lower.

[DustysMomma]

Players have about stopped posting in the market below production cost so i've been hanging on to more of my bread the last couple days. However, I laid off all my workers overnight, then got up this morning to a plea for 2k in bronze that I couldn't fill. There's also a buy order for 2k in bronze I wish I could fill that I can't because of it too! I'm dragging along, still waiting to make level 17 in about another 2 days or so. There are still too many bronze listings to sell in the market, so I'm making it where I can. It seems painfully slow compared to Sabah. With no monuments and painfully long upgrade times, I don't check in as often now. I'll see how far I get before I got on vacation at the end of August. I hope to hit immortality in Sabah before then, so I will be able to focus more on Theoris then. I'll decide then if I'm going to stay OCC.....

[mobius]

This certainly is a challenge having cedar as a resource. Has anyone made it to immortality with only one city?

[Amun Nefer]

Someone did, I can't remember who it was though.

[abana]

Chaol did on May 6.

[Jaguar]

Yes, but that was on Sabah. Ashery did it on April 1 on Sabah.

[abana]

Ok, missed that, but no one has done it yet on Theoris, have they?

[Jaguar]

I don't think anyone has a L22 palace yet on Theoris.

ArmEagle has a L21 palace and Chaol and Annatar have one L20 palace each. But none of them are playing OCC. The higest OCC'er I've seen is L19 (Notevan)

[NoteVan1]

Sup :cool:

I'm starting to run into the same problem that I did on Sabah. I have laborers, but no where to put them. If I wanted, I could have started upgrading my palace again a day or 2 ago, but then I would have to wait to upgrade other plots anyway. In the mean time, I'm trading off excess bricks and jewelry for other lux in an attempt to start saving for immortality.

Pic if anyone is curious of my progress:

I have not cheated, sold scarabs or accepted donations of any kind, and I prefer if people DON'T send me any freebies. There is no sense of accomplishment if I needed help to get there.

Comments? Questions? Trades?

[Deguar]

Hetekonpolis with the level 18 under construction.

30528

Points of interest.
The vast majority of my labour is dedicated to bread

After bread the next major employer is bricks

Labour for pottery and baskets tends to fluctuate between the shops depending on a) if I actually sold any b) what the next palace demands c) if I traded some

Currently there is a complete lack of any labour in Cedar, it's pretty much used as an overflow plot for labourers. They go there only if there is nothing better to do.

My jewellery shop is a Level 5, it's been cheaper to manufacture my own than import it. Although it very rarely has the full 32 labour complement currently it's ticking over at 20.


With an average of one sale per day in the market which typically brings in 1k of bread my strategy is very simply to produce my own bread and run a large daily surplus of it. Even when folks were going for fourth city there was no increase in Cedar demand, primarily because strangely a lot of folk seemed to go for cedar as second/third city which ramped up supply.

Hence the first things that will be getting built once the palace is done will be wheatfield and bakery but of course the construction times for them are getting ever longer, 22 hours for the bakery and 26 for the wheatfield. So once the palace finishes all the new population will be used to top up brick/pottery/baskets with any surplus sent to languish in cedar. Then they will be redistributed into making bread once the wheatfield is built ;)

I'm always interested in trading B/P/B and even Cedar ;) for other luxury materials and goods. I tend to only visit the wall once or twice a week when I have a decent tradable surplus.

[DustysMomma]

Comments? Questions? Trades?

It's interesting to me that you are running deficits on the brickmaking materials. I haven't been able to make myself run a deficit on anything for very long for fear that I will run out and not be able to get more. I keep upgrading my plots to stay ahead of it, and maybe that's partly why I'm behind.....

[NoteVan1]

It's interesting to me that you are running deficits on the brickmaking materials. I haven't been able to make myself run a deficit on anything for very long for fear that I will run out and not be able to get more. I keep upgrading my plots to stay ahead of it, and maybe that's partly why I'm behind.....

I can put up a buy order of 1-3k at .4 and it'll usually get picked up in a day or 2. Someone is selling 10k reeds at .4 right now, but I'm not willing to spend that much bread at 1 time even if it is worth it.

