BtS SGOTM 08 - Wonder Crazy
Announcing the first Beyond the Sword SGOTM. Thanks, Gyathaar
Following his recent honeymoon in the Far East, Gyathaar, aka Suryavarman II of the Khmer Empire, is just Crazy About Wonders. He has decreed that he will win a glorious victory and that his total Wonder points per turn played will then be the envy of the world.
Suryavarman II is Expansive and Creative, with the Ballista Elephant to assist in acquiring Wonders he can't build himself, and the Baray to allow him to build the Hanging Gardens.
This will be a Normal speed, Monarch difficulty game on a Standard map. All victory conditions are enabled.
Versions
This game will be played in Civilization IV Beyond the Sword, version 3.17, using HoF Mod 3.17.001.
If a later BtS patch is released during this game you will NOT be able to use it to play. You will need to complete this game in version 3.17 before updating your copy of BtS, or create and update a separate copy.
As there is no Mac version of BtS, Mac players can only join in if they are able to run the Windows version on their system.
Sign up
The start files will be published on Friday, September 12.
Please post in this thread if you wish to join a team and take part in the competition. The information required to place you in a suitable team is as follows:-
- Which level (noble, monarch, etc.) are you comfortable playing in a solo game?
- Have you played any Civ4 GOTM games before?
- Have you played any succession games or SGOTM before?
- Do you have a group of players you want to play with?
Starting Position
Here's the starting position - click the image below to see a larger version.
Map Parameters
- Playable Leader/Civ - Suryavarman II of the Khmer Empire.
- Characteristics - Expansive and Creative, starts with Hunting and Mining
- Unique Unit - Ballista Elephant (War elephant)
- Unique Building - Baray (Aqueduct)
- Rivals - 7 AI civs
- World size - Standard
- Difficulty - Monarch
- Landform - Big and Small
- Environment - Temperate climate, medium sea level
- Game Speed - Normal
- Everything else - Default
- Please visit the Civ4 SGOTM reference thread to check out the rules and procedures to ensure that you are adequately prepared for this game.
- Teams will compete for up to four awards - the Gold, Silver and Bronze Laurels for the highest Wonder Score per Turn Played, and the Wooden Spoons for the lowest scoring finisher.
- You can capture wonders, or build them yourself. Remember you cannot capture national wonders.
A victory in turn 100 with 10 wonders controlled gets the same score as winning in turn 200 with 20 wonders..
In BtS the max number of wonders is 62, including corp headquarters and holy city buildings, national wonders, palace and world wonders.
- All saved game files uploaded to the server are parsed through software that extracts and archives data about your save, including reload count for each turn set.
- Spoiler information will absolutely NOT be tolerated in this thread.
Please sign up for this novel game as soon as possible, in this thread. I shall then publish draft team lists below, during the weekend of September 6-7.
) interpretation - that the number of turns you have control of each wonder also matters - seems more interesting but perhaps much harder to keep track of...?
Sorry, I didn't read that part. Still, it was unambiguous, just a vain hope of mine... No matter though, it will be a very very interesting game regardless! 
