News: Ceasing support for vanilla civ....

As many of you will be aware, we are planning on running two civ3 and two civ4 gotms every month - quite a workload!

The current 'classic' civ3 gotm is quite a bit of work to prepare, because we need to prepare maps & saves in both civ3 & PTW. With the slight rule changes between civ3 & PTW, this also means that game design must be somewhat restricted in the interestes of balance.

With the release of civ3 complete for macs, the last real justification for maintaining both versions has diminished, and we're now only getting a handful of vanilla Civ3 / mac entries each month.

As such, we have made the decision to stop supporting vanilla civ3. The last classic GOTM supporting vanilla Civ3 will be the game released on september 15th. We regret the inconvenience to those of you who still play using vanilla civ3, and recommend that you get a copy of C3C (which includes PTW) or even just PTW. You can get these on ebay for around $10.

To all of the XOTM staff thanks for the effort that it took to create & maintain this variant.

As an aside, are there any plans for a return of the Asian flavored units or the Mongolian unit replacements?

Oh my god, this is so unexpected, just when my PTW disk got fixed!

Thanks Ainwood, I believe this will make scoring easier for the staff , right?

Anyways, look forward to see if anyone leaves because of no Vanilla...

Well ... dangit. I guess this is a good time for AlanH to duck in and call me a sentimental fool or some such something-or-other...but I'll miss all the mods and units and such...

...but when I do have time to play I can play it in PTW. 'salright.

Thanks to all of the GOTM staff who have made it all possible. "We love you guys, man! "

Ansar the King said:

I believe this will make scoring easier for the staff , right?

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Not really. The submissions system handles PtW and vanilla saves the same. The main benefit is for game setup. Only one map file to validate, and only three starting saves to prepare and check instead of six.

Scout said:

I'll miss all the mods and units and such...

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Yeah! That was all I knew until this year. But we'll survive, Scout, we sentimental old fools