[DustysMomma]

Well I finally just hit the button on level 17. Man do I need more citizens! I keep moving everyone to the bronze/bread/bricks related plots just to keep enough of everything to advance and keep up my trades. Luckily, i've picked up a few really good deals in the market the last couple days too. I started a daily trade for an item I make, but have been able to buy enough to trade for over a week without making a single one. THAT is ingenuity! I'm still struggling for bread, can't seem to stay over 10k very long. I just bought everything I saw below production cost in the market and I'm down to 12 again, lol. This seems to happen every night. Do people really not realize the true rate they are posting goods at.....both below production cost and WAY over? I can't remember which world it was, but I saw either reeds, wheat, or clay listed for sale at 11 per earlier.

[Papy]

Brand new to the game and this is my first post. Would like to try OCC but I think I'm too late. So I guess I'll develop normally, and think about OCC if they ever open up another world.

Papy

[DustysMomma]

Brand new to the game and this is my first post. Would like to try OCC but I think I'm too late. So I guess I'll develop normally, and think about OCC if they ever open up another world.

Papy

It's NEVER too late!!!!

[PantherX]

I may try OCC next time but it seems to me that the end game will take a rather long time to collect the items needed.:cool:

[NoteVan1]

Not really. I just upgraded to level 20 and I'm already starting to trade for what is needed for immortality. I expect it to take longer to get there, but I already knew that when I started.

[PantherX]

really? wow, are you even close to the bread requirements? Although even at the levels my cities are at the immortality requirements seem like a lot.:cool:

[DustysMomma]

Not really. I just upgraded to level 20 and I'm already starting to trade for what is needed for immortality. I expect it to take longer to get there, but I already knew that when I started.

Dayum....I just hit 17 & we started the same day! Nobody can tell me that there isn't an advantage from one player to another based on what resource they start on.

BTW....I'm jealous! :p

[Deguar]

really? wow, are you even close to the bread requirements? Although even at the levels my cities are at the immortality requirements seem like a lot.:cool:

The only requirement I'm really worried about is the bread one, I always expected the luxuries to take longer after all I only have 1/4 of the productivity of someone with four cities. But overall I'm quite comfortable with my pace and unlike my time in Sabah I am using a market based strategy, regularly miss upgrade times, sporadically slipped into red with bricks especially and various other gaffs . For example I'm currently sneaking in a couple more exchange upgrades, threw 80 employees into the exchange after one upgrade leaving me producing 4+ boats per hour which meant I would have been at capacity after 3 hours and promptly neglected to go back until about 6 hours later. So I had 80 employees spinning their wheels and doing nothing for about 3 hours ;)

But my Level 18 palace is a happy little bunny and it also means I've reached the threshold of no longer needing every single luxury good for the palace upgrade cycle. My next upgrade ie 19 will be the last time I need sculptures so any I get after that point will be going towards immortality. As for the bread well I seem to remember producing at least 500+ per hour in a single city back on Sabah plus the cedar market should eventually pick up as there will be more demand.

Not really. I just upgraded to level 20 and I'm already starting to trade for what is needed for immortality. I expect it to take longer to get there, but I already knew that when I started.

Ahh the advantage of having a luxury resource you can turn into a luxury good and actually sell/trade both regularly ;)

[NoteVan1]

really? wow, are you even close to the bread requirements? Although even at the levels my cities are at the immortality requirements seem like a lot.:cool:

Not even close. I have about 24k bread and slowly making a profit on the market. Then there is the monument eating away at my supply too. Near me there is a ton of limestone selling at 3 on the market already, so no profit there. I imagine bread to be one of the last things I reach. At the end I'll probably just upgrade my bakery (currently 15) and wheat field (currently 18) and make most of the bread that way.

Ahh the advantage of having a luxury resource you can turn into a luxury good and actually sell/trade both regularly ;)

I actually don't sell much gold. Most of it goes towards my daily trades and whatever I have left over gets traded for other mats for upgrading. BTW, shoot me a scroll some time. Maybe we can work out something for some cedar.

Dayum....I just hit 17 & we started the same day! Nobody can tell me that there isn't an advantage from one player to another based on what resource they start on.

