News: BOTM 97 - Frederick, Monarch, Starts 20 Dec

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BOTM 97: Frederick of Germany.

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Christmas? Peace and goodwill? Nah, you won't have space for that. Not on a map this crowded! The only concession to the time of year is that you just might find a nice Christmassy area somewhere near the North Pole. But on a map this crowded, you'll probably have to take it by force if you want it...

Game settings:
Playing as: Frederick of Germany
Rivals: 8 AIs
Difficulty: Monarch
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Normal
Options: None
Victory Conditions: All enabled

Map settings:
Map: Ice age
World Wrap: Cylindrical
Mapsize: Small
Climate: Temperate
Sea level: Medium


Frederick is Philosophical and Organized, and you start with Hunting and Mining.

The Philosophical trait gives +100% great people birth rate and double production speed of University

The Organized trait gives -50% civic upkeep and double production speed of Courthouse, Factory and Lighthouse

Unique unit: Panzer (replaces Tank)
The Panzer benefits from: 50% combat bonus against armor units. This compares with the Tank which has: no directly comparable benefits.

Unique Building: Assembly Plant (replaces Factory)
The difference between a factory and an assembly plant is that the assembly plant can turn 4 citizens into engineers - as against 2 for the factory.

Starting screenshot

This is the start of the game (click for a bigger image):




Note that in this game, any espionage-culture victories will be counted as cultural victories. There are no adventurer or challenger saves.


To Enter the Competition:

This competition will open at 00:01 am on 20 Dec 2015, server local time (UTC-6:00). From that date and time, you'll be able to get your chosen starting save >>>here<<<.

Submit the save after your victory (or defeat) here, by 20 Jan 2016.

Here is a link to a list of the differences between Vanilla, Warlords and BtS.

Software Versions

Windows: This game MUST be played in Beyond the Sword (NOT Civ4 Vanilla or Warlords), patched to version 3.19, and with the BUFFY mod version 3.19.003 installed. You can download the BUFFY mod here. Players using Windows Vista or Windows 7 are encouraged to read the notes on Vista fixes here.


Macintosh: This game MUST be played in Beyond the Sword (NOT Civ4 Vanilla or Warlords), patched to version 3.19, and with the Mac BUFFY mod version 3.19.003 installed. You can download the Mac BUFFY mod here.

While playing...

Remember - for your entry to be accepted, it MUST be your first attempt to play this game, and you MUST NOT replay any turns. If you make a mistake while playing, you have to live with it, learn from it, and carry on the game without replaying.

We will open 'spoiler' threads during the month for players to discuss what happens in their games. Do not discuss any details of your game outside those threads.
 
A couple of points:

The Mac save might not be available for a few days after the game is released.

The blue circle in the starting picture is for the scout, not the settler (because I happened to have the scout selected when I took the screenshot)
 
Not a ton of production with SIP, although there are lots of trees to chop. Move the scout SW then SE, settle in place or 1E depending on what's revealed.
 
Yes, that means that huts and events are on. Turning goody huts off and turning events off are options that you have to explicitly select if you want to turn those off in a game. 'No options' means that game starts with all the 'rules' that you'd get by default, if you don't explicitly select any option.

The blue circle for the scout in the starting screenshot is presumably because there's a goody hut on that tile, which civ is suggesting the scout should explore.
 
Yes, that means that huts and events are on. Turning goody huts off and turning events off are options that you have to explicitly select if you want to turn those off in a game. 'No options' means that game starts with all the 'rules' that you'd get by default, if you don't explicitly select any option.

The blue circle for the scout in the starting screenshot is presumably because there's a goody hut on that tile, which civ is suggesting the scout should explore.
Haha! Completely missed the hut. Thanks for clarifying.
 
Thanks AlanH - I promise at least one person (me) will use the Mac download!
 
Hope it works, I had to reinstall BtS on my MBP while away from home! Have fun.
 
