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This is a beta. I started building it a while back, and it had some rough edges. I always intended to tidy it up before releasing for public use. However, I have not been able to get back to do that. Rather than leave it hidden and unused until hell freezes, I have done a bit more minimal work on it to fix obvious issues and to include SGOTMs, and I offer it here now.
Known issues include:
Let me know what you think. Is it useful as it is? Please comment here on improvements you would like to see, or bugs you find.
- investigate how the xOTM winners achieve their great results?
- recall how you played that great game last year?
- compare your game progress with that of another player?
- see how the AI behaves in different games?
- just watch a replay?
- Fire up any web browser except Internet Explorer.
- Point it at this page
- Select a game type in the first menu - Civ3 or Civ4, GOTM, COTM, WOTM, BOTM, SGOTM ...
- Select a game from the next menu to see some game data.
- Select one or two players in the lower menus.
- Use the controls to control the replay.
- Play forward or backward; single step or auto-step at variable speeds; or enter a specific turn. If you have selected two players, their displays will play in sync.
- Drag panels using their yellow title bars to take advantage of a bigger screen if you have one.
- A list of civs in the game, colour coded to match the map colours.
- For each selected player:
- A Map, showing civ cities and culture boundaries.
Click a territory for a pop-up showing its current owner.
Click a city for a pop-up showing its current and previous ownership, and its wonders.
- An Event Log displays events up to the current date of the map (latest event at the top).
Click an event to set that player's map to display the territories at that date.
- Progress Graphs display various performance indicators for all the civs, and a vertical line at the current date of the map.
Choose a graph parameter from the menu in the panel.
Click a point on the graph to set that player's map to display territories at that date.
- A Map, showing civ cities and culture boundaries.
This is a beta. I started building it a while back, and it had some rough edges. I always intended to tidy it up before releasing for public use. However, I have not been able to get back to do that. Rather than leave it hidden and unused until hell freezes, I have done a bit more minimal work on it to fix obvious issues and to include SGOTMs, and I offer it here now.
Known issues include:
- Internet Explorer support IE doesn't support the HTML5 <canvas> graphics tag, which is used heavily in this app. I don't feel inclined to learn Silverlight. Impasse!
- Overlapped panel display issues If you drag panels to overlap, you will sometimes see odd display problems, or be unable to move a panel without first dragging another one away.
- Graphic design is not my strong point So the page layout, controls and panel design could be improved significantly.
- Civ3 SGOTM 1 doesn't work. I have not investigated this yet. There's no obvious difference between this game and the other 200+ games in the system.
- Some old games are not included This is because we no longer have the saves for those games.
- Some maps are a bit big! Probably need to use a smaller scale for those. Meanwhile you need a big screen!
- Civ3 Event Logs are less comprehensive than Civ4 ones. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Civ3 saves contain less data.
- More testing is required Based on my work and a few others who have looked at it, I think it basically works, but I'm sure there are bugs in the code.
Let me know what you think. Is it useful as it is? Please comment here on improvements you would like to see, or bugs you find.
