Apolyton University: Expanding It's Roots

[Addled Platypus]

how big of list do you want?

just a few thoughts:
fastest to reach each time period?
fastest to 100k
best team play
shortest game

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
Just for my curiosity, who here is interested in helping with the AI mod?

i'm definately going to be tweaking around more sooner than later. but first i'll try vanilla. i ruined my first months of civ3 because i modded too early on.
now i'll want to know the game mechanics before i go "fixing" (more likely worsening) stuff.

but in regarding AI mod: there will probably be many mods in the future "creation" forum. some will make barbarians tough as hell, others will make the AI more effective in attacks and again others will probably optimise the AI value system in direction of builder/warmonger/whatever

i remember in ptw having the koreans be powerful in most of the games (good builder traits) but they were always crushed easily when i used high AI aggression mods.

so what i'm saying: let's not be too premature with an official mod. in the ideal case the out-of-the-box version (or at least after the first 2 patches) is perfect already

[UnOrthOdOx]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
how big of list do you want?

just a few thoughts:
fastest to reach each time period?
fastest to 100k
best team play
shortest game

The basic list:

Best/fastes of each of the victory types.

Then the more fun list, which is debatable, could include lots of things:

Biggest backstab/Best ROP rape
most bloodthirsty
most thematic
Best written
Best city
Best single use of UU
who knows...

[lockstep]

Originally posted by sabrewolf
let's not be too premature with an official mod. in the ideal case the out-of-the-box version (or at least after the first 2 patches) is perfect already

Civ4 may be more balanced out of the box than Civ3 (at least Firaxis hired far more beta testers), but I'm sure that the people here at Apolyton will generate a lot of ideas how to tweak the game to make it still better. In my ideal case, some of those tweaks will make it back into the stock version of the game via patches or expansions. C3C adopted about a dozen changes that had been incorporated before in the AU mod version of PtW (e.g zero-range bombardment ability for archers).

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx


The basic list:

Best/fastes of each of the victory types.

Then the more fun list, which is debatable, could include lots of things:

Biggest backstab/Best ROP rape
most bloodthirsty
most thematic
Best written
Best city
Best single use of UU
who knows...

Exactly.

[conmcb25]

So we wait for a while then?

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by conmcb25
So we wait for a while then?

I can't exactly speed up the launch of Civ IV.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please share them.

Although it isn't a competition, I'm hoping the AU will be taking some of CFC's GOTM's thunder.

[conmcb25]

Wait for a bit AFTER the release, I agree we should get ideas going but an AU mod is gonna take some time for the game to sink in

[UnOrthOdOx]

But the AU doesn't neccessarily need a MOD to get going.

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
But the AU doesn't neccessarily need a MOD to get going.

Fine by me I always played the standard games anyway

[Tassadar500]

May I ask why? Was there something about the AU Mod that you didn't like?

[Fried-Psitalon]

You guys don't mind guest lecturers from time to time, do ya?

[sabrewolf]

look who's back after nearly a year of abstinence

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
May I ask why? Was there something about the AU Mod that you didn't like?

No it was fine but I used AU to help my regular game playing since I was in a lot of demo games. So I wanted to work on the principles in a "normal game". Thats just me though.

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by Fried-Psitalon
You guys don't mind guest lecturers from time to time, do ya?

Nope welcome back.