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24/09/07 - You'd think we'd know better by now than to expect a patch to come out on time. Nevertheless, we're in a bit of a bind because tournament games need to be played using the same version of the game for the results to be comparable. As a result, we've delayed opening It's a Wonderful Life (previously Adventure 23, now likely Adventure 24) and Epic Fourteen - Boudica the Great until the 3.13 patch is out. We were expecting the patch by mid-September, but unfortunately that hasn't turned out to be the case. We're sorry for the delay, but we think it's important to avoid opening games just before a new patch. However, we didn't want to leave you hanging. Luckily, Atlas has come with what should be a speedy little adventure to help you pass the time. Adventure Twenty-three - Speedy Gonzalez opens today, and it will run for three weeks. It's also reporting day for Adventure Twenty-two - Brick by Brick, so go ahead and post your reports in the forum.
27/08/07
- Adventure Twenty-two - Brick
by Brick is now open! Also, two new games have been announced-
Epic Fourteen - Boudica the Great
will open next week, and Adventure
Twenty-three - It's a Wonderful Life will open two weeks
after that. You didn't have any other plans for the month, did you?
23-08-07 - Results are up for Adventure Twenty-one - The Sky Gods, and Adventure Twenty-two - Brick by Brick has been announced. It will open this Monday. 14/08/07 - A new patch for Beyond the Sword is out, which only makes changes to the game's DirectX support. Although we usually require that tournament players don't patch until a game closes, we're making an exception this time. For Epic 13, you can play in version 3.02 or 3.03. For future patches, it is always a good idea to check in here before you patch, in case of (sometimes undocumented) gameplay issues. Also, a new succession game has begun, exploring the "Defense" scenario from BTS. 06/08/07 - It's opening day for Epic Thirteen - Expansion Potluck. If you've already signed up, your save has been mailed! If not, you can still sign up until Monday, August 27, but we encourage you not to wait until the last minute! Please send me (Griselda) a private message on the forums if you don't receive your save within 24 hours of signing up. Reporting has opened for Adventure Twenty-one - The Sky Gods. Did the Gods smile on your game? Post your report and let us know! In addition, results are up for Adventure Twenty - Desert Domination and Epic Twelve - The Gauntlet, and the succession game page has been updated.
30/07/07 - It's closing day for Epic Twelve - The Gauntlet, so please post your reports in the reporting forum. We're also please to announce Epic Thirteen - Potluck Expansion, our first Beyond the Sword game and also a potluck. Signups are open now, and the first files will be mailed next week. 08/07/07 - It's opening day for Adventure Twenty-one - The Sky Gods, and reporting day for Adventure Twenty - Desert Domination. Also, results are up for Epic Eleven - Hooray for Hollywood. Enjoy!
28/06/07 - Lots of updates today! Results are now up for all tournament games that ended earlier than this week! Specifically today, we have Epic Eight - Potluck, Epic Nine - Horse Feathers, Warlords One - Impi Zisshun, Warlords Two - The Worst form of Government, Adventure Fifteen - The French Riviera, and Adventure Sixteen - Let it Snow!. Thanks to everyone who put in hard work to help make this happen. I also made a few changes to the Game List page that will hopefully make it easier to use. Completed games are now in descending order, so that the more recent games are listed first. We have had so many games that newer ones were getting buried. Also, I added links near the top of the page so that you can jump to Adventures, Warlords, or Epics results. Hopefully that should help you get to what you're looking for more quickly. I have also updated the Succession Games page in a similar way, with links going to the RB, RBW, and SGOTM sections. The SG page is again up-to-date, and I included links to The Real Ms. Beyond's (yes, her secret identity is out) games so that they will be easier to find. Oh, and we now have an accurate finish date for Kodii's Adventure Fourteen game, and accolades for those who abstained from Slavery. 25/06/07- Epic Twelve - The Gauntlet is now open! 22/06/07 - Lots of updates today! First of all, information pages are up for two upcoming games - Epic Twelve - The Gauntlet, which will open this week, and Adventure Twenty-one - The Sky Gods, which will open in two weeks. Sulla has also been working on the results pages. Results are up for Adventure Thirteen - Sixth Column and Adventure Fourteen - King of India. The results pages have also been updated for Adventure Five - Waiting for Godot, and Adventure Six - The Cradle of Civilization. 18/06/07 - Results are up for Warlords Three- Wan Kon and His Minions, including Ruff_hi's nifty graph. Also, the succession games page is finally up-to-date. 11/06/07 - Lots of updates today! First of all, it's opening day for Adventure Twenty - Desert Domination, a gentle adventure. Results are also up for Adventure Nineteen - Mao's Muse and Epic Ten - Rising Sun. In addition, Sulla has provided the worldbuilder file for Adventure Nineteen, so you can experiment with different tech choices if you want. It's also closing day for Warlords Three- Wan Kon and His Minions, so you can go ahead and post your reports. Enjoy!
