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 | Realms Beyond Civilization - Epic Thirty-three: The Tortoise and the Hare |  |
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Sponsor: Sirian Civilization:
Persia
Special Rules: You MUST sign up in the Sign Up Thread to participate in this Epic. There will be no quitters for this race. Everyone who participates will be revealed as either a tortoise or a hare. Those who succeed will be honored as tortoises. The rest will go down in infamy as hares. Do you have what it takes to enter a high stakes race?
Scenario Concept: What would it be like to play Civ3 as a real time strategy game? We are going to find out. In the classic fable of the tortoise and the hare, the hare loses the race to the tortoise despite being far more athletically talented. The goal here will be to win the game using the least amount of real-world playing time! Scoring: You must win the game to qualify as a tortoise! Defeated players will be logged as hares, with special infamy reserved for those who do not complete the game. Play the World's end game victory screen includes a timer. This timer will be used to rank the tortoises. Your time will be listed next to your place of honor in the results. Players who play through to a defeat will be be ranked elite among hares, sorted by elimination date within the game. Their clock results will also be listed. Hares who wander off and become lost or who take a nap and sleep through part of the race, who fail to cross the finish line, will receive one demerit next to their names and not have their time recorded. Hares who sign up but do not even bother to show up for the race will receive two demerits, ten lashes with a wet noodle, and turn into bottom dwellers in the final standing. Settings: The standard Epics options have been altered. All animations have been disabled. All moves are still shown unanimated, but you may disable any you wish. The city governor has been enabled, but you may disable the automation if you wish. End of Turn waiting has been disabled, but you may re-enable it if you wish. You may change any of the options and preferences as you desire, but remember the lesson of the tortoise and the hare! Here is a list of advanced worker automation options. Shift-P
Clean Pollution Shift-F
Clear Forests
Strategy: Managing the conflicting imperatives of speeding up to save time vs slowing down to perform more successfully should give this Epic a unique flavor! Remember that automating workers and cities is optional! All the speed in the world won't matter if you lose the game. If you are pulled AFK, save the game and exit. You do not want distractions slowing your results significantly. Most players will be hurrying, so the game should pass quickly. I am allowing three weeks to give everyone plenty of time to squeeze this one in. I expect some players to finish in one or two evenings, although I also expect some to opt for certainty as a tortoise and take more time where others are rushing through. Do not sit pondering your strategy after you save the game, only to exit or reload, erasing time illegitimately off your game clock. You may pause to rethink, but either on the clock, or having exited from the game. This map is completely random and untested. I recommend figuring out at least your first turn from the starting screenshot. After that, you are on your own! Good luck. Signups will remain open until Thursday, August 7. You must provide a working email when you sign up in order to receive the start file, which will not be available for download so as to prevent any would-be hares from "dipping their toe into the water" and withdrawing from the race if they do not like the temperature!
Closing Day: Monday, August 11. Reports due on August 11 or 12. Signups are now open! Post your name and email before August 7 to participate.
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