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    I'm just using CivCity for the first time
    I love it



    All hail Gothmog!
    "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
    I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
    Middle East!

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    All hail Gothmog's scenarios as well: they are amongst my favourites, particularly Brown Man's Burden and Struggle for Empire.

    I know he hasn't posted here in years but is anyone still in touch with him?
    http://sleague.apolyton.net/index.ph...ory:Civ2_Units

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    • #3
      Nah, me not, we exchanged a few mails years ago...
      Hm... Perhaps I should play the scenarios You've mentioned. Since my studies, I don't play that much scenarios
      "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
      I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
      Middle East!

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      • #4
        Gothmog.

        His utilities revolutionized designing scenarios for me. He was no mean scenario creator himself either. I really enjoyed his Algerian War scenario.
        STDs are like pokemon... you gotta catch them ALL!!!

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        • #5
          Absolutely Gothmog! His utilities were a revelation to scenario creators. And his "Age of Justinian" is one of the best scenarios EVER MADE!
          Tecumseh's Village, Home of Fine Civilization Scenarios

          www.tecumseh.150m.com

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          • #6
            I loved Brown Man's Burden.
            "You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." -- Siegfried Sassoon, 'Suicide in the Trenches'
            "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde

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            • #7
              I realized the depth of my addiction to CivCity last summer, when I tried to add multiple maps to El Aurens. Became utterly daunted when I realized all those cities would have to be edited from within ToT.

              So many, many belated thanks from afar, Gothmog.
              El Aurens v2 Beta!

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              • #8
                Uh...
                CIvCity, I have problems with it...
                How can I contact Gothmog?
                "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                Middle East!

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                • #9
                  What is the problem? Maybe someone here can help if you describe it.
                  STDs are like pokemon... you gotta catch them ALL!!!

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                  • #10
                    Indeed!
                    Gothmog is one of the great pioneers!

                    http://sleague.apolyton.net/index.php?title=Home
                    http://totalfear.blogspot.com/

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by our_man
                      What is the problem? Maybe someone here can help if you describe it.
                      Well, I took the effort of altering the commodities of each of a pair of hundreds cities of my scenario...
                      And it doesn't work!
                      In the CivCity itself it's OK. When I enter my sav, and give the trade tech to the players so that I could see the trade commodities, they are completely different than the ones there are in CivCity
                      Do getting some tech alter trade commodity?
                      "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                      I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                      Middle East!

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                      • #12
                        I assume you mean trade routes?
                        Did you tick them? this way they become active...

                        Also, was it the correct save or scn file you edited and opened?
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                        • #13
                          I did tick them, of course (save and next city)
                          It was a save that I attempted to change
                          "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                          I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                          Middle East!

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                          • #14
                            Strange. I wanted to make an experiment.
                            I opened the sav, and opened civcity.
                            I gave trade tech to all civs and saved the game
                            and then, clicked on Aden city and told it to save.
                            But it's told me that external changes took place (my saving of the game), and it crushed,
                            and when I opened the civcity again, Aden had the same trade commodities in civcity and in the game sav, while the rest still not
                            - and You could not change that by civ city.
                            Last edited by Heresson; October 1, 2004, 13:56.
                            "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                            I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                            Middle East!

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                            • #15
                              The trade commodities are determined by a complex formula depending on terrain and amount of time/turns passed (the commodities and supply/demand change over the course of a game), - someone in the strategy forum once worked it out.

                              I've never had real success with using CivCity for this purpose. Better check out that article, it was very lengthy and detailed, but I've forgotten the link (someone posted it in this forum a long time ago).

                              It deserves to be in the league's tips section. (this goes for many of the good strategy pieces, that are mostly overlooked by scenario creators).
                              The Slim End Of The Long Tail -
                              Kaplak Stream

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