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RE: December 06 GOTM

Zone — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:50:19 GMT

Good work :)

RE: December 06 GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:51:52 GMT

Congrats are in order for aconfusedkid, who apparently was not very confused at all this month as he is our December GOTM champ.

RE: December 06 GOTM

HistoryDude — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:50:44 GMT

I am interested in the GOTM's, just not this particular one, as I'm in the middle of my story game using the Indians, already. That's all. :)

And I doubt I ever win one, so I can't help you out by making the graphics easy for you, Mongoose! :hehe:

RE: December 06 GOTM

Zone — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:07:56 GMT

The inevitable will happen Mongoose ;)

RE: December 06 GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:08:17 GMT

We could be on the way to yet another first time champ.

aconfusedkid is the current leader with 15,664 points. :)

This is actually easier for me. This would mean that I wouldn't have to come up with the graphics for a multi GOTM champ. I didn't think you guys would want it to be so easy. :D

RE: December 06 GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:09:14 GMT

I was interested, but sadly, did not have the time to participate in this one :(

RE: December 06 GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:27:41 GMT

Submissions Accepted:

[red]aconfusedkid[/red] Victory: Space Race [red]Normalized Score: 15,664 - 1921AD[/red]

[red]Rishbhav[/red] Victory: Cultural [red]Normalized Score: 7306 - 1932AD[/red]

[red]Zone[/red] Victory: Cultural [red]Normalized Score: 6237 - 1959AD[/red]

RE: December 06 GOTM

twistedspark — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:57:09 GMT

That sucked for me! Maybe it was just an unlucky game, but I was surrounded by those barbarians up until 760AD at which time my 3 cities were completely surrounded by all other civs. :angry:

Oh yeah. That was also the time I just decided to smack my monitor and give up.

[quote][b]mongoose201 (12/15/2006)[/b][hr]All victories are allowed in this game, guys.. Even if you didn't have the highest score, post them. It looks a little better that way than having 2 games submitted. It might actually seem like people are interested.

:)[/quote]

I'm sure plenty of us are interested, but if they're like me (not used to raging barbarians and no war) they/we are proly a little embarassed by our scores.[img]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/twistedspark/Computer-Stress.gif[/img]

RE: December 06 GOTM

aconfusedkid — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:39:04 GMT

Spaceship victory in 1921 AD. Score was 15,664.

Kind of boring play to be honest... Asoka really isn't the style I usually play, especially without war. I never play raging barbs either... so I went straight for copper, and got a barracks in my second city and started making axemen. It turns out that with all the civs expanding, barb cities didn't really show up and my efforts were worthless. I ended up taking 7 cities culturally, so I probably could have gone for a cultural victory as I got one legendary city without actually trying for it.

RE: December 06 GOTM

mongoose201 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:52:03 GMT

All victories are allowed in this game, guys.. Even if you didn't have the highest score, post them. It looks a little better that way than having 2 games submitted. It might actually seem like people are interested.

RE: December 06 GOTM

jerm — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:09:12 GMT

I finished but Egypt won with a spaceship victory.

RE: December 06 GOTM

Tiger — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:41:21 GMT

Finished but only got a time victory. Guess I'm a warmonger at heart. :)

RE: December 06 GOTM

Rishbhav — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:14:49 GMT

Cultural Victory 7306...

RE: December 06 GOTM

Zone — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:03:43 GMT

Yeah, no war an having about 1 unit per city (I only ever had 4 workers too) meant a lot of 'Enter' bashing.

Press Esc, click on 'Your Details' (about 2nd or 3rd from the bottom) and change the name ;)

Oh, and I've just realised I hadn't added the savegame yet.

RE: December 06 GOTM

jerm — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:10:14 GMT

Zone, you already finished? I guess not having to move a lot of units (other than workers) around and not having to go to war helps. Oh and how did you change your name from Rishubhav to Zone in the game?

RE: December 06 GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:54:30 GMT

Dang! This application is frickin' picky isn't it!

[quote]

HOF Mod not found

Errors found with installed assets

Extra file needs deleting: Assets\XML\GameInfo\Copy of CIV4GameSpeedInfo.xml

[/quote]

I'll delete that copy I made and see if that makes it run.

And to answer your question Zone, I DID insert the Vanilla Civ CD, not Warlords.

RE: December 06 GOTM

Rishbhav — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:23:21 GMT

Cool I'll try this.

Scipio, try running this program (I found it on civfanatics a wihle back) It checks to see if any assets have been changed.

RE: December 06 GOTM

Zone — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:02:33 GMT

Did you put the Warlords disc in, or the cIV disc?

Well, I did it in one sitting: 3:35. Tough to get a high score. Cultural victory in 1959AD with a score of 6237

[img]http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/3889/civdec061pe4.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/4021/civdec062bc7.jpg[/img]

RE: December 06 GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:31:45 GMT

ADDIT: DANG IT! Get an error message that the file I'm trying to load is protected against having my assets modfied. I know that they are not actually modified, though maybe I've copied and pasted somethings and it is detecting that change. My vanilla files are unchanged, I am confident, but I do have mods I've made in other folders etc.

I wonder if maybe the Warlords installation or the update is maybe what is screwing with this?

*Sigh* doesn't look like I"m gonna be able to join in unless I go to the trouble of reinstalling everything in Vanilla.

Have you guys done any Warlords GOTMs yet?

I'll try this one out. On Warlord difficulty, I might actually be able to survive! However, because I have mostly played my "Scipio's Marathon Mod," my timing tends to be all screwed up for these lightning fast games. Will see if I can compensate or not. :)

RE: December 06 GOTM

Zone — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:22:54 GMT

Oooooh, so no Great Wall... interesting!

RE: December 06 GOTM

HistoryDude — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:52:10 GMT

Looks like it will be a very interesting game! However, I must pass this month, and for a reason that will be obvious soon... ;)

RE: December 06 GOTM

mongoose201 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:52:13 GMT

Nope, vanilla CivIV

RE: December 06 GOTM

Tiger — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:16:01 GMT

Nice, should be fun. :)

Is this Civ4 Warlords? With raging barbs, an early Great Wall is a must!

December 06 GOTM

mongoose201 — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:46:44 GMT

Game Closed

Champion: [red]aconfusedkid[/red] Victory: Space Race [red]Normalized Score: 15,664 - 1921AD[/red]

[red]Rishbhav[/red] Victory: Cultural [red]Normalized Score: 7306 - 1932AD[/red]

[red]Zone[/red] Victory: Cultural [red]Normalized Score: 6237 - 1959AD[/red]

Let's get the party started...

Vanilla CivIV

Civ: India

Leader: Asoka (Spi/Org)

Difficulty: Warlord with 6 Random Rivals

Start Position:

[red]Options Selected:
Always Peace: There is no war with this GOTM.
Raging Barbs: No War, but don't neglect your early military....
Modified Assets Locked: No Worldbuilder, of course
All Victory Conditions have been allowed and all will be accepted.[/red]

Highest Normalized Score in any victory will be declared GOTM champion.

When you complete the game, take a screenshot of the Victory screen where it lists your leadership counterpart in history. You may post the screenshot in the GOTM thread and then PM your final save (hopefully one just before victory) to me. Saves should be named as follows: [username]Dec06GOTM.Civ4SavedGame.

Good Luck

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