Recent content by Pious_Pete

Excellent! I´d never noticed the green bug before - how long has it been there?! I don´t remember it being like that when I first installed MapFinder many moons ago. However, be that as it may, I did locate the map finder tab, and it appears that the save path was incorrect. (During the instal...

I´ve been having a go at this gauntlet. The first one in quite some time. I´ve posted a couple of attempts. However, I´m having trouble getting a decent start position. I´m tired of clicking regenerate map waiting for a good start to randomly appear. In the past I have used mapfinder. However, I...

Don´t I get a golden clock award or something?

Help. I´ve started playing BOTM 156. I've had a catastrophic PC failure. There was only one thing to do: go out and buy a new PC. I managed to download and install Civilazation complete from Amazon which I think I originally bought in 2011. Kudos to Amazon for that. However, I´m struggling to...

I'm glad that everyone thinks this is a winnable game. The thing is, I've only ever won one diplomatic victory on Diety (and that was back in 2008!). Could any one share some pointers as to how to win? I do have a strategy: research as fast as possible to Mass Media, build the UN, and then hope...

Thinking? What's that?

Good decision about the world wrap. I did manage to choke off the eastern seaboard, but battled strenuously on the west. It would have been impossible had they been coming at us from the east as well.

Lost on time! Noble, eh? How difficult could that be? Not fancying a slugfest, I decided to hunker down on my subcontinent, and go for a nice quiet spaceship victory. I had visions of clogging up the choke points, settling back and filing my nails while repeatedly clicking the enter...

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Unfortunately, I was caught out a bit by the gauntlet finishing a bit early - I was hoping for mid-night on the 25th in some pacific island - and so I didn't get to put your advice into practice. Of course, I've got all those mapfinder saves hanging...

I know its a bit late in the day, but I wondered if anyone could offer any tips for this gauntlet? My best attempt to date is 470 AD. I am at a loss as to how anyone can beat 1000BC! I'd be very pleased with myself if I could crack a BC date. I can sort of see how this might be possible...

Hurrah! Another chances to fritter aways hours on end trying to get a Diety Gauntlet win for the EQM challenge. After my miserable performance in Major 51 (which I failed to complete despite umpteen attempts) I can´t say I was looking forward to a conquest victory on quick speed; but the link...

I shall be playing tropical :).

Well I ran Mapfinder with Food=2+,Mine=2+,Hills=6+. I left it running for 25 hours and got 9 candidates. Of these, 5 were not valid in the sense that there was no position in which is was possible to settle and get all the food and mine resources. Of the four that were left, none of them were...

OK. Useful calculation. But do you really have stacks of 15 cats? Perhaps a more pertinant question is: do you always ensure that you have enough cats in the stack when attacking a city to reduce the cultural defence to 0% in one go? Presumably this means that when you get to...

This is a key tip for me. I´ve tried both ways. Taking the time out to build the library (and using citizens for research) obviously slows the creation of the praet stack. However, without this it can take an eternity to get to construction/cats, which is a factor as to why my attacks are...