Hi el_kalkylus, welcome to the GOTM threads! I see you've come on over after our discussions in the other Forums and threads. Don't forget that the GOTM deadline is 2 October to submit this month's game to Matrix.
Go to the GOTM 6 Spoiler thread, and I've got a bunch of savegames already uploaded to it. There didn't seem to be much interest in them one way or the other, so I haven't been continuing to upload games on all my updates. People like the logs I make better, and they provide much more info about stragegy... plus, if you get "ahead of the curve" in my log, you will know you're doing "well"... at least relative to my own particular game.
But it is a coincidence that I finally have started my GOTM 8 again today after only playing it once since the bombing (I'm in 1 AD at the moment). Well actually, not a real coincidence... it sort of came out of the detailed strategy stuff in our other thread.
I'm planning to make a "puzzle" out of building a SS in one turn, because I had to use some fairly fancy gyrations from the Starlifter School of Trade to get it done, LOL. It took me over an hour to work out the exact details of getting a flyable SS built in one turn with the resources available, and it demonstrates the physical aspects, as well as many other principles of trade bonuses, to get the job done. I'll probably finish the turn tonight (and hope it flies) and make a file of it soon.
I like the GOTM. It makes you learn a lot of tactics etc. What I would like, is that people save more savegames and send in. I am very interested in the beginning of the game, like 2000 BC and 1000 BC. If people send in those savegames too, it would show pretty good how you develop yourselves.
The only current requirement is 1 AD and 1000 AD, but I favor at least 1000 BC and 1500 AD also. However, we're all in the middle of a big discussion about GOTM scoring in another thread at the moment, so I'm putting off making too many more suggesting and "overloading" those who are having a difficulty thinking about a pile of stuff over there.
The one thing to be careful about is your last few savegames. As myself and others have found out when parts of our posts get deleted, it would violate the intent of Matrix and Thunderfall's ground rules to tell people how you did at the end of the game, or even post savegames at the end. But after a GOTM is over (generally, when the results by Matrix are done or almost done), no worries.
People's strategies make different parts of the game more interesting than others. In my own games, the cool stuff starts happening at about Industrialization. For others, like Shadowdale, Smash, Cactus Pete, and the "conquerors", the coolest stuff happens early on. If you're developing a strategy, it might be best to take/learn the best of several styles before you get set in your ways too much
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Not all players want to show others how they play. They might feel they have some 'trick' they use that they don't want anyone to know about, or something like that.
Remember, one need only share what one wants
. I think just about anyone will talk about their games if you ask directly. Shadowdale and Smash post info in other threads scattered thru CivFanatics, for instance. One more thing I would like, but you can't legislate it, is that everyone should post about their games. I personally like reading about what happened to everyone, not just the highest scorers.
PS, You may never get to read this thread if the "Post Police" decide it is too long, LOL!!
PPS, I'm sort of in the "doghouse" for availing myself of the 10,000 character post limit in recent days, hehe... and there is a new 2-scroll screen "delete" rule which might apply in some of these GOTM threads starting yesterday!! But since I have a high-resolution, tiny font computer and have stretched my browser width to the max, my 2 screenfulls are equal to about 10 for some folks,
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