DaveShack
Mar 03, 2005, 12:08 PM
The Creation chat is scheduled for Thursday 3/3 at 10PM MST, GMT-7. This is midnight EST, 0500 Friday GMT.
No instructions are needed for this play session since the only activities are to create the game and save it. See the summary of setup parameters (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=112969) thread.
Last night I played the beginning of a test game using these settings, just to get a feeling for how the English play in C3C. Past performance does not guarantee future results, especially when most settings are random, but click the spoiler to get a flavor of how things went.
Coastal area start, grasslands with a few hills / forests visible, but 2 tiles away from a good coastal tile. I took the risk of moving twice to get the best visible location. It turned out this particular random start was on an island with 1 lux, horses but no iron, with a tundra band in the north and a large desert area in the south. A nearby island had iron but I took the more equatorial route while exploring and didn't find it until 1000BC. :eek:
The landmass seems to be either an archipeligo which looks like continents, or continents with more than the usual number of main continents. The other civs I can remember were Portugal, Spain, Iroquois, Mongols, Hittites, Aztecs. The Philosophy gambit worked, I did 50 turns of min research on Writing, then max on Philosophy, and took Polytheism as the free tech. I'm still up 1-3 techs on everyone I know going into the middle ages, but dead last in score -- probably because I played extremely fast and didn't bother to do much MM.
If you looked at the spoiler, remember Past performance does not guarantee future results, especially when most settings are random!
No instructions are needed for this play session since the only activities are to create the game and save it. See the summary of setup parameters (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=112969) thread.
Last night I played the beginning of a test game using these settings, just to get a feeling for how the English play in C3C. Past performance does not guarantee future results, especially when most settings are random, but click the spoiler to get a flavor of how things went.
Coastal area start, grasslands with a few hills / forests visible, but 2 tiles away from a good coastal tile. I took the risk of moving twice to get the best visible location. It turned out this particular random start was on an island with 1 lux, horses but no iron, with a tundra band in the north and a large desert area in the south. A nearby island had iron but I took the more equatorial route while exploring and didn't find it until 1000BC. :eek:
The landmass seems to be either an archipeligo which looks like continents, or continents with more than the usual number of main continents. The other civs I can remember were Portugal, Spain, Iroquois, Mongols, Hittites, Aztecs. The Philosophy gambit worked, I did 50 turns of min research on Writing, then max on Philosophy, and took Polytheism as the free tech. I'm still up 1-3 techs on everyone I know going into the middle ages, but dead last in score -- probably because I played extremely fast and didn't bother to do much MM.
If you looked at the spoiler, remember Past performance does not guarantee future results, especially when most settings are random!