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Good to see you back, Grendeldef. I look forward to seeing what you do with this map 
The Deity Challenge Line-up #20 - Spain - Valentine day Resurrected
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Grendeldef
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Yeah, haven't played a turn since Xmas until few days ago and that game is on huge map, small continents, low sea lvl, 22 civs, 32 CS as I wanted to try something different.
With this game I have an ongoing internal struggle whether to implement some own rules to spice it up or for once just play it through. I hate to waste a Terra map just for a win...
Anyway, it's funny (or sad) how lost one can be after a break hence the easy mode start. Past months I've been playing WoW as a 9yo girls asked me 'what was the game with all the dragons & cool mounts & stuff?' and the tutorial period with her sort of went overdrive - nice change of pace for Civ.
With this game I have an ongoing internal struggle whether to implement some own rules to spice it up or for once just play it through. I hate to waste a Terra map just for a win...
Anyway, it's funny (or sad) how lost one can be after a break hence the easy mode start. Past months I've been playing WoW as a 9yo girls asked me 'what was the game with all the dragons & cool mounts & stuff?' and the tutorial period with her sort of went overdrive - nice change of pace for Civ.
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I chose the Terra map so people would have all kinds of options for role playing and totally different ways of playing if they wanted to, or just play normally on a crowded continent.
We've had sub-T200 SV, CV and DiploV on this map, so maybe go for a Time victory
We've had sub-T200 SV, CV and DiploV on this map, so maybe go for a Time victory
few games have the longevity that civ has. but i need breaks from it too. i still have two 'wild frontiers' for myself in this game, mods and MP. when i'm fully done with SP (no idea when) i will mess with those a bit, mods first probably. (my MP experiences goes back to GnK/Vanilla and I didnt much like the clickfest wars. i'm sure it has changed since then though, or so ive heard.)
i was the same with Skyrim. i went to mods after i finished all my vanilla RP desires. (i still revisit the game once or twice a year.) i was not the same with WoW, though. i never went back to that, haha. i gave that enough time to know MMO RPGs arent my thing.
Grendeldef
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Pointless T194 Dom.
I didn't implement too many own rules but tried out how constant double digit happiness affects - not much in this game. Somewhere around T120 I got bored with the happiness issue and purposefully razed cities & ignored happiness buildings to float between 0 & -25. Rebels were additional bonus.
Also I was still running specialists to the end though the need for any teching ended T154 Dynamite.
I didn't implement too many own rules but tried out how constant double digit happiness affects - not much in this game. Somewhere around T120 I got bored with the happiness issue and purposefully razed cities & ignored happiness buildings to float between 0 & -25. Rebels were additional bonus.
Also I was still running specialists to the end though the need for any teching ended T154 Dynamite.
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Acken
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Brazil and Huns maps may provide a more interesting challenge to you.
Grendeldef
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Thx for that, I may look at those next instead of playing the DCLs in chronological order. Actually I started the #24 Harun but after the 4th crash on T78 I put it on hold while I need to check the
cause for that.
And it's not so much the easiness of this particular game or Civ5 in general which can be at least partly negated by additional rules but the minor stupid details which persist till eternity what's pushing me away. Some are bugs, some design failures & some just stuff that no one cared to think at all and by pointless victory I rather meant that the finish turn is pretty much irrelevant, as usual in my games. Just something I ended up while ignoring many game concepts from T100 onwards but I reloaded the end turn & will put up some pics later for this one, too.
cause for that.
And it's not so much the easiness of this particular game or Civ5 in general which can be at least partly negated by additional rules but the minor stupid details which persist till eternity what's pushing me away. Some are bugs, some design failures & some just stuff that no one cared to think at all and by pointless victory I rather meant that the finish turn is pretty much irrelevant, as usual in my games. Just something I ended up while ignoring many game concepts from T100 onwards but I reloaded the end turn & will put up some pics later for this one, too.
Im very late to the party, just a quick thank you for posting this, had some hours of fun with it. I assume this was a very easy one for the single player pros. I however managed to be at war with the whole world exept byzantine very soon. Found Barringer early, then kilimanjaro via map ruin and saw an amazing 8 city liberty start. Had forgotten how much the ai disklikes others pumping early settlers tho, first single player game since months 
First dow was by me around turn 20 when a lonesome celtic settler came my way. At turn 44 England and Russia dowed me for settling too agressively, shortly followed by china and austria. Spent around 50 turns killing all the units they threw at me and had to skip settling the 8th city.
Its now turn 140, friends with everyone, 2nd in most demos, still at war with russia who has developed into a bit of a runaway. Pretty sure I will manage to win it somehow but nowhere near those expert t250 finishing times. But probably I'll just call it. Will check out more of these challenges, liked it a lot.
Any suggestion which one to pick next? A tough one preferrably.
First dow was by me around turn 20 when a lonesome celtic settler came my way. At turn 44 England and Russia dowed me for settling too agressively, shortly followed by china and austria. Spent around 50 turns killing all the units they threw at me and had to skip settling the 8th city.
Its now turn 140, friends with everyone, 2nd in most demos, still at war with russia who has developed into a bit of a runaway. Pretty sure I will manage to win it somehow but nowhere near those expert t250 finishing times. But probably I'll just call it. Will check out more of these challenges, liked it a lot.
Any suggestion which one to pick next? A tough one preferrably.
stormtrooper412
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The Netherlands, Polynesia and Rome are thought to be more difficult
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The Huns didn't have many finishers, either. Just saying.
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The Huns map kind of defeated the purpose...
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No, it forced the player to think outside the box a little, that's all.
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It forced players into the standard continents domination, while Attila's uniqueness is being able to clear a Pangaea with Horse Archers in record times.
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Domination wasn't forced, and there is nothing standard about clearing your continent in less than 100 turns. Not quite unique, but it made for a very interesting game.
stormtrooper412
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I was personally quite frustrated by the Huns map for various different personal reasons, most obvious being me absolutely sucking at early game warfare. I might try it again in the future
Perhaps slightly OT, but DAE know of the Order tenet, Iron Curtain, is broken?
I was styling on this map to see how many large expos I could set up on the offshore islands and in the new world. I've honestly never taken Iron Curtain before (hardly use Order at all, tbh) but I was expecting all of my ITRs to jump from 13 to 20ish yield/turn. Instead they are now listed at 13.8 on the available TR overview. The recipient cities seem to round that up to 14 on the city overview screen. It's been a few turns and even sent a few new routes and it's still that way. Is the 50% increase a lie?
I was styling on this map to see how many large expos I could set up on the offshore islands and in the new world. I've honestly never taken Iron Curtain before (hardly use Order at all, tbh) but I was expecting all of my ITRs to jump from 13 to 20ish yield/turn. Instead they are now listed at 13.8 on the available TR overview. The recipient cities seem to round that up to 14 on the city overview screen. It's been a few turns and even sent a few new routes and it's still that way. Is the 50% increase a lie?
I try to coup and buy cultural CSs, but AI is pretty difficult to override 
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