Recent content by dalamb

I came back to Civ IV yesterday for a one-shot Earth18Civs, and wondered what had happened to Nobles' Club. Thanks to everyone involved for keeping it going. In answer to a question from several years ago, I did not create the club, and forget who did. My main contribution (aside from running...

Is there some special trick to getting We Have The Technology? I foolishly won a game via space when almost finished with the tech tree, so restarted from a recent save to wait out the last few techs, including Future Tech 1 as stated in this guide -- but when I launched the ship this time, no...

Sorry I never got around to proposing a leader list to spread out the traits. I'll post tijup's plan in the first message when I get a chance.

That would be a worthwhile first step if I keep missing deadlines, instead of declaring the series dead.

Starting with the current NC game is often a good idea because people are more likely to give you feedback when you post checkpoints. some people do comment on older games sometimes, but there's more discussion of the current game.

I took Izuul's list to be the basis of selecting a couple of leaders for the next round, which would then need more to round out the full set of 10 or 11 traits. I'll try to find time in the next couple of days to produce a specific suggestion.

We've done Hub a couple of times, but I don't recall ever doing Wheel, so that would be a reasonable choice for an "unusual" map type. WRT Always War -- I think it best if you don't set the option in the WB saves, but suggest it as a challenge in the 2nd message in the game thread (the...

@vardermerwe: Yes, that's all that's needed. Some mapmakers have had trouble with their first attempt, but they were able to revise in response to the first few messages in their game threads, so don't worry overmuch about making mistakes. @Pangaea: I certainly don't want it to end, but it...

SB isn't going to happen this weekend. Sorry. I think without more mapmakers NC is pretty much dead.

As usual lately making maps during the week hasn't worked out well for me. I'll try tomorrow.

Lately I've been running with No Tech Brokering at Monarch level, since I picked up the impression that the AI are getting more benefit from trading around the techs I trade to them than I'm getting from the reciprocal situation. Am I wrong about this at Monarch? Does the situation change at...

IIRC spaceship %success is directly proportional to how many casings you've added. You got lucky, but sometimes it's what you have to do if you can't finish that last one in time to beat one of the AIs.

Looks like no Sitting Bull this weekend, since no one volunteered after NZ had to shift to Pacal. I will be offline starting mid-day tomorrow; if nobody happens to post a game while I'm gone, I'll shift the schedule by a week and do SB on April 17. Who would you like to see in the next round...

Does an oasis really count as a source for irrigation? Didn't know that.

Great! I've edited the first message. We will need someone else for SB, else it'll be delayed until the following Monday when I get back from my trip.