I am playing the game! This is a good map, but a very hard game to win. I am at 1500 AD now and have barely left my home continent. I have got the upper hand over the Zulus, and I think I will be able to slowly take them out completely. Then I hope I can move on to the next civ and slowly take down every civ one by one the same way, but that will surely take a lot of time to do.
I will not be able to do it whitin this month, so as usual I have to ask for more time.
I guess Dack get a little anoyed on me for never being able to keep the deadlines, but I cant help it. These GOTMs are so increadibly time consuming. I couldnt possibly find enough time to finish one of those every month. Maybe we should just make it official that the civ1 GOTM period is two month? Or maybe the games could be designed to take less time to play? A short deadline and a very time consumimg map is really not a good combination for me.
lost_civantares said:
We are just going to have to do a write-up, right? I have a old 95 laptop (with something like 16 mb of ram!) with civ3 on it, but it will be hard enough to put the save on there, not to mention take it back and upload it. (it's a very strange computer...)
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I didn't see anything on it.
Ah, I see an unanswered question!
Ideally you should upload your save games in this thread (put all auto-saves, and the save game just before you win or lose the game + replay.txt in a zip-file). But this is not a perfect world, so I would say that if you cant upload your saves, you should just post a write-up here. It is certainly better than nothing, and I have a feeling it will be accepted anyway (at least in the hall of fame thread, which is the only result service here so far).
trada said:
I just can't get started on it. Honestly, I try. I build up me cities but by the time I'm exploring the seas I just save and quit and don't come back. I guess.. I don't know.. Just not me.
Fair enough, but could you please post those saves? Anything is better than nothing!
Gundus said:
Maybe stating that the goal is conquest ruins it a little bit
in the first place. How about next time you just supply
a suitable starting map an everybody can choose their
own approach, be it conquest, space race or whatever.
Then it's more fun to discuss the game afterwards.
Maybe, but we need a simple and fair scoring system. The in-game scoring system is not particularly well balanced, and I guess the manipulated maps we play here makes the ballance even worse. Stating a clear goal like earliest conquest makes it very easy to compare scores. I am not sure how we could make that work with a free choise of victory condition? Maybe you have some ideas? It sure would be nice to have more freedom when playing these GOTMs
Gundus said:
I'm playing the july game btw and I don't think I can
win it anymore; my opponents have developed gunpowder and
it's becoming frustrating having to manage my army
of units, especially know that they're just banging their
heads against the wall.
I hope you will submit something anyway. You dont have to win to participate
Gundus said:
Before I forget:
is there a multiplayer version of Civ1? That can be
played over the net?
Yes there is, but dont bother with it. You will not find anybody to play against anyway. You might find someone who claim to be interrested on this forums, but when it comes to actually playing they will fail you. That seems to bee the way things work here, lots of talking but no playing...