Teamliquid shadow game

[vicawoo]

Due to a curious dirth of interesting series/games these days, here's the start to the latest succession game (monarch, large) of another gaming forum, teamliquid.net. Kudos to teamliquid's Fen for organizing, and intersite browsers, beware of spoilers.

There exist 3 or 4 previous games for when you have nothing to do.

The following is taken from the original source:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=134970
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=137067



Game 1 (Won by domination victory)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=106821

Game 2 (Won by Space victory)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=118520

Game 3 (Lost via Forfeit )
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=128129

Game 4
[red]Split, and In progress[/red]
Team B thread
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=137067

So coming off of a loss. Will teamliquid be able to make up for their recent loss? Will we get enough people to start a split game? Will the phase 2 of Starcraft 2 beta result in everyone not caring about Civ 4 anymore? Only time will tell my friends.

What is a Succession game?

For those who do not know. A succession game is one in which a group of people play a single game of civilization as a team, taking it in turns controlling the one player against computers. Players take a set number of turns and then write a report of what happened with screenshots to back it up for others that are playing/following to read.

The goal of a succession game is ultimately for fun. It allows people with different play styles and different skill levels to play together and learn from each other.

Let's have some fun

So once again, it is the dawn of time, and the mighty Teamliquid is ready to build an empire that will go down in the history books as the greatest civilization ever. However this time, they are split. A cruel act of god has seperated teamliquid into different groups, with each group picking up their own banner. How will this change affect the mighty teamliquidians? Will the course of history play out the same way, or will the butterfly effect result in drastic changes? Only time will tell.

Spoiler :

The first group of teamliquidians rally under the banner of the Incans, they turn to their first great leader, to begin their journey to glory. This great leader's name, is banana.

Save file : http://www.sendspace.com/file/ewr13q

(Note: Save files cannot be opened in single player mode, you must open in multiplayer mode or by just double clicking the save file and letting civ load it all up for you)

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So once again, it is the dawn of time, and the mighty Teamliquid is ready to build an empire that will go down in the history books as the greatest civilization ever. However this time, they are split. A cruel act of god has seperated teamliquid into different groups, with each group picking up their own banner. How will this change affect the mighty teamliquidians? Will the course of history play out the same way, or will the butterfly effect result in drastic changes? Only time will tell.

Spoiler :

The second group of teamliquidians rally under the banner of the English, they turn to their first great leader, to begin their journey to glory. This great leader's name, is Biochemist.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6rrh9d

(Note: Save files cannot be opened in single player mode, you must open in multiplayer mode or by just double clicking the save file and letting civ load it all up for you)

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I can haz shadow game as england.

Edit: Turn lag is awful

Edit2: After finishing my actions for the turn, I pressed the spacebar key 23 times while it said "waiting for YOU to end turn", before the game actually accepted my instructions to end the turn. 23 times. On turn 27. What the hell is it doing?!

 

[vicawoo]

Yeah I noticed. I think it's waiting for the imaginary other multiplayer personnel, before assigning a computer AI.

If you're really skipping several turns, I think you have to bite the bullet and press it exactly once.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Yeah I noticed. I think it's waiting for the imaginary other multiplayer personnel, before assigning a computer AI.

If you're really skipping several turns, I think you have to bite the bullet and press it exactly once.

No, I'm not skipping several turns, it's worse than that.

I'm attempting to end the turn for 5-10 seconds and the game is not letting me do it. It's worse than late game huge (at least for my comp).

 

[vicawoo]

There's a delay where it says it's waiting for you after you've ended your turn, but in my shadow it didn't scale to become worse as the game went on. I think it's a constant time delay.