Recent content by DrSpike

Excellent OP. :b: I'm only half way through my first game (slower Euro release and even when I got the disk couldn't play until Steam were allowing downloads :( ) so was reserving judgement but having seen this neatly summarise my views so far I couldn't resist. To add a few thoughts...

Mansa beat me to a Space victory in 1879, a mere handful of turns before I would have finished the last two spaceship parts. :( Was pretty irritating as I thought I had him. The start was slow for me as it was for everyone, because of barbs and no luxuries. I decided to try and eke out a Civ...

Thanks - but surely that only works for games you haven't already played? My issue is not the same as the OP; rather it's that sometimes I want to look over old GOTM games I have played to see how many bpt I had with various approaches etc.

In a similar vein is there any way you can load old pre-1.74 GOTM games? I have a lot of 1.61 games I like to look over sometimes, and there isn't any problem loading generic games with the 1.74 patch. But GOTM games are protected and I get an error and then a crash. Obviously I can dual...

Thanks for breaking the official silence. :)

Despite how some here want to spin potential difficulties the bottom line here is that a final patch was repeatedly promised (as with C3C) and it looks increasingly likely that again it will not be delivered. It's actually a far worse state of affairs because BtS has far more potential than...

Anyone have a handy spreadsheet with a list of game turns and years?

You are better off looking at old gotm games than the HoF imo - there just aren't very many good games there for standard settings. For standard monarch games with a randomly generated map 1850 is a good target. Sub 1800 requires really good land - dig out the map from the Mansa Musa gotm...

Well this is an early landing challenge thread, which you have chosen to post your strong opinions in. :) So as a relative outsider with no bias towards any of the participants I would have to say I find that part of your argument unconvincing. Although I accept and agree with your points...

Though I think there is an argument for integrating Blake's changes into the HoF mod. I don't like to have to choose between gotm and the improved AI. :D

My solution is so good it addresses both. :D

With entirely speed based rankings players would naturally spread out across the victory types, making the fastest for each type a meaningful achievement. The problem is that more people play for warlike wins, because the scoring element favours that, and gotm still highlights scoring over speed...

Many of these posts make me chuckle. I share the view many have expressed that the current system still has incentives for milking, and warlike games are dominant in getting medals on most maps. However, any attempt to tweak the underlying scoring system just gives rise to a situation in which...

I don't post here much, but I dropped by to say what a nice tool this calculator is. Very easy to use and interpret. Cheers Doc

Hehe don't worry it was a compliment.........Xin worked out all manner of fiendish strats and exploits for Civ2.