SGOTM 13 - TNT thread

2metraninja · Jun 8, 2011

Gold for upgrading maces to grenadiers?

2metraninja · Jun 8, 2011

One declaration from Joao at Willem will make us a big favor I think.

Keath · Jun 8, 2011

2metraninja said:
One declaration from Joao at Willem will make us a big favor I think.

Would it be dangerous to gift Chem to Joao in hopes to get him to declare. Could also give him gold. BUT, I wouldn't want it to backfire and have Willem get it.

Definitely will use gold for upgrades. We have many maces.

dima42 · Jun 8, 2011

To answer the off-topic question, I'm a computational physicist in SF Bay Area. Currently working for a think tank on the problem of urban area cell phone antenna placement/tilt.

I've taught physics at university and high school in the past; interesting to hear that a number of you are retired teachers. Also interested to see the older demographic; I usually associate people who play computer games as younger folk.

2metraninja · Jun 8, 2011

As someone had wrote in his signature,

We dont stop playing, because we grow older, we grow older because we stop playing

I can give an example - St.Jon from Apolyton.net is a 86 year old civver. He is absolutely with his mind, we were neighbors and allies in the last pitboss there

Nice, eh?

fizbankovi · Jun 8, 2011

off topic: fresh from university i speak english as a 3rd languange. hungarian--German---English
my job is energy disign for huge buildings, thats why i travel a lot around.

i started playing civ1 when i was like 8! cant beilve its been so long.

CIV4 sgotm:

what is the current date in-game?

Keath · Jun 8, 2011

It is interesting to hear what you all do. I've studied a lot of math and physics in my pursuits. If you're curious, you can check out my artsite where you'll also find a hook to my Retreat website.

It is now 1500 ad as I've made one move. It's pretty slow and I get frequently interrupted. I know I won't get all the moves done today... I have whipped mercilessly. :whipped:

2metraninja · Jun 9, 2011

Off-Topic:

Really nice paintings, Keath. It was something I always dreamed of - to paint myself, alas, I never get to make it come true.

There is a painting named "Rainbow and Black Sea" - is it the geographical Black Sea or just
because of the color? ( I am every summer at the Black Sea, as it is some 300 km from where I live, even took a wife from the Black Sea Coast

)

Keath · Jun 9, 2011

^^The painting is not quite so romantic as the Black Sea. There was a squall in front of our home that produced this scene - complete with rainbow and shafts of light, lighting up the shallow water near shore. I couldn't resist putting it on canvas.

About to get back to the game. :ar15:

Figure I won't bother with more gifts to Joao as I'd likely have to gift him Mil Sci as well to get him to declare on Willem. We may need to declare on him later. :mischief:

I think we should have lots of time, as dima mentioned, to finish the game, so I'll post save and summary later today. Then enKage can finish up or bite off a chunk and if justjohn or someone else wants to bring us home, great! :cool:

2metraninja · Jun 9, 2011

So have you been to Black Sea? Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania?

Also, I want to announce and hopefully recruit some of you for 2 pitbosses I play in. I'll give short description to the two:

Team AMAZON pitboss is a huge Pangaea with 11 players at Monarch difficulty and it is at 2000BC year at normal speed. A lot of space to build before a war is needed. No uber players in the game (except myself

- just kidding) Good game to start learning the exciting world of the long - term civ4 multiplaying.

The other pitboss is Destiny of Empires at apolyton.net. It is a huge Earth map with 18 players at nobble difficulty and Epic speed. The game is at 1500AD and we need substitute for Arabia, which is in the upper half of the score. It is not a normal MP pitboss, but it is a diplo-game. What this diplo-game means? It means that no civ will ever be annihilated or crippled to a degree, where it is no longer fun for the player to play it. The main deal about the diplo-games is that a stories and role-playing are essential. The winner at the end is decided not by who is at top of the score or acquires in-game victory condition, but the winner is decided by monthly voting on 2 categories - story telling and role playing. Also a great place where you can learn safely

Also if you have artistic gifts and time to write stories, it is immensely fun and entertaining. It is my first diplo-game I play in, but those guys have community from more than 10 years. I definitely am fan of the genre already.

So, any of you guys, who needs new challenge of civ4 at calm pace (1 turn a day) and the great challenge of actually playing against human players, you are invited. Will be pleasure to see any of you in those games.