21/05/07 - It's closing day for Adventure Nineteen - Mao's Muse, so you can post your reports and (finally) talk about what techs you chose. It's also opening day for Epic Eleven - Hooray for Hollywood. 15/05/07 - Results are up for Adventure Seventeen - PETA Crusaders and Adventure Eighteen - Mansa Moneybags. 14/05/07 - It's closing day for Epic Ten - Rising Sun, so post your reports on the reporting forum. Warlords Three- Wan Kon and His Minions opens today, and Epic Eleven - Hooray for Hollywood has been announced, and will open next week.
16/04/07 - It's closing day for Adventure Seventeen - PETA Crusaders. You can post your reports in the reporting forum now. We're also announcing Adventure Nineteen - Mao's Muse. Starting files will be emailed instead of uploaded to the web for this one, so if you want to start on opening day, sign up early. Enjoy! 09/04/07
- Epic Ten - Rising Sun
is now open. It's an Extreme
25/03/07 - Adventure Eighteen - Mansa Moneybags, or first Gentle Adventure of the year, is now open. Good luck! 19/03/07 - We're back! First of all, I'd like to thank Sooooo for sponsoring an informal event to keep things going. There's still a couple of weeks to play All the World's a Stage, if you're interested. I
am pleased to announce that Adventure
Seventeen - PETA Crusaders opens today, and will run for
four weeks. Sullla has become a second Organizer for the tournament,
and he's sponsoring this one. A huge thanks to Sullla for volunteering
to help out with this! Interested players can also send scenario
ideas to him for consideration. Thanks, Sullla!
22/01/07 - I'm very sorry for the hiatus in games and page updates for the last little while. We don't have any tournament games currently open, but we are hoping to restart some soon. You can always visit the forums for more information (and to let us know what "flavor" of games you would prefer to see!).
20/11/06
- Out last two tournament games of the year are now open! Warlords
Two - The Worst Form of Government is a gentle adventure
for Warlords, featuring (what else?) the worst form of government,
except for all the others that have been tried. Adventure
Sixteen - Let it Snow! is for the core game of CIV, and
it gives the competition a little twist- players will choose how
to customize the scenario, and will judge each other's reports (not
the games themselves) on reporting day! Of course, the more interesting
the game, the easier it will be to write an interesting report.
19/11/06 - Results are up for Adventure Eleven - Divided We Fall. Also, here are the results for Adventure Twelve - Catherine. The succession game page is also now up-to-date. Thanks to Atlas for compiling the information! 13/11/06 Our first Warlords tournament game has opened. Warlords One - Impi Zisshun features the return of the Zulu. Enjoy! It's also time to post your reports for Epic Nine - Horse Feathers, and you can read the results for Epic Seven - Mano y Mano.
23/10/06 - It's closing day for Adventure Fourteen - King of India. Please post your reports. 15/10/06
- Epic Nine - Horse Feathers
opens today. Yes, we realize that Horse Feathers was Epic Ten in
our Civ3 tournament, but it was time for something a little different.
02/10/06 - Finally! It's reporting day for Epic Eight - Potluck. Remember, the reporting procedure will be a little different for this one. Once the reporting threads have been opened, you'll need to post a link to your report in your civ's thread. If your report isn't currently up at a website, you can create a thread for it, but you still need to post a link to your report in your civ's thread. Also, remember to keep discussion in the civ threads. Hopefully, this will create a fairly organized process, and should allow for lots of opportunities for comparison. Addition- The reporting threads are open! Happy reporting! Rome, Mali, Japan, England, Egypt, China, Arabia, America. We are also opening two new Adventures today, Adventure Fourteen - King of India and Adventure Fifteen - The French Riviera. Hopefully between the two of them there should be something for everyone.
