GOTM 156

Game of the Month 156: June 2014

Civilization: 1 Babylonian settler
Starting techs: Alphabet, Code of Laws, Pottery
Difficulty: Emperor
Total players: 7
Restarts: on
Barbarians: Restless Tribes (+0)
Known map. (Known map means the starting save can be opened in the map editor at any point during game play.)

The world is 71x140 and has one land mass: a giant 1-tile thick spiral. Babylonians start at the innermost part of the spiral. The world is round. Rival starting positions are random. There are 5 ocean tiles between any two edges of the spiral placing them beyond the reach of a trireme. The spiral touches both poles.

Deadline: Aug 4, 2014

Please be sure to follow the submission guidelines when submitting your game (please do not send your files in a .zip file. Attach them directly to your e-mail with your name in the save file). No extra save is needed.

You can download the game here.

Please send the saved games only to civ2gotm@gmail.com.

Have fun.

Resource seed is 47. There are no 4 or even 3 specials near by.

That by itself makes this not a good choice for OCC. But add to that the facts below and it becomes a tedious choice for OCC:
- everyone is on the same continent (low trade payout)
- World is large (low trade payout)
- rivals are likely to be very far due to the geography
- rivals are unlikely to build large cities

All of the above except the third one also apply to non-OCC games. But with every city acting as a canal, once you have Navigation the distances are no longer very large. Limited amount of land should make this a quicker than usual game due to reduced land improvement needs.

With only 1 more day before the deadline, I will probably not make it. Can I have a few extra to complete it?

Deadline extended to Aug 18th.

Results are up.

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