OCC Fortnight Competition #4 -- Results and Logs

[vik]

Well, gents ... I just emailed Paul the files so that he can post them to his web page.

It was my first attempt at making a map for others. I tried to make contact with other Civs a little easier, and I also wanted to have a little control over barb activity.

The important thing is to load both files into your \mps\civ2 directorty (default) or where-ever you installed your game. One file is the .SCN file (the actual scenario), and the other file has no extention but is a text file that should (hopefully) pop up when you start the scenario to tell you about the scenario.

Please have fun and let me know if you find any bugs or oddities.

thanks

[Paul]

http://members.home.nl/paulvdb/occ4fnc.zip contains the scn and text file of vik's scenario. Unzip into your Civ2 folder, start scenario occ4fnc.scn and play as the Rebels. The map has some nice city sites, no huts, two Settlers, some extra units and you can see all the other civ's capitols and the barbarian city. Have fun.
[This message has been edited by Paul (edited May 06, 2000).]

[Scouse Gits]

Thanks both - I'm in - always ready to make a fool of myself
[edit] The symbol above is supposed to be two government agents escorting me off the premises ... [/edit]
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"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
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[Tom DeMille]

Just downloaded and started the scenario without any trouble (v242). With what looks like 4 good city sites, I think I'll ponder over starting location for most of the morning. Should be a fun game!

[crowatbitemedotcom]

SG - I don't think gummint agents are allowed to smile.

Okay I'm going to try downloading this game and my goal is: do not come in last. Sorry SG .


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[Tom DeMille]

A tricks/cheats question: I've just built 3 caravans in a row (I rush bought them 1 per turn), and they're all hides. It still shows hides as an available resource, which would indicate I could keep building more. This seems like cheating to me, so I'm going to stop building caravans for a while. I read about this phenomenon at some point in another thread. Any comments on its application to OCC?

[vik]

No problem, Sten -- you're the one that got me started.

All I'd like to know is if the scenario text-box popped up properly for you guys. I spent quite a few minutes trying to get that one to work correctly.

[Tom DeMille]

It popped up fine for me in v242.
(edited to removed a spoiler (sorry vik)

[This message has been edited by Tom DeMille (edited March 02, 2000).]

[vik]

tom,

i sent you an email to your "hotlamp" account to try to answer your question.

(edited to say "thanks, tom -- no problem")
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[Smash]

Tom D--I've seen that many times.What I've also seen is if you send those caravans you only get 1 route.Even if you send them to different cities.Try it and see what happens with trade routes

[Huey]

Nice touch, (edited after an urgent message from Inner Mongolia).
The pop-up text worked just fine (another nice touch).
Btw, (and another edit) before AC?

Guess it doesn't make much sense any more
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[Aurelius]

Another fun position.

AU--still a surprise
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[vik]

huey,

i sent you the same email message i sent tom.

all else: please feel free to email me with any specific questions you have. If possible, I'd prefer you not post specifics here initially, because there are some, ahem, "virgin" eyes that haven't seen it yet -- I wouldn't want to ruin their surprise.

if you've loaded it, you probably know what i mean.

thanks -- vik

[Tom DeMille]

Well Vik, I guess the lid is off the scenario's surprise.

Smash, I'm happy to say that my three hides caravans each formed a trade route (different cities of course). I would have s*** bricks if I had got only one trade route out of them. I ended up holding off building more caravans until after I had built Shakespeare's Theatre, so I figure that I didn't end up using the cheat.

[Sten Sture]

Thank god someone else did the map (thanks vik!) The two times I've done the map I've finished last by a significant margin.

I have to go back and look at the casualty list from that last fiasco!