GOTM 52 Saves Available!

[ainwood]

GOTM 52 Saves available.

A couple of times a year, we hit the hardest difficulty in the GOTM competition - deity. And its rolled-around again. It is worth noting that many players have recorded their first ever deity wins whilst playing the GOTM - myself included.

In this months' game, we start as the ottomans - with the traits being scientific and industrious, they're a strong civ. Couple that with a very powerful unique unit in the Sipahi - then you've got a combination that should give you a very good chance of winning this game - that is, if you can survive long enough to use your unique unit, and get it before everyone else gets to infantry!

Download the save files from HERE.

 

[gozpel]

NOTE: Iron location is fixed (will not disappear)

That gives us the question, will there be any horses?

 

[AutomatedTeller]

and the question, perhaps more important - where will the saltpeter be?? no saltpeter, no UU...

 

[Scratcher]

Can anyone help me?

I have downloaded the gotm52 but before I start I would like to know the map specifics. When I view the gotm download page some of the map information is covered by a picture of the start position.

I can read the following lines:
landmass pangaea, 70% ocean
Geology 3 billion wet and cool
Barbs raging,
5 rivals.....and all lines below.

But the three or four lines above are covered by the picture.

So please, please, pretty please, can someone tell me the missing info or advise me how I can move the damn picture? I suffer this problem every month!

I am sitting here, desparately, in hope of a response.

PLEASE.....someone?

 

[PaperBeetle]

It starts:

Civilization: Ottomans
Difficulty: Deity
World size: Small

Now you wish you hadn't asked, right?
At a pinch, you could check the HTML behind the page (with Internet Explorer: View menu/Source) and read between the tags.

 

[Niklas]

Here you go:

Civilization: Ottomans
Difficulty: Deity
World size: Small
Landmass: Pangea, 70% Ocean
Geology: 3 billion years.
Environment: Wet and cool
Barbarians: Raging
Rivals: 5 Preset
Upgrade Swordsmen/Longbows: ON
AI Respawn:: OFF
NOTE: Differential Naval Movement is OFF
NOTE: Iron location is fixed (will not disappear)
Submissions due by March 15th, 2006. PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

Time to switch to a better browser maybe?

 

[AlanH]

But the three or four lines above are covered by the picture.

Is that any better? The original worked OK here in Firefox and Safari, but if you are using IE [spit] it may have failed. I've added some insulation around the pictures.

 

[Scratcher]

@ paperbeetle and Niklas.

Thanks for the missing info. I will start this game tonight. I have never completed a Diety game so it could be interesting.

@ AlanH
I do not understand what you tried to do on the GOTM page but it didn't work. I have just checked and the picture still covers the first three lines. Insulation around the picure? Was it cold?

Please forgive me, as I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to computers, but why is using IE (should I now spit?) not good? Why Niklas, should I change my browser? And probably more importantly, how would I even go about doing this?

To prove my incompetence with computers, I did not understand a word paperbeetle said about "at a pinch.....HTML...etc...etc".

But anyways, thanks for the input guys.

 

[AlanH]

@ AlanH
I do not understand what you tried to do on the GOTM page but it didn't work. I have just checked and the picture still covers the first three lines. Insulation around the picure? Was it cold?

Internet Explorer is notoriously bad at working out the sizes of things, so I gave the images some extra margin in case that was the problem you were seeing. Apparently it didn't help in your case.

I've just rechecked that page on the copy of IE version 6 that I keep locked up in a cellar purely for compatibility testing, and as far as I can see it displays that page pretty well as intended. I've tried changing text sixes and window sizes, and can't make the text hide behind the graphics. What version is yours, and what size screen and text do you use? I've attached a screenshot of what it ought to look like.

Please forgive me, as I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to computers, but why is using IE (should I now spit?) not good? Why Niklas, should I change my browser? And probably more importantly, how would I even go about doing this?

IE is the most non-standards-compliant browser on the planet. Unfortunately it is also the most widely used, so many lazy web site designers just get their sites to work with it and don't bother to check compatibility with others. M$ have admitted that IE 6 is not competitive, and have stopped trying to develop it. They've even withdrawn the Mac version, leaving the field to the newer generation products.

If you feel you must stick with Microsoft then at least go to Windows Update and make sure you have the latest version of IE. If you want to get a better browser, try going to www.firefox.com and downloading Firefox.

IE 7 will be a completely different product. It's planned to arrive with Vista, but I believe there are beta versions at large.