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  • #1

    Starting Locations: Duels

    Having given up on any crash free 3+ player playing for the moment, I've taken to duels on tiny maps (and with some success). Yet for the majority of my games, it seems that the starting locations of each player are always within 10 squares apart.

    Below is an extreme victim to such an outcome - a game in which my cap (left) and his (right) with a whopping 4 tiles inbetween. Is this simply a bug?
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  • #2
    Not sure, Zylka. btw, how come you bailed on our duel last night? (I was plying as Milton.)
    Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
    Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
    Wadsworth: Well your work has not changed.

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    • #3
      Because he's a quitter when things go bad LOL
      "Old age and skill will overcome youth and treachery. "
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      • #4
        Originally posted by metalhead
        Not sure, Zylka. btw, how come you bailed on our duel last night? (I was plying as Milton.)
        I wonder how long you'll have to wait for Zylka to answer your question...
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        • #5
          yeah, I didn't notice him hanging around the MP lobby afterwards. He was hanging around challenging everybody, and as soon as I saw him set the game parameters, I knew what he was trying to do, and stopped his gambit easily. Then, he split
          Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
          Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
          Wadsworth: Well your work has not changed.

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          • #6
            Bwahahahaha I split?!?!?! Did we even start a game together? I might have crashed, if we did - because I've only quit 1 game, and it was due to horrendous lag. Either way, why don't we arrange to play today? I'd love to teach you a lesson for your insolent tone
            Last edited by Zylka; November 6, 2002, 18:15.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by metalhead
              as soon as I saw him set the game parameters, I knew what he was trying to do, and stopped his gambit easily. Then, he split
              Sorry, I just re-read in more detail and am wondering just what the f*ck you're talking about, liar. Can I see a save of your "stopping my gambit"? Bullsh*t.

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              • #8
                Whoo Hoo... The struting starts...

                He didn't quit on me when my stack of Vet Archers popped up next to his lightly defended (compared to the attack stack) city in an elimination duel.
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                • #9
                  Yep. And NYE is the only person to beat me, out of 10 successfull duels.

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                  • #10
                    Firaxis, this needs fixing

                    Here's a nice new one:
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                    • #11
                      Those are close starts.

                      Have you seen any with starts further apart Zylka?

                      I have seen one.
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                      • #12
                        Well I believe my latest duel was the furthest spaced apart yet. It's tough to pinpoint his cap on the left, I couldn't get a good shot including it because lag froze the game up

                        I'm going to start on wayyy larger maps and see if that makes a proportionate difference
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                        • #13
                          It's not a bug, it was this way in the original civ3 too, they just never fixed it. The map generation and player positioning is one of the worst systems I have seen in any game. But of course Firaxis will never do anything about this because they never expected MP to be successful anyways. PTW was sold for it's extra civs, not for its functionality in MP. And how many people play 1v1 in SP? Don't expect it to be fixed. And this is actually a small problem compared to alot of other things in civ3.

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                          • #14
                            HappySunShine, you don't sound to happy.

                            But I have to disagree with you Happy, IMO, I believe PTW MP will be a raging success. The game just has some growing-pains and Firaxis is addressing those "pains" even as we type.
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                            • #15
                              I have played two duels, and one both. Frist time i got lucky. Took out border city guarded with 1 spear w/archer (had 3 WC's coming also). 2nd Game, did a rush w/5 swords & 2 srchers.
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