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

[Dog of Justice]

Originally posted by jimb0v2
Goodie huts are NOT set in stone. It is set by the turn you open it on. You can always get a settler out of the hut to your north east in the beggining if you do it on the right turn. it's like turn 5,6, or 7. but if you open it on a different turn you do not get a settler.
This IS worth complaining about because an extra settler shoots you FAR FAR FAR ahead. It actually allows you to start taking over the chinese AND the persians at the same time. which is what you need to do in order to get that 10k score.

Yes, an early settler gives you something like a 15-20 turn head start, providing a LOT of additional fuel for an early blitz.

If the 4000 BC turn is labeled "turn 0", you can pop a settler out on TURN TWO (which is what I did). How bad is that??

[AeroPrinz]

I am finished. Military Victory. Autosave of last turn. You have just capture last enemy city. There are only 3 units in there. Perfect blitzkrig. First time I had to use Excel for good calculation of resourses.

[Robert]

hmmm, only 4 days to go

[Ossi]

Hi,

I also got a settler from the hut in 3900. This was the only time I reloaded the game. It is a very huge advantage to have a second settler in the beginning. When playing on deity level I start playing a few times until I find a second settler early. I think the AI also starts with 2 settlers on deity level.
I was able to get a conquest victory in 10BC with a score of 7022. But I am also very impressed by the 10K score. Even with reloading more than once it is a very high performance!

Best regards,
Ossi

[EEKthedog]

7206 170BC Conquest

Well here is my first try for an early conquest. A far bigger score is possible.

[vincepai]

Future Tournaments

It will be interesting to see how the first gameplay balances in the first patch will affect how people play future tournaments. Probably drastically lowered corruption will change things...

[Robert]

argh, I got a domination victory with 'only' 4000 points
Now I had to give away one city to the greek and to disband one city to continue playing

this really sucks. From now on I have to raze all cities
major game flaw. option: Do you want to achive the domination victory or not ? yes/no

I would get ways more points by taking all territory and keeping all cities, like I've done with all civs so far. I HATE razing cities.

*sob*

anyway, here's the zip file with my domination win.
4000 points. But I'll keep on playing thus expect me to post a conquest win as well soon.

[Lond Daer]

Well, here?s my game. Playing in a tournament has one great advantage for me. Usually I quit somewhere around 800-1400AD, because then the AI?s takes about 3-20 minutes for completing a turn. Now I have an extra motivation to keep going. Although I still finished as soon as I could. Turns took just under 4 minutes. Well again, 2505 points of Dippy victory in 1710.
I prefer games with huge maps and 12-16 civs, but then we have those 20 minutes of waiting?Well, here?s my game. Playing in a tournament has one great advantage for me. Usually I quit somewhere around 800-1400AD, because then the AI?s takes about 3-20 minutes for completing a turn. Now I have an extra motivation to keep going. Although I still finished as soon as I could. Turns took just under 4 minutes. Well again, 2505 points of Dippy victory in 1710.
I prefer games with huge maps and 12-16 civs, but then we have those 20 minutes of waiting?

[Harkonnen]

Hey guys,

I think your deadline is too short!!

I only play at night (since I work during the day) and I think I will not finish the game for the deadline.

Could you please postpone the date?

If you could, I will be very glad. It is the fifth night that I play until 5 o'clock in the morning

Bye!
h

[Capt Dizle]

I have no interest in results yielded by cheating.

Someone should start a list of those who are bragging about cheating so that we will know who to blacklist in multiplayer.

[Max Rum]

I finished by spaceship victory in 1834. My score was 2309.
It was my first full game. I started out slowly. My science was pitiable, but I direct to Great Library all my might and done it rather than everyone. I became a science leader therefore. I traded my techs with everybody. And I won.

[Robert]

Harkonnen,

I don't have much play time either, but I already finished about 2 games......
are you sure you downloaded the file when it became available ? 20 days ago ? I can hardly believe that's not enough time...

[Tilemacho]

Originally posted by CyberShy
argh, I got a domination victory with 'only' 4000 points
Now I had to give away one city to the greek and to disband one city to continue playing

this really sucks. From now on I have to raze all cities
major game flaw. option: Do you want to achive the domination victory or not ? yes/no

I would get ways more points by taking all territory and keeping all cities, like I've done with all civs so far. I HATE razing cities.

*sob*

anyway, here's the zip file with my domination win.
4000 points. But I'll keep on playing thus expect me to post a conquest win as well soon.

I totally agree with you....it's stupid to force you in domination victory/culture victory...
BTW in this game you have to keep your land under 160.000 km2 to prevent domination...a good way to achieve this is not to build any cultural improvements in your borber cities, that counts for coastal cities to (actually it's more important there because the extra tiles go wasted...)
...anyway you don't need cultural improvements...in my game now with a marketplace you can get size 12 cities with all its citizen happy!!!
...Out4blood was your first game a spaceship victory in 2050? and is this the best way to end in this year?

[Ahlyis]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
I have no interest in results yielded by cheating.

Someone should start a list of those who are bragging about cheating so that we will know who to blacklist in multiplayer.

What in the heck are you babbling about? I don't recall reading a single post here where someone claimed they cheated!

Or do you naively believe that playing more than once or reloading a saved game is somehow cheating? Even if that is what you are crying about, why would that affect multiplayer? What kind of 'cheating' has been 'bragged' about here that would carry over to multiplayer?

Nobody has claimed to have hacked the files, used mod packs or exploited the gold bug. Those would all be legitimate complaints, but if all you are whining about is people playing more than once or reloading saved games, you really need to relax!

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Ahlyis
Or do you naively believe that playing more than once or reloading a saved game is somehow cheating?

Of course it is! That should go without saying.

But to be fair: It should have been stated clearly and unambiguously before the tournament that playing the map twice and/or save reload are no-no´s.