AU501: The Power of Seafaring

[Arnelos]

Ok, something is fishy... I couldn't get any files out of either zip file with winzip, but my copy of WinRAR opened the files and got the contents out just fine

[vmxa1]

It is because you are on XP. DL Winzip and you will be fine.

[Catt]

Originally posted by donZappo
Gonna leave us hanging, Catt? Did you get any SGLs from goody hut techs?

Sorry, forgot to mention the test results at the end of the post as I had intended! No, no SGLs from tech huts -- my test came after Drachen posted his / her results and then lockstep used my test scenario to double-check my results, too. All available in the SGLs and Me thread in the Strat forum.

Catt

EDIT: Just downloaded; will begin playing stock rules tomorrow (though pressed for time in RL just now). END EDIT

[Dominae]

Important: Due to the potential differences between Curragh explorations in the early-game, if you do not want to read big spoilers avoid the first two DAR threads until you've reached end of the third (that is, you've contacted all civs). Some of you are luckier than others...(and the seas are less suicidal in the stock version!).


Dominae

[nbarclay]

Am I correct that there are a total of ten civs in the game (us and nine AIs)? (It's kind of important to know so we'll know when to post to DAR 3.)

[Dominae]

Yes, there are nine AI civs. I actually posted that in the DAR3 thread, but I guess that's a catch-22 of sorts.


Dominae

[nbarclay]

Dominae, is the Black Death in this game your doing? I've never seen it before, playing regular games.

[Dominae]

Originally posted by nbarclay
Dominae, is the Black Death in this game your doing? I've never seen it before, playing regular games.

[nbarclay]

Is that a "yes" or a "no" or a slightly guilty-looking "Who, Me?"

[Dominae]

The last one.

[vmxa1]

It is not std in epics, so he is guilty.

[Arnelos]

Oh man... When I was playing in the Beta test, there was the longest series of beta patches where plague was standard in epic games.... so let me just say from experience that I HATE PLAGUE!!!!

That said, it does add some interesting strategic elements to the middle ages part of the game and an occassional nasty surprise in the Industrial or even Modern age.

Because of the strategy I've planned out for the early Middle Age, I'm going to hate Dominae if he included Plague, but I suppose I'll find a way to cope.

[nbarclay]

I had Black Death hit one of my cities, but I think it just cost me one pop point, and it didn't spread to any of my other cities. I have no idea whether that's typical of the current implementation or whether I got lucky (to the extent that anyone who has some of his people die of Black Death can be called lucky ).

I hope people don't mind my discussing this here rather than in one of the DAR threads, but since plague isn't part of normal epic games, it seems reasonable to discuss it here as a warning to other players.

[Jawa Jocky]

I can't download the course. The link takes me to a blank webpage.

I disabled adblocking on Norton Internet Security 2004 and was able to download

[CorpusScorpius]

hello all I cant seem to unzip the file once i have down loaded it.......... any tips running XP & havent had any problems unzipping other stuff ( Desert Combat, Conquest patch)............. read the previuous posters fer solution thx anyway