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RE: August 2006 GOTM

Bismarck2990 — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:59:07 GMT

Would be a USP member to rain on my parade! Don't chicken out of next months Ness, I'll be looking forward to the competition. ;)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Locus Coeruleus — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:48:52 GMT

A most triumphant return to the 1bc Ness. Congratulations!

Now only if we could drag you into the Politics and Religion forum! :D

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:36:34 GMT

Congrats to Ness, August GOTM Champion!

Sept Warlords GOTM Coming in the next day or so...

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Ness — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:26:53 GMT

Just a quick synopsis on my win;

I had three major wars in the game, two initiated by the AI and I kept picking on the Arabs (I think it was the arabs). Both times that I was surprise attacked I lost 2-3 major cities, but within 30 turns I was able to regain my lost cities and take a few of theirs for the keeps. I was close to winning by domination near the end, but ended up setting my culture to 70-80%, built Rock N Roll, Hollywood, and Broadway in my three culture centers, set all three to culture production, and also hurried the Eiffle Tower with a great engineer.

It was easy to keep up in science the entire game, I focused on producing Great Artists and had 3+ of them in my three culture centers.

If you wanna see how badly I dominated the game, open up my save file I posted earlier in the thread.

I wasnt able to win by diplomacy, but I Cold have taken the game any other way.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Leo — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:38:27 GMT

This was a game that worried me many times. Being as we were at the middle of the map made it a challenge. Not having gotten to horses at all was a PAIN...no one would trade them. My major war (against Greece, not started by me) was a rifleman/cannon war, with elephants for mopping up weak troops.

Wiped out the Greeks because they attacked me. Had a simply wonderful relationship with the Malinese all game long. Had great relations with the Arabs but sadly they were too close to me and the weakest. I ended up taking them out to get votes.

Toward the end, the Russians and Incans went into a permanent alliance, suddenly placing me in a VERY bad predicament. These guys were technically equivalent to me and building a spaceship faster than I could, eventually getting ahead of me in tech.

I was going to lose...

So I raced for the UN, built it, held one election. [b]SEVEN[/b] votes short! grrr

I waited for a few turns...just before the next round of elections, I invaded the Incans, attacking Machu Pichu within one hex of my border. It was a huge, cultural powerhouse. I would not be able to keep it, so I razed it...size 17 city...boom.

Then I desperately fended off the Incans and the Russians as they moved to avenge themselves...vote came up...Because of the deaths of millions of Incans, my population percentage had gone up...won the vote, even though fully half the world DESPISED me.

Interesting game. Ness totally killed my hopes for a win :D

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:07:05 GMT

The two submissions above are accepted. No more submissions will be accepted. I'll update the champion and such later today.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Palpster — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:26:10 GMT

Which, being the 1st of September today, is too late Leo....tsk tsk...;)

PS. Hmmm...when I see the posting time it was probably still August where you live.....lol

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Leo — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:29:48 GMT

CULTURAL?! Good god...great job Ness.

I was happy to escape with a diplo. I can't remember the exact score any more (got busy with stuff, had computer issues) but it was 8600-ish.

Will write this up more tomorrow I hope, not going to be epic or anything, just a short summary, but wanted to get this in...

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Tiger — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:11:24 GMT

Still fairly new to all this but I downloaded it on Saturday and gave it a try. Problem was, I was away for 3 days from Sunday so didnt have much time to try and finish it. Result was a rushed game - will do better next time. :)

I actually came close, had a permanent alliance with Catherine, and was ahead in tech all game. I had one legendary city (my capital) but realised I wasnt going to get another 2 to that status in time, tried diplomatic victory (having built United Nations), but Alexander kept voting for the other guy (the Incan), so I couldnt do that, so went for the space race. Nearly made it, was 3 turns away from building the last piece when Mansa Munta went and beat me to it. :( Close but no cigar as they say.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Rishbhav — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:30:53 GMT

I got a bit sloppy trying to do it all in a day, and made a few mistakes. At least I can scrape 3rd.