BTW....I'm jealous! :p

I think I spend too much time watching my city(ies). Maybe I obsess over this game too much. Ah well, the quicker I finish, the quicker I can stop obsessing over it.

If anyone is interested, I'll take another screen cap of my city, but http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/777/emoteffort.gif

[NoteVan1]

So, I just saw an OCC'er offering to trade scarabs on the wall. Am I the only one that thinks that defeats the purpose of playing OCC? Playing your own style is fine, but if you can snap your fingers and have additional outside help, what's the point?

/rant

[Slevin]

Quick question, am i still considered OCC if i purchased 10 scarabs in order to have both a Pyramid and Sphinx, purchased a few intown items like statues and obelisk, had a few scarabs remaining from the purchase and traded them away? Would i still be OCC?

Thanks for opinions.

[Slevin]

There I aksed the same question. if it makes you happy NotVan1 i wont trade them

[Fenehk]

Quick question, am i still considered OCC if i purchased 10 scarabs in order to have both a Pyramid and Sphinx, purchased a few intown items like statues and obelisk, had a few scarabs remaining from the purchase and traded them away? Would i still be OCC?

Well, ask yourself this: What does OCC stand for? Wait, you don't need to do that, even, it's even in the thread title. One city. If you intend to never found a second city, you're in.

[NoteVan1]

There I aksed the same question. if it makes you happy NotVan1 i wont trade them

You can do whatever you want. Like I said, it's your play style. My opinion, or others shouldn't deter you from what you want to do. This doesn't mean I still can't get other people's opinions.

[Deguar]

Quick question, am i still considered OCC if i purchased 10 scarabs in order to have both a Pyramid and Sphinx, purchased a few intown items like statues and obelisk, had a few scarabs remaining from the purchase and traded them away? Would i still be OCC?

Thanks for opinions.

There is no problem with buying scarabs, quite a few have done so for the extra goodies like increased market listings, inactivity immunity etc

The only thing you can't do with your scarabs in One City Challenge..is buy another city. But using them to "purchase" goods by trading them well that defeats the purpose of striving to complete the challenge with the sole resources and productivity of a single city

[Amun Nefer]

Note if I remember correctly there was only one rule. Have one city and that's it. Selling scabbies was never factored in of course. Sip can clarify since it was partly his idea. (I think Cae was also responsible)

[Deguar]

Note if I remember correctly there was only one rule. Have one city and that's it. Selling scabbies was never factored in of course. Sip can clarify since it was partly his idea. (I think Cae was also responsible)

It never needed to be part of the original rules because Scarab trading was impossible until 1.1. Hence the clarification.

[Amun Nefer]

Hence the of course of course, lol

[PantherX]

Mr. Ed?



/sorry I'm drifting here

[DustysMomma]

it seemed odd to me that we could have monuments. Actually, it's odd to me that an OCC player could afford to support a monument. I guess this is because I'm on bronze & have struggled to balance everything without going red constantly. I wonder, is there anyone in OCC who landed on bronze who has a monument? I'd love to know the secret!

[Deguar]

it seemed odd to me that we could have monuments. Actually, it's odd to me that an OCC player could afford to support a monument. I guess this is because I'm on bronze & have struggled to balance everything without going red constantly. I wonder, is there anyone in OCC who landed on bronze who has a monument? I'd love to know the secret!

I landed on Cedar which I think is worse than bronze, since for long periods of time noone will be interested in it and there is no luxury good to be made from it. Early on I virtually abandoned cedar and went into BricksBasketsPottery. This was profitable enough that I was even running a bread deficit prior to snagging my monument plot. Thus I simply switched the bread deficit to the monument.

When the market for BBP started drying up back at Palace L12 I switched into a making bread strategy. Round about Palace L15 the market died completely as people stopped upgrading and buying presumably so they could stockpile towards fourth city. My solution was to push even more labourers into bread making. With a Lsoon to be 19 Palace I actually have a level 20 wheatfield with a currently 463 per hour bread surplus.

