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Oldcivaddict - A keystoke/mouse click counter is not a bad idea. A whole new contest - most "efficient" victory. It could also be used as a civ teaching tool. A report page could tell you how many keystrokes could have been saved by using the various shortcuts available.

Contender save. Cultural victory 1748. Founded capital to get corn and pigs with 3 hills for production. Worker stole KK. Chariot rush Karakorum - no Mongols. GP farm with 2 fish. Built Pyramids in Karakorum. After Alpha gave Gandhi a tech and he went to friendly and we were ready to trade. We...

This looks like a bug in the programming, what do you think? Pic1 is just before war. Mongols are escorting settler with 2 archers. I have one warrior next to the settler/archers and 2 chariots at northwest corner. Karakorum pop 2. Chariots move next to city. Karakorum defended by 1 archer...

This is an exmple of faulty AI programming. Turn 85: Just before war. I have a stack of chariots NW of Karakorum and a lone warrior at SW next to a mongol settler being escorted by 2 archers. I declare war and move warrior 1 NE and chariots 1 S and 1 SE (next to city) Turn 86: The...

oncable - that's the funniest thing I've read in weeks!

There's no doubt in my mind this was one of the best-designed maps I've seen in a long while. It obviously took some time and careful planning. Kudos to DS! Since it was all-war it clearly needed a much more aggressive strategy than a normal game. Once the continent is cleared you could build...

1250 AD Conquest win Eliminated all enemies on home continent before 0 AD. The difficulty of always war is that you never get to trade maps so there was a lot of black on the screen. I built a city on the outer coast of formerly Egyptian territory to build galleons, but it wasn't until 940AD...

Happy New Year to all and a big thank you to the staff and the creator of this map. A lot of fun over the holidays. I've been playing Civilization since V2 and I just found out about this great site. For my first game of the month I chose Contender start. The gory details: I settled 1...