PBEM Challenges

[quinns]

Originally posted by blackice
Me too what do you say we have the top 6 in a battle

Birdy,Quinns,ber,Kralj,Lung,blackice?

Any takers? maybe we could play J.'s tourney map or quinn's map and tourney rules? Skill only? No ruins nothing a map even goods and top dog?

I'm in.

Blackice -- Are you and Birdman starting a one vs. one challenge match also? Good. The one vs. one PBEM games move very fast. Birdman and I are on turn 112, and we started in May 2002!

[blackice]

No I just thought it would be a whole wack of fun if the top dogs had a shot out. Tourney rules no ruins and a nice big map that was the same for all.

So we just have Lung and Kralj to go. I know Kralj is going on holidays soon. That could give us some time to get a map together.

[quinns]

Regarding a map. We could drag out that old map that was called sym4wayc.csg. (Blackice, Gavrushka and I played a good game on that one -- Gavrushka won -- Damn lucky bloke! ) That was symmetrical for 4 players, but it was set up so that 8 players could have exactly the same terrain and goods. I would only have to remove the central land bridges to make it completely symmetrical for 8 players, (or connect the other land masses on the left and right edges via additional landbridges.)

[blackice]

Sounds good that was a fine job you did on that map

Gav yes he turned into an extremely good player, my guess is he had a great chance at taking that tourney. So did you Quinn

[TheBirdMan]

I don't like those sym-maps.

They simply takes the "living" and surprises out of a game.

[blackice]

Well you know we agree there 100% random map is good.

[quinns]

Okay. I like random maps too... but let's make all ruins off limits... and the wonders illegal -- to lessen the luck factor. Everything else goes. How is that?

[blackice]

Just exclude them in the map creation.

[quinns]

Originally posted by blackice
Just exclude them in the map creation.

How do you exclude ruins without revealing the map? Oh, you mean get a moderator to do it?

[blackice]

Just modify the mod and or create a scenario and alter the file.

[TheBirdMan]

AAAARRRGGGGG..... Hulk-hulk.

How studid can I be. I just realized, that I do not need to be afraid of building cities "in-the-middle-of-nowhere" in my first Quinns-challenge (ruins allowed in that game).

I HAVE CONFUSIOUS ACADEMY. I have no need pulling those "wandering normads" closer to my homeland.

[jpww]

quinns,

Modify the following constant to have a value of zero in the Const.txt file before creating the map:

After:

RUINS_CHANCE_PER_BOX 0

This file is generally found in the Civilization-Call to Power/ctp_data/default/gamedata folder. It can also be modified and saved in the default/gamedata of a particular scenario so I've heard

Birdman,

Did you find Confucius Academy in a ruin?

[quinns]

Okay JPWW! I don't know jack about mods as you can tell! That was a simple solution... I like those simple solutions.

Birdman, Confucius Academy? The Spanish have begun great educational ventures with the Chinese!! Damn... I'm in trouble.

[quinns]

Originally posted by blackice
Sounds good that was a fine job you did on that map

Gav yes he turned into an extremely good player, my guess is he had a great chance at taking that tourney. So did you Quinn

Why, THANKS ICE! But there is some pretty stiff competition there in that "tourney" -- I would have been hard pressed. And one needs VERY much free time to commit to playing in that tournament. I will stick to PBEM. I wish some of those top internet players would come over to PBEM. They would be good competition here. It kind of baffles me -- the reluctance most all of the great internet players have to play PBEM? It just takes a few minutes a day to play PBEM, but hours upon end to play an internet game which usually ends without result. Oh well, to each their own!

[blackice]

True but not many of them have good military skills.

I think what they do not like is the fact cheating is easy to do. I believe all those years in GL have left a permanant distrust of others for them?