SGOTM 01 - Realms Beyond

[AlanH]

Welcome to your C_IV SGOTM 1 Team Thread. Please use it for all internal team communication, turn logs and discussions. Subscribe to it to receive notifications, and do not visit the other team threads for this game until you have finished. Please also subscribe to the Maintenance Thread for this game, where teams and staff may post non-spoiler information of general interest. I hope you enjoy the game.

This game will be played in Civ4, patched to v1.61.

This first SGOTM will not feature any advanced variant.. the winner simply will be the team that wins the game at the earliest game date with either domination or a diplomatic victory. All victory conditions are still enabled though, with exception of Space Race, so you have to avoid getting another type of victory (and of course prevent the AIs from winning).

Individual start files for all teams will be available on the SGOTM Progress and Results Page at midnight, server local time, at the start of May 12.

Here's the start position.

Map Parameters
Playable Civ - Hapshepsut of Egypt
World size - Standard
Difficulty - Monarch
Landform - Mystery
Game Speed - Epic

Permanent Alliances are turned on (can form permanent alliances after either communism or fascism is researched)
Space race is disabled.
Egypt is locked into war with Huayna Capac of the Incas.
Egypt is locked into peace with an unknown civilization.

The map is hand built, and therefore may not have a standard configuration.

Please visit the following links to ensure that you are adequately prepared:
Civ4 SGOTM reference thread

Notes:

A. ONLY Civilization4 v1.61 is supported for this SGOTM. All teams will compete for a single award - the Gold Laurels.

B. All teams must play the sponsored variant - victory will be awarded for the fastest victory by either domination or diplomacy.

C. All saved game files uploaded to the server are parsed through software that extracts and archives data about your save, including reload count for each turn set.

Good luck to your team, and remember rule #1: Enjoy your game

 

[Zalson]

Ok, I'm here... It looks like team Realms Beyond has been renamed team Snaproll. Was I just not paying attention?

 

[AlanH]

There was no formal team name that I detected, and other players said they wanted to play on your team. You can rename the team any way you like, but do it in the next couple of days, as I shall brand the save with your team name as is a day or so before the start. Team Realms Beyond, then?

 

[Zalson]

Ummm... no. Not yet. We're still discussing it.


I intended it more as a... rhetorical question. This apparently happens extremely often, but I don't notice

 

[BeefontheBone]

Checking in and subscribing. Be nice if our team identified themselves so we can get a roster sorted out.

I still like the idea of being team "Realms Behind"

 

[berserks01]

Checking in. I'll have never played with Hatty before, so this outta be fun

 

[Snaproll]

I'm here, sorry for the late check-in. I posted about our team name in the RB forum... Lets get it figured out soon!

 

[BeefontheBone]

So you did. Scratch Realms Behind, that wasn't an entirely serious suggestion anyway. Given that we've got no more than 50% RB-ers, I reckon something unrelated is better.

Snap and the Rollers?

 

[Zalson]

Snap and the Rollers sounds catchy enough. That is, if were not on for the Black Flag of Pestilence

 

[berserks01]

Looks like I was drafted to join the RB group . Hope I can meet you guys standard, and please please please tolerate me and let me know how I can improve my game to meet your standard

 

[Zalson]

beserks01, thanks for showing up. As for meeting up to RB standards, I really don't think that's a problem . After all, there're are only three of us.

The will be my job

 

[BeefontheBone]

Pffft! Make way for my mighty pimped-out smoking!

Haven't played the game for a while

Welcome aboard, berserks01. Wouldn't worry too much about the RB standard, we're not Sirian or Sulla

Team list is:

BeefontheBone, berserks01, Dantski, EL_OSO, snaproll, subanark, wurkwurk, Zalson

So we're waiting on Dantski, EL_OSO (?), subanark and wurkwurk (WarCraft II reference? Neat.) You guys haven't been abducted by UFOs, right?

 

[Snaproll]

Ha it's so funny how I've been made the group leader. I really didn't ask for this! I'd really prefer NOT to have my name in the team name, because this team may be around a lot longer than any individual members. And, the only reason I'm the defacto group leader is because I was the first one to sign up. Really, if any of you would rather run things around here (Beef?) then I'd be more than happy to relegate myself to a supporting role. If you guys want me to lead, though, I'll do it!

Berserks01, welcome! Always good to meet new people!

 

[berserks01]

Should we PM those missing peeps and get a roll call so we can start discussing strats? or should we wait?

You guys are the vets, anyone of you leading is fine with me

 

[Zalson]

Well... I think we cannot play around with Beef's name. Soooooo inappropriate. Sooo extremely inappropriate.

I'll PM the guys ahora.

 

[Zalson]

Private message-ed.

EDIT:

All except wurkwurk... he don' accept PMs, apparently.

 

[BeefontheBone]

Heh. I love my filthy nick

Zalson looks pretty organised, and neither me nor Snap particularly want to lead (I've not got time) - why doesn't he lead us? We also need to decide on a name soon - either Realms Beyond or something else entirely.

 

[AlanH]

Are you Snap and the Rollers, or Realms Beyond?

 

[Zalson]

I guess I could lead. Never really thought about that... I'd have to insist on the Black Flag of Pestilence, though

But I'll wait until we think on it.

 

[Dantski]

Ahh didn't realise this was ready yet sorry about that.

I liked the 'Realms Behind' name heh, don't recall who came up with that.