[RFC] 40 Civilization's: Destruction of History 2

[trexeric]

That is because they are easy to get. Once I was being Greece and I only vassalized them because they wouldn't do open borders. The turn after I passed through the city into the Pacific, the city was razed by barbarians. A few turns later I got a message saying "The Mayan Civilization has been destroyed!" There's nothing really to do with them, except pass through and abandon them.

 

[thecaesar]

Definitely subbed! Awesome story, I think I want to download this mod-mod immediately! (though my previous luck [or lack of it] with downloading anything discourages me...)

 

[SouthernKing]

Next DOH shoud be with a regional mod mod.

This is still in Future Stories, I just realized

 

[Tlc2011]

Bump

 

[SouthernKing]

waiting patiently for an update...

 

[Tlc2011]

And we're still waiting for you to put this into active stories.

I think.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

And we're still waiting for you to put this into active stories.

That's an excellent point. There is nothing about being outside of America that prevents you from editing a message and updating links. If you have the time to demand updates, so that you can read more stories, then you certainly have the time to edit and update a single message, right? Come on, you know that you want to make your sticky thread awesome, instead of letting it become obsolete enough to lose its sticky status.

 

[Yoshiegg737]

Ok, update time

There shall be peace in our time! What? You say that we are already at war? Lol, ok

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Our exploring galley meets the mighty Persian Empire! It seems like they haven't collapsed yet

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Our new world conqueror's take over the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan

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Our exploring galley then stumbles upon the Indian's, who seem to be at war with the Persians

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We attack back at the Ottoman's by capturing the city of Azak in Russia

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Spotting a potentially fatal SoD headed towards Athenai, we hope that Mehmed is dumb enough to accept a peace treaty. It turns out that he was.

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Map trading allows us to see that the Vikings had captured London from the English. Their new capital seems to be Plymouth. Judging by the size of...Lunduvir...it seems like the Vikings had the city for quite a bit

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Coyuca, an Aztec city nestled beside Tenochtitlan, is razed

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Meanwhile, Zara Yaqob goes crazy on Russian-Turkish cities

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Zara then goes to capture the former Egyptian capital, which was in the hands of the Arab's. They also make peace with Mehmed

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The Apostolic Palace rolls into town again. We decide to vote for the Romans.

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Despite being 50/50, the Holy Roman's win for being more holy (and for having more votes)

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Zenon, a great engineer, is born in Athenai. We plan to use him to rush a future wonder.

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As our caravel explores South America, a distant civilization discover's Liberalism

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Following this, we discover the Japanese and their leader, Jimmu.

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Then, we discover the Khmer!!! Shockingly, he's not a vassal of China!!!

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He doesn't seem to be looking forward to many years of peace with us

What? The Reformation? Yeah sure, ok. I'm not even running a religion

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Is that Wang Kon of Korea??? Nope, it's just Ming of China.

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Satyros is born in Mykenai. We hope that he will be useful for the future act of the rushing of the wonders

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Pacal is finally willing to accept peace. So we take it.

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[Gruekiller]

The only problem is, I don't see you sending an SoD to Konstantinoupolis! :rage: This must be rectified!

 

[Yoshiegg737]

It's...uhh...coming

 

[SouthernKing]

It's...uhh...coming

Good, I will not have to invoke the SK Rule

 

[hoplitejoe]

You really need to change to imgur, the image quality is better.

Compare:

Spoiler imageshack :

Spoiler Photobucket :

Spoiler Imgur :

 

[Yoshiegg737]

I'm not seeing the difference

 

[hoplitejoe]

Well they are still better than your screenshots

 

[Yoshiegg737]

 

[hoplitejoe]

 

[Dhoomstriker]

If anything, the imgur file is slightly smaller than the other two, because it seems to strip a tiny bit of potentially-unnecessary info from the .jpg files, but I don't really see it offering higher quality.

Spoiler File Size Comparisons :

C:\hoplitejoe>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is A4B2-D36A

Directory of C:\hoplitejoe

2011-07-03 06:58p <DIR> .
2011-07-03 06:58p <DIR> ..
2011-07-03 06:58p 151,755 imageshack.jpg
2011-07-03 06:57p 149,836 imgur.jpg
2011-07-03 06:57p 151,755 photobucket.jpg
3 File(s) 453,346 bytes
2 Dir(s) 19,153,944,576 bytes free

The imageshack and photobucket images are nearly identical and only differ by "a happy face."

Spoiler Imageshack vs Photobucket :

C:\hoplitejoe>fc imageshack.jpg photobucket.jpg
Comparing files imageshack.jpg and PHOTOBUCKET.JPG
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***** PHOTOBUCKET.JPG
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Here you can see where imgur strips some characters, such as a nearly-complete alphabetical set of characters, that may or may not matter in some noticeable way.

Spoiler Imageshack vs Imgur (which would be nearly identical to Photobucket vs Imgur) :

C:\hoplitejoe>fc imageshack.jpg imgur.jpg
Comparing files imageshack.jpg and IMGUR.JPG
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Resync Failed. Files are too different.

So, if you want to argue in favour of imgur, then you can say "well, you'll save (151755 - 149836) / 151755 = 1919 / 151755 = 0.0126% of upload space by using imgur, but who knows what kinds issues that fact may cause, such as potential incompatibilities with other Operating Systems or a potentially fractional loss in quality."


EDIT: The other question that you should ask yourself is: "why is imgur manipulating my photos?" Which leads to the questions: "are they putting some sort of viewer-tracking embedded into my photos?" "Is it maybe some sort of a time-released virus?" "What are they doing and why are they doing it?"

 

[hoplitejoe]

Sorry i lost it after the first spoiler, You win all the same though
Your screenshot are still all blurry yoshi.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Maybe I win the argument, but the argument-based pictures were still really funny!


By the way, I agree that Yoshi's images are a bit blurry, I just disagree on the solution.


Possible solutions are:
1. Play the game on a lower resolution. That way, the original image file sizes will be smaller and won't need to be resized when they get uploaded
2. Manually PrintScreen and paste the images into a photo-editing program and then crop the images to show the most relevant info
3. Upload the original, full-sized versions of the images to a website that supports large file sizes


Still, the images are "large enough" for us to still be able to read most of the text, which is an improvement over a previous update of his, so I'm fine with the way that the images look in his latest update.

 

[Yoshiegg737]

Or maybe I'll use Imageshack where I can chose not to resize the pictures

Even on my tiny laptop resolution, Photobucket still messes up my screenies