1st Apolyton CIV3 TOURNAMENT : 15-30/November/2001

[Eli]

Zip them. They will lose 90-95% of their size.

[Dark Horseman]

How will we upload our save files? or is there something that I am missing? (if so, please save me some dignity and point it out right away!)

You can always zip the files to compress the sizes. Still that may not solve the problems of a 2 MB saved game. For further compression, zips can compress into .rar files.
Here's a free download for WinRAR.
WinRAR


Mark G will have to approve uploading .rar files to the site though. Rar files are definately not as popular are well known as zips, but if the upload max is indeed 500k, then our last option may be to upload the files to a FTP.

I'm sure Mark will know what to do.

[David Floyd]

Yep, I'm playing this tournament...started it tonight. I'm up to about 500 AD or so...my score is hovering around 600, with the Greeks slightly behind me, but my culture is double the Greeks and anywhere from 5-10 times everyone else's...oughta be absorbing a bunch of cities soon...

I've got about 10 or 11 base cities, and then a few that I have absorbed culturally. I started out way behind in the tech race because I went big time expansion + workers, but that's OK because I outexpanded most of the AIs in the beginning, then while they were catching up I was researching. At this point I'm slightly ahead in tech - I'd be a lot more than slightly ahead, except that I'm making a pretty penny in both gold and luxuries by selling my techs around the board.

My one bad spot though is that I have only 2 wonders, computer has the rest so far...that's OK though, I should be able to get most of the rest I want because of my nice city base (half my core cities are at size 12, the rest are getting real close).

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Dark Horseman
Mark G will have to approve uploading .rar files to the site though.

you probably didnt notice that rar files are already allowed

[Dev]

Very nice starting position.

So far I've suceeded in moving settlers in the wrong direction , getting civil disorders because "I will check that city next turn" and several other mindless minor ****ups but I guess that's what happens when you try to play Civ after a 16 hour work day, late Civ session the night before and not enough sleep in general ~

Still, I'm sligthly ahead in tech and at par expansionwise with the dominant AI (Germans) at some 8 or 9 towns each.

I was very lucky with scouting/huts, getting Math and Philosophy from huts halfway across the world

oh and anybody moving their initial city spot one tile to the **** can be written off as save game whores

I'm looking forward to see how other people play this scenario


/dev

[Auk]

or as "reading the forums and taking good advice" whores :-) guess I've got a one in two chance of getting it right...

[Robert]

pherhaps we should wait with this tournament untill:

1. the patch made the 10,000,000 bug absolute
2. the europeans have more experience so that top-10 won't be dominated by yankees.

[Zealot]

Just downloaded it. I didn't finish my first game, since I can only play at work ( my PC at home doesn't support 1024x768, blablabla), so I can't be sure that I can finish it by the 30th of November.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by CyberShy
2. the europeans have more experience so that top-10 won't be dominated by yankees.

let them be happy about their abilities for the first tournament
then the eurocoms will take over

[Robert]

let them be happy about their abilities for the first tournament
then the eurocoms will take over

nah, the evil warez-eurocoms will beat them immediately !

Not to speak about those guys that spend years of their live to create a website that came close connected with Firaxis so they could starting the blatant @ss kissing and got their copy for that reason immediately after it's USA release (or pherhaps even before it )

[ChrisShaffer]

Are you considering multiple awards? CivFanatics "Game of the Month" are discussing declaring a winner for each of the victory conditions. The idea being that the point system might favor, for example, a culture victory over a military victory. Say it turns out that spaceships are the best way to score points in Civ3. If everyone becomes aware that fact, and the only consideration for winning the tournament is points, then that takes a lot of the fun out of the game.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by ChrisShaffer
a winner for each of the victory conditions

well, we'll determine this according to the submitted games

for example if we get 30 submissions, it will be a pity to name just one winner.

[remconius]

Originally posted by CyberShy
pherhaps we should wait with this tournament untill:

1. the patch made the 10,000,000 bug absolute
2. the europeans have more experience so that top-10 won't be dominated by yankees.

well.... Let's have a new challenge after this tournament when the patch arrives. This is not the only tournament I suppose.

I hope the modding can be checked, cause that would blow the purpose...

On online environment like Diablo II would be excellent where you could play your tournament game. Perhaps they should set up with a battle.net or Gamespy.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by remconius
This is not the only tournament I suppose.

of course, this is only the beggining

[Robert]

of course, this is only the beggining

prepare yourself !
Apolyton tournaments untill you DIE !
My game is doing great. It's 'only' regent level (while I play Emperor in other games) and it's really a peace of cake

Do you participate yourself as well Markos....?
Or only if you win