I generally run my limestone quarry at about 50% of it's actual capacity, yet this is still providing me sufficient limestone for my needs and I gave up trying to sell it. Recently the market has picked up again in BBP. So as well as the lovely bread surplus I'm also earning some bread from the market again. In the last week or two I've gone from a typical bread amount of <8k up to 50k

[NoteVan1]

I just finished my L21 upgrade which means I don't need to stockpile pots anymore. Also making a huge surplus of bricks that I have started selling on the market at 3. My current upgrade is going to take ~30 hours and cost 3160 bricks. In the time it takes for that upgrade to finish I'll have made ~9000 bricks. This means that I'm not going to need to upgrade the clay pit or reed marsh anymore.

Limestone I don't bother selling since it is flooded on the market at 3 and doesn't trade very well. That's fine by me though, since 75k is needed for immortality.

Bread I am making a small surplus on, but not enough to cover how much I use at the monument. Current total bread is ~60k.

Future plans are to upgrade the wheat field to 20, exchange to 10 and jewelry shop to 12...and sit on about 80 laborers while those count down

[DustysMomma]

and sit on about 80 laborers while those count down

You have to sit on your laborers in Theoris? In Sabah, mine just work shifts when there's extras. :D But sometimes I think the monument guys are taking extra bread home to the family....:eek:

I'm currently 13,501 bricks away from level 18. I'm still fighting the (internal) bread beast, who spends it all on goods sold in the market below cost, which is less often now (hope I didn't spoil it!) Things have slowed down considerably the last couple weeks....

[NoteVan1]

Yup, 79 laborers not doing anything right now. I upgraded my exchange first since I needed the boats (and it's a shorter upgrade time). 79 laborers in there got me an extra 20 ships in about 6.5 hours. In about 15 hours my wheat field will be upgraded meaning I can employ about 20 laborers there and another 11 in the bakery (maxing it out). I'll probably upgrade the gold mine again after that and then the jewelry shop. Of course, I'd love for bandits to show up again. Then they'll all immediately go to work. ;)

I'd estimate that I have about 15% of what I need towards immortality.

[Deguar]

I actually ~Gasp~ have labourers in Cedar, in fact the cedar plot is filled to capacity.

Of course that's cause a couple of friendly peeps landed scrolls on my doorstep requesting it, hence I dropped down to a few hundred briefly. Glad I took the odd occasion to upgrade the wood farm though even if the vast majority of the time it's only been ticking over with 20 or so employees.

Unfortunately my nome neighbours pile into the bandit outpost events quickly and furiously so there isn't much I get out of them, in theory I could upgrade barracks but I'm not sure it would be worth it when I've only seen four events since starting.

The bread pile did get all the way up to 80k, then I promptly started spending it on perfume and gold/emeralds for next palace but I still have err 10% of the bread towards immortality oh and 447 sculptures (as it's the only lux good I won't need no more) ~Grin~

I always insist on having somewhere for my labourers to go before going for the palace upgrade, which is getting harder when the wheatfield and bakery are up at the 30 hour mark for upgrades. (which is a bit silly when my other upgrades except palace are in the 12 hour mark) But that does come in handy when things like a cedar demand spike happens ;) Before the labourers finished growing into the palace I was up to 450+ bread per hour and again the first two upgrades I am going for are wheatfield (18 hours left) and bakery (28 hours). I'll likely do a warehouse upgrade as well so purely in construction time I'm at least 3 days from next palace, though I might throw in a couple of cedar plot ugprades as well. Lots of time to decide.

[DustysMomma]

I always insist on having somewhere for my labourers to go before going for the palace upgrade, which is getting harder when the wheatfield and bakery are up at the 30 hour mark for upgrades.

I do this too, in both worlds, and I'm not sure it's done me much good in the rankings. The length of some of the plot upgrades is out of hand by the time you have a level 18 palace!

and sit on about 80 laborers while those count down

I hope you're not squashing their heads as you sit on them....is what I meant, lol!

