News: GOTM97 Pre-Game Discussion; Saves Available!

[civ_steve]

GOTM 97 Pre-Game Discussion!

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Japan's turn, as the difficulty goes up to Regent level. Small, archipelago map with 60% ocean makes for some interesting terrain - enjoy and Good Luck!

I've been fighting against some little buggy, so I've been feeling pretty drained and totally energyless - the saves should be up tomorrow night (so starting on the 17th), and submissions for this contest will be accepted through Dec. 17th.

The saves will be available >>here<< on Nov. 17th.

Civilization: Japan
Rivals: 6 preset
Barbarians: Restless
Difficulty: Regent
Land Form: Archipelago, 60% ocean, Small map.
Geology: 5 billion years old, Normal, Cool

Conquest-Class Bonuses:

1. Free Pottery
2. Extra 100 Gold
3. 2 Free Chariots

Open-Class Bonuses:

1. None

Predator-Class Challenges:

1. No CB
2. AI get 2 Bonus Def Units and 2 Bonus Unit Support
3. UU Doesn't start GA

A reminder: do not post any game information to this thread after you have downloaded the save file. Absolutely no spoiler information for this or any GOTM is to be posted in this thread!

 

[templar_x]

hope you´ll get well soon, steve. best wishes from my side!

with this start, it is very unlikely to get additional useful information from the "logical" move of worker to cattle. i might consider to move worker to horse!

in any case, small and ´pelago does not sound like a granary could pay off easily.

emphasize on research or production? depends on who is around and how i can get the starting techs. megalou´s recent comment about an early emphasis on commerce made me think about this topic again.

templar_x

 

[Più Freddo]

in any case, small and ´pelago does not sound like a granary could pay off easily.

I don't know about that.

Cattle+Forest+3xBG+Horses at size 6 = Nice 30 + 30 six-turn 5..6 Settler Factory

 

[civ_steve]

Thanks, templar_x! I don't feel terrible - just off enough that all I really want to do is sleep.

The game is up! Good Luck!

 

[templar_x]

I don't know about that.

Cattle+Forest+3xBG+Horses at size 6 = Nice 30 + 30 six-turn 5..6 Settler Factory

sure. my reasoning is only whether we will have enough space to make use of a SF with 6 rivals. on the other hand, regent AIs take forever to build their cities, so if the surrounding area promises enough space, i might build the granary.

templar_x

 

[Megalou]

Even if there is little space we need the unit support given by each town. Not that I really understood Piú Freddo's version.

Re commerce: not nearly as important in ptw of course, so what would you really aim for, templar? Fast research?

 

[templar_x]

if Alphabet is not around, research would indeed be very important. i´d use any beaker i could get to please my science advisor.

with which regard do you mean commerce is less important in PTW?

i assume piu was already a few techs ahead and in Rep. otherwise i do not yet see the 6-turner.

templar_x

 

[PaperBeetle]

He was working on the assumption that the cattle can be irrigated, I guess. Of course, this may not possible, or practical, but a small 60% arch might be a pretty strange map. Possibly even a pangaea in practice.

 

[del62]

Can this be played on CIVIII Complete?

 

[templar_x]

del62 - you need to play this in ptw. but if you have c3c, you automatically have ptw on your disk as well. simply look up the ptw.exe-file on your c-drive and manually start it from there.

templar_x

 

[del62]

Thanks I managed to access PTW