Game Three!!

[Chris Horscroft]

Attached are two zip files - one is the overall score (zero sum) as at 2227, the other is the gaia controller status panel , also as at 2227.

[Chris Horscroft]

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[Chris Horscroft]

Here's the Gaia panel

[berXpert]

More new from else world

Well I guess I must write my final history soon, just to inform I'm at 2180 and 57% of the land is covered, I need 5 more turns to reach (I hope) the 60% finally and the else world history will be written.

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Chris I got the file corrupted a lot of times during the game, so I used to save every 2 or 3 turns, shut down PC and restart, that make the game a quite low, but when you "guess" when it could happen again just save and load and there is not more problem.

Do you have a previous save, ie when you are at 2225? if not copy the autosave file and rename as 2227b maybe the autosave is not corrupted yet.

If you want I can take a look, my email is berXpert@yahoo.com.mx

From what I see on your gaia control panel I guess you are building a single obelisk in a city. And from the stats screen I see that you conquer a lot more than I did, so you don't need the sea engineers, you must build 4 obelisk per city, put the obelisk at the farest point of your borders and you could see that the range will be increased, other useful thing is make an alliance because you can build obelisk on the land of your allie.

I have only 61 cities and I have built 120 obelisk, I could be end the game last night but "someone" is destroying my obelisk so I still need 5 turns to get the lost build again.

[Chris Horscroft]

Hi BerXpert,

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, the autosave is corrupted (I checked that!).

My last manual save was 30 years before, and I guess I could use the history notes I have written in order to re-do those last years, but my wife is really going to love that idea!

I didn't realise that more than one obelisk per city increased the radius. I'll do that, as although I can crank out a sea engineer every three turns in several cities, and have a couple in the water at the moment, your approach sounds definitely to be superior to mine.

Will send you the game file - was going to post some screen shots of the Australian Home Island, and the Indonesian territories on this site, but I suspect the memory limits will get in the way of the screen dumps.

Cheers

Chris

[berXpert]

Bad news Chris, the game crahs with me too.

I try to use the cheat menu to skip the turn too but nothing seems to work.

BTW trying to make the game work I discover a "trick", you can force an alliance with almost every other Civilization, except the one you are fighting.

For example North America, at diplomacy screen sugest a peace pact, they are going to reject, so you threat them if they reject you will declare war, this way they accept.

Do this with every one and you have a full alliance except the green who only accept preace but don't care about you declare war when forcing the alliance.

So if you are going to replay the turn 30 years before, make a full alliance, maximize your public works (I saw you can handle 30,000 per turn), rush buy only the sats and core necesary, and put obelisk every where at your allies land.

I bet if you replay from 2180 when you build Solaris Proyect you could easy avoid the global warming. This are my 2 cents

* Rush buy 10 sats and 10 core when gold available
* Set public works to 80 or 90
* Every city that is not building the gaia parts change the queue to build infraestructure
* Build obelisk NOT in the center of the cities but at the farest point
* Put the first obelisks not too close, including your allies, and as each turn you will be able to build 10 more check where are some freespace to put other, well with the alliance stuff I don't think you need to search for free space

Maybe you could not get thw 60% by the global warming in 2190 but for sure you end in less than 30 turns

[berXpert]

The END

Good news, the else world hast reach the science victory at year 2191, it was not posible to stop the global warming occured in 2189, but only the most polluted part of the world was affected, in this case England.

I'll put a copy of the year 2190 so every body could see the boring end, I really expected something else. BTW I'm still writting the history... wow 200 turns played is a lot of work.

I make a lot of saves if someone wants a copy of a previuos year just let me know.

[Jonny]

I believe that finally this game is completely dead. Great job to the people that finsihed it up. Of course, I have more sucession gaming to work with: the First Civ3 Sucession Game started by me! Maybe I'll see one of you guys at a future Civ3 Sucession Game.

See you all later.

[Chris Horscroft]

Love to try Civ3 games of this type - just as soon as:

1) It come out in Australia (maybe it already has?)
2) I can afford it
3) My wife lets me buy it
4) I learn how to play it!

After that, let's play!

Meanwhile, I'll follow BerXpert's advice sometime soon and have a shot at winning before the global warming...

Chris