[PantherX]

Yep, I made the mistake of upgrading my palace to L19 prior to having anywhere for the extra labor to work. Now everything is a day away to upgrade and I just keep sending laborers to the monuments to sit there and be ready to work if/when I upgrade the quarries again. - lol

:cool:

[Deguar]

Yep, I made the mistake of upgrading my palace to L19 prior to having anywhere for the extra labor to work. Now everything is a day away to upgrade and I just keep sending laborers to the monuments to sit there and be ready to work if/when I upgrade the quarries again. - lol

:cool:

Can't remember when I dropped my limestone labourers down to about 60..probably about the time of the "L15ish-stockpiling for fourth" market stagnation I experienced. But even at 60 I'll have about two palaces worth by the time I get around to hitting the "Go to L20" button. Since it will take something like at least a week for the L20 and it's various related upgrades to complete before worrying about L21 even 60 labourers will produce sufficient limestone in that time. Doesn't help a lot with the immortality requiremenst but then I've barely scratched those ;)

[NoteVan1]

There is no reason for me to take laborers out of the limestone quarry. 75k is a big number to reach. With 1 monument and a maxed quarry it'll take over 26 days to produce that much. That leaves 3 options: 1) Wait it out, 2) trade for it (big drain on resources), or 3) try to take over a 2nd monument (big drain on bread).

As for the laborers, yes I'm impatient, but the second bandits show up 87 laborers get new jobs.

[DustysMomma]

3) try to take over a 2nd monument (big drain on bread).

This is what kept me from taking a second monument in Sabah. I wanted this game to be casual for me. I worry enough now, even having one monument, about running out of bread or not retiring before I leave on vacation and coming back to find out my monument was taken while I was gone.

So, knowing that Theoris was going to take longer doing OCC, I decided against taking a monument at all. I can't seem to afford it on bronze anyway!

[senex]

Hi. This is Onetown Horse, I just entered theoris with a leather site

[abana]

senex, I am not taking this challenge this time, but I am supporting thos who are. I would like to offer a daily trade, however much of yout leather you can manage, I have gold, emeralds, ansd oil.

[senex]

...a daily trade, however much of your leather you can manage, I have gold, emeralds, ansd oil.

Thanks, I will bear it in mind. Just now I have 2 leather and no boat. In a week or so I should have a boat, but I will have to trade with those nearby so I get my boat back

[abana]

Contact me in game

Scribe abana gold Capital (6S) (L16) emeralds Abanaville (35N) (L11) henna Happy Birthday to Me (329S) (L12) Limestone The Home (L5) Limestone extra

I can help get your boats etc, where are you.

[Deguar]

Hi. This is Onetown Horse, I just entered theoris with a leather site

Welcome aboard Senex, drop me a scroll if you need to get your trading fleet started.

[Amun Nefer]

Careful of Deg's ships, there's a quarantine on Scottish goods ever since the rabid haggi broke through the containment barriers.

[Deguar]

Careful of Deg's ships, there's a quarantine on Scottish goods ever since the rabid haggi broke through the containment barriers.

They aren't rabid, just overly friendly :eek:

[DustysMomma]

I love you guys & it's been fun......but I'm leaving the OCC.

Stand back! I have scarabs and I'm not afraid to use them!

[Amun Nefer]

Remember to put -TCC- After all your cities hon. :)

[DustysMomma]

Remember to put -TCC- After all your cities hon. :)

I'm sure I missed something....what's that?

[Amun Nefer]

Two/Three City Challenge, like on my cities. :D

[DustysMomma]

Two/Three City Challenge, like on my cities. :D

I wondered what that was.....and what if I'm going for four? :D If you're gonna take a big bite, you might as well swallow the whole thing!:cool:

[Amun Nefer]

Exactly! lol

[Deguar]

I love you guys & it's been fun......but I'm leaving the OCC.

Stand back! I have scarabs and I'm not afraid to use them!

Enjoy yoiurself with your multi management ;)

[Amun Nefer]

Enjoy your sheep stomachs ravishing the walls of your town. :p

[Deguar]

Enjoy your sheep stomachs ravishing the walls of your town. :p

They only attack those who don't believe....

[DustysMomma]

Amun.....

I'm now an MCC!!!

OCC will still get preferential treatment though. I love my buddies!!!

[NoteVan1]

I was wondering why you changed your city name when I checked in this morning. Good luck to ya.


