30% Iron Civer Tournament- The Forge of Champions

[sabrewolf]

yeah, the difficulty level is tricky if you use the editor.
in a PBEM i finally did it as follows: set the player data to custom and then set it for each player to whatever difficulty you want.
the game will still show regent when loading, but the corruption and happiness are at the level of the chosen difficulty.

[alexman]

There are a couple of things that can go wrong when setting up a scenario in PBEM.

1) The game might think the map is a different size than it actually is (this happens in SP too). To get around this, you should set the map size characteristics (OCN, tech rate, etc) to be the same for all map sizes in the scenario rules, and then it will not matter what size the game thinks the map is.

2) The difficulty level might get set to something other than what you want. To get around that, you should first select the difficulty level in the setup screen, and then specify the scenario. Even though the difficulty will be changed to show 'custom', it will actually be what you had there before. Note: I played a PTW game set up like sabrewolf suggests a while back, and the tech rate did not match the difficulty level, so that method is not reliable.

[bongo]

Rats, I just checked my evil overlord worklog and couldn't find any indication I solved the difficulty problem.

However, I found this on barb activity. It's from CFC but I haven't tested it yet.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=2213967&postcount=15

watorrey. C3C at least, ignores the scenario barb activity setting and uses the barb activity setting you choose in your last random game. The only way to know 100% what your current setting is, is to use Ainwoods seedbeast to check a .sav

[alexman]

I promise you the way I described above works. I used it to set up all difficulty levels for AU601, which was a PBEM.

[bongo]

No prob mate, I was talking bout barbs while you discussed difficulty

Thanks for the tip btw. I may just be able to get my evil overlord project moving again

[Rommel2D]

Game On!

After giving it a few days, it seems like a simple solution: set the difficulty in the MP screen before loading the scenario, as alexman points out in his second point. It now shows Emperor in the box when the turn is loaded (very helpful I find in a PBEM to be reminded of such things when loading the save each turn).

Since this is the proper size map for 4 players, hopefully alexman's first point won't be an issue. Please let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary.

Tracking thread soon to follow...

[Moonbars]

[Aqualung71]

First turn played and sent to alexman....the tracking thread isn't up yet

[alexman]

3950 to Moonbars. Good luck everyone!

[Moonbars]

To Bongo

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Aqualung71
First turn played and sent to alexman....the tracking thread isn't up yet

It is now...

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Aqualung71
I can usually play a turn in the morning.....GMT2200-2345

And I often pull all nighters......as I did l;ast night till 0230 and regretted it this morning

indeed... play hard ... party harder

[Aqualung71]

Just a quick update on the IC Final. We've progressed pretty nicely since alexman returned from holidays, and at 1 turn or more per day we're now up to 3150BC

[Moonbars]

However, we are about to suffer DISASTER!!! I am on holiday from the 21st of Jan until Feb 6th.

[alexman]

Maybe if we all attack you in the next few turns, it won't make any difference.