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MarkG
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Grand Lord of Apolyton, Owner of all this land as far as the eye can see
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ok, here are the details
Theme: Ancients Civs
Size: Standard Map
Ocean coverage: 60%
Land form: Pangaea
Climate: Normal
Temperature: Temperate
Age: 4 billion years
Barbarians: Restless
Civilization: Babylonians
Level: Regent
Opponents: 7 (Romans, Egyptians, Greeks, Aztecs, Persians, Chinese, Zulu)
- file attached on next post
- submit your saved game on this thread. you can submit only one game (of course)
- use autosave so that you have the last turn before your win
Last edited by MarkG on 15-11-2001 at 19:49
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DaBear
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Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Nov 2001
time: 23:16
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It has a great start position. One of the best that I've seen on this difficulty setting. First run through during lunch at work and already I've got a slim advantage over all the civs...but they are starting to take an exception to that.
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Ahlyis
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This sounds like a lot of fun, but I want to know what is/isn't allowed.
Obviously, using mod packs should be disallowed, though it may be hard to prove whether someone did or didn't use them. But what about dirty tricks that are in the game already?
Specifically, it appears that the developers left in a 'feature', probably for playtesting purposes, that allows you to get 100,000,000 gold per turn from an AI Civ. No modification to the code is required, it is in the game as shipped.
Obviously, this would allow you to have insane scores and completely dominate the AI, but is it illegal to use since it IS part of the game?
BTW, if you want to know how to do it, read my post on the Cheats thread.
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cybernev02
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New Jersey
Nov 2001
time: 05:16
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wow... having played CIV2/3 b4 in a cheiftain level seemed not so chalanging... but this is def. a chalange... i think i'm gona stick to my current game and see if i can finish that...
btw, what do u guys this about this?
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Ahlyis
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Actually, it's really easy to get rid of the money. Just give it to another Civ 2 turns before you win. Then submit the save game from one turn before you win. Your saved game will show a huge score since score is based on an average over the whole game, but you will only have a normal amount of money on the saved game.
The only way I can think of to possibly spot someone who did this would be to watch the quick replay at the end and look for something obviously wrong, like a whole bunch of cities suddenly coming over to them. But even that could be gotten around by only buying an AI city if it is on your borders and only doing it every 10 turns or so. Since money doesn't directly affect your score or power (as far as I am aware) simply looking at the histograph probably won't be sufficient.
Honestly, I don't plan to use this tactic, but I can't see how to tell if someone does.
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On a different note. Is it considered cheating/unfair play to attack, reload if you don't like the outcome, then wait a turn or attack with different units? If so, how in the world do you plan to police THAT?!?!
I think the idea of a contest is good, but I can't see how you could prevent even minor cheaters, let alone those who hack the save files.
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Elrad
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With all the potential for cheating aside, I've noticed another problem.
Most save files get larger based on how far into the game you are, and how large the map is...A tiny map finished in 100bc (with almost all cities in the pop 1-3 range) I sized at 600k, most end games I think are 2 megs and up....isnt the upload limit 500k?
How will we upload our save files? or is there something that I am missing? (if so, please save me some dignity and point it out right away!)
-Elrad
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:16
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Zip them. They will lose 90-95% of their size.
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David Floyd
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The bottom of a large bottle of beer
Jan 1970
time: 05:16
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Yep, I'm playing this tournament...started it tonight. I'm up to about 500 AD or so...my score is hovering around 600, with the Greeks slightly behind me, but my culture is double the Greeks and anywhere from 5-10 times everyone else's...oughta be absorbing a bunch of cities soon...
I've got about 10 or 11 base cities, and then a few that I have absorbed culturally. I started out way behind in the tech race because I went big time expansion + workers, but that's OK because I outexpanded most of the AIs in the beginning, then while they were catching up I was researching. At this point I'm slightly ahead in tech - I'd be a lot more than slightly ahead, except that I'm making a pretty penny in both gold and luxuries by selling my techs around the board.
My one bad spot though is that I have only 2 wonders, computer has the rest so far...that's OK though, I should be able to get most of the rest I want because of my nice city base (half my core cities are at size 12, the rest are getting real close).
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Auk
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or as "reading the forums and taking good advice" whores :-) guess I've got a one in two chance of getting it right...
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remconius
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quote:
Originally posted by CyberShy
pherhaps we should wait with this tournament untill:
1. the patch made the 10,000,000 bug absolute
2. the europeans have more experience so that top-10 won't be dominated by yankees. |
well.... Let's have a new challenge after this tournament when the patch arrives. This is not the only tournament I suppose.
I hope the modding can be checked, cause that would blow the purpose...
On online environment like Diablo II would be excellent where you could play your tournament game. Perhaps they should set up with a battle.net or Gamespy.
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15-11-2001 19:29
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Anyway I doubt I'll win I'm just in this for the fun
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