Tell us why you rarely or never Submit GOTMs

[kcd_swede]

Ask and you shall receive! I made a couple of changes in this version, but nothing too significant. Will post the doc file here too in case others want to improve on the design or modify it for their own use.

Maybe now I'll write more meaningful (but perhaps more boring) spoilers.

 

[jesusin]

Maybe now I'll write more meaningful (but perhaps more boring) spoilers.

Why more boring? You tell your story, your intended VC, your strategy. your thoughts, your fears... the usual way, but you instert some data too.

 

[da_Vinci]

Good work and thanks to jesusin and Balthalion for the template!

Now ... is this perhaps the template for culture? Maybe the Erkon template for conquest is different, such as

date of first WC
date of 5th WC
date of 10th WC
date of 25th WC
date of 50th WC
date of 100th WC
etc.

Seriously, perhaps the next stage of evolution of this is to generate VC-specific report templates? Or is this one really pretty generic, and thus universally useful?

dV

 

[jesusin]

I think it is quite generic. You have # of religions, which is irrelevant unless you go for culture. You have # of exterminated civs, which is irrelevant unless you go for conquest/dom.

Shouldn't we add # of vassals?



As for the format, I think it would be preferable that no clicks to open a different application were needed. What about this kind of format (thanks Niklas):

		Data1		Data2		Data3		Data4		Data5		Data6
jesusin		12		300		15		79		no		London
Niklas		15		400		27		45		yes		Lisbon

EDIT: just press quote in this message to see how it is done

 

[beetle]

If you have rarely, or never, posted a GOTM result in the last 12 months, please respond here and tell us what you would like to see to increase your interest.

I worry that maybe I am a leech, as I very much enjoy the GotM, but do not contribute much to those threads, and have never been inclined to post for the current competition. I very much appreciate all the work that goes into them, and I think I may be part of a mostly silent user base that enjoys the long tail of the GotM archives.

I was ready to walk away from Civ4 when I found the GotM archives mostly by accidently. I am hooked by the ability to try a scenario. Then read about the strategies people used. Then try the scenario again.

I tend to play 30 - 60 days behind. Following the current game, and participating in it as it unfolds, just has very little appeal for me! I am just finishing up with the February game!

If I am honest, a great deal of the problem for me is that my play is not score competitive. I did fabulous with Civ2 and AC. My inability to win at the hardest difficulty level with Civ3 ruined the game for me, and I was not much better with Civ4.

The only way to increase my interest would be if I could have a reasonable win/loose ratio at the highest difficulty setting without insane micromanagement and exploits, but that is really not under the control of CFC! The Adventurer Class offerings are very nice. I wish that was a built-in feature of the game!

 

[Futilitis]

I'm not really a major game player. I'm sure I'd have stopped playing Civ a long time ago with no hope of reaching Noble if I hadn't discovered this forum and then GOTM. I'm one of the (very many?) silent lurkers who didn't even have an account but greatly enjoyed and learnt lots from the write-ups of others. So a big thanks to all who have contributed to making the GOTM so much fun, and gotten me to almost Monarch (so far).

Time. Scheduling. The Real World. Hours of Civ. Yeah, intersection of these things is problematic. I'm still several games back (really enjoying that one weird ice world one which I'm going to thrash before too long, thanks to ... well I guess I should edit that out on second thoughts). The Mac Quicktime bug didn't help with keeping up. (I'm ridiculously and childishly excited that I might actually get BtS on a real OS before the end of time, but that really isn't going to help with the scheduling.)

I don't always want to play the most efficient whipping tyrant I could be. I think you have to have scoring. I don't think it's realistic to have submitted games individually scored by a judging team on artistic merit, enlightened leadership and elegant geographical expoitation! It has to be automated in some way. Do I personally care about the scoring - no. Am I interested in other people's approach - oh yes, please!

How about a script to extract key standardised data points people (especially expert people) are interested in from the submitted gamelog as an idea (which may be completely impractical)?

 

[Learningciv]

I would love to play HOF but I cannot get the mod to work. I have BTS 3.17 on Vista and the HOF mod crashes the game. I tried the fix but it didn't work.