Botm 08 - Important!

[GluZeDan]

I first want to apologize to everyone for my english full of mistakes, I'm really making the best I can, hoping it will be enough.

I confess it this is my first post, making my entrance in this forum I love from months, and I was waiting to have read and learn enough to be at the GOTM level to submit one, and finally have a good reason to express myself here, with all these great players.

I have an other confession to make: had noticed the 500 turns thing rather fast (about turn 120), but I'm such a naïve newbie that I believed that was done deliberately, just a particularity of the scenario...I'm a little shame of that, but actually it had forced me to make a long (long..) thinking to find how to win anyway. I concluded that the only victory I can imagine managing, at this level I'm really not easy at, is the stupid and nasty cultural victory.
I really don't want to spoil much that necessary, so I will simply say that I though, on the turn 120, that it still was possible to win with culture in time.

Anyway the most important: it's one of the most fun and the most addictive game of Civ I ever played (the thing I loved the most was the AIs), it was surely one of the fastest , but please try it if you are hesitating, even with the early finish you will have a great time.

 

[da_Vinci]

Maybe update the pregame and the saves available threads with this most unusual (and rather critical) "game setting"?

dV

 

[MarkM]

Maybe update the pregame and the saves available threads with this most unusual (and rather critical) "game setting"?

dV

Yeah, I second this idea. You'll see that I added a comment to the saves available thread the moment I learned of this, but ... although I like to think everyone here hangs on my every word ... it is remotely possible that anyone starting the game now might miss my comment.

I finally started the game the other day (had to recover from the mad dash to finish BOTM7 & complete the accidental campaign to grab my 3rd BTS cow in four attempts), and, in the end, I decided to just do what I would have normally done anyway & just hope I can get to the destination by 1910, or worse comes to worst, just get my first-ever time victory. I think in all my previous BTS I would have easily won a time victory had the game ended in 1910 ... so maybe upon reflection this is something I'll appreciate rather than worry about, it may spare me the tedium of the late game domination push. Stay tuned to find out if I regret that decision

 

[kcd_swede]

Yeah, I second this idea. You'll see that I added a comment to the saves available thread the moment I learned of this, but ... although I like to think everyone here hangs on my every word ... it is remotely possible that anyone starting the game now might miss my comment.

Well, for me at least, your every word is like scripture...





(i.e. - I totally ignore it)

 

[MarkM]

Well, for me at least, your every word is like scripture... (i.e. - I totally ignore it)

Errr, umm ... thanks for letting me know, I guess?

 

[da_Vinci]

Yeah, I second this idea. You'll see that I added a comment to the saves available thread the moment I learned of this, but ... although I like to think everyone here hangs on my every word ... it is remotely possible that anyone starting the game now might miss my comment.

I finally started the game the other day (had to recover from the mad dash to finish BOTM7 & complete the accidental campaign to grab my 3rd BTS cow in four attempts), and, in the end, I decided to just do what I would have normally done anyway & just hope I can get to the destination by 1910, or worse comes to worst, just get my first-ever time victory. I think in all my previous BTS I would have easily won a time victory had the game ended in 1910 ... so maybe upon reflection this is something I'll appreciate rather than worry about, it may spare me the tedium of the late game domination push. Stay tuned to find out if I regret that decision

Maybe we should have a cow contest, you and I? We could go for the bovination victory condition ...

dV

 

[Welnic]

Well if you are going to go for a time victory it will take less than 67% of the normal amount of time to do it.

 

[MarkM]

Maybe we should have a cow contest, you and I? We could go for the bovination victory condition ...

dV

Lol, oh god no. I don't want to have to actually TRY for it!!!

 

[MarkM]

Maybe we should have a cow contest, you and I? We could go for the bovination victory condition ...

dV

Hmm, on the other hand I just read kcd_swede's spoiler in the other thread & see that he's explicitly gunning for cow. I had been considering going for cultural in case domination and time looked like they wouldn't work out and/or took too much time, but ... I'm thinking I may seek to deny him his goal "This here board ain't big enough for two cowpokes." So, if you're serious: you're on! DS's accident unintentionally made this game the least excruciating game ever to shoot for a cow on purpose, so might as well take advantage of the glitch to create a one-time only competition. May the best bovinator win!

Anyone else who cares to join Dv, kcd_swede, and I in The Quest for the BOTM08 Cow -- please sign on!

 

[reuster]

"What, pray tell, is a cow?" the reuster asked sheepishly.

Though I've already submitted my game, so by this point it's moo-t.

I could go all day...

 

[MarkM]

"What, pray tell, is a cow?" the reuster asked sheepishly.

Though I've already submitted my game, so by this point it's moo-t.

I could go all day...

It's the highest "base" score before the victory bonus is added (i.e. the score that is displayed for you at the lower right, not the adjusted (higher) one you see when you hover the mouse pointer over it). Basically it says you had the most kick-ass civilization, comparing them head-to-head & without compensating for how many turns you played.

It's a bit meaningless since it's not adjusted to give a bonus for finishing earlier, but on the other hand there really aren't any xOTM awards to recognise "builder" achievement, this is the closest you can get IMO.

p.s. hope I've made that udderly clear!

 

[da_Vinci]

Hmm, on the other hand I just read kcd_swede's spoiler in the other thread & see that he's explicitly gunning for cow. I had been considering going for cultural in case domination and time looked like they wouldn't work out and/or took too much time, but ... I'm thinking I may seek to deny him his goal "This here board ain't big enough for two cowpokes." So, if you're serious: you're on! DS's accident unintentionally made this game the least excruciating game ever to shoot for a cow on purpose, so might as well take advantage of the glitch to create a one-time only competition. May the best bovinator win!

Anyone else who cares to join Dv, kcd_swede, and I in The Quest for the BOTM08 Cow -- please sign on!

Your gauntlet is retrieved, accepted, and thrown back.

A gauntlet not of chain mail, but of cowhide, of course!

See you in the stockyards!

dV

 

[blastoidstalker]

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