The Dude Esq · Jun 10, 2011

@2Metra; thanks for invite. Yer, should like to think I'd like to play. Don't play any multiplayer atm. I spose I'm a builder, so always think I'm just going to get steamrollered in a normal multiplayer. Don't really know how it all works? Does pitboss chug all the turns simultaneously? I'll send you an email sometime soon.

[offtopic]

Just being messing about on Worldbuilder. I've created a Cold War scenario. Haven't done any fancy programming, just Worldbuilder. Thought I'd like to experience some more modern warfare in the straight BTS mod (Buffy). You play as Roosevelt; modern start, marathon speed, Monarch Difficulty. All routes to victory have been enabled, I suppose Space, Diplo and the conquests are all possible. (Dom is prob a bit harder.) The way I have created it, I have given Rossie six / seven settlers, and yer arch rival Stalin six / seven. Plus a few more AIs with two / three. I've played a couple of turns, it seems to work ok. Your settlers are all dotted out on what I think are optimum spots. (Plus a few workers and Seals.) I noticed the AI only seems to settle only one settler on turn one? And don't say I don't love you - there is even (two) great people for a golden age (and civic change), or wonder rush.

Yer, so here it is - for some Beta testers (prob Alpha really!) There is a little room to expand (not too much, not too optimum.) And I deleted a few Oil resources. Hope the map is ok - but you can always fix it in Worldbuilder. Well, maybe it isn't a v good game anyway - I don't know! There prob needs to be quite a bit of build up first. (Hint: I settled the capital with the settler on Descrates. Certainly a decent enough site n nice n central.)

Enjoy!

Please let me know what you think, if you play - send me a message if this thread is finished. I may have a go at a MesoAmerica mod next. The one shipped with the BTS patch misfires I think. I will have to play it through this time, as I'm intending Isa to start with some Conquistadors - what was I thinking!

On Topic:

How's the game going Keath? I agree it may be too much to gift Joao for war. And he may end up giving it to Willem.

Keath · Jun 10, 2011

2metraninja said:
So have you been to Black Sea? Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania?

Also, I want to announce and hopefully recruit some of you for 2 pitbosses I play in. I'll give short description to the two:

.............

So, any of you guys, who needs new challenge of civ4 at calm pace (1 turn a day) and the great challenge of actually playing against human players, you are invited. Will be pleasure to see any of you in those games.

No, I haven't been to the Black Sea but one day..... Been to Italy and Egypt, so far.

The games sound interesting but I'd have to pass this time. Thanks for the invite.

As far as progress goes:

The Dude Esq said:
On Topic:

How's the game going Keath? I agree it may be too much to gift Joao for war. And he may end up giving it to Willem.

I researched this idea but gave up on it. I'm going to play one or two more turns this am to take care of some details and set it up for the next player.

It's turn 323 - 1515 ad. So far, we have Cathy down to one city. Novgorod which is well defended, isolated on a hill and we don't have enough reinforcements to take it in the next couple of turns so I've made a 10 turn peace which will send my units back to Moscow where we will soon be under attack, just as I thought.

Moving units around and especially gathering them together makes this 'a difficult map for warring'. I declared and invaded Willem and we have captured Nijmegen and came very close to taking Utrecht in one attack. On the other side of the continent is a Dutch stack aimed at Moscow.

I'll send a detailed report soon. Sorry this is taking more time than I figured but, heh, I'm just starting to have some fun.

Keath · Jun 10, 2011

Here's a screenshot of the main island:

fizbankovi · Jun 10, 2011

nice nice! what are the win %?

2metraninja · Jun 10, 2011

Something I just saw why it says we are losing money at zero science?

The Dude Esq · Jun 10, 2011

How big is the stack moving to Moscow? Is it defeatable if the AI suicides it against us?

I take it, it's pretty heavy fighting?

Keath · Jun 10, 2011

** I think that I've whipped us into poverty. :lol:

I am uploading the save for the next player and will send a report shortly. It's the end of turn 324 - 1520 ad.

***Roster:

enKage (up next)
justjohn (on deck)
2metraninja
fizbankov
dima42 (up)
The Dude Esq
keath (just played)

Edit: >the save<

Keath · Jun 10, 2011

Here is the turnlog if you are interested:

Here is your Session Turn Log from 1495 AD to 1520 AD:

Spoiler :

Keath · Jun 10, 2011

More beginning turn 220

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Keath · Jun 10, 2011

From turn 323

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