T-minus 15 hours till I hit the upgrade button for level 22. :D

[JuliaSet]

Hi. This is Onetown Horse, I just entered theoris with a leather site
I cant find Onetown Horse or senex on Theoris. What is your location and pharaoh name please?

[Amun Nefer]

Congrats to finlearson, first to beat the One City Challenge! :D

[NoteVan1]

and I thought I was going to be the first person to hit 22 and this guy went immortal already? I'd be really interested to hear how he did it (as long as it wasn't by selling scarabs).

Congrats to the guy.

[Fenehk]

Indeed, congratulations. I JUST hit upgrade for L22, myself. Now I have half a year's worth of scavenging to do to gather up all the stuff I need for immortality... That guy's quick!

[Deguar]

Lots of congratulations, I'm still counting down to starting L21..so 22 is at least a week away and about the only thing I've "gathered" is that instead of hovering around my normal 10k of bread I'm hovering around 100k.

[DustysMomma]

I was wondering why you changed your city name when I checked in this morning. Good luck to ya.


T-minus 15 hours till I hit the upgrade button for level 22. :D

Thanks NoteVan! I have been struggling with this the entire time. It seems that bronze is not great for this challenge. I watched as others in the challenge, who started the same day, were several levels ahead of me and the gap just seemed to continue to grow. I just didn't have the patience for it anymore and so now that I have the scarabs to do it, I'm going all the way!!!! I'm going to wait until after I go on vacation, 8/26-9/6, to do anything about monuments or saving for immortality. I'll likely slow things down even more between now & then, since Mrs_Ra is moving away. I'd like to spend some time with her while I can.

[NoteVan1]

I wish you the best Dusty. Bring back pix :)

On the NO front, my palace finished upgrading this morning, just broke 200k bread, have all the cedar I need (pending 1 more trade), 50% of the limes and about 30% of the lux I need.

[Reed]

Wow, that was quick! Impressive

[Darg]

Fair play to finlearson! Though he must have used scarabs to get the two monuments. Still though we all know how hard it is with just one city!

Getting close to upgrade time for L22. Pretty happy with how I'm going so far :)

Good luck to everyone else who has stuck with it!

[Abkhaem]

Thanks NoteVan! I have been struggling with this the entire time. It seems that bronze is not great for this challenge. I watched as others in the challenge, who started the same day, were several levels ahead of me and the gap just seemed to continue to grow. I just didn't have the patience for it anymore and so now that I have the scarabs to do it, I'm going all the way!!!! I'm going to wait until after I go on vacation, 8/26-9/6, to do anything about monuments or saving for immortality. I'll likely slow things down even more between now & then, since Mrs_Ra is moving away. I'd like to spend some time with her while I can.

I'm into OCC. I'm also in bronze. And this is my first time playing the game. Just taking it easy.. don't know how fast it is if I found more cities.

[mobius]

I'm into OCC. I'm also in bronze. And this is my first time playing the game. Just taking it easy.. don't know how fast it is if I found more cities.

This is my first time playing and I have cedar. The game is going quickly and it would go by even quicker if I had gone with 4 cities. I'm just stocking up on Luxury materials for immortality.

[DustysMomma]

I'm into OCC. I'm also in bronze. And this is my first time playing the game. Just taking it easy.. don't know how fast it is if I found more cities.

When I start over, I may try OCC again, unless I'm on bronze again. You know how it feels when you have your cruise control on and someone comes up behind you as you're passing another car? You find yourself mentally saying "come on, come on" but getting past them seems to take forever because you refuse to speed up any more? That's how this felt for me on bronze.

(I also have a mental picture of a child on a rocking horse, trying to get it across the room)

[PantherX]

And I have the hardest time finding sculptures, it's all in the timing I guess.
:cool:

[DustysMomma]

And I have the hardest time finding sculptures, it's all in the timing I guess.
:cool:

These days, I trade all I can make to 1-2 people. But I'll take an order if you like. Just scroll me in game. :cool:

[NoteVan1]

Boy, I don't check up here often anymore.

I'm probably going to have everything for immortality within a week and then I'm calling it quits for this game.

[Deguar]

Boy, I don't check up here often anymore.

I'm probably going to have everything for immortality within a week and then I'm calling it quits for this game.

