WOTM Poll for random map settings

[kcd_swede]

I would like to conduct a poll of WOTM players on what map settings they would like to see in a random map for WOTM if we go that route for WOTM44...

Never posted a poll before, so it might take some trial and error on my part...

 

[kcd_swede]

Feel free to post a leader preference as well. Opponents I think should be randomized... maybe leader for the player as well?

 

[nocho]

With limited time for playing these things, I strongly prefer standard size and normal speed. Map type and leaders for me totally at the discretion of the mapmaker/game creator and/or the RNG.

 

[Sleepless]

Well I voted standard and normal for map types as well.

Happy for everything else to be randomized

 

[Conquistador 63]

+1 for Std/Normal/random.

I also like Fractal, it is a pretty "random" mapscript by itself, other than that I like playing the unusual mapscripts (great plains, etc) and advertising them as "mystery" in the pre-game thread. Are Big&Small & Medium&Small available on the Warlords expansion?

 

[Htadus]

Voted for standard and epic setup, but also like normal and standard. No for fractal since it has a tendancy to give 1 AI or players the chance to gain large area of the map nearly uncontested.

C63 once posted leaders not used in WOTM so far. Any of them would be nice to see.

 

[srad]

+1 for Std/Normal/random.


Thanks for the poll, good idea!

 

[Htadus]

Here is C63's list of leaders yet to be played.

Roosevelt,
Montezuma,
Qin Shi Huang,
Victoria,
Napoleon, we just played him
Frederick,
Huayna Capac,
Asoka,
Genghis Khan,
Kublai Khan,
Julius Caesar,
Catherine.

And here is a link to neilmeister's list
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=11307676&postcount=11

 

[neilmeister]

I voted for rainforest, both speeds. I just like to see variety in the maps/settings/civs that we use and I can't recall the last rainforest map.

Perhaps for lower difficulties, Monarch and below, have random everything, except for map size.

For higher difficulties, Emperor and above, specify the map type as well, to avoid the more random issues that you can get with archipelago/fractal/....


edit: I think I would vote for Asoka or FDR

Here is the list for all leaders for both warlords and across all 3 variants

Spoiler :

WARLORDS ALL VARIANTS
Civ Leader Latest Game Appearances Civ Leader Latest Game Appearances
as Player as Player as Player as Player
Carthage Hannibal Jun11 4 Spain Isabella Apr12 7
Zulu Shaka Apr10 3 Mali Mansa Musa May12 6
Celt Brennus Sep11 3 Aztec Montezuma Apr12 6
Viking Ragnar Lodbrok Nov11 3 Inca Huayna Capac Jan12 6
Persia Cyrus Aug10 2 Greece Alexander Mar12 5
Rome Augustus Caesar May08 2 Japan Tokugawa Sep11 5
Ottoman Mehmed II Jun10 2 Arabia Saladin Feb12 5
Korea Wang Kon Apr09 2 Persia Cyrus Dec11 5
Arabia Saladin Feb11 2 Egypt Hatshepsut Oct11 5
Egypt Ramesses II Aug09 2 Rome Julius Caesar Nov11 5
Spain Isabella Apr12 2 India Gandhi Nov10 5
Russia Stalin Aug11 2 Zulu Shaka Feb11 5
England Elizabeth Jan12 2 Viking Ragnar Lodbrok Nov11 5
Mali Mansa Musa Mar11 1 England Elizabeth Jan12 4
Japan Tokugawa Aug07 1 America Washington Mar10 4
Greece Alexander Aug08 1 France Napoleon Mar12 4
America Washington Dec09 1 Carthage Hannibal Jun11 4
Germany Bismark Oct09 1 Mongolia Kublai Khan Jul11 4
India Gandhi Nov07 1 Russia Catherine Jan11 4
France Louis XIV Mar08 1 Russia Peter Dec10 4
France Napoleon Mar12 1 Germany Bismark Apr11 4
England Churchill Jun07 1 Mongolia Genghis Khan Sep10 3
Russia Peter Dec10 1 China Qin Shi Huang May11 3
Egypt Hatshepsut May11 1 China Mao Zedong May10 3
China Mao Zedong Jun09 1 England Victoria Nov10 3
Aztec Montezuma 0 France Louis XIV Feb11 3
Inca Huayna Capac 0 Korea Wang Kon Aug11 3
Mongolia Genghis Khan 0 America Franklin Roosevelt May11 3
India Asoka 0 Russia Stalin Aug11 3
Rome Julius Caesar 0 Germany Frederick Apr12 3
America Franklin Roosevelt 0 Celt Brennus Sep11 3
China Qin Shi Huang 0 Portugal Joao Feb12 3
England Victoria 0 Netherlands Willem Van Oranje Sep10 3
Russia Catherine 0 India Asoka Jun10 2
Mongolia Kublai Khan 0 Ottoman Mehmed II Jun10 2
Germany Frederick 0 Egypt Ramesses II Aug09 2
Greece Augustus Caesar 0 Rome Augustus Caesar May08 2
Native America Sitting Bull Jan10 2
Maya Pacal May10 2
England Churchill Mar08 2
Sumeria Gilgamesh Apr11 2
Holy Roman Empire Charlemange Jun11 2
Khmer Suryavarman Jan12 2
Ethiopia Zara Yaqob Jul10 2
Byzantium Justinian Mar12 2
Celt Boudica Sep09 1
Persia Darius Mar10 1
Babylon Hammurabi Jan09 1
America Lincoln Nov09 1
France De Gaulle Jul08 1
Greece Pericles Oct09 1
Ottoman Suleiman May09 1

