cracker
Gil Favor's Sidekick
Ok, let's kick things off by making sure we understand the play format and the general rules.
This type of a succession game is open for people to shadow along at any point in time and basically everyone plays along sort of like an inch worm. We all play the game in 10 turn increments and then upload 3 of these ten turn blocks to compare where we are.
All the formal spaces in this game are already filled by preregistration.
(registration and players roster can be found in this previous thread.)
For the next ten turns, then each player can keep playing from their own previous 10 turn save or you can pick the save of any other player and continue on. You are not locked in to continuing with your game the way you already played it unless you want to do that.
I would not recommend jumping ship every time you have a chance, because it may help for you to play 20 or 30 turns in your own style just using anything new that you may learn. Then you may be able to compare bigger differences between two different approaches.
Different objectives and strategies may force you to choose different approaches to the same game and that would make comparison tougher. The common game approach for this Quick Start Challenge Game will be to go for the quickest possible Space Ship victory. To do this we will need to maximize our longterm science research pace and expand the size and power of our civilization as quickly as possible.
This is a Monarch level game with a very high land mass and 11 AI civs
We will also expect to encounter contact with the other civilizations on our map and will probably need to engage in a war or two to make sure we have enough territory and resources to dominate the game and achieve our major objective of winning the Space Race.
A key factor in the game will be that our Chinese Civ has the double speed industrious workers so we can throw down improvements very quickly.
We can also look at the minimap position and make a very strong guess as to the direction we will find our first neighbors in if we begin exploring.
If you have not played a succession game or team game before, you may need to make sure you know how to access a text editor from within the Civ game when you play so you can take some notes to compare with others. To do this, you need to open your choice of a word processor or spreadsheet program before you start the civ3 game. Then you can use the alt-tab keys on your keyboard to just step down from the game and access your text file to make any special notes you might like to make as you play. To get back into the game you just select CivIII from the taskbar or use alt-tab again.
Good luck to all and the first turns should be played up until the end of all moves for 3550bc and then saved. Save the files using the naming format of q1_xxxxxx_yyyyyy.sav where xxxxx is you simplified CFC handle and yyyyyy is the year in a format of example "bc3550". For example, my game first game should be Q1_cracker_bc3550.sav and this way when we upload them or download them there should be no naming conflicts. (do not increment the 1 in the filename as Q1 is the number of this entire game)
Try not to use the direct file attachment feature because it slows down the forums database more than using the easy upload feature, but initially both methods will work.
When you have played your turns, upload a concise summary of your turns plous the save files for the next three savepoints on the timeline. Then you are free to download any other save files from other players and look at the games to compare postions and get ready for discussion. If we all follow the naming conventions we should be able to download files to a single folder and they will still sort by player and chronologically.
Good luck to all, and I will look to the next step.
This type of a succession game is open for people to shadow along at any point in time and basically everyone plays along sort of like an inch worm. We all play the game in 10 turn increments and then upload 3 of these ten turn blocks to compare where we are.
All the formal spaces in this game are already filled by preregistration.
(registration and players roster can be found in this previous thread.)
For the next ten turns, then each player can keep playing from their own previous 10 turn save or you can pick the save of any other player and continue on. You are not locked in to continuing with your game the way you already played it unless you want to do that.
I would not recommend jumping ship every time you have a chance, because it may help for you to play 20 or 30 turns in your own style just using anything new that you may learn. Then you may be able to compare bigger differences between two different approaches.
Different objectives and strategies may force you to choose different approaches to the same game and that would make comparison tougher. The common game approach for this Quick Start Challenge Game will be to go for the quickest possible Space Ship victory. To do this we will need to maximize our longterm science research pace and expand the size and power of our civilization as quickly as possible.
This is a Monarch level game with a very high land mass and 11 AI civs
We will also expect to encounter contact with the other civilizations on our map and will probably need to engage in a war or two to make sure we have enough territory and resources to dominate the game and achieve our major objective of winning the Space Race.
A key factor in the game will be that our Chinese Civ has the double speed industrious workers so we can throw down improvements very quickly.
We can also look at the minimap position and make a very strong guess as to the direction we will find our first neighbors in if we begin exploring.
If you have not played a succession game or team game before, you may need to make sure you know how to access a text editor from within the Civ game when you play so you can take some notes to compare with others. To do this, you need to open your choice of a word processor or spreadsheet program before you start the civ3 game. Then you can use the alt-tab keys on your keyboard to just step down from the game and access your text file to make any special notes you might like to make as you play. To get back into the game you just select CivIII from the taskbar or use alt-tab again.
Good luck to all and the first turns should be played up until the end of all moves for 3550bc and then saved. Save the files using the naming format of q1_xxxxxx_yyyyyy.sav where xxxxx is you simplified CFC handle and yyyyyy is the year in a format of example "bc3550". For example, my game first game should be Q1_cracker_bc3550.sav and this way when we upload them or download them there should be no naming conflicts. (do not increment the 1 in the filename as Q1 is the number of this entire game)
Try not to use the direct file attachment feature because it slows down the forums database more than using the easy upload feature, but initially both methods will work.
When you have played your turns, upload a concise summary of your turns plous the save files for the next three savepoints on the timeline. Then you are free to download any other save files from other players and look at the games to compare postions and get ready for discussion. If we all follow the naming conventions we should be able to download files to a single folder and they will still sort by player and chronologically.
Good luck to all, and I will look to the next step.