Good going

Wish I could say the same myself, but while it's possible to get to 22 relatively sanely on Cedar albeit with few peaks and long troughs...getting to immortality is looking impossible. Cedar has been pretty worthless since almost day one, it's been consistently down at 3per since the first few weeks. Unlike Sabah folk knew about the ship requirement for 4th and the immortality requirement, plus of course the trade wall so there were a lot of 2nd, 3rd and 4th cities opened on cedar. Which greatly reduced demand and hugely increased supply.

Thus the only luxuries I have stockpiled are the ones I make myself. 57k Limestone, 33k cedar and 17k of jewellery while bread only recently broke the 200k barrier. Although that bread means I have snuck back under 1000 in rank :)

I'm now at the stage where I barely remember to check in on my city, my poor monument is regularly running out of bread.

[Zeal]

OCC??? have fun with your grinding everybody :)

[Amun Nefer]

It's like a giant nightclub! :D

[PantherX]

My room mate is OCC and while he is much lower in rank than I am, he could probably go immortal shortly after I do. If he was into trading better I think he would be even with me if not closer.

:cool:

[NoteVan1]

3 days left for me. Technically I could do it by the end of today, but I have to finish paying someone back and saying my goodbyes. I'm going to have a big gathering at my monument.

[Deguar]

3 days left for me. Technically I could do it by the end of today, but I have to finish paying someone back and saying my goodbyes. I'm going to have a big gathering at my monument.

Hmm...not sure if it's safe to go to that party...the guests might find themselves permanent residents of your monument to keep you company in the afterlife :cool:

[NoteVan1]

Whelp, decided that tomorrow night is going to be the night. Festivities are already being prepared for the event and there will be pictures.

[Amun Nefer]

You're leaving forever Evan? :(

[abana]

Can I have an invitation, old pal?

[NoteVan1]

You're leaving forever Evan? :(

Yes I am. :( The only reason that I stayed around as long as I have is the community. Unfortunately, even that seems to be becoming bland and there is no reason I can think of to start again.

Can I have an invitation, old pal?

Of course you can. It'll be pretty crowded though. ;)

[Amun Nefer]

Very sorry to hear that, I wish you well in life, and that you some day find a way out of New Jersey. :)

[abana]

New Yorkers think that the only place worth living is in New York. Poor misguded individuals.

[Amun Nefer]

Except Detroit, Scranton and Gary, any place is better to live in than New Jersey. ;)

[abana]

Even Vermont?

[Amun Nefer]

Even Vermont

[PantherX]

Even Vermont in the Winter?

I bet Jay and Silent Bob would disagree.

:cool:

[NoteVan1]

And it's over. Here's the pics I promised.

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9246/81099010.th.png (http://img41.imageshack.us/i/81099010.png/)
Everyone has come for this momentous occasion and a feast is had by all.
(Hope you like bread :p )

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/8844/41978679.th.png (http://img381.imageshack.us/i/41978679.png/)
Everyone has been given the day off. Unfortunately, there was no room left at the monument, so these people had to watch from the city.

It's been fun. I'll pop in every so often to see what's up.

P.S. I'd appreciate if someone could post a picture of my monument for me. I don't want to start a new account just for that.

[Amun Nefer]

Goodbye Evan, you'll be missed! :(

[NoteVan1]

:(

I'll still check in. I just won't be playing anymore.

And yes, I went immortal on Sabah too - Rank 6.

[Lost Wanderer]

Here ya go Notevan, enjoy the afterlife.

[Deguar]

:(

I'll still check in. I just won't be playing anymore.

And yes, I went immortal on Sabah too - Rank 6.

Adios Amigo, enjoy the afterlife.

[Fenehk]

Pah, both of my daily emerald trades disappeared. One went inactive, the other went immortal. And I'm too lazy to do more trading, so my climb toward immortality really slowed down to a crawl. Ah well, congrats to Note and Gerhardc.

[PantherX]

Congrats Notevan1


Maybe now I will remember your OCC :p

[DustysMomma]

Except Detroit, Scranton and Gary, any place is better to live in than New Jersey. ;)

I'm a little late here, but I'm sure that Jersey is better than Alabama....the armpit of the south.....where everyone's yours cousin & you eat what you kill....usually with your pickup truck.

