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Locutus
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:21
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After only a short delay this time, here's the third tournament. One thing to be alert about is that the autosave is stored in the folder Wilhe, not in LeifE as one would expect from a Vikings game. A weird bug, but it doesn't affect the game so I decided to let it live...
This month, the tournament is played with GoodMod for Apolyton Pack, as I announced earlier (but not with the ultra-gigantic version as I wanted, there were too many problem in setting everything up). Installation instructions are on the website (see below for link). Martin made an update for this mod just a few days ago, so make sure you have the latest version (v0.993), see websites for download/update/forum links if needed.
I had a look at the map (and even made some minor alterations, but only minor ones) and, although this is not the game I originally had in mind, I think it will be an interesting one. Without wanting to give away too much, the beginning may or may not be great, but I think that later on in the game it's pretty much guaranteed to get interesting...
Good luck to all participants! And please people, play! Last month's edition had only 4 official entries 
Theme: Rulers of the Seas
Mod: GoodMod1 for Apolyton Pack v0.993
Level: Hard
Size: Huge Map
Barbarians: Raiders
Ocean-Land: 0%
Island-Continent: 30%
Wet-Dry: 70%
Warm-Cold: 30%
Uniform-Diverse: 70%
Few Goods-Many Goods: 70%
World shape: Doughnut
Bloodlust: Off
Pollution: On
Civilization: Vikings
Opponents: 7 (Dutch, English, Indonesians, Polynesians, Arabs, Indians, Phoenicians)
Victory types allowed: All
Game file
Website
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Turambar
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England
Apr 2002
time: 05:21
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400 ADish - Still stuck on that stupid island. I'm behind in tech and probably everything else but it won't be long before I get Longships and launch my invasion (which will probably be crushed easily).
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centrifuge
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Goodmod for the Super Apolyton Pack
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Maquiladora
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quote:
Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
By the way was someone of you able to build a wonder in the early game?
-Martin |
I got soooo close to the Chichen Itza. About 3 turns to be exact. I was about 7 turns from completion then the popup came that Saladin was nearing completion etc so i switched after a few turns, fearing he would beat me to it.
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Maquiladora
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As i understood it, thats what the unofficial ranking was for. If you restart the game because you lost your second city to a barbarian, that isnt such a big deal. But if you continually reload a turn or worse, restart the game just because something happened you didnt prepare for, then it should be only entered into the unofficial ranking.
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Martin Gühmann
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Berlin, Germany
Mar 2001
time: 06:21
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quote:
Originally posted by HuangShang
you can restart right... just not submit anything after the first game right?????????... hope not... i probably can't win the try |
In my opinion you can play as much games as you want and submit the best one, actual no one has to admit that he restarted it. I think it depends on the time one player has left if the tourny would be near the dead line then it is something different last time I hadn't the time to restart also I wished, so that's one diadvantage that have the late ones. For the submission thing you can only submitt one game for the official stats, but you can submit as much as you want. And I think Locutus will use the best one if you didn't said anything else.
For the small invasion: I already decided as the AI got the first city to watch the results, so I didn't asked for peace, it could have been very likely that they accepted, but I wanted to watch the disaster, so in the end it were four of five cities on the mean island my Capital was only left, I already lost on another small island a city to that AI, so far I didn't retake it. So that left four cities on somewere on the map.
Actual we all play this tourny game for our own fun, as long it is a single player game it is our own thing how we play. Maybe I would have to restart some turns earlier anyway, I already had some problems with the stability in the last tourny game, so how stabil is the game for you?
-Martin
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Maquiladora
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The game is actually very stable for me. Except for that in the last tournament, when i crashed to desktop in the late game. But i carried on with that game and it hasnt made me restart.
Yes, the tournament is for fun, but its also to compare our skills to other people. So i think its fair for someone to admit they reloaded continually. If they restart the game or reload more than once or twice the it should be unofficial. I can think of many ways to gain an advantage by knowing where all the other civs are, or where the first island is for example.
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centrifuge
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Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
 I can only submit one game, so what should I do if I lose half of my empire? Or what is this method just using slaveres to increase your city size to extremly high numbers waiting until they will revolt and form a new nation and then you conquere them. Or what is if all your cities in the early game are conquered by Barbarians will you submit this conquerd by force loss?
-Martin |
In the 2nd tournament game, creating a "new cheat" was of course not my intention. I was simply playing with the features that the mod provided. Yes, this caused a lot of revolts, and boosted the score, but the intention of taking slaves was definitly not to cause revolts. All of the revolting was a supreme pain in the a$$ believe me. After getting to the point that I had the max cities for my government, I had three choices killing all of the inhabitants of the newly conquered cities, expanding my empire, or enslaving. Since, I didn't want to expand my Empire to far past the max for the government, I chose slavery. This way at least some benefit would come from conquering the cities, and I wouldn't feel quite so Evil. 
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HuangShang
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USA, SoCal, L.A.
Jul 2002
time: 21:21
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deleted DP
Last edited by HuangShang on 05-08-2002 at 20:44
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HuangShang
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USA, SoCal, L.A.
Jul 2002
time: 21:21
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darn... why cant i delete that post
Last edited by HuangShang on 04-08-2002 at 00:30
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01-08-2002 02:10
... to bad
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. the thing was... few unit were defending the city... but there were two 12stack just outside. finally... w/ one big push, i took the city for good. The first stack that tried to retake the city lost and the other ran... so much for moral 
. luckily... i threathened them into an allegiance
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