Earth challenge (huge size)

[TheMeInTeam]

Never knew you had an Earth18 up How about a deity game for the Inca?

I swear some of my viewers watch for the sole purpose to see me suffer .

More to the point, once we've solidified how this competition is working I'll probably do a video series showing one of my submissions; more earth maps are somewhat heavily requested and this looks to be a nice change of pace.

I want to know who's weighted most favorably though .

 

[JoeHollywood]

Diety for Inca would be rough on E18...

Fantastically craptastic land. America and Monty sharing a religeon with you being worst enemy of both.

Monty being nuts.

Oh yeah, and it's diety.

Good luck with that.

 

[Kid R]

Inca on regular E18 is best played by getting to Uruguay quickly and then micromanaging your ass off till launch or legendarity. I'm sure TMIT could do it on deity but doubt if even he could make that entertaining to watch, especially culture

This map is entirely different though - in my first run Pacal's holy city culture basically ate up the entire rain forest before I could claim any of it. One thing's for certain, an Inca game will not be the usual peacefest...

 

[ATC1983]

Deity with Egypt would be nice; not too bad a starting position and a number of different styles of play available with wonder resources or early attack on Musa or Saladin,

 

[Habitus]

Lately I've set up the mod StartingPoints for Earth18 so i can basically play a map with 18 random civs, with random leaders all in historic positions. Afew times i get civs that start too close together to settle and the later player of the 2 civs ends up in a position not correct but nothing is as fun as getting Mali as a random start and finding out after scouting that your sharing Africa with Hannibal, Shaka, Zara and Hatty

 

[Matrix]

So how's your progress, guys? I didn't have a lot of time finishing a game myself yet, and I'll be on holiday for the next two weeks. But I hope one or some of you will have a result when I'm back. I really hope this thing's gonna work!

 

[Optical]

Been busy with NC so haven't had any time yet. Will start one at some point.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

So how's your progress, guys? I didn't have a lot of time finishing a game myself yet, and I'll be on holiday for the next two weeks. But I hope one or some of you will have a result when I'm back. I really hope this thing's gonna work!

I want to know the weights placed on rankings for each civ before I pick one .

 

[Matrix]

Well, that depends on the upcoming results, of course.
I can tell you the weighted rankings we obtained at civduelzone.com:

01. Russia           57368
02. China            49750
03. Vikings          41531
04. Rome             38986
05. Egypt            36094
06. Inca             34625
07. Mali             33024
08. Aztecs           31715
09. Khmer            25665
10. India            23182
11. Mongolia         19515
12. Zulus            17093
13. Maya             13230
14. Native America   12586

Do note that this is all played on Noble difficulty level.

 

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Where is the save file supposed to go? I would very much like to try this out, even though I'm definitely not going to hit the number 1 spot.. I tried "PublicMaps", but that didn't seem to work. I'm on a Mac if that makes a difference.

 

[ATC1983]

Let's see an England or Egypt on Deity. Even Mali would be interesting, considering their "sober" starting position.

 

[Yoshiegg737]

Hmm...I think I would like to try this Earth Challenge out sometime soon

 

[alhimik]

Is this challenge still on? I have finished a game but I see no one else has posted any results.

 

[Optical]

It's on AFAIK and I still intend on doing it, but you must be the only one with any time around here - I'm preoccupied with my story Civwise, and have left this on neutral for the time being - but I'm sure you can post your result.

 

[alhimik]

Between writing my thesis and studying for exams I did manage to sneak in a game.
The results:
Julius Ceasar
Monarch difficulty
Domination
1824 AD
152288 points

screenshot after replay.

 

[Optical]

Wow...

 

[Matrix]

Yes, it's still on. Very nice result, alhimik! I'll put it in the first post. Not much statistics to do with one result however. Keep 'em coming!

 

[Yoshiegg737]

Between writing my thesis and studying for exams I did manage to sneak in a game.
The results:
Julius Ceasar
Monarch difficulty
Domination
1824 AD
152288 points

screenshot after replay.

And if it weren't for some tiny Incan cities in Africa...

 

[Civ'ed]

I'll have a go at this be amazed by my failure soon...

 

[Rhymes]

Ok give me a couple of weeks and I'll have a completed game