Hey all, I've got some good news on the Conquest of the World. I played a bit more and nuked the Persians and Americans...
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Just kidding. Seriously, though, there is good news. I nuked Vista and cleared my hard drive, and did a complete re-install of Windows. Not only did I gain 12.5 GB of space by deleting recovery partitions, but CIV III CONQUESTS NOW WORKS!!!!!!!!!!
Not only that, but I have the latest save! I couldn't find it on the flash drive I backed up all my data on, and was thinking I forgot to copy it off my desktop at home. Fortunately a
of the flash drive (my only backup medium) turned up a folder I'd forgotten to check full of all the most recent saves. It wouldn't have been the only thing I didn't have - all my Microsoft and EA stuff won't install because I forgot to copy down the CD keys
, but it is good that I have it here.
So, as Civilization III returned to working life to the triumphant March of the Valkyries, Conquest of the World will return, in decent time as well. I will not make any guarantees - two papers, a project, and an exam over the next six class days is a rather intimidating load - but eventually a lull will come again and the Greek story will be continued. So, whether it be in a few days or a few weeks, Conquest of the World will return sooner than expected, as promised by this post number 666!
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oneperson, you're the second person that has happened to. I'll try it again. I don't think it matters if your Conquests is patched for this scenario, but it's worth a try if it isn't. I'm not sure if I can fix it before Thanksgiving if it is corrupted, though - I'd have to check whether the backup I stored at Google is working correctly or not.
choxorn: Look at how many posts I have...
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Good memory with that Chapter 7 quote, choxorn. I recall it now, though I wasn't thinking of it when I first wrote this post. It seems so long ago that India had the highest score - though I suppose it was. The first 8 sections I played and wrote all in one week during spring break. Which means that part was posted 5 months ago - quite a while indeed.
I played a bit more of the game yesterday, and the IBT was bloody fast compared to what I'd grown used to on a Pentium 4. My turn, however, was quite slow, as there were seemingly endless things to do and after nearly a month I'd lost a bit of the rhythm of what all I was doing - indeed I reread the last section to get myself caught up again on what was happening. In the end I think I've played the section rather well for a month off, but it is not yet complete. My first turn, in fact, is not complete. Greece is now in the year 1944, but no other details may be divulged. I likely will not have a chance to play again until Friday night, though I may be doing something else on Friday night as well - quite often there's something interesting going on on campus. And it may be until the week after this one as well - I've a paper due Monday 9/24 as well as assignments for this week. But the conquest is back underway, however slowly real life may force it to move.
Sorry about editing this post rather than making a new one, but it'd spoil part of the atmosphere of the post to make another one. Of course I
will eventually, when I post the next section, but for now...let the atmosphere live.
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I can now say with certainty I won't be able to play until Friday. After that, we'll see. I'm considering going on a day trip to the ocean; if so that and an essay will take up most of the weekend. I'm also tempted to try the latest COTM since it's a difficulty I can win at - so many things happening at once. But in the mean time, real life is forcing me to be more concerned with actual 1940s and 1950s history than the alternative one being written in this story.
Welcome to CFC and the story, Nergal! Eventually I'm planning to make a downloadable version so the Internet is not required to read the story after the initial download, but progress on that came to a halt sometime last month.
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Update 9/22: I've played enough for a new update. Still playing rather than uploading because it's fun to play.