COTM119 Korea Regent - Pre-Game Discussion

[templar_x]

Emperor and above.

 

[Lanzelot]

I suppose it means "difficulty level Emperor and higher"...


Edit: quite unusual "cross-post" with templar... I didn't see the second page, when replying...

 

[tjs282]

I suppose it means "difficulty level Emperor and higher"...

Edit: quite unusual "cross-post" with templar... I didn't see the second page, when replying...

Confirmed, just FTR... Thx guys...

And I already 'graduated' to DG, but my first game's long since a write-off, as I posted above.

Spoiler :

I got boxed in and failed to expand early -- by the time I did, the Greeks and Germans had turned into monsters and leapt at each others' throats. Then Otto got to MotorTransport, and it was all over bar the screaming -- he wiped out everyone else, and it's probably only a matter of a few more turns until he either hits 66% (since his Internet-ResLabs also just covered our Pangaea), or before his Bombers and Panzer roll over me too...

So right now I'm just having fun with this GOTM...

On a related note... Wish I could play some of the PtW ones as well -- a sponsored VC would force me to vary my game a bit more -- but unfortunately (as I may have mentioned before, once, or twice...), to the best of my knowledge, all(?) currently available legal Civ3Complete-downloads, do not include a Civ3X.exe in the installation

 

[Più Freddo]

to the best of my knowledge, all(?) currently available legal Civ3Complete-downloads, do not include a Civ3X.exe in the installation

Surely there's a legal second-hand market for game CDs and DVDs, where an old PTW could be obtained?

 

[tjs282]

Surely there's a legal second-hand market for game CDs and DVDs, where an old PTW could be obtained?

Maybe so, but I've already purchased Civ3Vanilla+Conquests/Complete twice. And there's also a problem of access: I live in a small town with no dedicated computer-games shops and only a few electronics retailers (who generally only sell the newest games). I am also increasingly dubious of eBay and the like. And finally, since Micro$oft disabled SafeDisk on WinVista to Win10 (I'm on 8.1) last year, there's no longer any guarantee that any given 2nd-hand CD version would work -- not without a NoCD patch, anyway.

Spoiler :

I bought both my Civ3 CDs from Amazon: a legit Atari Vanilla (1.07, patched to 1.29 via CFC) in 2009, then Conquests 1.17 (IIRC) in 2013. The latter's box-art was all in Thai-script (although Amazon showed the English box-art, and the seller was UK-based), and I suspect it might be a dodgy bootleg version; it installed successfully once, stopped working after I patched to 1.22 ("please insert CD"), then my D-drive failed to recognise/ read the disk when I tried to reinstall it. It was at that point that I bought the GamersGate download-version of Civ3'Complete', which turned out not to be -- because TakeTwo had for some reason decided that the installer-package didn't need to include a PtW .exe (and the Steam-version is the same as the GG-version, AFAIK). Also, the Vanilla1.29 .exe on my GG-installation was/is still DRM'd, and now needs a NoCD-patch to work under Win8.1 (which causes CivAssist to fail to monitor the game).

So unless I can be reasonably certain that any CD-version of Gold/ Conquests/ Complete that I might find would (1) actually be readable by my machine, (2) contain a patchable or fully-patched PtW .exe, and (3) not rely on SafeDisk, I'm frankly not particularly inclined to spend more cash in the hope of striking lucky on my third (or fourth, or fifth, or...) attempt.

On a related note...

Spoiler :

I have seen a few lamentations on the XOTM board that the PtW-GotMs are attracting fewer and fewer participants. This could well be because new Civ3-players -- your potential new recruits -- are mostly buying download-copies of Civ3'Complete' from Steam or GG, rather than a hardcopy. These players are therefore being excluded by the GotM-rule "you must play using PtW 1.27", because -- unless a PtW .exe has recently been (re)included in the Steam/GG package -- we don't have one, and have no (legal) way to get one. So if you want more PtW-GotMers, you guys (GotM staff and regulars) might want to think/ talk about relaxing that rule, e.g. by allowing people to play using the GotM-Mod(s) for Vanilla instead.