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RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:55:16 GMT

*wonders if mongoose forgot* :P

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:43:58 GMT

Oh crap, not again... :P

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:06:00 GMT

[b]Submission Accepted:[/b] Zigeuner

[b]Year:[/b] 1945

[b]Score:[/b] 9616 (Space Race)

And.. since this is the only submission of the month (for shame), Zigeuner is now a 3 time GOTM champ...

Congrats!

The game for June (suggested by Zig) is on the way later tonight or tomorrow.

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:03:04 GMT

Coming soon.. I'm still wading neck deep in Dgame stuff. ;)

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:40:34 GMT

Bring it on. I'll manage. *Brandishes sword*

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:44:43 GMT

With comments like that he's bound to pick a large map this time, instead of a small one... :D

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:42:05 GMT

*patiently waits for mongoose to post the June GotM* :P

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

General Georges — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:34:47 GMT

Well, I have come to the conclusion that I will not be able to finish this month's GOTM, so my title will need to be passed on. Today was my last day of school, and exams start tomorrow (english exam...:crying: - much prefer the maths and the different sciences), so I won't have the time. But don't worry, next month I'll be sure to set aside time to reclaim my title!!! :D

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:04:33 GMT

Space victory in 1945 AD. Was a bit startled that the Vikings started on their ship before me, but spies soon discovered that they didn't have anywhere near the industrial capacity to compete. (Nor probably the techs to build all components.)

I really like how you can have meaningful late-game expansion. Those 4 extra cities I got were very productive very quickly. Especially Illinois, a barbarian city in the middle of forests was a welcome addition, easily outproducing my other (non-Ironworks) cities.

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:16:38 GMT

I look forward to finishing this game over the weekend. Had a very s-l-o-w start due to pesky barbs; didn't really advance past the two bottlenecks, until the Aztecs' might was dwindling. Got some high production cities out there (and even beat the Russians to a quite useful resource, by one turn), now gearing up for diplomatic or space victory. Gonna be 20th century though, so it shouldn't be too hard to beat my score...

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Sat, 19 May 2007 10:28:37 GMT

Okay, got into the mid 1800's, one turn away from completing the Apollo project... and crash to desktop. Before that, it was taking 5 bloody minutes between turns. I'm afraid my computer just won't handle Warlords at a standard map in late game. (See why I'm concerned about BTS requirements? They're bound to increase over Warlords). I think I'll stick with Vanilla standard maps or Warlords small maps.

I hate Warlords. :(

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:21:26 GMT

I'm making full use of those two bottlenecks, against barbs and Aztecs; now trying to decide if I should build my 6th city on top of the lower bottleneck (without much useful resources, or 3-4 tiles further, with resources aplenty, but *much* harder to defend...

I almost have liberalism, which hopefully helps to keep religious tension to a minimum. The UU will come in handy against any cavs, so that's something (is it?). I'm trying to get a lead techwise and get to tankies. Otherwise I will be going full turtle, and do the space thingy.

There is hope for me yet... :)

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:22:00 GMT

Okay, so far, it's the mid 1600's AD and I've been lucky, I think. I'm at the bottom of the heap in score, but I seem to be in the middle of the pack as far as tech goes, and I'm managing to edge up, albeit slowly. Peter leads right now, with the Incas not too far behind, along with Churchill.

What's been interesting is reading about the warfare problems others have had. I've been very fortunate in not having to go to war with anyone. Having Peter and Monty for neighbors is [b][u]NOT[/u][/b] my preferred start. I gave in to Monty and Peter once each, and so far, they've been fairly content to leave me alone for the most part.

I must say, tho', that this start sucks majorly. No horse, ugh. (Peter and Monty have Cavalry, and all I have to oppose them are pikemen and macemen.) I do have Iron, but I doubt I'll manage to have coal and aluminum. If I do manage to get those, I have a fighting chance to get the spaceship, which is about the only way I'm gonna win this one, since I don't particularly have an overwhelming military right now.

If it wasn't for my capitol, and my northernmost city, I wouldn't have been able to keep up this far. Those two are producing the majority of commerce/science for me.

This is a tough one. Hopefully I'll be able to pull off a space or diplomatic victory, barring some miracle that gives me an edge enough to wipe out Monty or Peter rapidly and boost my science rate.

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

ontrial — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:38:11 GMT

fight on cause your game sounds like mine already bet it was those Aztecs they are what cost me my game losing 2 cities to them sucked till i got 3 back

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

jerm — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:40:40 GMT

I'm getting creamed so I think it's time to give up. Got attacked unexpectedly and lost two cities and the war just decimated any tech advantage I may have had and it's nearly impossible to catch up. Frustrating.

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:49:58 GMT

Thanks for posting, even though it didn't go the way you would have liked...

Better luck next month.

