GOTM 170

[Ali Ardavan]

Game of the Month 170: Sep 2015

Civilization: 1 English settler
Starting techs: None
Difficulty: Emperor
Total players: 3. Rivals are white and purple.
Restarts: off
Barbarians: Villages only (-50)
100x100 game generated map

Special parameters: No huts. No tech hiding (scenario).

Deadline: Dec. 8th 22nd, 2015

Please be sure to follow the submission guidelines when submitting your game (please do not send your files in a .zip file. Attach them directly to your e-mail with your name in the save file). No extra save is needed.

You can download the game here.

Please send the saved games only to civ2gotm@gmail.com.

Have fun.

 

[Jokemaster]

Since we start with only one settler, obvious size-one trick is obvious. Maybe twice? We are in Emperor after all.

Dunno if I'll be able to play, because college started+my CD is home and I have patch/hexedit issues. I tried to edit my Civ2 file using the strings provided here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=6297&page=2 but they don't match up at the offset 0000163A30. Maybe it's because I'm using Mastermind's patch for 64bit machines? I don't have access to 32bit...

 

[catalin72]

Resource seed for this map ? To find the hidden resources in grassland...

 

[Ali Ardavan]

I usually announce tbe resource seed but I have not had time to do map analysis on this one yet.

 

[Major Advantage]

Ressource seed is 2, 18 or 50 (by my estimation). There is nothing hidden under the grass we can see.

 

[catalin72]

Not true,in (63,5x) mining we discover pheasant...

 

[Major Advantage]

I was refering to the grass tiles we can see in the starting save, I have not started playing, still busy with #169.

 

[catalin72]

Aaaaah,OK,sorry .

 

[catalin72]

Game submitted,spaceship.

 

[Inkerman]

Dear Ali, and all,

I ask for a deadline extension to the end of the month please.

Things got very very busy for me a couple of weeks ago and will continue that way for another two weeks. I had played a long way in this game before then. But with having no more time before the 17th deadline, even playing quickly, I know I will not be able to finish.

Apologies for starting the spoiler and then going quiet; I will get back to it eventually!

Inkerman

 

[Ali Ardavan]

Deadline extended to Dec. 8th

 

[lasingularidad]

My first GOTM submitted! I went for mid-conquest (I am not yet skilled enough to try a real early conquest).

 

[grigor]

I am almost finished but I won't be done by the 8th. 10th is possible.

 

[Ali Ardavan]

Deadline extended to the 22nd.

 

[Inkerman]

Good job I only just looked back at this forum after putting in a lot of time yesterday to finish by the 8th. The whole week could have been taken up with it otherwise! Hope to catch up with the spoiler later today.

 

[Magic_gorter]

Results are up.

 

[Ali Ardavan]

Congrats to lasingularidad for your first star which will get you into the hall of fame as soon as it gets updated for this game.

 

[Jokemaster]

FYI, my % rating was 338%.

 

[Inkerman]

FYI, my % rating was 338%.

I expect everyone knows, but just to be sure the reason the % column for Jokemaster is blank is that the "game-end" file supplied is saved AFTER the last city is taken, which means the game end sequence does not run when the file is reloaded. If you have the English messages, the Foreign Minister says "We have not yet made contact with other civilizations."

 

[Ali Ardavan]

Thanks for the explanation. I too was wondering about that.

Reminder: save before taking the last rival city or killing the last respawned settler (with respawns this sometimes means several consecutive saves). For space ship players save at the end of the turn before your space ship lands.