1st Apolyton CtP2 Tournament: 23 April - 23 May 2002

[Locutus]

Bill,
NP. Good to hear that.

Dean,
Yes the manual is incorrect, you do indeed need to wait 5 turns after you have an Alliance with everyone.

If you just click End-Turn all the time your population will grow (among other things) and you get points for every citizen you have at the end of the game, so your score would increase. If you have things in the build queues as well, your economic and military ranking will improve as well, which also benefits your score.

And you do get bonuses (boni?) for victories but I have no idea about how many points for each victory. I don't know what the 'games in progress' thing means, I think it just indicates that the game is still being played and that you haven't won/lost yet, but I'm not sure about that. I wouldn't value it too much...

I will pass your compliments about the forums on to the owners of the site

[centrifuge]

Locutus, are going to be absolutely strict with the May 16 cutoff? The reason I'm asking is that I've had very little time to play lately (Finals/moving etc), and I still have a couple of Civs to crush (English and Dutch). I'm going to try my best, but if I can't get the game finished within the next couple of days, I think that I may have to sit this one out.

[mnbryan37]

Locutus,

The Windows XP, Home Edition that I have definately does not have the WinZip program. Once I down loaded and installed it, I had no additional problems.

Deantoth,

The scoring bonus's may very with the difficulty level. At the "impossible" level the Victory Bonus (regardless of which kind of victory) is 5000 points. If you accumulated the most number of Wonders, you get a bonus of 500. Points earned during the process of the game are: 100 for each Wonder, 10 for each advance, and 100 for each "Feat" . The balance of the points are based on the number and size of your cities, including population.

[DeanToth]

thanks for the scoring tips... much apreciated

As for XP and zip files... this is strange since my copy of winME included natively the ability to browse zip files within a window as if they were normal folders.. to extract files you simply drag-n-dropped files to another folder. It is indeed strange that this feature was not included in XP... perhaps it was a licensing/legal issue?? Oh well.

Anyway, glad that winzip is working for you... Personally I used to use winZip as well, but have since found winRAR to be superior as a compression tool since it supports zip and other formats as well as allowing one to automatically compress files into multiple "volumes" (so a 500mb file could be spread across fifty 10mb files for instance). Very useful if sending large files to friends or for posting partial files on an FTP site....

Long live Call to Power!

[Dale]

The winning turn.........

Win type: Conquest
Year: 1785
Size: 45 Cities (though I've starved quite a few)
Government: Communism

I used infantrymen since getting gunpowder, and some naval as well. At the end I had 329 infantrymen sitting around. At one stage I was producing 10 a turn.

Anyways, here's the save game and score.

Dale

[Dale]

And the save game.....

Just move the carrack onto the last city. There's no defenders.

[DeanToth]

Dale

how the heck did you get a screen shot of this?

I realize that in windows, you can use "prtscrn" key to snap the whole screen or "alt+printscreen" to get just the active window (or is it ctrl+prtsc?? i can never remember).

does this work with ctp?? anyway, I am surprised and pleased that you are participating in this tournament!!

Take it easy

[Dale]

Dean:

Why wouldn't I participate? Gotta show why I needed an ultra-agressive AI like WAW.

Anyways, to get the screengrab, just do PRTSCRN, then go into windows paint or another graphics program, paste it and crop to size. BTW, I think there's a width limitation of 600 pixels for pictures, not sure. Oh, and make sure you save it as a .gif or .jpg.

Have fun mate.

[DeanToth]

heh.... well, it's good to know our resident mod-saints aren't above getting down and dirty with us plebian players.. :-)


(seriously though, we all love the mods and appreciate your hard work)

Later

[Maquiladora]

Ok here goes

Won by Diplomacy
Year : 1180 AD
Score : 11090

Very interesting game actually
Took me absolutely aaaaaages to take the Portugese city of Porto. I was fighting with mainly, archers and hoplites, while their only advantage was mounted archers, dunno why it took so long anyway took me 2 and a half full stacks in the end.

After that it was mainly plain sailing up until i had to actually do some real sailing anyway. After i began my assault on the Incas after doing away with ''most'' of the Portugese, the Incas ran off and set up second home on some poxy island down south. Anyway i churned out a ''few'' fire trireme's unloaded a couple of infantrymen and dealt with that pretty sharpish.

And then there was only a smallish Portugese city on a one tile island left, so i ploughed through that with a full stack of ''ship of the line'' and that was it, all the ''diplomacy'' had been forced earlier.

Anyway

[centrifuge]

Won by Diplomacy
Year : 1180 AD
Score : 11090


Wow Maquiladora, a possible earliest victory.

[Maquiladora]

Well maybe,
The earliest year winner was always going to be a Diplomacy victory, it would be nice to compare with others, i know Locutus got 1330AD (?)

[Locutus]

Edit: DP

[Locutus]

Ah, great to see the results are finally getting in. A little reminder for everyone: the tournament ends in a week so start playing if you haven't done so yet!

centrifuge,
I'm afraid I'm going to have to be fairly strict with that May 16th cut-off. I can give you until the 17th, maybe 18th but not much longer. I'm going on vacation the 28th and want to have the second tournament running by then (which will end sometime after I'm back). This means I must have made a ranking of the first tournament and decided on the settings for the 2nd tournament (which I don't want to do before I have the ranking, so I can take into account the level of the participants). I hope you can find the time to finish your game...

BTW, feedback is very much welcome. From centrifuge's remark I conclude that he would appreciate it if the tournaments would last longer than 3 weeks (4 weeks maybe?), what do others think about this? If there's anything else you wish to comment on, don't hesitate to do so. I want these tournaments to be as fun as possible for everyone so if you have suggestions for improvement...

For the Conquest victory, Dale is leading in terms of endyear, francois in endscore. For Diplomacy victory, Maquiladora is leading in endyear, I myself in endscore. In the overall rankings, Maquiladora is leading the endyear board while francois is leading the endscore board. But with only 4 scores in this doesn't mean much yet (note that this is all unofficial, in the official rankings my score doesn't count and I'm yet to check Dale's and Maquiladora's savegames)...
(I'll see if I can post some statistics later)

[Dale]

*awaiting those stats with baited breath*