12-11-2001 16:59									#1
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Hey,

I just had an interesting idea, maybe it is fun to play:

How about we all play a single player game and switch command every 10 turs? I would setup a game, send it to evyrbody who wants to and we each do the first 10 turns. Then we rotate the save games, everybody does 10 more turns etc. We should selt a timelimit, like 2 days for the 10 turns.

Why should we do this? We could learn from each others strategies/experiences.. and it could be pretty interesting to see the "same game" take different directions?!

What we could also do is to play the same game and then check out our scores/results after every 30 turns?

	12-01-2002 02:29									#2
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Well... I'd be up for that... I'm not sure I completely understand what you're wanting to do... if you're still up for it a fuller explanation would help me out.

	15-02-2002 18:24									#3
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I would definitely be interested in a game of this sort (succession game). I've seen similar done on the non-Mac forum sections and they look like fun. (See CivII - General forum under the thread "The Truest gift of the Gods." there's a couple others there as well.)

I'm pretty new at this and a succession game seems like a great way to learn and have fun.

	15-02-2002 19:59									#4
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Cool.

Well, illiria, there's three of us now... what do you think?

	18-02-2002 01:19									#5
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I would be interested as well...pm me, pls

	18-02-2002 18:24									#6
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I'll suggest Deity, Raging, 7 Civs, Medium Map, and standard rules. Each participant gets 10 turns, saves the game (need to agree on How2 for this), posts it here (or start new thread), and the next in line takes their turn. When posting, include a monologue describing what happened during your turns, including research and build goals.

Everyone, confirm your participation. It would be best if we could commit to a reasonable time between turns (48 hours?) so that this moves forward briskly.

Anyone with a strong preference for which civ we play? We could be called the MacApolytonians...
Let's rock!

	18-02-2002 19:54									#7
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Sounds like all good plans... it'd probably need to be either this game or Call to Power... check out the Alpha Centauri mac forums... there's something similar to this running already.

	18-02-2002 20:48									#8
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I don't know anything about Call to Power or Alpha Centauri. Are those just scenarios of Civ2, or are they actual separate games? (You can see what a newbie I am...)

I'm hoping to use this (succession gaming) mostly as a learning tool (while having some fun and getting to know some of the forum denizens at the same time).

Let's get the momentum going forward here...

	18-02-2002 21:46									#9
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*nods* Both of those are other Mac games, not scenarios.

Both are probably rather cheap right now to through mac-o-rama.com too.

	19-02-2002 03:50									#10
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A bit of friendly advice (i haven't played Civ 2 in years)...

may i suggest that you stear clear call to power. In all honesty, it sucks, and you would all probably enjoy Civ to much more. But, it is only advice from a nonparticipient.

Have fun.

	19-02-2002 06:18									#11
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quote: Originally posted by FlameFlash *nods* Both of those are other Mac games, not scenarios. Both are probably rather cheap right now to through mac-o-rama.com too.

FlameFlash -- Sorry, thought I was on a Civ2 forum. If it's all the same to you, I'd really rather do this as a Civ2 experience. Tough enough to learn one game at a time. Still with me?

(Notable silence from illiria)

	19-02-2002 09:30									#12
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Heh.... it looks like if we ever set it up, it'll be CivII, though thanks Admiral for the input.

Jrabbit, illiria is involved with multiple games at the moment, so it'll be a bit before he probably takes a peek at this thread again. If you want a go, it looks like it'd be you, detriot dave, and myself... want to talk settings?

(And CivII is fine with me... haven't played it in a while either (like Admiral) but it's probably just like falling off a bike! )

	19-02-2002 20:17									#13
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My suggested settings previously listed. Chose these mostly cuz I'm trying to learn how to beat deity. I'm new enough that I don't really know the implications of different map sizes. Open to suggestions. Three participants should be enough.

Teach me how to save and post and we're ready to go.

So let's rock!

	19-02-2002 21:27									#14
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To save and post all you need to do is save just like in any other game... then to post all you need to do is e-mail the next turn on to the next player.
Those settings sound fine by me as well.

	19-02-2002 22:30									#15
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FlameFlash -- Sorry, but not certain exactly what you mean. Save game per normal -- OK. But I thought we'd be posting a compressed file here for the next player to download and play. Likewise, posting text summaries here so all could see progress, including lurkers who might be interested. (After all, that's how I got interested in succession -- by viewing the LaFayette - moi - Smash "Greatest Gift of the Gods" thread in the Civ2-General forum.)

You seem to be suggesting attaching the saved file to an e-mail.

Detroit Dave -- you in? Your thoughts?

	19-02-2002 22:31									#16
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Hrm, is there any chanse of doing this with a scenario instead of a normal game?
I'd be interested in that case.

	20-02-2002 02:32									#17
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The summaries sound fine... I was thinking regarding posting the attachement on the forum as slightly unusal though... is that how they did it in that other thread?
What I was thinking was we'd of course post what we did here... but then we'd just e-mail the compressed file to the next person in line... it makes it slightly more efficient and sometimes 'poly goes down for a while... we might lose the save file if that happens.

	20-02-2002 18:39									#18
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FF -- Yes, the game saves were transmitted via forum posts in the other thread. But no need to go there. Email is likely more efficient anyway. What compression program will we use? (I have an iMac on OS 9.0.4, running strictly standard equipment programs.)

I think next step is to finalize players (re Detroit Dave, probably need to email to get his attn -- his post sez "pm me please"), crank up a game, and maybe start a new thread to detail our exploits. Unless I'm spacing out on something...

	20-02-2002 19:27									#19
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FYI -- sent an inquisitive email to DetroitDave this morning. Hoping we can start tonite or tomorrow, FlameFlash.

	20-02-2002 19:55									#20
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Great! Looking forward to it. I'm thinking just StuffIt Expander/DropStuff for compression... I use v6.5.1 just download it from http://www.alladinsys.com/ (it's about a half-hour download with 56k... ~6MB.)
I could also use DropZip (included with that download) if you don't want to download the update the old StuffIt can expand Zip files, so I can just use that.

Though it's always good to have the most up-to-date version of StuffIt Lite. (free! )

	20-02-2002 20:33									#21
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OK!! Let's wait to see if DetroitDave checks in and go for it. Hopefully we can get started tonight or tomorrow.

Who wants first swings?

	20-02-2002 21:09									#22
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If you want, you can go ahead and start it up... just be sure to post what settings you use... we might as well just use this thread to post the turns.

My e-mail is flameflash@mac.com when you're ready to send it on... and what's the turn order going to be? You (jrabbit), then DetroitDave if he's still in?

	21-02-2002 19:45									#23
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Sorry, but I didn't get a chance to fire up the Mac last nite. No word from DetroitDave yet.

Will do my best to get started tonight.

	21-02-2002 19:57									#24
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That's fine... lot's of stuff been going on this week anyway.

	25-02-2002 17:59									#25
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Haven't had any free time at all -- a non-Civ weekend...!
Still want to move this forward, though I despair of DetroitDave's participation. Still in. FlameFlash?

	25-02-2002 19:26									#26
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Certainly!