Victory Type: Cultural, Normalized Score 5560, Victory Date 1987 AD

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Bismarck2990 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:33:05 GMT

Just when I thought I had this one in the bag! :w00t:

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:03:38 GMT

Submission Accepted:

[red]Ness[/red]

Victory: [blue]Cultural[/blue]

Normalized Score: [red]9477 - 1975AD[/red]

And with this score, we have a new leader. Good job, Ness.:)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Palpster — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:59:23 GMT

Very nice score Ness, well done

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Ness — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:03:05 GMT

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to send the save to you mongoose, so I'll just post it here:

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Ness — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:57:16 GMT

Here was my effort. It was a little difficult not going for the domination victory.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Locus Coeruleus — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:35:00 GMT

Haha! Whoopsie!!!!! :hehe:

I made the dreadful mistake of focusing on my Culture, Economy and spreading the Religion at the neglect of my Military! :rolleyes:

After waging a successful campaign against the Greeks, taking two of their cities and giving peace, I did the above, and then one day the Incas come marching in from the Northeast with their Knights and then a short while later the damn Arabics come in from that South with their Camel Archers...

needless to say, after they each took one of my cities, along with it important key resources, well, lets just say it wasn't pretty. I could maybe rebound, but with the loss of certain resources it is going to be tough. I may give it a shot though if I have time.

Call it a lesson well learned, I probably will not be submitting a score this month! :w00t:

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:40:43 GMT

Submission Accepted:

[red]Palpster[/red]

Victory: [blue]Cultural[/blue]

Normalized Score: [red]3956 - 1998AD[/red]

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Palpster — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:38:56 GMT

Just to summarize:

I scored a 1998 Cultural Victory worth the full amount of 3956 points :blush:

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Palpster — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:34:22 GMT

I played a truly dreadful game. My aim was a cultural victory even though it's prolly easier and more profitable (pointwise) to go for diplomatic. I just thought it'd be interesting since people (or Scipio really) had been asking about Cultural. Anyway, third city I founded got raized by barbs :(...I screwed up bigtime in wonder building and went for the 100% Culture rate far too soon. If you ever try Cultural, don't do this before you've got access to broadcast towers! Oh well...here's my score anyway.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Palpster — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:26:28 GMT

Haven't started yet, but will finish it before the deadline.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Locus Coeruleus — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:38:09 GMT

I think it took Biz that long as well Zone. I've already put in a good at least 2 hours, so I should be able to get this one done. :)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Zone — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:24:36 GMT

The difficulty setting is already sorted in game. Basically, imagine you were just starting a game, had set everything up and clicked 'start'. Then someone called meaning you had to save the game before you'd done anything. The file you download is that save.

It took me under 4 hours to play, so there's still time this month :)

Oh, and welcome to the boards! :)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Aintmyprob — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:24:04 GMT

No... in the first post there is a save file... you download and play it... then upload per the instructions... plenty of month left if you want to try it. hehehe... I really should start... grrrr.... mandatory overtime... laundry.... yard work, or Civ? hmmm.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Tiger — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:17:44 GMT

Hi, I'm new here and was curious about this competition. Am I right in thinking that you play it using 'vanilla' Civ4 set to Warlord level? Probably too late for me to take part in the August tourney, but I would be interested in the next one. Always like a challenge. :)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:08:20 GMT

Reminder: Submissions must be in before Sept 1.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Zone — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:43:54 GMT

Sweet :)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:42:39 GMT

Submission Accepted:

[red]Zone[/red]

Victory: [blue]Cultural[/blue]

Normalized Score: [red]5069 - 1988AD[/red]

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Zone — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:42:30 GMT

OK, I missunderstood some of the settings you were playing with then - tough break with this GOTM, but as you say, there's only a coupe of weeks until the next one ;)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

ironbreaker_23 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:40:51 GMT

No I didnt restart more than oce. My initial attempt was without the save I just did all the needed settings on custom map. Than I came back to the board to make msure I did it write. When I found out I did it wrong I was diappointed but I installed the file. After I installed the file I decided to reformat my harddrive. When that was done I reinstalled the file again and then started. So actually only 1 true attempt. I guess there is next month.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Palpster — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:14:22 GMT

@Ironbreaker: ouch, that's tough...there will be a new chance next month though.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Zone — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:10:46 GMT

Ah, I missed the bit about sending you the save...

Hopefully it's still in my autosave folder...

That's unfortunate ironbreaker, but that's what you get for involving your family in civ :lol:

It also sounds like you restarted the game a couple of times (due to re-formatting your computer etc) which also isn't allowed... Not that I was going to make much of a fuss ;)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

ironbreaker_23 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:17:28 GMT

I decided im not going to compete for this month. I will give my reason in a moment. Last night around 2a.m I downloaded the program and played some of the game. I went to play this morning and I didnt like that it was getting slower. So I rebooted my computer to factory settings and then reinstalled the game. Presto instant speed gratification. So I was playing againa today and actually had a bit of an audience of my friends and my wife(Whom I got hooked into civ) We went outside for our smoke break . I heard some banging and clicking. When we come back inside I find my 1 year old daughter sitting at my computer desk and my civ is now at war because she declared war on alexander which whom was friendly towards me. Realizeing I got the smallest army due to the fact of my certain stratagy , it was hard for me to repel alexander. I started with 6 unit of which were comprised of 4 achers and 2 warriors verse his 7 axemen,3 warriors and 5 archers. I did manage to capture one of his cities and recapture on he took from me. Just when I dedicated all my troops to one side of the map huyuna capac declares war on me and immeadiately takes 1 of my level 3 cities. So to make a long story shot I ended up getting 2 cities taken from me and gained 3 for a total of 1 surplus. But 10 turns later alexander declares war on me and I only had 2 archers. So I decided to quit . All because of my baby daughter. Good story huh.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Palpster — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:10:31 GMT

