GOTM 05 Saves available....

[ainwood]

...At Midnight!

Thanks to Alan's magic, the saves should be miraculously unlocked at midnight on the server time. Not exactly sure when that is, but it might be in a couple of hours.

Good luck!

 

[CliftonBazaar]

In Australia it's currently 3pm, so you're already 15 hours late

 

[Memphus]

...At Midnight!

Thanks to Alan's magic, the saves should be miraculously unlocked at midnight on the server time. Not exactly sure when that is, but it might be in a couple of hours.

Good luck!

Was that an april Fool's Day joke, I was super pumped that it was out already , POW you got me

 

[ainwood]

In New Zealand, its 4:00 PM - you're just using the wrong midnight

 

[Memphus]

sitting at the airport...
plane is delayed...
hanging out on my laptop....
32 min until the next hour....
hoping that this will be 'server midnight'

And I can play for a couple of hours before take off

 

[beanman]

NICE!
they are unlocked now in the GOTM page http://gotm.civfanatics.net/civ4games/index.php?month=40005
for those of you who want it now.

 

[Thrallia]

it looks like server midnight should be in about 13 minutes to me...

 

[Goodenuf]

Well, there goes my weekend...

 

[Harok]

I haven't even had time to write up my finishing spoiler for GOTM4 and now I have already finished and submitted GOTM5. Hope I don't get the events mixed up from game to game when doing spoilers.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

...At Midnight!

Thanks to Alan's magic, the saves should be miraculously unlocked at midnight on the server time. Not exactly sure when that is, but it might be in a couple of hours.

Good luck!

A very cryptic piece of information when you factor in the lack of any data about where in the World the server is.

 

[Syntherio]

To the Challenger-class-malus:

Challenger Class Equalizing Obstacles:
The game features for Challenger Class Games have been raised to provide the following obstacles:

• Your people are backward - you start knowing NO technologies!
• Gone walkabout - Your starting scout has disappeared.

The player starts without a scout, but not without hunting. Is this a bug? I hope not, because I have already submitted

 

[Velvet-Glove]

There is a small error on the Saves downoad page:

ALL SPOILERS PROHIBITED: Do not post any messages or questions about this game in any forum until after about March 5th, 2005 when we open the first spoiler thread.

I think that should read April 5th shouldn't it?

Sorry to nitpick but some bright spark might just decide it's OK to post a spoiler early.

 

[Memphus]

There is a small error on the Saves downoad page:



I think that should read April 5th shouldn't it?

Sorry to nitpick but some bright spark might just decide it's OK to post a spoiler early.

In that case, We still started posting last year

 

[Ribannah]

To the Challenger-class-malus:

The player starts without a scout, but not without hunting. Is this a bug? I hope not, because I have already submitted

Indeed something seems to be wrong with the starting saves. The Challenger class gets Hunting for free, and the Contender class gets The Wheel for free and therefore starts with 3 instead of 2 techs (The Wheel, Hunting, Mining).
I didn't check the Adventurer start.

 

[LulThyme]

This is a Warlord thing.
In low difficulty levels you get free techs.
to be more precise, its in :
\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Assets\XML\GameInfo\CIV4HandicapInfo.xml
It mentions that at Warlord, the human player starts with the Wheel for free.
I don't know about Challenger.

 

[AlanH]

A very cryptic piece of information when you factor in the lack of any data about where in the World the server is.

Not so cryptic. Ainwood's post had a timestamp on it. Add 2 hours to that and you get an approximate time to look for the saves. If minutes count in this calculation then I'm really very sorry for you

 

[AlanH]

Sorry to nitpick but some bright spark might just decide it's OK to post a spoiler early.

No bright spark should post any spoilers until the official threads open.

 

[AlanH]

Indeed something seems to be wrong with the starting saves. The Challenger class gets Hunting for free, and the Contender class gets The Wheel for free and therefore starts with 3 instead of 2 techs (The Wheel, Hunting, Mining).
I didn't check the Adventurer start.

You get whatever Firaxis has deemed appropriate for Warlord level. Ainwood then changes it at his whim to adjust the classes. What you see is what you get. Everyone's playing the same three starts as far as I know.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Not so cryptic. Ainwood's post had a timestamp on it. Add 2 hours to that and you get an approximate time to look for the saves.

But the timestamp doesn't say the timezone either

If minutes count in this calculation then I'm really very sorry for you

Actually I was away for a friend's birthday night out on April 1st so didn't even see Ainwood's post till about a day later. Then I held off for a full several hours before I downloaded the game. So I guess that means I don't get to have you feeling sorry for me

 

[AlanH]

But the timestamp doesn't say the timezone either

It doesn't need to. It's displayed in whatever timezone you have chosen in your profile. If you haven't chosen the right profile for your timezone you get no sympathy from me

Actually I was away for a friend's birthday night out on April 1st so didn't even see Ainwood's post till about a day later. Then I held off for a full several hours before I downloaded the game. So I guess that means I don't get to have you feeling sorry for me

So you weren't even compos mentis? You get ABSOLUTELY no sympathy from me!