It was not my intention to cause anyone any offence. I will clarify what I meant, then I will bow out of this thread as I don't want any further palaver.
When I say worthless, I do not mean that you should not attempt it. I would love to see it. Submitting to the HoF is great, but at the same time, playing on a cooked map devalues the whole point of things,
IMO. Since the challenge is to finish really quickly, playing on a map that makes that much, much easier, defeats the point of the challenge,
IMO.
I see that, as another poster pointed out, the HOF don't mind cooked maps. I was not aware of this.
For me a cooked map means an edited/user-created one. Choosing opponents is fine, makes it a bit easier, but hey, you could end up with that same combination by chance. Choosing map type is fine. Obviously a Pangaea is going to be quicker than a Continents. But a person could make a map that was perfect in every way, and arrange their 7 opponents on flat land, give theirselves decent resources (pastures, in this case) and have a significantly higher chance of hitting the sub-T100 DomV than with a randomly-rolled map. That is what I mean. And if they submitted save files to HOF I am assuming (from what I read about HOF, I could be wrong) that there is no problem with this.
So if, IronFighterXXX, you are talking about such a challenge, then that is not what I thought you meant originally. In this case, I will not post anything further in this thread.
If you are not talking about a cooked map, then I completely support this, and will watch with interest.
I will respond briefly to one poster in particular, since he seems to genuinely have it in for me:
First off... you won't believe the result that you yourself can't even produce. You want players to record a game that you yourself can't show us. You want players to make LPs and you have not shown us one LP so stop asking us to show LPs until you can show us an LP.
This is CAN'T, not WON'T. If someone can tell me how to overcome the Quicktime crash I've been experiencing, I will LP almost every game. I don't see why you're trying to score points against me.
Secondly... any player with a little bit of savvy can fudge anything. Even live streaming can be made counterfeit.
Well I didn't know that, and that's why I was suggesting live streaming. Also, the live streams give a chance for greater player-viewer interaction than LPs. I like them a lot.
Last comment... Everything in life is worthless if it does not promote or help advancing the kingdom of God. I believe the Lord one said that if a person gains the whole world and loses his own soul and ends up in hell that gaining the whole world was rather worthless. Get your priorities straight and realize that anything to do with Civ in general is worthless and pointless.
I think you would do well to avoid this kind of comment on a forum that has nothing to do religion. Not everyone is as fatalist and religious as you appear to be, and although I admit the word 'pointless' was ill-chosen, it was not my intention to belittle or derail this thread.
Again, sorry to all for any misunderstanding.
