GA III - Revenge of the Demigods

[Ginger_Ale]

This is our second team attempt at conquering the level of Demigod. Last time we were stuck on ok terrain with almost no resources - hopefully we'll be a bit luckier this time. All settings are up for discussion, except the following:

Level: Demigod
World Size: Standard or Large (ok, well, this one you can discuss)
Barbarians: Roaming (anything higher and they are just an annoyance)

I'd like to do maybe 60% continents, standard for the rest of the stuff. For a civ, I'm completely neutral. Scientific and Seafaring...Byzantines maybe? I'm open to any ideas.

Roster:

Ginger_Ale
gozpel
ThERat
Bede
viper275
el_filet

The order can be changed if need be.

This game won't start for a couple of days, most likely, so I just opened this for discussion. May this be a better game than last!

 

[ThERat]

checking in

standard size, maybe we could try a Civ that's hardly used recently, e.g Korea or Maya?
but of course we can use the seafearing trait

 

[Ginger_Ale]

If we combine Agricultural + Seafaring, we get the Dutch - Industrious and Seafaring, Carthage. Korea would be fine by me as well (in fact, it's a good choice). Scientific for free techs and cheap libraries (good for keeping up in research) and commercial for the gold to buy techs and less corruption is always a plus. Right now, my vote goes for Korea.

 

[viper275]

GAII player in.

My votes: Standard map (large takes a bit too long, I think.) Civ: How about England (Commercial and Seafaring)? Dutch okay too, Korea is not bad and I haven't seen them much lately (never played as them I think) but I don't know how much we'd use the libraries.

Get a good start!

 

[el_filet]

i'd like to join

 

[Ginger_Ale]

You're in viper and el_filet, and now the roster is full. I'll get 4 starts - one of England, one of Dutch, one of Korea, and one of Maya and we can decide what we want.

Libraries can come in handy though - in my last demigod game, I lead the tech race the whole time.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Start 1
Maya
The Start (1280 x 1024)

Start 2
Dutch
The Start (1280 x 1024)

Start 3
Korea
The Start (1280 x 1024)

Start 4
England
The Start (1280 x 1024)

Right now I'm leaning towards #3 and #4 (!!). The others aren't bad, these just look the best...

 

[el_filet]

#4 seems best to me from what we see, but #1 and #3 could have some nice tiles in the dark. i'd take one of them.

 

[Chieftess]

lurker's comment: I thought about joining earlier, but I don't have much time. Good luck in this demigod game!

 

[viper275]

I like #4 the best, though the civ could change if we wanted (not that I mind England [I suggested it] but there are other good ones too. Let's see what the other players think.)

 

[gozpel]

Checking in.

I like to try the Dutch, I haven't played them in a SG yet.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

1 vote for #2 (gozpel), 2 for #4 (myself and viper)...Bede and el_filet, any preferences? (el_filet, any specific one?)

Unless Bede or el_filet want to both play #2, I'll start #4 tomorrow.

 

[el_filet]

i'm ok with #4. we can change the civ to the dutch, as viper suggested (never did that but guess he knows how). so gozpel gets his vote too.

 

[ThERat]

against all odds, I like #3, but then again anything is fine with me. Btw, my only Sid win I ever achieved (I had a huge island myself) was with the Dutch, i think they are mighty powerful, we could give it a try. get the seed for #4 and use dutch instead.

 

[ThERat]

I thought about joining earlier, but I don't have much time. Good luck in this demigod game!

wow, that would be an honor to have someone like you here

 

[Ginger_Ale]

To all lurkers: Here are the following settings for our game. If one of you would be kind enough to load this in the editor, save it, set the start by the cows as ours [the Dutch] (even if it means moving the AIs around a bit), and load the game as select us as the Dutch, that would be greatly appreciated.

C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Conquests\Saves\SGs\GA3\GA3_4000BCd.SAV

Barbarians: ROAMING.

Climate: NORMAL.

LandForm: CONTINENTS.

Map Size: STANDARD.

Ocean Coverage: 60%.

Temperature: TEMPERATE.

World Age: 4 BILLION YEARS.

World seed: 134393291

Thanks again.

 

[ThERat]

you mean when you set those in the usual start up screens and select the seed, we won't get the cow start?
btw where do we move our settler to? 1 tile NW?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

You will get the same map, but the starting locations will have been changed around.

I think we should move 1 NW, yes...we can sacrifice a BG so that we can expand quickly and start on the coast.

 

[TimBentley]

lurker's comment: Here is the save you desire.

 

[ThERat]

thanks Tim,

do we follow the roster (seen at the start of the thread)