Beyond the Sword tourney on Civfanatics.ru

Upd 18 March 2008
A new class of tournaments called Nonreload Grand Prix (NRGP) starts on civfanatics.ru! In this kind of game you may not reload the game from a previous save file or an autosave file, BUT you may restart your game as many times as you like from the very beginning! The objective is to find the shortest way to the victory.

The save file of The first Non-Reload Grand Prix "Desert Storm " has been already downloaded by more than 60 players. This game is much fun: you have 3 Modern Armors, 1 Navy SEAL and 2 Machine gunners, and you have to conquest 7 medieval civilizations. The faster you do it, the higher will be your place in the results table.

See the bottom post of this thread for details.



// 22 October, 2007
We would like to invite members of CFC to participate in a non-reload tourney number 40 (NR40), a monthly contest of Civ4 players on www.civfanatics.ru (CFR) to compete with the strongest Russian-speaking players. It is also the first tourney held in Civilization: Beyond the Sword.

In NR, like in GOTM, you must play your own game without the assistance of spoilers or other information unavailable to you as a player. Apart from this, you may not reload the game from a previous save file or an autosave file including the Starting file in order to change the outcome of events in the game.

There are a few differences from regular CFC GOTM/WOTM game series which make this contest special.

First, you can select your difficulty level and download it from our server.

Second, there are some (usually 1 or 2) additional checkpoints within the game. After reaching the dates of the checkpoints, the player should save his game and submit these intermediate saves together with the final save. Then, the player is given access to the spoiler forums and can compare his intermediate results to the results of other players.

Usually the final and intermediate results of NR are based on speed in game turns considering the difficulty level of the starting save file received at the beginning of the game. But as it is the first tournament in Beyond the Sword, the participants will be ranged according to their game score.

There are also 3 special awards:
Sandals of Hermes are awarded for the fastest victory
Bronze Galosh is given for the biggest game score among the losers
Pen Master title stands for the most interesting game description in the spoiler forum

Game settings:

Civilization version: Beyond the Sword 3.13
Leader: Suryavarman II (Khmer) – Traits: Creative, Expansive; Starts with: Hunting, Mining.
Map size: Small
Game Speed: Normal
World Type: Hemispheres
Sea Level: Low
Climate: Moderate
Map was randomly generated and manually edited.
Difficulty levels: Selectable, from Warlord to Monarch
Victory: All available.
Bonus victory: N/A
Rivals: 6 random
Additional: No tribal villages, No random events.

Aim: to win by any possible way

Welcome!!!

English thread
Russian thread

One of the participants, OT4E (those, who play multiplayer games must know him), has already submitted the checkpoint and final saves.

As you see, this tourney won't take much time, but, as one can judge from the participants' replies, it is very exciting!

Feel free to ask any questions here or on CFR.

We would like to invite members of CFC to participate in a non-reload tourney number 42 (NR42), a monthly contest of Civ4 players on www.civfanatics.ru (CFR) to compete with the strongest Russian-speaking players. It is also the first tourney held in Civilization: Beyond the Sword.

In NR, like in GOTM, you must play your own game without the assistance of spoilers or other information unavailable to you as a player. Apart from this, you may not reload the game from a previous save file or an autosave file including the Starting file in order to change the outcome of events in the game.

There are a few differences from regular CFC GOTM/WOTM game series which make this contest special.

First, you can select your difficulty level and download it from our server.

Second, there are some (usually 1 or 2) additional checkpoints within the game. After reaching the dates of the checkpoints, the player should save his game and submit these intermediate saves together with the final save. Then, the player is given access to the spoiler forums and can compare his intermediate results to the results of other players.

The final and intermediate results of NR are based on speed in game turns considering the difficulty level of the starting save file. The results are calculated according to the equation:

RT=GT-DL-VT,

where
GT – number of turns spent to achieve victory,
DL –difficulty level bonus
VT – victory type bonus.

The lower is RT, the higher is your place in the tournament table.

Players defeated by the AI are ranged according to their game score.

There are also 3 special awards:
Golden Calf is awarded for the biggest in-game score among the winners
Bronze Galosh is given for the biggest game score among the losers
Pen Master title stands for the most interesting game description in the spoiler forum

Game settings:

Leader: Darius I (Persian) – Traits: Financial, Organized; Starts with: Agriculture, Hunting.
Map size: Small
Game Speed: Normal
World Type: Big and Small
Sea Level: Low
Climate: Moderate
Map was randomly generated and manually edited.
Difficulty levels: Selectable, from Warlord to Deity
Victory: All available.
Bonus victory: Domination
Rivals: 6 random
Additional: Aggressive AI, No tribal villages, No random events, No technology brokering, No vassal states.

Aim: To achieve the fastest victory concidering difficulty and victory type bonuses

Welcome!!!

English thread
Russian thread

civfanatics.ru in English

A new class of tournaments starts on civfanatics.ru. It is called Nonreload Grand Prix (NRGP). In this kind of game you may not reload the game from a previous save file or an autosave file, BUT you may restart your game as many times as you like from the very beginning! The objective is to find the shortest way to the victory.

The save file of The first Non-Reload Grand Prix "Desert Storm " has been already downloaded by more than 60 players. This game is much fun: you have 3 Modern Armors, 1 Navy SEAL and 2 Machine gunners, and you have to conquest 7 medieval civilizations. The faster you do it, the higher will be your place in the results table.


Start screenshot (~200 Kb)

Game version: Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword 3.13

Objective: to destroy all the enemies on the map within the shortest possible time.

Map type: Maze, manually edited
Size: Standart
Leader: Lincoln (Phil, Cha)
Nation: American Empire (UU Navy Seal, UB Mall)
Era: Middle Ages
Difficulty: Deity
Game Speed: Quick
Enemies: 7, far from random

Options Always War, No Random Events, No Technology Trading.
Victory condition: Conquest only

You may not reload the game from a previous save file or an autosave file, but you may restart your game as many times as you like from the very beginning. Do your best to play the whole game within one session.

Additional information:
-There is an airport in Washington;
-Don’t leave your only city empty;
-Act quickly;
-Switch autopromotion off and switch quick battles on.

Game starts on - 07 March 2008.
Send your victory saves before 01 April 2008.

Other Awards:
"Bloody person " – for destroying the highest number of enemy units.
"Rusty horseshoe " – for loosing a unit which had the highest chances for victory. To take part in this nomination, you should take a combat log screenshot and send the save file just after the unit had been lost. The initial chances for victory should be higher than 95%. (less than 5% chances for defeat) Resize battle log window to make visible both the initial chance of victory (in the bottom), all battle rounds and the battle overcome (in the top).

Send you victory game saves to ot4e[at]mail.ru. Name your victory saves according to the template:
HPGP_Nickname_from_Forum_N,
where
N – the number of turn when you received the victory message,
Nickname_from_Forum your Nickname and Civilization forum where you are registered. If you are registered at several forums, select the most preferrable to you, ex. Nickname_from_CFC.
Include code “NRGP1” to the subject of your letter.

Download start save

Russian thread on CFR

English thread on CFR

Russian thread on CFR translated by Google

Welcome!!!