25/09/06 - It's closing day for Adventure Thirteen - Sixth Column. 18/09/06 - Adventure Eleven - Divided We Fall closes today, so go ahead and post your reports in the reporting forum! 11/09/06 - It's closing day for Adventure Twelve - Catherine. Please post your reports. 04/09/06 - Adventure Thirteen - Sixth Column opens today. It's an extreme adventure that will only run for three weeks, primarily geared towards those who tend to finish tournament games weeks before the closing date. If that's you, enjoy! 04/09/06 - It's reporting day for Epic Seven - Mano y Mano. Because this is a holiday weekend in the USA, posters have until Wednesday to post your reports. You still need to finish playing by Monday night, your local time.
30/08/06 - Results are up for Adventure Nine - Stagnation and Adventure Ten - Legionnaire. In addition, more information was added to the results pages for Epic Four - Rome vs. the Barbarians, Epic Five - The Covenant of the Sea, and Adventure Seven - The Warlords. 28/08/06 - A big day today! Saves for Epic Eight - Potluck have been emailed, but you can still sign up here until Sept. 18. It's also closing day for our first Always War event for Civ4, Epic Six. 24/08/06 - Signups are open for Epic Eight - Potluck. The save file for this Epic will not be posted on the site until after the game closes! If you want to play, you will need to sign up here and receive your file by email. 07/08/06 - Three games open today! Epic Seven - Mano y Mano has been announced for some time, and it finally opens today. In addition, we have an Extreme Adventure, Adventure Eleven - Divided We Fall, and a Gentle Adventure, Adventure Twelve - Catherine opening up. It's also reporting day for Adventure Ten - Legionnaire. I hope you've cleared room on your schedules!
29/07/06 - Looking for something to play while waiting for Epic Seven to open? Adventure Eleven - Tedium Incarnate, will open Monday, July 31. 25/07/06 - Results are up for Epic Four - Rome vs. the Barbarians. There are 29 reports listed in the results, and 5 Epic Heroes! Also, Results are up for Epic Five - The Covenant of the Sea! 24/07/06 - Results are up for Adventure Seven - The Warlords and Adventure Eight - The French Revolution. Congratulations to all of our participants! 17/07/06 - It's War! Epic Six - Always War opens today, as well as Adventure Ten - Legionnaire open today. It's also closing day for Epic Five - The Covenant of the Sea. 10/07/06 - Adventure Ten - Legionnaire has been announced, and will open next week. Also, it's reporting day for Epic Four - Rome vs. the Barbarians! 03/07/06 - Adventure Nine - Stagnation is now open!
28/06/06 - The Succession Game page has been updated. 27/06/06 - Adventure Nine - Stagnation has been announced. Please keep in mind that this is NOT a gentle adventure, even though everyone gets to start with Sirian's opening moves for this one. Results are up for Adventure Six - The Cradle of Civilization. As this was an unscored event, they are listed in alphabetical order. Thanks to everyone who participated! Results are up for Epic Three - Rise of the Incans. Thanks to mostly_harmless for compiling them. I've also included a link to pling's graphed results for easy reference. 26/06/06 - Epic Five - The Covenant of the Sea is now open! Please make sure you have seen the updated variant rules. Also, it's closing day for Adventure Eight - The French Revolution. If you haven't finished your game yet, you'll just have to eat cake. 24/06/06 - Results are up for Epic Two - Eastern Gem Dealers. Thanks to Kylearan for compiling the results, and congratulations to our Epic Heroes Kylearan and Sulla! The variant rules have been updated for Epic Five - The Covenant of the Sea, which opens on Monday. Please make sure you reload the page when you check the rules, to make sure that you're up to date before you play. 12/06/06 - It's closing day for Epic Three - Rise of the Incans! Please post your reports in our reporting forum. We have also announced details for Epic Five - The Covenant of the Sea, Epic Six - Always War, and Epic Seven - Mano y Mano. Enjoy!
