Welcome back to the tenth game of the AI AutoPlay Deity - Pick the Winning Leader! competition.
In this game we have previous winner Willem van Oranje (game six) against previous runners-up Mao Zedong (game one), Hammurabi (game two), Hatshepsut (game three), Julius Caesar (game six) and Qin Shi Huang (game eight). Also two double-eliminated leaders are in this one: Alexander (games three and five) and Tokugawa (games two and six).
So, how will this turn out? We have one continent with five (West), one with four (East) and one with three (Middle) leaders, in addition to isolated Alexander in the South East...
Western Continent:
Mao Zedong, Qin Shi Huang, Ramesses II, Tokugawa & Willem van Oranje (5)
Middle Continent:
Cyrus, Hatshepsut & Julius Caesar (3)
Eastern Continent:
Hammurabi, Kublai Khan, Pacal II & Suryavarman II (4)
South East Island:
Alexander (1)
Two participants got the leader (Willem van Oranje) right. Both had Space as VC, so they are separated by a few years...
Major Tom
Missed by five years!!!
dutchfire
Missed by fifty years (still good, though)!
A1 - Winner: Willem van Oranje
A2 - Condition: Space
A3 - Date: AD 1850
B - Chronological List of Elimination:
AD 790 - Qin Shi Huang
AD 1080 - Hatshepsut
AD 1746 - Ramesses II
AD 1810 - Tokugawa
AD 1834 - Mao Zedong
The Singletons
C.1.1 Suryavarman II (Representation)
C.1.2 Ramesses II (Taj Mahal)
C.1.3 Alexander (Circumnavigation)
C.1.4 Suryavarman II (Liberalism)
C.1.5 Suryavarman II (Corporation)
C.1.6 Alexander (Apollo Program)
The Trebles
C.2.1 Julius Caesar, Suryavarman II, Tokugawa (Slavery)
C.2.2 Hammurabi, Ramesses II, Pacal II (Organized Religion)
C.2.3 Pacal II (on Hammurabi), Julius Caesar (on Hatshepsut), Kublai Khan (on Suryavarman II)
C.2.4 Willem van Oranje (Buddhism), Pacal II (Hinduism), Hammurabi (Judaism)
C.2.5 Ramesses II, Kublai Khan, Suryavarman II & Tokugawa (both at 1400 BC)
C.2.6 Qin Shi Huang (Stonehenge), Suryavarman II (Great Wall), Ramesses II (Oracle)
C.2.7 Hatshepsut, Ramesses II, Suryavarman II
C.2.8 Ramesses II, Willem van Oranje, Tokugawa
C.2.9 Ramesses II, Willem van Oranje, Tokugawa
How did these leaders do in previous rounds?
SpoilerPrevious Results :
(leader - game#1/place - game#2/place)
Pot Ab
Tokugawa - 2/Eliminated - 6/Eliminated
Hammurabi - 2/2nd Place - 6/Eliminated
Julius Caesar - 2/Eliminated - 6/2nd Place
Willem van Oranje - 2/4th Place - 6/WINNER
Pacal II - 2/8th Place - 6/Eliminated
Pot Bc
Hatshepsut - 3/2nd Place - 5/7th Place
Ramesses II - 3/4th Place - 5/4th Place
Alexander - 3/Eliminated - 5/Eliminated
Kublai Khan - 3/8th Place - 5/Eliminated
Pot Ca
Qin Shi Huang - 1/Eliminated - 8/2nd Place
Suryavarman II - 1/4th Place - 8/4th Place
Cyrus - 1/7th Place - 8/Eliminated
Mao Zedong - 1/2nd Place - 8/5th Place
SpoilerTHE COMPETITION :
A - Used to determine competition winner(s)!
Name the winning leader! [A1]
(the victory condition [A2] and winning date [A3] optional, but highly recommended!)
Competition winner(s) will be declared after considering A1, A2 and A3, respectively.
# if two participants have the correct leader, but only the second one has chosen condition and/or date, the latter will be declared competition winner (with the former 2nd placed).
*Winning date can be a period. But of course; the narrower the period, the better the reputation of the ones to get it right!
PS!
You are NOT allowed to chose more than ONE leader. But you can of course comment on your own choice by mentioning other possible scenarios and winning leaders, as long as you make it clear whom your final choice IS! Posters choosing more than one leader, will be disqualified!
B - Rise and Fall of...who?
Name the useless! [Bn]
(those leaders who get themselves eliminated - if any (I won't tell just yet!))
C - Show your expert Civ IV skills! C1 - The Singletons - Name the leader who...
