Which was your favourite AU scenario so far?

[UnOrthOdOx]

I have only played 401 and 208 so far, (208 opened my eyes to how much I rely on squeezing the AI for peace) so I can't really judge this fairly. I am looking forward to more, though, and will not ever play single player again unless it is a comparitive game...so I may just be going back through and looking up some of these.

First, I think Ill swallow my pride and step down a level to try 208 on Monarch...

[Arrian]

I enjoyed 101, 102, 206 and 207. I didn't play many of the ones in the middle. I also enjoyed the first minitourney a lot.

101 reminded me that I could miss important wonders and still win handily.

102 was just cool - being so different, and because of the little extra touches ("Hippy Sam" etc). And I lost in a particularly brutal yet hilarious fashion.

206 was fun because it involved the Celts, because I played like a total psychopath (more than usual, even!), and because we had an additional purpose: evaluate the Gallic Swordsman.

207 was fun because I put more effort than usual into my AARs, and lots of others seemed to as well, not to mention that the game became a UP game for me, which is always fun.

In the end, I voted for AU102: Give Peace a Chance!

-Arrian

[Nor Me]

My vote goes to AU203. It might not have been the best game in general but I had fun losing it.

[FrustratedPoet]

102 was the best. Playing without any military units whatsoever was so radically different from how anyone usually plays the game. Great Civ memories.

Son of SVC was excellent too.

[Aeson]

Aeson: I'll throw down the gauntlet, and claim that AU208 on Deity is unbeatable the first time around. Especially if the Cultural victory is disabled (makes sense, given the point of the scenario).

Might be. It would require a few lucky guesses the first time around, and probably still wouldn't work unless you got very lucky. It's close to unbeatable regardless of the time around.

[vmxa1]

Cultural victory, what about the UN? No way to interfer with the vote other than building the UN yourself. Good luck at Deity on that in this map.
One of the untouched civ like America will be free to build away.
I would say this map is best played at Domination or Conquest, isn't that war is for anyway?

[Theseus]

Re: Which was your favourite AU scenario so far?

Originally posted by Dominae
make the best use of availalbe land.

1) My vote: Son of SVC. Someone referenced my 'judo' move on MZO, and that inspired me to go back and re-read the thread... WOW, I forgot how intense it was.

2) I was further inspired to re-read the orignal SVC... Aeson, don;t take this the wrong way but rather as the compliment that it is... you rate an 11 on my STCOMOM!!!!

3) I've had lots'o fun with most of the other AU courses, going all the way back to MT1 (but not my first attempt at MT2... , although I've recovered from that), and I HIGHLY suggest that anyone who hasn't played them try'em out.

4) As far as I'm concerned, I /we have accomplished a bunch of our goals with the whole series... learning, fun, the AU Mod, etc.

5) AU 208. !^#%$&*&*@!$#@$ (Good, that's what I came here for!!)

Lastly, I quoted Dominae at the beginning for a reason...

Every once in a while, Dominae (and others, but Dom most of all), throws out one of these 'bon mots' and they jump at me off the computer screen. They're usually buried / embedded in some other discussion...

USE THE BEST LAND AVAILABLE.

I stare at my screen trying to figure out how to communicate to all of 'poly... I don't do it nearly well enough, and I hope my various teammates won't mind my saying so, but watching Dom and Nathan and Aeson and E_T in action simply blows me away.

I'll come back on-topic, but to anyone reading this, you wanna get good, join a 'poly team and watch our best in action...

Whew. Back on-topic, and on that note: This is not a whole scenario, but I think it'd be good to learn how to 'share' optimal tiles in one of our upcoming courses.

Here endeth the ramble.

[Dominae]

Re: Re: Which was your favourite AU scenario so far?

Originally posted by Theseus
one of these 'bon mots' and they jump at me off the computer screen. They're usually buried / embedded in some other discussion...

Actually, they're usually buried in all the other crap I write most of the time.

Here endeth the ramble.

Good ramble!


SO, should we use the results of this poll to determine which scenario we would like to replay/revamp, or should we start another poll entirely? Personally, I would really like to try my hand at another 'Son of SVC'-esque scenario...perhaps created by Aeson himself?




Dominae

[Theseus]

Repeat:



In my recollection, we haven't played anything designed by Aeson...

There is no emoticon that expresses...

If I am not wrong, in AU we have thus experienced two games that were not just unusual tests, but in fact challenged, *challenged*, all of us... and, even given how much fun and learning have come from, and will come from, all of AU, G*DAMNIT we want those challenges!

So... (me being not nearly done with with various games I'm playing) I have a request... Aeson, will you design the next AU game?

Take your time... enlist partners... be tricky...

Design what you would find challenging, and have fun with.

(holy chr*st, what kinda horrible game I bringing down on the rest of us?)

[Arrian]

Actually, I suspect Aeson would be a kinder creator than alexman.

-Arrian

[Nakar Gabab]

You can expect every civ in Aeson's scenarios to be orange-colored, thus raising mass confusion as we attempt to pick friend from foe!

[Aeson]

[self-serving advertisement] (not that I actually care much about advertising the Tournament here, but it might save me a few hours designing a map )

I designed a few maps for the CFC Tournament's next season. Not sure which ones they'd be using yet. Nothing like SVC, SoSVC, or 208 (they would lynch me!), but a few interesting things I though would be fun. The Tournament allows for choosing the difficulty level too.
[/self-serving advertisement]

If I get some time I will try to put together something interesting for the AU, though it is a little intimidating given the past games and how well they were designed. Currently I am a bogged down (or having too much fun playing with our new database ) with matters over at the GOTM so it might be a few weeks before I can get something together.

[Dominae]

Take your time, Aeson, I'm sure AU could use a break.

As with other scenarios, we're not looking for something too fancy, just a few touches here and there to make things interesting (AU208 was probably the most doctored map we've ever played...other than maybe Island Hopping). I hope you're not offended that we're using your name and SVC as a PR stunt for AU...


Dominae


P.S: Completely off-topic, but as a favor could you petition to have the annoying "required files" removed from the GOTM games at CFC? I mean, you should be allowed to play the scenario with whatever graphics you like, right? End rant.