Mesix I think that would be a time game. I would just play like a time game and win a CV on t499. It adds the complexity of timing your tourism, but very little else.I am really having fun with the current Time Gauntlet. I don't think it would be a good idea to have them very often, but another one in a few month's time would be great. Time games should be reserved for Major Gauntlets because a full month is needed to play through.
On a side note, one of the things that I find fun about this time game is that I have to play to maximize score rather than finish quickly. One thing which might be interesting is to have a Gauntlet with one of the standard VC, but have the winners ranked by score rather than fastest finish. This would make for some interesting variation where some players would play tall and fast to get a higher score multiplier and others might play a wide strategy to increase the base score. Perhaps a Culture game with score as the decider would be interesting.
How about Poland, Culture VC, Small Continents (or Large Islands), Emperor level, highest score wins?
That's one way to play it. Another might be to spread out early on and win by sacred sites tourism in the late Renaissance or Early Industrial Eras. The base score is multiplied if you finish earlier, so getting 8K base score on turn 499 might net the same result as getting 4K base score by turn 249. It would be interesting to see how people play it.Mesix I think that would be a time game. I would just play like a time game and win a CV on t499. It adds the complexity of timing your tourism, but very little else.
As for time game, I am with mostly everybody else on this: major only and smaller than standard maps.
That's one way to play it. Another might be to spread out early on and win by sacred sites tourism in the late Renaissance or Early Industrial Eras. The base score is multiplied if you finish earlier, so getting 8K base score on turn 499 might net the same result as getting 4K base score by turn 249. It would be interesting to see how people play it.
Siam, King, Diplomacy, Lakes, Quick, Huge
I'd like to see what Siam can do with 24 CS allies.
I am really having fun with the current Time Gauntlet. I don't think it would be a good idea to have them very often, but another one in a few month's time would be great. Time games should be reserved for Major Gauntlets because a full month is needed to play through.
On a side note, one of the things that I find fun about this time game is that I have to play to maximize score rather than finish quickly. One thing which might be interesting is to have a Gauntlet with one of the standard VC, but have the winners ranked by score rather than fastest finish. This would make for some interesting variation where some players would play tall and fast to get a higher score multiplier and others might play a wide strategy to increase the base score. Perhaps a Culture game with score as the decider would be interesting.
How about Poland, Culture VC, Small Continents (or Large Islands), Emperor level, highest score wins?
So the final score multiplier is calculated as (500 / [finish time] ) right? Then I'd assume the winning strategy would be to treat it as a Time game and win a CV when your score starts to plateau, somewhere around T450 maybe?That's one way to play it. Another might be to spread out early on and win by sacred sites tourism in the late Renaissance or Early Industrial Eras. The base score is multiplied if you finish earlier, so getting 8K base score on turn 499 might net the same result as getting 4K base score by turn 249. It would be interesting to see how people play it.
These are the interesting discussions we can have when this (or a similar perhaps Diplomacy or Conquest VC) game is up for us to play. I think there will be some people who try to maximize early and get a bigger multiplier and others who will play until very late in the game. It sounds like a fun challenge and a deviation from the norm in any event.So the final score multiplier is calculated as (500 / [finish time] ) right? Then I'd assume the winning strategy would be to treat it as a Time game and win a CV when your score starts to plateau, somewhere around T450 maybe?
What is missing for Civ5 is a good HOF mod.I think that's the thing. Right now it's very simple to calculate a winner. It would probably require a monitoring mod to play with more involved rules/victory conditions.
And if there *were* other ways to calculate victory, my first suggestion would be that Time Victories be handled as follows:
Everyone submits a save on the turn they place their last city. We then rely on a mathematical equation to determine their final score. So you only have to play until you finish placing cities.
Heck if we're doing that, the way to go (IMHO) would be to greatly reduce the value of total population in score. Like, by half. And modify the score from number of cities so that size of cities is a factor. For example, the score for a city would be 1 at pop1, (1+2)=3 at pop2, (1+2+3)=6 at pop3, or some slower-accruing linear series, so that a size 50 city is worth WAY more than 5 pop 10 cities. And greatly increase the value of social policies and future tech. That would make it way more interesting.
I know gauntlets have been always games for fastest finish or highest score, but what about non-standard victory paths? Like, for example: capture selected civs in particular order or be the fastest to reach 50000 Gold or smth like that? Of course we should choose only those conditions which are easy to check...
My suggestion:
Byzantium, Prince, Small, Quick, Large Islands, Time
I would think not (should get more with Tiny islands and Archipelago) but since when did these Civ 5 map scripts make perfect sense? [emoji6] I posed Large Islands because I think it is the water map with the least variation, but I could be wrong. If another waterish map would yield less random landmasses I'm all for it.Do 1-tile islands appear often on the Large Islands map?
Thanks.Time games just have to be quick speed as far as I am concerned. Count me in for my first gauntlet if accepted!
Congrats zenmaster for reaching the top of the VVV.
Do 1-tile islands appear often on the Large Islands map?
Do 1-tile islands appear often on the Large Islands map?