(2 pts for each correct leader)
...C1.1 - First adopts Representation (The Pyramids?)
...C1.2 - Completes the Taj Mahal
...C1.3 - First circumnavigates the world
...C1.4 - First discovers Liberalism
...C1.5 - First starts a Corporation
...C1.6 - First completes Apollo Program
C2 - The Trebles - Name the FIRST THREE leaders who...
(1 pt for each correct leader)
...C2.1 - Adopts Slavery
...C2.2 - Adopts Organized Religion
...C2.3 - Issues a Declaration of War
...C2.4 - Founds a religion [Bonus: 1 pt for each correct Leader-Religion combo]
...C2.5 - Adopts a foreign religion (one they did NOT found)
...C2.6 - Completes a World Wonder
...C2.7 - Has a (non-Great General) Great Person born
...C2.8 - Enters a Golden Age
...C2.9 - Has a City reaching Influential Culture (7500 pts Epic Speed)
Max points: 42
*There will be a table under Honourable Mentions for the C part of the competition. Will any participant reach 21 points (50% of maximum)? If so, I'll be impressed!
IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND and want to change your choices, you are allowed to do so before the deadline passes. But you MUST edit your first post. After the competition deadline has arrived, the posts will be examined in chronological order. If multiple posts exists, by the same user, only the FIRST post containing A1 (optionally A2 and A3) will be allowed to enter the competition.
Posts NOT containing A1, will be disqualified from the competition.
This post: Saturday, Mars 28th 2015.
Deadline: Sunday, April 5th 2015, 22:00 (Norwegian Time).
Winners revealed: Monday, April 6th 2015 (due to the late deadline, no winners revealed Sunday).
SpoilerSettings :
13 AI's (Qin Shi Huang + 12)
Qin Shi Huang was given the Deity starting technologies, and the Deity starting units before I turned control over to the AI for the duration of the game...
Mod: Better BUG AI
Difficulty level: DEITY
MAP = Fractal
SIZE = Large
CLIMATE = Temperate
SEALEVEL = Medium
ERA = Ancient
SPEED = Epic
WORLD WRAP = Cylindrical
RESOURCES = Standard
Victory Conditions set = ALL of them!
Options set:
-City Flipping after Conquest
-Require Complete Kills
-No Vassal States
-No Tribal Villages
-No Random Events
SpoilerStarting Positions :
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SpoilerJulius Caesar :
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SpoilerKublai Khan :
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SpoilerPacal II :
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SpoilerWillem van Oranje :
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PS!
DON'T forget the incredible AI Survivor game by Sullla on Twitch today at 12:00 EST (American Eastern Standard Time). I believe it is at 17:00 Norwegian Time... (I am currently holding a fantastic 51st place in the prediction competition over there - now get over to Sullla's page and beat me in the prediction game, like fifty (50!) others seem to be doing already)
A World's History - the brief version - (World #10)
Part One - Peace and Quiet
SpoilerPart One :
As always cities are founded early. The first leader to get his third city settled was Hammurabi (Dur-Kurigalzu at 3300 BC), while the last leader to reach three cities was Ramesses II (Pi-Ramesses 3000 BC).
EARLY RELIGION:
Willem van Oranje was the first one to found a religion, as he got Buddhism with Utrecht as a holy city in 3500 BC. He converted immediately. Three hundred years later, Pacal II founded Hinduism in Chichen Itza. He too converted into his own religion. In 2650 BC Hammurabi did found Judaism in Akkad. He actually adopted Organized Religion before converting to Judaism one turn later.
Ramesses II converted to Buddhism in 2450 BC. Kublai Khan found Judaism to be wisdom in 2275 BC, and in 1400 BC both Tokugawa (Buddhism) and Suryavarman II (Judaism) decided that a state religion was the way to go.
CIVICS:
Slavery was first introduced in Rome, by Julius Caesar in 3400 BC. Suryavarman II adopted the practice in 3225 BC, while Tokugawa became the third leader to enslave his own populace at 3000 BC.
As mentioned, Hammurabi adopted Organized Religion in 2625 BC. It took almost a thousand years before Ramesses II followed in his footsteps (1650 BC). Pacal II adopted the ideology at 1525 BC.
WONDERS:
Qin Shi Huang made his people proud by finishing Stonehenge in 2950 BC at Nanjing. Suryavarman II built The Great Wall around Yasodharapura in 2650 BC. Ramesses II put The Oracle in Memphis in 1625 BC.
