27-07-2004 02:45									#31
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I just found out about this tournament game, and will try to finish by 8/5. But I can't get the game to show up with my other saved games to play. I unzipped it to my ........save\games file. Should it go somewhere else?

	27-07-2004 02:49									#32
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Did you put the save file inside a folder inside save/games?

edit: for example for this tournament mine are in ...\ctp2_program\ctp\save\games\tourny6.1

	27-07-2004 02:53									#33
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Whoops, no, I forgot. I'll give that a try. Thanks

	27-07-2004 06:49									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus News items about T5 and this one will follow tomorrow. Should we increase the deadline a little if this publicity creates more interest in this game? Hopefully the Tournaments will now return as a regular feature And if not, you still have 9 HoFs to play for for CtP2 alone

I vote for an extension only because I have so much going on in RL that I may not make it by 5 August. It would be nice if a few more people joined in too!

I have a question – on the rules summary its says that exploits like the 1 mil gold bug are not allowed, but I don’t recall what that bug is. I assume that there is a way to cheat extra gold out of the game? I’m at the point in my game now where I don’t need any extra gold, but I don’t think that I was using any exploits early on because I was starving for gold during the first 300 turns or so!

	29-07-2004 05:22									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus So far I completely ignored this thread while we were working out the details of the new tournaments feature (and Tournament 5 too -- yes, we've been working on this for some time ). Now it's time to make this tourny official though. I already added the tournament to the existing bunch (giving the credit to EPW for creating it of course). If you will all be so kind as to (re-)submit your savegames there News items about T5 and this one will follow tomorrow. Should we increase the deadline a little if this publicity creates more interest in this game? Hopefully the Tournaments will now return as a regular feature And if not, you still have 9 HoFs to play for for CtP2 alone

I would say to increase it by a month to September 5.

quote: Originally posted by Maquiladora I had one of those repetitive crashes in my game, just do the opposite of what you did before for a turn and its ok. It only happened once with me. BTW doesnt starting all over again give you an advantage?

My crash is far more serious than that now (and I deleted the save anyways while reinstalling to fix the darned tile improvement bug I was fixing) though thats how it started out. It ended up crashing every turn during the computers turn, probably due to the pillaging bug. I don't think I should be disquilified because of technical difficulties.....

	29-07-2004 06:27									#36
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Traditionally the creator of the tournament doesnt take part, but as theres only 4 taking part right now i dont think it matters much.

	29-07-2004 06:59									#37
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Tradition

I didn't look at the map or make any modifications when I made the game, so I don't have an unfair advantage (except for the fact that I'm restarting )

	29-07-2004 08:56									#38
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I would agree with the 1 month extension, as I have just begun the game. ETB is also on record as requesting an extension.

Also, I have no problem with someone starting over, if it's due to technical problems. I only recently got the Apolyton Pack to work on under my X/P OS, and wouldn't be surprised to still get a random crash.

	29-07-2004 16:24									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Maquiladora Traditionally the creator of the tournament doesnt take part, but as theres only 4 taking part right now i dont think it matters much.

Traditionally I'm the one starting the Tournament I will in this case still be the one reviewing the savegames to verify their authenticity, so I don't think it's a problem for EPW to participate.

(In the future we'll implement some extra features for approving submitted savegames, which will make it possible for everyone (including yours truly) to participate)

	30-07-2004 04:26									#40
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Well my games well underway, 250 turns into it. I was lucky and able to form an early military then regular alliance with the Persians(Green). Of course they have dragged me into all their wars but its been worth it as we are actively trading advances(not the glitched science pacted, which seems to be missing from this mod.) I was then able to conquer Spain early on which was a big boost for the Empire. I've been developing since then(my huge lead is mainly due to all the infrastucture I have) and I am just now invading the Mayans.

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This has been downloaded 110 time(s).

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	31-07-2004 06:22									#41
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Hot Damn I want to give this one a try... You can count me in to try to finish, but RL has been CRAZY these days so I make no promises. With a one month extension though, who knows

Which brings me to the topic of PBEM. I'm very sorry Maq I owe you a sincere apology for falling off the face of the earth with our game. RL just completely took over.

	31-07-2004 06:27									#42
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Its over; 1110AD, Bloodlust Victory:

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	31-07-2004 06:37									#43
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BTW I edited the tourney screen to say Hard not Very Hard I hope.

	03-08-2004 03:40									#44
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I'm in!

As I was only checking the tournament section on the Apolyton CTP2 site, I didn't realise until about 5 mintues ago there was a new tournament running!

I can't believe it, it's been SO LONG, I'm so playing this one!!!

