News: COTM73 Pre-Game Discussion; Saves Available!

[civ_steve]

... and delayed ... I am so clobbered right now. I will try to get it out tomorrow night (while watching the Lakers beat the Celtics ), but if THAT doesn't work, Friday night for sure.

It worked! (And so did the Lakers! ) Here is your Pre-Game information, and the saves are Up!

COTM 73: China!

It is our quarterly high difficulty game (Deity!) and just in time the Chinese and their Riders come racing up to take on the challenge! A classic continents game with 7 AI to contend with; sounds like fun! Good Luck!


Civilization: China
Rivals: 7 pre-selected
Barbarians: Restless
Difficulty: Deity
Land Form: Continents, 70% ocean, Standard map.
Geology:5 billion years old, Wet and Temperate.
AI Aggression: Normal

Conquest-Class Bonuses:

1. 
   Free The Wheel AND Free Pottery
   2 Bonus Chariots
   100 Free Gold
   Riders get a 2-0-1 defensive bombard

Open-Class Bonuses
Free Pottery

Predator-Class Obstacles:

1. 
   No Free Techs (but at least you don't lose any!)
   Riders costs 75 Shields (+5)

 

[Lanzelot]

Hmm, another COTM at this time?
I'm a bit confused at the moment: is COTM the one that usually doesn't start on the 1st, or the one that usually doesn't start on the 15th? Can't remember anymore...

Ok, just kiding... Don't worry, just take your time! I'm very grateful that you are still volunteering and putting a lot of effort into keeping the GOTM/COTM competition alive!
A big from me!

Lanzelot

 

[Cyc]

Go Lakers!

 

[civ_steve]

Yes, the pre-game information is now posted and the Saves are available! Good Luck!

 

[templar_x]

Deity difficulty and such a starting position - just great!

now i do not know what to do. Pottery for free as a bonus sounds just too good to be true with China open-class. my natural intution tells me, go for Predator. still, .... POTTERY!!! i might be a coward and take that offer.

OR, i could suggest a Predator competition and see how the others think about it.

templar_x

 

[Paul#42]

Predator all the way, baby!

75s for riders? What will those pescy 14s- or 7s-cities be building then?

No knowledge of Pottery?
Unless we're all alone on our continent, we'll be found by pottery pretty soon, I'll bet.

To remove the UU caused GA would have been a nasty obstacle for this one...

 

[Megalou]

Predator it is.

 

[Memento]

Hmm,Pottery is good.....
..but 2 Cows at the first town,
to the hell with free pottery, go for Predator.




Or I take Pottery and TW and play Conquest

 

[Megalou]

If you do you are welcome to beat me by ½ point (before Conquest deduction.)

 

[Lanzelot]

Or I take Pottery and TW and play Conquest

Aren't you ashamed of yourself...?

Your "experiment" in COTM72 was quite interesting. I'm curious, whether the Conquest starting bonus really compensates for the 15% score substraction? Now finally a top class player has tried Conquest once, and we can compare your score with templar's, Megalou's, I.Larkin's or supersova's. Should be an interesting comparison...

But don't you dare doing it a second time

(And by the way:

To qualify for this class, you must not have finished in the top half of the field in any Civ3 GOTM.

Hmm, I don't think you qualify... )

 

[Memento]

'm curious, whether the Conquest starting bonus really compensates for the 15% score substraction?

Not really.

To qualify for this class, you must not have finished in the top half of the field in any Civ3 GOTM.

Ohh,i've never seen.

 

[templar_x]

Now finally a top class player has tried Conquest once, and we can compare your score with templar's, Megalou's, I.Larkin's or supersova's. Should be an interesting comparison...

not templar´s unfortunately. "he" had no time to play this.

templar_x