Gauntlet Suggestions

[Seraiel]

Snip.

 

[Qactus]

At some point in the future I'd love to see a Gauntlet game where the civilization is fixed, but players have the free choice of a leader with the "unrestricted leaders" option. Could be fun!

 

[Seraiel]

I don't think that will ever happen, because unrestricted leaders is forbidden as a HoF game setting, so none of those games would be eligible.

 

[Seraiel]

I just wanted to propose this Gauntlet, but I don't want it to happen any time soon. Maybe you can surprise us with it during one of the next semester breaks when you think, that we have recovered from the last Space Gauntlet .

• Victory Condition: Any
• Difficulty: Deity
• Starting Era: Ancient
• Map Size: Large
• Speed: Marathon
• Map Type: Big & Small
• Civ: Any
• Opponents: Any
• Version: 3.19.004

The highest score wins.
Incans allowed!

Time for Gauntlet: At least 3 months.

 

[WastinTime]

I'd like to see a space race with BUFFY.004, where players have a large empire with factories and chop all the forests, you know, normal space tactics.

Or a time game.

The point is: I want to know if Global Warming is back in 004.

I suppose I could just check the XML. But if that has been changed, then it would be nice to see/hear about the in-game effect of the tweaks.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

The point is: I want to know if Global Warming is back in 004.

It's a good idea, Space might be more popular! For what it's worth I did a Time game to try and test what happened late game and had no issues with GW.

 

[shulec]

Any suggestions for new gauntlets?

 

[Seraiel]

Deity / Large / Marathon / Highscore / all settings allowed / Incans allowed .

For that one I'd take a break from GOTM and normal games.

Another Deity Espionage Gauntlet would also have something, that one preferably with free choice of leader but no Incans. Highscore needs to allow Incans because the goal is to create a 5+ game.

 

[Pollina]

Maybe something different like:

Prince, OCC, Time, normal speed, Inland Sea, no PA allowed


I'm always up for a space gauntlet, as long as it is not on marathon or deity:

Small, epic, Emperor/Immortal, Maya, any map type.

 

[WastinTime]

Maybe something different like:

Prince, OCC, Time, normal speed, Inland Sea, no PA allowed

I agree this would be an interesting puzzle. Highest score wins + OCC.
For a change, population and land would not be the deciding factors.

 

[Pollina]

Well, your vassals' land and pop would have some impact on your score, right?

 

[elitetroops]

Standard/Quick/Immortal/Conquest, ancient start, terra, any leader (no Inca)

I'm always up for a space gauntlet, as long as it is not on marathon or deity:

Small, epic, Emperor/Immortal, Maya, any map type.

I've been avoiding longer games like the plague lately due to time constraints, but if this happens I might have to participate.

 

[WastinTime]

Well, your vassals' land and pop would have some impact on your score, right?

yea, but wouldn't it be almost impossible to get/keep a vassal of any significant size?

 

[Pollina]

yea, but wouldn't it be almost impossible to get/keep a vassal of any significant size?

We had an OCC domination gauntlet some time ago that some of us played with PA off. It’s possible to get vassals in OCC, but you usually have to bring them down to 1 or 2 cities (ideally not their capital) for capitulation and then wait until they resettle their land.

They will only break free when you have a PA partner. (I think they count as your partner’s vassals, and AI-AI capitulation deals can be canceled.)

OCC time should play like a OCC conquest/domination game combined with a space game and some score milking. Could be an interesting challenge to balance research, wonders, military, growth, etc.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

The last couple of Minor Gauntlets haven't been all that popular and the Major is the long running Deity Huge one - any requests for the new Minor starting on Sunday?

 

[cseanny]

I'm up for anything thats not Espionage, not Huge, not Large, and not Marathon.

 

[Pangaea]

Doubt I'll have time for the Minor as the Major takes up all available time, but I'd second the sentiment above: I'm simply not interested in Espionage. It will (hopefully) always be a niche way to win the game, and I'm honestly not sure it was the right move to make it an own category in the HoF.

Don't have any clear suggestions, however, so go with what you feel like

 

[Noble Zarkon]

I'm up for anything thats not Espionage, not Huge, not Large, and not Marathon.

Fair enough lol, interesting that Espionage is not as popular as we thought it might be - of course protecting traditional culture victories was the main reason for it.

 

[Pangaea]

Somewhat randomly looking through some categories with the ad hoc query, how about:

Immortal, Diplomatic, Normal speed, Small.

There are only 5 entries, and the most recent is four years ago (and only two of them are actually with 3.19). Or would diplo be too 'long' for a G-Minor? The top game may be asking a bit much (1220AD), but not impossible either.

 

[cseanny]

Immortal, Diplomatic, Normal speed, Small.

I'd be down for those settings. And imo 1220 AD isn't out of reach at all. It just depends our leaders traits and UU. PHI or FIN (Spi nice too) paired with an early UU would make way for the fastest time imo. It might be called Diplomatic Victory but the early war (land grab and power tech/bulb) and mass vassals is the way to go. Decent food map would also help get us closer to the 60% World's population.