Thanks to all for setting it up. Time to reinstall after the recent system format, and hook right in!

Cheers all!

Shadow

P.S. That was a looooong delay in posting the last results... I actually thought I'd missed a tournament along the way and had my name put in by mistake. Anyway, glad to see the SP tournaments are alive and well.

	04-08-2004 04:03									#45
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Folks, for whatever reason I can't download any of the mods on a broadband connection.

I can do it on dialup, but obviously it takes FOREVER!

Any ideas...?


Also, is it just assumed that the updater to SAP2 is installed for this tournament?

	04-08-2004 04:28									#46
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Disable Norton IS and/or AV.

	04-08-2004 04:42									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Shadow Also, is it just assumed that the updater to SAP2 is installed for this tournament?

No, no updater. Got to rebuild your units.....

	04-08-2004 05:23									#48
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Has the completion date been extended for this tourney? I know there was some discussion about extending it to Sept 5th.

	04-08-2004 08:18									#49
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Norton's doesn't exist on any of the computers I've tried downloading on.
The download error I get is:

The requested file does not exists
Download aborted
URL

I get this from simply clicking on the download link.
I am using DownLoad Accelerator, although this has worked fine on a dialup line (which I actually seldom have access to).

Would you all prefer me to take this post/topic elsewhere?


Shadow

	04-08-2004 08:25									#50
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Have you tried not using download accelerator?

	04-08-2004 09:27									#51
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quote: Originally posted by mnbryan37 Has the completion date been extended for this tourney? I know there was some discussion about extending it to Sept 5th.

Yes its been extended to September the 5th, I just edited the first post to say that. I guess the thread title will have to remain the same though.

	04-08-2004 16:10									#52
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Problem solved!
Extracting and installing as I write - can't wait to start!
I haven't actually played since the last tournament!

	05-08-2004 15:15									#53
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Played a little... starting out trying to give the closest civs a slight belting QUICK!

Found the oranges and unleashed a 7 stack onto the first city I came across and took it. Hopefully that will be the first of many such battles, and I'll dominate early.

Time shall tell...

	06-08-2004 08:29									#54
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I have about 12 cities now, half of which I've acquired by force. As I've recently discovered geometry I'm trying to mass some 12 stacks of catapaults and take on my strongest neighbours with a hope of pushing them back. I'm 6th on the power graph... and times are tough...

	06-08-2004 12:36									#55
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My stradegy was to expand to ten cities initially, then attack the Spanish. I did this by building 4 12 stacks of hopilites and archers. Victory was swift though I did have to send reinforcements. Then I basically built infrastructure and wonders until I researched cavalry and democracy. I then invaded the Mayans with about 4 or 5 12 stacks of cavalry which was quite succesful. I had also established a long standing alliance with the Persians which helped to gaurd my western front..but not completey. In order to stay within the 35 city limit I destroyed some of the remaining Mayan cities. The other countries weren't very happy about this and all declared war on me, even the Persions. At this point I rushed to tanks with scientists. Once I got them the game was pretty much over and I destroyed all the civs rather easily.

	10-08-2004 03:53									#56
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Doh... my game seems to be crashing to desktop occasionally. It's about mid 1800's game time.

I can fiddle with the saves, etc, and it comes good for about 10 turns, but crashes again. Third time lucky hey... will have to post my last available results if it gets too frequent.

Would like to go for a Science victory, hopefully the gameplay/crashing won't test my patience with it.

	10-08-2004 04:58									#57
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I recommend using /reloadslic, it got me through the occasional crash. Also after killing the Persians seemed to remove any problems....

	10-08-2004 08:23									#58
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I've consistantly had a problem of desktop crashes under Windows X/P. It occurrs when the slaves in a city outnumber the citizens and try to revolt. Instead of the ensuing revolt, It'll usually crash. If you keep the number of slaves to a minimum, it works fine.

	10-08-2004 15:36									#59
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OK, after much experimenting, reading of suggestions, and various carefully selected and colourful 'phrases', I got the game to work again.

I have to reloadslic every turn, but at least it's playable.
I've given the Persians a thorough belting (they had it coming), so we'll see how it goes from now on.

Starting to streak ahead on the power graph, had tanks for a short while now, and have about 6 12stacks I really don't know what to do with.

Science victory here I come!

	13-08-2004 04:52									#60
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Is anyone else still playing this tournament besides me?

The Thai's keep sending in small armies to take the odd city from me that is deep into my territory... so I'm somewhat frequently having to take the odd city from them to push them back. Otherwise all is well, and researching as fast as possible - currently on Technocracy.