5th Apolyton CtP2 SP Tournament: 20 March - 20 April 2003

[Shadow]

I'M BACK!

Howdy all!
Well, as my last tournament game (4) was coming to a close, lightning struck my damn house and toasted my brand new laptop... NOT HAPPY!
So I never got to submit my game, or even restart it for a while... ah well, it happens.

Took me a while, but I'm internet and CTP2 capable again, and ready to take on tournament 5! Just a fluke that one started recently... haven't been to the Apolyton forums or site for a number of months now...

Anyways, it'll be good to play MedMod for the first time. I've started the game already and enjoying all the new things - managed to slaughter off the Chinese early as they were giving me some minor trouble. Immediately turned on the Greens which was a bit of wishful thinking... didn't realise they had Cannons... Doh!

I'm going for the quickest bloodlust victory I can, which seems quite foreign to me as I'm not usually out to destroy everything that exists.

Good to see a lot of old faces here - or names rather... - be great to go into competition against you all again!

Good luck all,
Shadow

[Maquiladora]

The goal of the Tourney is to have fun and learn!

Admit it youre more competitive than any of us in secret

Well, as my last tournament game (4) was coming to a close, lightning struck my damn house and toasted my brand new laptop... NOT HAPPY!

Ive heard some excuses in my time... WB Shadow.

managed to slaughter off the Chinese early as they were giving me some minor trouble. Immediately turned on the Greens which was a bit of wishful thinking... didn't realise they had Cannons... Doh!

I went for the chinese first too because they were pissin me off big style but i left the Greens (forgot the civ name too) until last, constantly swapping and poaching techs off them right until they were the last, then STAB! oops sorry SQUASH!

[HuangShang]

nice war stories guys, im starting today

[centrifuge]

Well, I've had a chance to get my tournament game started. It's actually the first time that I've played CTP2 in months, as well as my 1st real crack at the MedMod. Must say that I've enjoyed it so far. The Barbarians have actually attacked me, and the AI is keeping their cities well defended. I''m going for the quick bloodlust victory, 2 ai's down and 3 to go , well atually 2 and 1/2 to go

[Shadow]

...so I load up my latest save, play a few turns... and CRASH! Game shuts down. Try it a few more times, same thing... looks like my game won't be submitted.
Tried a zillion things, but nothing's working.

We'll see what happens, I've got a few more tricks up my sleeve.

[Shadow]

Hey Loc,

I've had a thought for another tournament in the future, and figured I'd voice it to you here so others could have their say.

Personally I prefer to have a high-tech military, the threat of nuclear war, eco-rangers, nuclear subs and carriers everywhere, etc... in short, I prefer the last half of the game. So sometimes I'll start a MP game where I can advance the starting sciences easily and add in a heap of settlers, then restart in SP mode.
This allows me to go straight into building machine-gunners, etc.

Would this be worth a try in a tournament?
Are any other players interested in this type of game where technology reins supreme even in the beginnings of the game?

Thoughts anyone...?

Shadow

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by Shadow

Are any other players interested in this type of game where technology reins supreme even in the beginnings of the game?

Absolutely. However, I've always preferred modern to "space age or nano/future age" so maybe the WAW mod would be a good choice. Either way Shadow, I think that's a great idea.

[Maquiladora]

What about a game starting in Diamond with only bloodlust allowed but i think it will probably be WaW next too...

[Shadow]

What's this WAW you guys are talking about?
Hang on, I'll try a search...

Got my game to work!
Had one previous save that went WAAAY back... so had to reply a large part, but it only took a few hours to complete the game.

So I'm playing away happily, and I suddenly found myself with nuclear weapons capabilities... so, I used them! I changed virtually all build lists to nukes, made sure all variables were geared to max production, and got to a point where I was churning out one new nuke per round.
As soon as one was made, it was launched or transported to the war zone.

I had a lot of new civs keep starting up which didn't help things... had to send quite a few warheads around the planet 'mopping up'.

So, in the end I won by bloodlust... with a bunch of terrible polution to show for it.

Final save game is attached. The final city (Persian I think) has just had a few nukes pumped into it, and there's a tank and rifleman standing by to take the city and take control of the world!

Shadow

[Shadow]

Got aweful quite around here in the last few days... noone else have any news to report on their games???

[[PL]Primo]

question

Hi
whats more important:
1. final points?
2. turns needed to finish?

pw

[Maquiladora]

Whichever you want to go for

If ive got plenty of time to play id go for points (ie hold alot of cities and science victory) but if i dont have alot of time or i cant be bothered ill go for the quickest turns i can, either diplomatic or conquest.

[Aias]

I'm trying to play in the tourney, but everytime I've played, whenever I click on any of my cities, I get this error message:
Unable to find file 'UPU158ML.TGA'

And then I end up having the game crash to the desktop. A few turns after that, it crashes totally.

Any thoughts?

[mnbryan37]

Aias,

I had the same problem. It caused by the "pictures" folder unziping to the wrong folder. In my case it went to the "call to power 2" folder. You need to move it to the ........"ctp2_data\default\graphics\pictures.

[HuangShang]

wow, Aias has alot of games......