A total of nineteen (19) Wonders of the World were constructed in the BC's. Eleven of which Ramesses II was responsible for. Willem van Oranje built three World Wonders before the end of the BC's. In AD 400 Ramesses II finished The Taj Mahal in Memphis. This was the world's first Golden Age initiated. It was also to be the very last World Wonder of Ramesses II's Egypt. Willem van Oranje finished his fourth (The Spiral Minaret) in 490 at Rotterdam. From this time forth, Netherlands was the only nation to construct a World Wonder. The last non-Dutch WW was built by Kublai Khan in 460, when he finished University of Sankore in Karakorum. The first, and last, World Wonder by Mongolia.
GREAT PEOPLE:
In 2750 BC something bizarre happened. Both Hatshepsut (Thebes) and Ramesses II (Heliopolis) did have a Great Prophet born unto their Egypts. Both Egyptian leaders had begun employing two Priests after having built an Obelisk at the very same moment in time. A second Great Prophet were born to Hatshepsut in Elephantine (1500 BC) before Julius Caesar got a Great General in 1275 BC because of the war-declaration he made on Hatshepsut. In 1150 BC, Yasodharapura saw a Great Spy emerge. Suryavarman II thus became the third leader to get a non-Great General great person born in his nation.
GOLDEN AGES:
In AD 400 Ramesses II got his first Golden Age after having finished The Taj Mahal. In 595 Willem van Oranje became the second leader to have a Golden Age in his nation. Tokugawa became the third in 1265.
INFLUENTIAL CITIES:
Already as early as AD 460 the cultural reputation of Memphis reached Influential, to give Ramesses II the honours of being the first leader to reach that milestone. In 1060 Willem's Utrecht also became influential. The third leader to have one of his cities reach that level was Tokugawa in Kyoto, 1355.
OTHER NEWS:
Suryavarman II completed The Pyramids in 1575 BC at Yasodharapura. He adopted Representation in 1550 BC. In AD 930 the Khmer leader was the first one to discover Liberalism. And in 1510 he founded Mining Inc. to become the first leader to control a corporation.
In AD 940 Alexander, who started in isolation, became the one to prove the world to be round after having circumnavigated the globe. He is also famous for being the first one to finish the Apollo Program in his nation (AD 1728), only two years before Willem completed his program.
Part Two - Declarations of War
SpoilerPart Two :
Despite a mid-19th century Space Race win for Willem van Oranje, there were a lot of wars being declared. Not so many seriously fought ones, though.
The first war was declared by Pacal II on Hammurabi in 1500 BC. Peace was signed in 470 BC. This was the longes war (1030 years) that ended with a peace treaty. The longest war was declared in 1325 BC by Julius Caesar on Hatshepsut. It lasted until the destruction of Egypt in 1080, lasting 2405 years.
The most disastrous war-declaration was Mao Zedong attacking Alexander in 1190. It lasted until 1834, when the Chinese civilization was destroyed. Alexander conquered four cities, and razed one, while Mao Zedong only managed to invade one Greek city.
The most successful campaign was the Dutch declaration on Japan in 1728. Sixteen cities and eighty-two (82) years later Tokugawa's Japan had been eradicated (1810).
Part Three - The Space Race Walk
SpoilerPart Three :
While the dates for the completion of the Apollo Programs may seem to indicate a close race between several nations for reaching Alpha Centauri, only Willem van Oranje made a decent attempt to construct his Spaceship.
He was beaten by Alexander (1728) by two years for the Apollo Program. However, during the 1700's the Dutch were the only nation to build Spaceship-parts. Rome (who were the last ones to finish Apollo Program in 1794) were first to SS Life Support in 1804. Khmer, Greece, Mongolia and Persia all got a SS Docking Bay. Alexander built a lot of Casings as well during the early-to-mid 1800's. However, it was all in vain, as Willem van Oranje reached Alpha Centauri in 1850. Long before anyone else was close to finishing their Spaceships.
The following leaders did eventually complete their own Apollo Programs:
1728 - Alexander, Greece
1730 - Willem van Oranje, Netherlands
1732 - Cyrus, Persia
1764 - Suryavarman II, Khmer
1780 - Kublai Khan, Mongolia
1794 - Julius Caesar, Rome
SpoilerFinal Map :
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I'm a little bit sorry for the (almost) complete lack of screenshots in this report. I've been a little busy as of late... I'll make a better one next time (when I've got some more time to actually prepare a decent report).
