remconius
Deity
I was just reading the spoiler thread of 4OTM 1 and would like to propose a useful addition - a common status point. You can see examples in Roland Ehnstrom spoiler.
In the civ3 COTM the first spoiler ended at 1000BC, and players listed things such as cities, population, buildings, units, etc. I think it is useful to have such a point to get a feel of how you are doing.
In Civ4 we are doing more of an event based spoiler, like when you met the first civ of another continent. I agree with that completely but you lose the possibility of comparing your game at a certain moment to other players. 1000BC is probably too soon for civ4 as the game has barely gotten started.
I would like to propose to have a common point in the game where we add status information to the spoiler thread. I think 1AD makes a nice symbolic date to compare progress.
Status point information could be entered as Roland did:
***1AD***
Score: 738
Techs: Fishing, The Wheel, Agriculture, etc, 1 turn to ...
Gold: 21 (-4 GPT at 80% science)
Cities: 8 (38 pop)
Buildings: 7 Granaries, 4 Barracks, (2 Barracks, 1 Lighthouse in production)
Units: 6 Workers, 7 Praetorian, 3 Warriors (1 Galley in production)
Wonders: Stonhenge, oracle, etc
Religion: Founded Confusianism
Alternatively, a screenshot from the territory (showing cities, population and gold), statistics (sorted by units/building built) and victory conditions (showing score) could be posted.
Let me know what you think about this.
In the civ3 COTM the first spoiler ended at 1000BC, and players listed things such as cities, population, buildings, units, etc. I think it is useful to have such a point to get a feel of how you are doing.
In Civ4 we are doing more of an event based spoiler, like when you met the first civ of another continent. I agree with that completely but you lose the possibility of comparing your game at a certain moment to other players. 1000BC is probably too soon for civ4 as the game has barely gotten started.
I would like to propose to have a common point in the game where we add status information to the spoiler thread. I think 1AD makes a nice symbolic date to compare progress.
Status point information could be entered as Roland did:
***1AD***
Score: 738
Techs: Fishing, The Wheel, Agriculture, etc, 1 turn to ...
Gold: 21 (-4 GPT at 80% science)
Cities: 8 (38 pop)
Buildings: 7 Granaries, 4 Barracks, (2 Barracks, 1 Lighthouse in production)
Units: 6 Workers, 7 Praetorian, 3 Warriors (1 Galley in production)
Wonders: Stonhenge, oracle, etc
Religion: Founded Confusianism
Alternatively, a screenshot from the territory (showing cities, population and gold), statistics (sorted by units/building built) and victory conditions (showing score) could be posted.
Let me know what you think about this.