News: GOTM 27 Saves Available!

[ainwood]

GOTM 27: China

[img=right]http://gotm.civfanatics.net/civ4games/images/gotm27civ.jpg[/img]

Game settings:
Civilization: China (Leader: Qin Shi Huang; Traits: Industrial, Financial)
Rivals: 6 AIs
Difficulty: Emperor
Map: Fractal.
Mapsize: Standard
Climate: Temperate
Water level: Low
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Epic
Options: none.
Victory Conditions: all enabled

Qin Shi Huang:
Qin Shi Huang is Financial and Industrious; starting with agriculture and mining. Financial allows +1 base commerce on every plot producing at least 2 commerce. Industrious gives +50% wonder production, as well as double production speed of forges.

Unique unit: Cho-Ko-Nu
The Cho-Ko-Nu replaces the standard crossbowman. It keeps the same stats (strength of 6, movement of 1 and a cost of 90 hammers), however it gets an extra first strike, and it also causes collateral damage. It retains the standard +50% bonus vs melee units of the crossbowman.

The starting screenshot is here (click for a bigger version!)



There is also a high-res version of the starting screenshot here (3.75 MB!)


Adventurer Class bonuses:

1. Get a worker, starting on tile with settler.
2. Get archer, starting on tile with settler.
3. Warrior replaced with archer.

Challenger Class Equalisers:

1. All AIs start with a bonus tech.

To Enter the Competition:

You can get the starting saves and submit your completed game here. You must submit your entry by 1 March 2008.

Civ version

This game MUST be played in Vanilla civ (NOT Warlords or BtS), patched to version 1.74, for Mac or Windows, and with the HOF mod version 1.74.002 installed. You can download the HOF mod here (Mac players can get the Mac version of the HOF mod from this thread.

While playing...

Remember - for your entry to be accepted, it MUST be your first attempt to play this game, and you MUST NOT replay any turns. If you make a mistake while playing, you have to live with it, learn from it, and carry on the game without replaying - set your HOF mod to create a save on-exit, and have autosaves set to save every turn. If your game crashes, then please contact a GOTM staff member.

We will open 'spoiler' threads during the month for players to discuss what happens in their games. Do not discuss any details of your game outside those threads. Please use this Saves Available thread for any technical queries, eg. if you have trouble opening the game, NOT for discussions about what happens in your game.

 

[ainwood]

Game has now been released.

 

[Jimmy Thunder]

Hooray for New Zealand

I'm sure it's not even February in some parts of the world, but our weekend has started and we get first dibs on the starting save!

 

[Lehm]

.. well, and your weekend will be over when the rest of the world is still playing...(and you have to go to work)

 

[Niklas]

And when I want to grab the save, the server is down! Oh the withdrawal symptoms!

 

[orb]

Me too, 7:15pm UK time.....This could spoil a good weekend. - I'll have to watch the rugby instead.

 

[karmina]

Ooh the pain...almost feels like World of Warcraft Patch Day
Can't we get the saves from a different location this time? It's been more than 10 hours by now...

 

[plesniak]

is there any ETA for the server to be fixed?

 

[JerichoHill]

darn it
darn it

 

[dalamb]

With both the hof and gotm sites apparently down ("taking too long to respond"), I wonder if they're overwhelmed with the deluge of people trying to download the mod and the games? I plan on holding off a day or two.

 

[AlanH]

The sites are DOWN - read my announcement! It's not a loading thing, just a failure of some hardware or software component. Both sites use the same server, so when one goes, they both go.

We are waiting for Thunderfall to get it back in gear.

 

[azmodean]

Site appears to be back up, I just downloaded the Save.

 

[Thrallia]

The site is indeed back up.

 

[onclouds]

Hi all... Here's the deal... I was going to try the GOTM for the first time (even though I have never played Emperor) so I downloaded both the adventurer save and the HOF mod... but when I try to load the save the following errors appear in CIV:

The save game you have selected is protected to ensure that the assets in your mod folder have not been changed
&
Load Failed

then the game closes! =( any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong??

BTW: same thing happens with the Contender save =(

could this be due to me having HOF 1.74.001 installed as well? do I need to uninstall it?

 

[AlanH]

No need to uninstall any other HOF Mod, but you do need to ensure that you have the latest version of the CvGameCoreDLL.dll file. If you don't have Beyond the Sword then you will need the post-BtS DLL as explained here. If you don't have Warlords either, then you only need to swap the vanilla DLL and ignore the Warlords one.

 

[onclouds]

Okay, but will that mess with my 1.74 PBEM's ?

EDIT: hmm, it just hit me that I will be changing the game core so I probably need to backup the old DLL and switch when I want to play the PBEMs. Correct me if I'm wrong! =)

 

[AlanH]

You are not wrong

 

[onclouds]

You are not wrong

Sometimes I really hate being right =X
tks for your help!

cheers

 

[Thrallia]

you also need to update your HOF mod from 1.74.001 to 1.74.002.
There's a link to it in the first post of this thread

 

[Markus5]

I tried to PM ainwood about a problem, but he's over his quota. Anyone else seeing anything odd? Just in case, I've hidden the problem below. I don't think the info will really spoil anything, but I want to be careful.

Spoiler :

I've just built a library. But, I can't run any scientists. This is most odd. Its there some condition that keeps me from running scientists? I've never seen this before.

It's also possible that I'm missing something very, very obvious.