Thanks for the link to Sullas game,I caught the last hour,brilliant,realy entertaining.Next weeks looks like it,ll be a good game too with mansa musa and alexander on the board.
strongly backing sury on this one,im banking on a religious war between him and pacal early on in which sury wins with elephants and cats.I think WvO will be a target of Toku and could get attacked by ramasees as well..Jc will probably DOW on Hatchet.Thats my thinking so far,but will review it again at the end of the week.
Think I'll go for Sury. Space is the most likely I guess, as with pure AI games it's basically down to space or culture. I'll go for Sury with a Space win in 1790AD.
Pacal's land looks pretty good. Lots of food, iron and horse nearby, and plenty of forests to chop. In my games, however, Pacal tends to wonderwhore/religion-hog and expand terribly, so I don't have much faith in him. If he gets past the early to mid game without sucking too much donkeynuts, he tends to do much better, but I'll stick my virtual bet on Sury.
Three continents it more of which continent takes the lead. My guess is the central, the other ones are to even.
A
JC dom 1900
B
Hatty 500
Toku 800
Cyrus 1100
Alex 1500
Hammy 1750
Mao 1800
Kublai 1880
C1 - The Singletons - Name the leader who...
(2 pts for each correct leader)
...C1.1 - First adopts Representation (The Pyramids?)
Pacal
...C1.2 - Completes the Taj Mahal
Ramesses
...C1.3 - First circumnavigates the world
Will
...C1.4 - First discovers Liberalism
Pacal
...C1.5 - First starts a Corporation
Will
...C1.6 - First completes Apollo Program
Sury
C2 - The Trebles - Name the FIRST THREE leaders who...
(1 pt for each correct leader)
...C2.1 - Adopts Slavery
JC Qin Hammy
...C2.2 - Adopts Organized Religion
Ramess Hatty Pacal
...C2.3 - Issues a Declaration of War
JC Hammy Kublai
...C2.4 - Founds a religion [Bonus: 1 pt for each correct Leader-Religion combo]
Hatty Hindu
Ramesses Buddism
Pacal judaism
...C2.5 - Adopts a foreign religion (one they did NOT found)
Will
Sury
Kublai
...C2.6 - Completes a World Wonder
Ramesses Stonehenge
Hatty The oracle
Toku Mids
...C2.7 - Has a (non-Great General) Great Person born
Hatty Prophet
Ramesses Prophet
Will scientist
...C2.8 - Enters a Golden Age
Pacal Kublai Ramesses
...C2.9 - Has a City reaching Influential Culture (7500 pts Epic Speed)
Sury Will Pacal
Julius Caesar. First Roman cosmonauts set foot on some blue planet near Alpha Centauri around 1850 AD.
Kublai Khan signs the first war declaration, against Babylon
Babylonian government is the first to fall, because of religious wars between jewish babylonians and hindu khmer/mongols/mayans.
A - Suryavarman II wins a Domination victory 1800 AD
B - Hammurabi, Kublai Khan, Pacal II, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Hatshepsut, Tokugawa
C -
Willem van Oranje - First adopts Representation (The Pyramids?)
Ramesses II - Completes the Taj Mahal
Suryavarman II - First circumnavigates the world
Suryavarman II - First discovers Liberalism
Willem van Oranje - First starts a Corporation
no one - First completes Apollo Program
Hammurabi, Suryavarman II, Alexander - Adopts Slavery
Suryavarman II, Hatshepsut, Ramesses II - Adopts Organized Religion
Kublai Khan, Mao Zedong, Qin Shi Huang - Issues a Declaration of War
Hatshepsut Buddhism, Willem van Oranje Hinduism, Suryavarman II Judaism - Founds a religion [Bonus: 1 pt for each correct Leader-Religion combo]
Ramesses II, Cyrus, Qin Shi Huang - Adopts a foreign religion (one they did NOT found)
Willem van Oranje, Suryavarman II, Qin Shi Huang - Completes a World Wonder
Willem van Oranje, Alexander, Pacal II- Has a (non-Great General) Great Person born
Alexander, Pacal II, Ramesses II - Enters a Golden Age
Suryavarman II, Willem van Oranje, Qin Shi Huang - Has a City reaching Influential Culture (7500 pts Epic Speed)
Impressive guess by Major Tom. Looks like my candidate Sury wasn't up to much good, judging by the maps, while Willem completely spanked the people on his continent and eventually won easily.
Thanks! Willelm is a good AI and this map seemed to be a runaway for him. Rames no threath warwise and would be put to rest when his culture annoys Willy. Isolationist Tokugawa would also be eliminated because of total opposite view of economics. Perhaps lucky with the chinese-greek war.
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Major Tom 
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