[quote][b]Rishbhav (8/15/2006)[/b][hr]when I try to load it it says "This game has been locked to make sure the assets in you MODS folde have not been changed" and then exits. Am I not allowed to have any mods?[/quote]

I can only assume Mongoose has ticked "Lock Modified Assets" in setting up the game, which would make it impossible for any other mods than the ones he had loaded up at the time of creation to alter the game. As I understand it this is basically what "lock modified assets" does; lock the assets as they are at the time of creation so they can't be altered later in the game....which would make perfect sense in a competitive game like this. There's precious little to compare if people could use mods that speed up research for instance.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:53:29 GMT

[quote][b]ironbreaker_23 (8/16/2006)[/b][hr]Oh another question. Why is the map the same as it was before Installed the program? Is it going to be the same for everyone? Is that why we need this saved file? If thats the case then why bother putting the settings on here at all if its prearranged to go directly to the game? Just curious.[/quote]

I'm not sure if you are asking why "technically" them map is the same, or what the "reasoning" is behind it being the same map.

So, I'll answer the "technical" part first: The map is the same as it was before because you are loading the same save file as before.

As for the reasoning behind this: The GOTM is a contest between board members. To be as fair as possible, the same map/savefile needs to be played by all to help negate ambiguity in scoring. This way, the high score wins, instead of having to take all kinds of other factors into consideration.

Yes, it's the same for everyone. That's why you need to have the file.

The settings are listed so that you will know what they are before you play. Some people like to know.

As for your previous post, you can change the leadername to whatever you want.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

ironbreaker_23 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:56:13 GMT

Oh another question. Why is the map the same as it was before Installed the program? Is it going to be the same for everyone? Is that why we need this saved file? If thats the case then why bother putting the settings on here at all if its prearranged to go directly to the game? Just curious.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

ironbreaker_23 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:51:03 GMT

Just to make sure I have this write the game will start as my name being palpster. I changed it to ironbreaker_23 is that ok? Also at the end I press print screen where it show my final score in comparison to augustus ceasear right? I want to do this right as I just deleted my computer to manufacturer settings and it took about 30 minutes then reinstalled the patch for 1.61 and also the game. Now it is a breeze to play the game and not so slow im glad to be a genius. Happy gameing.

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:44:57 GMT

[quote][b]Zone (8/16/2006)[/b][hr]Bis got a 'submission accepted' thing - did you not accept mine then? :P ;)[/quote]

To "accept" something, one would have to "receive" it first, and I haven't "received" any files from you, which I could then, in turn, "accept".:P

I have no idea what the problem could be with this one. Anyone else seen this? You are trying to load this in Regular CivIV and not Conquests, right?

RE: August 2006 GOTM

Zone — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:16:01 GMT

Bis got a 'submission accepted' thing - did you not accept mine then? :P ;)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

mongoose201 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:43:50 GMT

[quote][b]ironbreaker_23 (8/16/2006)[/b][hr]I love a good challange. Count me in. In fact I was so excited i copied down all the conditions and everything but I forgot to download whatever im supposed to. I wont be too mad if I have to restart although I got 4 cities in my first 10 turns of the game and a worker. I will restart just tell me where this file is I need to download. I only see the screenshot and then I downloaded something but it said palpster joining game. So I assume thats wrong too. Let me know please. I will check back tommorow.[/quote]

You downloaded the correct file. It says "Palpster joining game" because the default leadername for the GOTM is the winner of last months contest. Some change the leadername, some don't..... It's just an honor thats bestowed upon defending champions.

Sounds like you had a good start. Good luck! :)

RE: August 2006 GOTM

ironbreaker_23 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:07:35 GMT

I love a good challange. Count me in. In fact I was so excited i copied down all the conditions and everything but I forgot to download whatever im supposed to. I wont be too mad if I have to restart although I got 4 cities in my first 10 turns of the game and a worker. I will restart just tell me where this file is I need to download. I only see the screenshot and then I downloaded something but it said palpster joining game. So I assume thats wrong too. Let me know please. I will check back tommorow.