TLM01 - Apocalypse Now

[SimpleMonkey]

lurker's comment: Looks like it's mostly forests and snow, but you might get lucky with the hills further south.

A knight army should be able to carve though the rest of Ragnar's holdings. Good for increased unit support. But if it's a three horse task force, it's going to be on that island for a while.

Good job, ThERat!

 

[choxorn]

Speaking of snow, we actually got some snow this afternoon. Very little, but still some.
In other news, 1 year ago today, I joined CFC!
now ending post with

 

[M60A3TTS]

We seem to be losing a steady base of players, including me for the moment. I am on the road and will not have game access until Saturday.

 

[PaGe]

Here is the Vik terrain for chox.

OK, then it's me again. I think I'll play this evening.
After me M60A3TTS should take it.
SimplyMonkey and TimBentley, do you know when you can take some turns?

 

[TimBentley]

SimplyMonkey and TimBentley, do you know when you can take some turns?

I've got spring break coming up, so I'll be out until a week from Sunday.

 

[PaGe]

I made my turns, but they weren't that good, but read on your own:

preturn: Sardica switched to settler

IBT:
Carthage found city in the north of our island
A lot of vik. units approach
netherlands landed 2 units
Varna: Knight->Corthouse (due to chopping)

turn1:
destroying Vadso (2 spears)
@Copenhagen: defeat 2 swords, lose a med. inf
kill netherlands and sink their galley

IBT:
someone got Printing Press,
vik lost one archer
Heroic epic info

turn2:
sink french galley
settler now in dromon with some knights
stack heals in Copenhagen.

IBT:
viks attackes Copenhagen and losing 2 archer+2 swords.
viks want to found a new city
chinese galley approach at Trebizond

turn3:
killed spear and capture settler
and another 2 spears and a archer are out.
Copenhagen is razed

IBT:zzz

turn4: found Nicomedia on vik island

IBT: first french Caravel appears

turn5:
caravel had no chance against our dromon

IBT:
french start Mangellan
Scandinavia has now engineering and feudalism. Invention and zerks are near.

turn6:
sell silks to china for 17 gpt
sink aztec galley, spotted a mongol sword on Bab island. Don't know what he wants there.

IBT
Dutch and Chinese start Mangellan
Mongols are in the second era

turn7:
captured Trondheim,

IBT:zzz

turn8:
start attack on Reykjavik. Unfortunately I lost a knight.
bombed a french galley (down 1HP)

IBT:
french galley returns home

turn9:
captured Reykjavik

IBT:
Trondheim deposes. Damn 3 knights were there to heal.
a french caravel appears at the north

turn10:
several units are still able to move or attack

The deposing of Trondheim really hurts. I only wanted to heal some units from the first Reykja-attack and then raze it to place our next settler. Perhaps the next player should raze Reykja this turn. But then we have no baracks on the other island, but we are able to buy it with the 529 gold.

I think M60A3TTS is next or ThERaT can take it before.

 

[ThERat]

you can always leave units next to a flip risk city. Or raze it, but I would wait for settlers to take the spot so we can make sure to grab all land.

Wait for M60ATTS to come back and take his turns

 

[choxorn]

Or maybe I can make the damn 1.22 patch work. Anybody know any solutions?

 

[ThERat]

choxorn we are welcome to join if you can get the game to work. maybe a fresh and clean install would help

 

[M60A3TTS]

Choxorn, if you can take it you are welcome to, otherwise I will pick it up tomorrow.

 

[choxorn]

choxorn we are welcome to join if you can get the game to work. maybe a fresh and clean install would help

I must have tried that 5 times already. Wait, do you mean I should delete my files, reinstall them, then install the patch and restore any files I want?

 

[PaGe]

Haven' you done that already? So, uninstall Civ, delete the complete Civ-folder, delete everything you can find in the registry comparing to Civ. Reboot. Install Civ and try the patch. If that doesn't work, perhaps the complete system should be made new. I made an image of my system-partition after a fresh installation, so this doesn`t cost me that much time. Perhaps you should try this, too.

 

[choxorn]

"System-partiton" what is that? And where can I find registry comparing to civ? And can I restore things like highscore files, mods and saves to my folders after the installation?

 

[PaGe]

I forgot the "i". I've made several partitions on my hugh disk. It's C:, of which I made an image. Perhaps the system-recovery could also do it, but I always made images the last years (under Win98) and won't change it.

The scenarios, etc should you save before. Just copy/move the complete scenarios-Folder and perhaps the save-Folder (if the saves still function, I don't know. But give it a try) to another place outside the Civ-Folder. It must function when you copy them back after the new installation.

For the regcleaning you can type regedit at the Run... to get access to the registry. Before you delete something save the registry (export to a file). Then you can search in the local_machine>Software-Sektion Civ-entries. They are from Infogames, Firaxis, Atari, Breakaway games rolleyes: So much publisher for one game). Normally something Civ-like is listed there. If you have other games from this publisher you must look which is the Civ-entry. But make a backup from the registry first. Then you can easily restore the old version and everything (beside Civ) runs.

 

[choxorn]

I don't really get the resgistry part- plus, I never registered anyway. I didn't know what it did, and didn't want it to do something bad.

 

[M60A3TTS]

Ok, I got it.

 

[PaGe]

It's not the registration of the software at the publisher. The software has to tell windows where it is, etc. But perhaps the uninstallation and new installation will help.

 

[choxorn]

So, basically, I should uninstall Civ3 and C3C, delete the files while saving what I don't want to lose, reinstall civ 3 and C3C, install the 1.22 patch, then restore the files?

 

[SimpleMonkey]

lurker's comment: There's a tech problems forum that I used to get mine running again after I had the same problems as choxorn. It can be done. Of course, I just ended up getting C3 Complete to have done with it once and for all.

 

[choxorn]

A link would be useful.