Deity never looked so easy.

So, I was reading the forum for strategies, when I came accross Copaczin's playthrough of Deity. It inspired me to join, I was thinking "I can do that too!". However, it's bound to be more hilarious because I'm a Chieftain player.


My settings:

Fractal
Huge
Random everything (including leader)



There will be at least one MS Paint picture per post, because MS Paint pictures are cool. Sorry I don't have any story yet, I haven't yet prepared my ego for this. In a couple hours, the thread will be lit by the burning of (my) cities.

Sounds cool--subscribed!

As title states, I don't have MS Paint pics done yet, but the game is finished. Lasted much longer than I expected.


How do I put in screenshots? I don't know how, but I'll edit this to be about the game once I figure out.


Alright, it's finally beginning, or at least I'm putting in the Paint picture.


Also, I can't find the screenshots I took in the Civ IV folder. Luckily, I saved about a turn in, so I can just redo it. Enjoy the MS Paint picture while you wait.

The Game's finished? Aww I cant wait to see you die in a flaming ball of fail :]

johnny2shiny said:

The Game's finished? Aww I cant wait to see you die in a flaming ball of fail :]

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I actually could have gone on longer, but I had a chance to add actual plot to my death, which I couldn't pass up.

Boeing717 said:

How do I put in screenshots? I don't know how, but I'll edit this to be about the game once I figure out.

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Just use an image hosting website like Photobucket

Click on the Post Reply button or else on the Go Advanced button at the bottom of the page. You can also later click on the Edit button.

Doing so gives you more icons above the typing textbox. The icon that you want to click on looks like a paper clip: .

It will open the Manage Attachments page, which allows you to browse your computer for image files. You'll probably get more use out of this File Attachments functionality if you upload .jpg files instead of .bmp files... both file types can be saved using Paint in the File -> Save As... menu option... and that's because there is an upload quota limit, while .bmp files are often more than 3 times the size of their corresponding .jpg files.


Once you have uploaded a file, you're not done, though. A link will appear in the Manage Attachments pop-up window for each file that you uploaded. Right-click on that link and Copy the Link's Location.


Back in your text message window, place your cursor at the spot in your message relative to the other text where you want your image to appear (i.e. click your mouse in the spot relative to other text). Next, click on the Insert Image icon and paste (press Ctrl + v with your cursor in the Insert Image pop-up dialogue or Right Click and then "Paste" there) and your image's URL will be pasted there for you. Click on the OK button and the correct Image Tags will be added to your message, so that the full-sized image will be displayed.


If you are lazy and you skip this step, then every image will appear as a thumbnail (tiny version) at the end of your message--which is annoying because then every single viewer needs to click on each image in order to view them. Of course, if you forget, then you can also right-click on these tiny images in order to grab the "Copy Link Location" values, which can then be edited into your message in combination with the Insert Image functionality.


Good luck!

So, are screenshots taken from the game .jpg? If not, I've got a lot of posts to make, starting as soon as I actually get around to making that MS Paint picture.

Boeing717 said:

So, are screenshots taken from the game .jpg? If not, I've got a lot of posts to make, starting as soon as I actually get around to making that MS Paint picture.

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It depends upon what you do.

If you simply press the Print Screen key, then a screenshot will be saved in a low-resolution .jpg file. Low-resolution just means that you will lose some of the image's quality. These files get saved in your "My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\ScreenShots" directory and have file names similar to "Civ4ScreenShot0000.JPG."

If, instead, when you press the Printscreen key, you paste into MS Paint, then you'd presumably need to save the file. MS Paint defaults to saving images as .bmp files.

.bmp files essentially have 1 byte of data per pixel, plus additional data--so the file sizes can become very huge. .jpg files use a compression algorithm that stores more info in a smaller format. However, there are a ton of different compression algorithms for .jpg files, with some of them giving better resolutions than others.

When I save a file in MS Paint, I actually save it as a .bmp file and then use a separate program (called ACDSee, but there are a ton of image manipulation programs out there) to convert it from a .bmp to a .jpg file for me. ACDSee allows me to select the compression ratio when converting file format types, so I can pick a balance between smaller file sizes and better resolution (i.e. nicer-looking pictures).


My version of MS Paint saves .jpg files (when I used the File -> Save As... option and select the .jpg file type) with a relatively low resolution, which is why I use an external program to perform the file conversion for me. However, for your purposes, using the File -> Save As... option and selecting the .jpg file type in MS Paint should be good enough.


If you aren't going to manually edit the images, then you could also just check your "My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\ScreenShots" directory, as you might also have screenshots there if you have been pressing the Print Screen key.

i always save paint pictures as .png, there isn't any changes to the picture then.

hoplitejoe said:

i always save paint pictures as .png, there isn't any changes to the picture then.

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Interesting. Have you checked that all web browsers are capable of viewing .png images? Also, have you looked into the relative compression ratio versus .jpg images?

They don't blur like .jpg's is all I know

The guy in your MSPaint picture you added looks like Harry Potter...

In that case, the challenger count is up to 6 . Just don't make any Jersey Shore references.

But that picture is a boss

The pictures will look better if you display them in their full-sized format:



Use the following format:
[ IMG]http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=291523&d=1306925458[ /IMG]


P.S. Watch out for angels bearing large clubs! They may be upset with the poor service from the shoddy Ferris Wheel. They might also be out to steal your box of spare body parts.

Should be good, subbed.

I found the screenshots, but I can't find the order to put them in. I should have numbered them instead of giving names.

Eh just put them in any order and we will work it out

Boeing717 said:

I found the screenshots, but I can't find the order to put them in. I should have numbered them instead of giving names.

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Once your figure out the order or for the future, I suggest prefixing their names with a series of numbers.

Something like: 001, 002, 003, etc.

So, your screenshot might be named:
003Brennus_pwned_me.jpg

Of course, if you want the flexibility to add in screenshots "in between" other screenshots, then you could number them like: 0010, 0020, 0030, etc. That way, you'd be able to insert as many as 9 pictures between any two screenshots that you'd already ordered, say, in case that you forgot to order one properly.

So, you'd have:
0030Brennus_pwned_me.jpg
0040Shaka_declares_war.jpg
0050Monte_fights_on_my_side.jpg

Then, later, you might add in a screenshot called:
0041Tech_trading_scene.jpg

so that we could see which techs you had available with which to bribe Monte.