Can't seem to run it on my Mac. BTS runs fine, good enough to go multiplayer with Windows users. Loading the save prompts me to restart Civ IV to initialise the mod, but then I get a dialog saying 'The save file you have selected is protected to ensure that the assets in your mod folder have not been changed' and then Civ IV quits. It's a high end MBP running 10.11.1
 
It doesn't look as if you have played any xOTM games before. Have you installed the MacBUFFY mod?
 
I downloaded the mod from an OP link on another BOTM. Same problem happened then :/
 
Have you installed any other mods? The 'protected to ensure that the assets in your mod folder have not been changed' message usually means that your Civ install has been modified away from the default installation. The HOF mod refuses to run if it's detected this because other mods could alter the gameplay - which wouldn't be fair in a competition. If you have installed other mods, you'd probably need to uninstall them before playing GOTMs.

Also, are you running a Steam-installed version of Civ? There are sometimes issues getting Civ to work with Steam (which I don't think are fully understood).

And - worth double-checking - you do have the 3.19 patch installed, don't you? That's required for the HOF mod to work.
 
Try running the assets check utility that's linked in the MacBUFFY post. List the results of that so that we can work out what's wrong.
 
Confirm I'm using BTS 3.19, Steam version.

Quite a few red results came up. Here's a textification:

Spoiler :
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Shaders/
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Mods/HOF-Mac-2.13.001/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Assets/
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Mods/HOF-Mac-1.74.002/
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Mods/MacBUFFY-3.19.003/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/PublicMaps/
File Size Error: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Assets/Python/Screens/CvExoticForeignAdvisor.py
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Assets/Python/Screens
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Assets/Python
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Assets/
Extra Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface/Screens/TeamColor
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface/Screens
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface/TeamColor
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/_LWPCookieJar.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/subprocess.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/cookielib.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/_MozillaCookieJar.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/_threading_local.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/decimal.pyc
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/PublicMaps/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Shaders/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/PublicMaps/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Shaders/


Looks pretty daunting :/

I have a number of other mods, and I'm *fairly* sure I've only ever dragged and dropped folders into mod folders and never run an installer.
 
The errors are actually not too daunting:

Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Mods/HOF-Mac-2.13.001/
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Mods/HOF-Mac-1.74.002/


You don't play WOTMs or vanilla GOTMs (yet). So you don't need those mods.

Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Mods/MacBUFFY-3.19.003/

This is critical, as it means your MacBUFFY mod is not installed, or it's in the wrong place. As indicated, you need to put it in /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Mods. This Mods folder is within the Package contents of the BtS application package.

File Size Error: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Assets/Python/Screens/CvExoticForeignAdvisor.py

This error is also important, as it indicates that you have not updated the CvExoticForeignAdvisor.py file. This file is different in the Steam version of BtS, and so MacBUFFY doesn't recognise it. As you have the Steam version, you have to replace your copy of the file with the one in this post.

The rest of the errors are mainly reflections of the above, or not related to BtS. Try the move and let us know how it goes.
 
OK, made those changes. Still not working, here's the new issues:

Spoiler :
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Shaders/
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Mods/HOF-Mac-2.13.001/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Assets/
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Mods/HOF-Mac-1.74.002/
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Mods/MacBUFFY-3.19.003/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/PublicMaps/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Assets/
Extra Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface/Screens/TeamColor
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface/Screens
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface/TeamColor
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art/Interface
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Art
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/_LWPCookieJar.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/subprocess.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/cookielib.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/_MozillaCookieJar.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/_threading_local.pyc
Missing File: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System/decimal.pyc
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python/System
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/Python
Directory Has Errors: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Assets/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/PublicMaps/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/Shaders/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Warlords/PublicMaps/
Valid Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Shaders/


I kept a copy of the original foreign adviser file.
 
Missing Directory: /Users/lindsay/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Mods/MacBUFFY-3.19.003/


It looks as if the CvExoticForeignAdvisor.py file is now OK, as that error has gone. But you still don't have the MacBUFFY folder in the right place.
 
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