Eager to return

[Frank Johnson]

To make a canal, go to a grassland square. Mine it. Instead of getting a forest you'll get an ocean square, after 80 turns, or 40 for engineers.

You'll have to wait untill engineers to forest grasslands (you can still do plains) but thats typical of anicent people anyway.

And the new modern infantry unit makes hilling / foresting cities for defense less neccessary, although I think you can still forest them after engineer. Here's a pic of the test of modern infantry in action.


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The howies on the left fought regular fortified mech inf. The howies on the right fought modern infantry with the pikeman tag. They get the 50% bonus from these results. Against any other modern unit their defense would only be equal to mech inf.

[deity]

Raz, I emailed you the civ program. Did you get it?

[Ecthy]

please email it to me as well won't you?

just send a mail to this login and ask for my email adress to attach the program

[OzzyKP]

Ecthelion, you don't have civ2?

[Ecthy]

Yes I do. I must have mixed up threads or so, thought they were talking about some tool

[Frank Johnson]

Download the scenario. We need a 7th for next week when we start.

[OzzyKP]

Huts or no huts?

I like having huts, but I can see reasons not to. I can go either way.

[deity]

He swings both ways...

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by deity
He swings both ways...

[OzzyKP]

Ok, we ran a test last night, and we have a few more specifications. Because of space concerns, and because several people are non-commital over which civ they are, Deity, Frank and I moved stuff around a bit. The posted map is where everyone will start.

Ljube - Serbs - White
Ozzy - English - Orange
Deity - Azande - Yellow
Frank - Chinese - Light Blue
Raz - Egyptians - Green
Prom or 7th player - Tartars - Dark Blue
Prom or 7th player - Indians - Purple

It was also decided to not allow city bribe, and increase the cost of spies to 80 sheilds. The Diplomat price will remain the same.

Still need to decide the question of whether to have huts. Looks like everyone is gonna have 2 settlers. The tech rate is gonna be 15/10, like HOTW2. Frank (or the host) needs to fix it so we do not all have communication with eachother from the start and so civs are not killed upon retirement. And the default tax rates need to be fixed.

Here is the map of our starting spots. Prom, please pick either the Indians or Tartars.

[Prometheus]

I'll take the Indians...

[Frank Johnson]

Ok the current zip should properly reflect the starting locations of all civs, proper names and genders for the players we've confirmed, and treaties say no one has contact so make sure the person who hosts doesnt select everyone can negoiate from the start.

This version still doesnt have huts, since I prefer not to have them and everyone else still seems split on the idea.

[Rasputin]

ok deity not got the eml yet, but will check again shortly...

I am fine with my starting location, i will just need to study some aqncient Egyptian websites to get in the swing iof things

What was the timing of this game again, i cant seem to remember what was agreed.

[OzzyKP]

Saturday nights at 11pm USA Eastern time. (-5 GMT I think) Though if Prom could do 10 or 1030, it'd be better. But if not, 11 works.

[OzzyKP]

Oh, and Deity and Ljube were talking last night about using something other than mining grassland.