 

[cas]

I voted 'other'.

I would like mostly normal speed / standard maps with random leaders/opponents...but with a mix of maps. I don't want one map type all the time.

A couple of epic speed games would be ok too, I guess.

I'm thinking less work for the admin and just keep the series alive. And normal/std settings are qiucker games...difficult to fit enough time in for Civ.

cas

 

[Xcalibrator]

I like "random" maps such as Shuffle and Fractal, with random leaders at normal speed. Also prefer Small maps because I'm slow.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

I voted for rainforest, both speeds. I just like to see variety in the maps/settings/civs that we use and I can't recall the last rainforest map.

If it changes anything, BOTM 54 - to start in a few days - is a rainforest map (I hadn't seen this thread when I created that game).

 

[neilmeister]

Your rainforest map is very well timed indeed!

I vote for whatever else we haven't had for a while, variety is the spice of life.
Modified donut map anyone?

 

[kcd_swede]

As I interpret the results of the polling thus far, there is a strong preference for Standard size, Normal speed games, and a slight preference for multiple (large)landmass maps compared to single landmass.

Roosivelt/America sound like a good choice for player-civ.

Random opps on continents is what I'm leaning towards. There is still time to express an opinion and try to change my mind.

BTW: I'll play myself but not submit, so the map is going to be whatever we get, unmodified. Maybe I could introduce a special award: beat the game admin, win a prize. (Nah, I'd pro'ly have to give everyone an award, the way I play).

 

[Htadus]

As I interpret the results of the polling thus far, there is a strong preference for Standard size, Normal speed games, and a slight preference for multiple (large)landmass maps compared to single landmass.

Roosivelt/America sound like a good choice for player-civ.

Random opps on continents is what I'm leaning towards. There is still time to express an opinion and try to change my mind.

BTW: I'll play myself but not submit, so the map is going to be whatever we get, unmodified. Maybe I could introduce a special award: beat the game admin, win a prize. (Nah, I'd pro'ly have to give everyone an award, the way I play).

Lets make it completely random and you do play and submit.

Choose
Player leader
Random AI
Shuffle Map script (or one of the votes)
Speed
Size
Options
locked Modified Assets

Now this is a HOF capable game and no one, including you, know anything.
EDIT: I forgot, it is HOF game without the cheese.

Easy right?

 

[kcd_swede]

Lets make it completely random and you do play and submit.

Choose
Player leader
Random AI
Shuffle Map script (or one of the votes)
Speed
Size
Options
locked Modified Assets

Now this is a HOF capable game and no one, including you, know anything.
EDIT: I forgot, it is HOF game without the cheese.

Easy right?

Actually, the mechanics of this job mean I have to start the game without "lock modified assets", so I would be quite able to cheat if I got a kick out of that kind of thing (which I don't, btw).

Also, if anyone had trouble with the game, crashes etc, I'd be responsible to see what was going on. So yeah, if you guys have a lot of trust and I played faster than everyone else, it could be done. I think its better to keep us game admins above and beyond any possible reproach, though... as much as I am forlorne over my continual decline in the global rankings since taking on this role. Oh well... that's my excuse for it, and I'm sticking to it. I ain't exactly someone like Cactus Pete who can stay in the top 10 with one submission every other month, y'know.

 

[Conquistador 63]

If it is immortal level (is it?) I wouldn't mind playing one of the stronger leaders.
HC, JC, maybe Cathy?

 

[kcd_swede]

If it is immortal level (is it?) I wouldn't mind playing one of the stronger leaders.
HC, JC, maybe Cathy?

WOTM44 will be at Noble level, to compensate for the BOTM/GOTM sequences being at the high difficulty end. So its VERY unlikely we get a miserable unwinnable game, no matter which leader we use.