Recent content by Firmlife

I just realized . . . I don't see a thread for the G-Minor 271. I assume this is an oversight?

Thanks for posting the update Noble Zarkon. Congrats @Lcpl Jack Jones for making it through the Gauntlet and beating the previous high score by a factor of four! It was definitely a hard-won victory.

Thanks for the thumbs up Noble Zarkon! Empty slot, attractive settings, I'm hoping that gets some people in the door. I'm not 100% sure about the map choice, but you're mainly looking for room and one close opponent for Espionage. I'm sorry I don't have any concrete ideas for the Minor, I don't...

I'm going to suggest a specific gauntlet for the next Major out of the grab-bag I put up before: Huge/Deity/Epic/Espionage/Elizabeth/Highlands. Huts and Events optional. Opponents Mansa Musa/Asoka/Gandhi/Fredrick/Lincoln/Hatshepsut/Pericles/Victoria/Roosevelt/DeGaulle.

Thanks for obliging! I guess I have two questions, if you're inclined to answer. First, how many spaceships launched? Second, what did you do differently (or what went right) in this game that led to a victory? Sounds like being ready for the UN and maybe teching a bit more? My second...

@Lcpl Jack Jones No commentary on your great win? I will admit, I needed a break from Civ 4 after my second submission. I'd been playing and pressing a bit too much trying to get the best submission possible in what turned out to be a set of games that took a long time to play and often didn't...

Congratulations! Quite well deserved. And the score is quite close to my first victory as well!

I was wondering if you're still with us. Anything I can do to help? With all the work you've put in, I'd really like to see you get across the finish line. I am slightly confused that you find yourself warring on too many fronts. Generally, this is a peaceful set of AI and once you've taken...

Things have gone according to plan. I was able to wrangle a cease fire from Lincoln, dispatch Gandhi's remaining cities quickly, and start in on Freddy. As soon as I declared war, he switched from fusion, which was half done, to stealth, alleviating any hope he had of a spaceship. I've now...

At least your bad settings had the consideration to show themselves early. Events and huts are turned off? My game has hit a very small snag. I did get elected UN SG thanks to Lincoln voting for me (my math was a bit off, I forgot the required votes shown in the UN tab are actually 40% of the...

Aaaaannnnnnnddddd . . . game over. In a good way. It turns out that due to a border pop and Gandhi rushing a stack of 6-8 mobile artillery around, and me being wary of said 6-8 mobile artillery decimating my stack of 20 tanks specializing in city attack, my taking the UN city was delayed one...

I've started a batch of modern games, picking the most promising to carry forward. In the first one I've played into the 1980's, I eliminated Elizabeth first, took DeGaulle down to one city, and started working on Mansa. But Gandhi beelined for the UN and has been hitting me over the head with...

To finish my previous write-up, Mansa took two of my more vulnerable cities and sent a stack of ten units at me which I eliminated by sacrificing a cannon, two catapults, and then finishing off with other units I had around without losing much, if anything. He was more advanced than I thought...

You could try low sea levels. Probably doesn't get you much on Tiny, but could make the difference between 1486 and 1512.

I don't think it's anything so simple. In the game I submitted, I was paying reasonably close attention to where the capital went several times when I took one and it definitely didn't always go closest or largest. My guess is that Civ4 has an algorithm for determining city quality and it goes...