Challenge-XXIII-05

[Noble Zarkon]

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While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we are running a series of ten games called the Hall of Fame Challenge Series - "Indian Summer". Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but your best submission meeting the settings of one of the games will be counted towards the Challenge.

(*) Please read the >> HOF rules << BEFORE playing!
(*) Games must be played using the >> BUFFY MOD 3.19.005 <<
(*) Games to be submitted via the >> Civ IV Hall of Fame Website <<
(*) New players, please >> register << using your CFC forum name

Settings:

• Victory Condition: Space Colony (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Emperor
• Starting Era: Ancient
• Map Size: Standard
• Speed: Normal
• Map Type: Rain Forest
• Required: Raging Barbarians, One City Challenge, No Tribal Villages, No Random Events
• Civ: India
• Opponents: Must include Byzantium (Justinian), China (Qin Shi Huang), France (Louis XIV), Germany (Bismark), Holy Roman Empire (Charlemange), Mali (Mansa Musa)
• Version: 3.19.005
• Date: 6th June to 26th December 2022

Must not play as Inca.
The earliest finish date wins, with score as a tiebreaker.

 

[nocho]

Too bad the only space game is a OCC... Tried a game but unfortunately Justinian grew too big, vassaled half the AIs and won diplo, when my ship was half way done. Maybe better to play this with vassals off.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Too bad the only space game is a OCC

Sorry

Feel free to propose a an appropriate gauntlet!

 

[nocho]

Sorry

Feel free to propose a an appropriate gauntlet!

Didn’t mean it negatively… I like the occasional OCC, though I like regular space more. In any case, I’m happy with any game hof and gotm staff still throws at us after all these years!

 

[Noble Zarkon]

It's fine, thanks for the compliments.

We are always willing to listen to suggestions for Gauntlets though!

 

[mscellaneous]

Vassals or no vassals, I am having a hard time getting a good game out of the gate...

Spoiler :

Guess I should prioritize starts that are on the edge of the map. Or roll a bunch of NO BARB maps

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Oof, land looks nice but that's a bit of a barb problem!

 

[mscellaneous]

Well, the panther was mostly harmless The land was pretty good indeed, unfortunately capital was located in the middle of the map.

With no close neighbors and so much land I around cannot see how you can survive this barb onslaught. They enter borders at turn 26.

 

[mscellaneous]

Close, but no cigar

Spoiler :

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Close, but no cigar

Nice try but ugh!!

 

[Powerfaker]

To the HOF staff:

Hi, I submitted a game a few weeks ago (this one, game 5), but it does not appear in the score list.

I checked my game on settings and cannot find any accidental deviation.
Settings displayed:

Spoiler :

(NB: in the rivals list on the top is Bismarck, you can see Exp/Ind traits, Below Churchill is Hammurabi extra added, but that should be oke)

I'm pretty sure I submitted the correct files.
Could this be a space race / space colony thingy?
Or do you see any deviation?
The game status in my submission list is ''published''. Does that mean it's accepted or can it also be rejected? Do I get a notification when it's rejected?

If of any relevance the file names start with ''Powerfaker Challenge 23-5''.
One states 4000BC, the other space vic + date

 

[Powerfaker]

By the way, both start + end phase with these settings are pretty nervous.
I failed to squeeze out the GW properly at a few attempts. Good thing was that the AI initial progress suffers a lot from raging barbs. Still, in the end phase you need a bit of luck with balance among the AI. That is not something you can totally control with one city.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Could this be a space race / space colony thingy?

That was it, sorry.

Need to see if I can remove that from the admin panel without impacting historic games.

 

[Powerfaker]

Ah, glad it's solved, and glad it wasn't anything I did

 

[Noble Zarkon]

The game status in my submission list is ''published''. Does that mean it's accepted or can it also be rejected? Do I get a notification when it's rejected?

I should have answered these as well - the status meanings can be found here (although we only update once a month now), but it's basically submitted -> approved -> published, if we do have to reject a game you will get an email or a private message explaining why.

 

[Powerfaker]

Thanks for clarifying, for me and maybe for others. Saves me the trouble to dig in when I don't see submissions being listed right away.