And no hate mail for my comments, I've lived here since 1991 and I'm well aware of the "finer points" of the state.

[PantherX]

And no hate mail for my comments, I've lived here since 1991 and I'm well aware of the "finer points" of the state.

Which corner of the state is the finer point? :rolleyes:

[Deguar]

I just wanted to drop in a thank you to all of the wonderful people who have bought and continue to buy my fine products.

You may be legion but each of you is individually cherished.

[DustysMomma]

Which corner of the state is the finer point? :rolleyes:

The point that connects to Florida!!! I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida....got stupid when I was 18 & moved here for a man. :rolleyes:

[Dzibril]

Hi...

I'm another one to try OCC.

I'm in Basthedj (29N) nome.
Lvl 7. City "Bijela Kula".

[Deguar]

Greetings and welcome aboard.

[sheeba]

has anyone else gone immortal aside from notevan?

[Deguar]

has anyone else gone immortal aside from notevan?

At a quick glance I can see half a dozen folk in the Hall who have met the requirements of OCC, two since Notevan.

As for me I'm getting there, just need to get the bread back above 500K, acquire the last 10k or so luxuries and rebuild limestone stocks (which has been the latest bread accumulator)

[Hyper Shanic928]

not me. i'm just in for the fun. maybe after i go immortal i'll join the OCC.

[Hyper Shanic928]

here's my sabah account.

[Deguar]

Aguakay has passed away and gone to join his forerunners.

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May your journeys through life be fulfilling.

[Ivy]

And.... to finish off the picture, the tomb.

Congratulations. :)

[Deguar]

Thanks for the piccie Ivy ;)

[FearItself]

Hi OCC,
I'm pharaoh of Majubah OCC in Rafeka nome(180N). I'm gonna go immortal soon. :)

[FearItself]

Pharaoh FearItself of Majubah OCC (Rafeka 180N) went immortal on July 24th 2009.

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Thank you, Saphira. :)

[sheeba]

Right on, I finally made it myself. Although I went for the insanity of extreme OCC and did no monuments, just a single city.

http://www.ghqnet.com/sites/zero/Files/theoris1.JPG
http://www.ghqnet.com/sites/zero/Files/theoris2.JPG

[PantherX]

Amazing how you even cleaned out the city, swept up and waited for the ships to return before you went immortal. :D

[Tinkerbell]

Amazing how you even cleaned out the city, swept up and waited for the ships to return before you went immortal. :D

...and the laborers were first fired from their jobs before they were murdered. :eek:

...luv the image tho, sheeba, it rocks...lol...

[sheeba]

heh, yeah, i sent my daily trade peeps all my leftovers... not like i was in for a top spot as OCC eh... :P

[PantherX]

My roommate just went Immortal as an OCC'er. All hail KemNebi

He does not have a forum account because he does not type/spell well but he does read every once in a while.

I think he started over but i'm not sure what his plans are.

[mobius]

I've just shipped off my last trade. Just need to make a perfume building and make them.

A real challenge after going immortal. 4 cities and no purchase of scarabs.

[Asterix~]

I've just shipped off my last trade. Just need to make a perfume building and make them.

A real challenge after going immortal. 4 cities and no purchase of scarabs.

Is that... possible?

[mobius]

Is that... possible?

It's possible. Trading for scarabs is the only way to do this.

[Asterix~]

It's possible. Trading for scarabs is the only way to do this.

Thought so. The going price for scarabs is extremely steep; it won't be easy to get four cities. And are you going for monuments as well?

[PantherX]

Are they still trading for 1k lux good per scarab?

Because I personally think that's cheep. I would like to see scarabs trade for 10k goods each, but that's probably because I buy my scarabs.

Hmmm I wonder if you could sell enough scarabs to buy your immortality in 29 days? (aprox 21+ days for palace and 7+ days for warehouse upgrades)

Who wants to calculate out the amount of goods you need to upgrade palace/warehouse and have items for immorality?

Maybe I'll try that after I go Immortal this time - lol - OK NOT! :p