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

ontrial — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:34:07 GMT

not gonna post my finished save since i lost unless you really wanna see it

Egypt won space race victory.
very close in the end with 4 races all real close and the leadership in space parts changing every few turns.
with all but 2 of my city's assigned to making parts i worked out id have it done with 10 turns to go before time up. but the Aztecs decided that it was a perfect time to come throw all they had at me. talk about timing

final score 3212 LOSS

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

ontrial — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:11:27 GMT

im second to bottom in my game had one war that hurt like hell i think losing my second city to barbs hurt far to much! hope i can turn it round

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

General Georges — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:28:48 GMT

I expanded quickly - normally this crushes your economy, but.... not giving away my strategy :P. So barbs arn't affecting me too much :P. And am leading in points - soon time for war with russia for land.

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:38:13 GMT

The lack of nearby strategic resources combines nicely with the vast barbarian wastelands in somewhat hampering my game...[/understatement]

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

General Georges — Sat, 12 May 2007 12:56:21 GMT

[quote]Congrats to General Georges for his victory in the April GOTM... apparently he was able to tame the other teams while the rest of you languished in mediocrity. [/quote]

Thats right ;) :P :hehe:

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:39:36 GMT

'sif you had a choice :P

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:33:26 GMT

hmph, all right, I'll let it go then... [url=http://planetsmilies.net][img]http://planetsmilies.net/alien-smiley-131.gif[/img][/url]

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:22:08 GMT

[quote][b]Zigeuner (5/11/2007)[/b][hr]Just what I need after a week full of problems, a weekend full of them too... :crying:[/quote]

Oh, come on, it's not that bad. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.... or so they say. ;)

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:13:46 GMT

Just what I need after a week full of problems, a weekend full of them too... :crying:

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:09:26 GMT

Okay, I figured out what I did wrong. I didn't right click and save as... and then rename the suffix to .zip. I should have remembered this board does things a little differently. So I guess, Zig, you have a problem now. :P

But thank you for trying to help, regardless, cousin ;)

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:04:20 GMT

heh, considering that the GOTM was posted halfway into May, that could be an even better way for me to snatch another glorious trophy... :D

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:49:57 GMT

[quote][b]Zigeuner (5/11/2007)[/b][hr]I emailed you the .sav... :)

(If it looks like you're winning I will use this unofficial procedure to get your entry disqualified. I just need one more victory... :P )[/quote]

Oh, gee, thanks. I'll wait for mongoose then :P

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:16:15 GMT

I emailed you the .sav... :)

(If it looks like you're winning I will use this unofficial procedure to get your entry disqualified. I just need one more victory... :P )

RE: May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:32:04 GMT

Every time I click on the save, I get a c++ runtime error, as shown by the screenshot.

1. I can start a new game or play my usual PBEM's just fine.

2. When I tried to load from within the game as well, it couldn't find the file... and I renamed it GameStart.civwarlordssave, since it was only titled as GameStart with no .civwarlordssave suffix.

Anyone else seeing this problem?

May 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:57:29 GMT

Game Closed. Champion: Zigeuner

This game is for CivIV Warlords expansion

Version: 2.08

Civ:

7 AI Rivals

Start Position:

Victory Conditions

All Victories have been enabled and all will be allowed EXCEPT TIME.

Highest Normalized Score in any of the active Victory Conditions will be declared GOTM Champion for May.

When you complete the game, take a screenshot of the Victory screen where it lists your leadership counterpart in history. You may post the screenshot in the GOTM thread and then PM your final save (hopefully one just before victory) to me. Saves should be named as follows: [username]May2007GOTM.CivWarlordsSave (in a zip file)

What are the rules?
The rules are fairly simple: Play fairly.

This means that you play within the spirit of the competition. As it is a friendly competition, we like to believe that there is no real incentive to cheat - but unfortunately, people do. Any persons found to be cheating will have their games removed, and there is a strong possibility that they will be banned from participating in the future.

Cheating includes (and is not limited to):

Playing the game multiple times and submitting the best effort (or even playing to get knowledge of the map, the replaying then starting the game again).
Using any sort of programs to edit the game or save files.
Altering the XML or using other mods that give you an unfair advantage.
Reloading an earlier save-file and replaying turns in a different way. The only time you may reload a save file is to start a new play session, and you must use the save file from the end of your previous session.

Also, if in doubt, ask. If you think you have found a new loop-hole or exploit, then we strongly suggest that you ask as to its legallity before you use it. The aim of the competition is not to see who can exploit the rules, and as such, we reserve the right to disqualify submissions based on exploits that are discovered later.

Good Luck all...

Note: The Forum software doesn't allow file extensions of the length of the Civ4 Warlords save file. For this reason, the start save is in a zip file and your submissions will need to be as well. If you are not sure how to accomplish this or how to unzip the start save, please post here and someone will help you.