29/05/06 - Our first Deity Epic for Civ 4, Epic Four - Rome vs. the Barbarians, opens today. Remember, come back with your shield, or on it! 28/05/06 - Hello everybody, we're back online. We had a problem with the FTP, which is why the site hasn't been updated in a few weeks. I hope that you checked the forums, because they were up and running the entire time, and we have been updating the tournament from the forums. Two games have opened in the mean time, Epic Three - Rise of the Incans and Adventure Eight - The French Revolution. In addition, two have closed: Epic Two - Eastern Gem Dealers and Adventure Six - The Cradle of Civilization. The results have been compiled for those games, and are available on the forums. I will have them up on the site later. For now, I wanted to get the tournament pages up-to-date. The full game information has been posted for Epic Four - Rome vs. the Barbarians, and that will open tomorrow! Sorry for the delay, but I hope that you have a good time getting caught up! 01/05/06 - Adventure Seven - The Warlords opens today. We've also announced Epic Three - Rise of the Incans, which will open next week, and Epic Four - Rome vs. the Barbarians. Since I'm posting this on May Day, I have a perfect excuse to post my favorite May Day picture. I don't know why I like it so much. Whatever you're up to today, please don't get as rowdy as the girls in this photo!
Or, for the politically minded, here's a fun sign.
24/04/06 - Our second "Gentle Adventure" is now open! Adventure Six - The Cradle of Civilization opens today, and will run for four weeks. Good luck! 17/04/06 - It's been a while, but the patch for CIV is finally out! As such, Epic Two - Eastern Gem Dealers opens today. We're sorry for the wait, but we hope that you enjoy the game anyway. If you read the rules that Sirian posted on the forums a few days ago, please take the time to re-read them before playing. There have been some changes made to the final version. It's also reporting day for Adventure Five - Waiting for Godot. Yes, in our version, Godot actually arrived. This was somewhat of a quasi-adventure as Didi and Gogo were never really clear on what they wanted to accomplish before Godot arrived (read- game information was never posted, accidentally on purpose). But, if you played, go ahead and post about what happened in our reporting forum. I'm having difficulty with the upload server at the moment. Screenshots that were posted previously should show up, but right now nobody can log in to upload additional pictures. I'm really sorry about this, and am working on it, but I'm also running short on ideas about what could be going wrong. I'll let you know when it is working again. Also, congratulations to the SG teams from RB5 - Rome, Emperor, Lakes, Just Win and RB16 - The Renny Teamer on their wins!
05/03/06 - Congratulations to the team of RB 10 - Elitist Hegemony for their victorious game!
25/02/06 - Waiting on a patch does have its advantages. Results are up for Adventure Two - The Frozen Jungle. Congrats to all Azteskimos who stuck it out through that one! 21/02/06 - Results are up for Adventure Four - Hatshepsut's Hieroglyphics and Adventure One - Brave New World. Since there was no scoring for Adventure One, results are listed in alphabetical order by the player's name. The succession game page is also up to date. 20/02/06 - Results are up for Adventure Three - Binding of the Three. Thanks to Kylearan for compiling the results! 13/02/06 - Arathorn has closed Adventure Four - Hatshepsut's Hieroglyphics. You can post your reports in the reporting forum. Bonus points if you can do it without using the alphabet! 06/02/06 - It's reporting day for Adventure Three - Binding of the Three. There's a sticky thread in the forum where you can ask questions about the scoring of your game if you need to (since the game is closed, you can finally use specifics in your questions!). Hopefully that will help us reply to everyone in a timely manner.
23/01/06 - It's reporting day for Adventure One - Brave New World. If you have questions about the reporting process, there is a sticky thread in the reporting forum that should have the information you're looking for. 21/01/06 - The deadline for Adventure Four - Hatshepsut's Hieroglyphics has been extended, so that it closes a week later than Adventure Three. Also, two new succession games have opened- RB11 - Gandhi, the Silent Aggressor and RB12 - Roadkill. 16/01/06 - It's reporting day for Adventure Two - The Frozen Jungle. If you're still playing, you have until the end of Monday, your local time, to finish playing. You can post your reports in our Reporting Forum. Also, Adventure Four - Hatshepsut's Hieroglyphics is now open! 14/01/06 - Have you ever imagined doing rocket science using hieroglyphics? Arathorn is sponsoring the next game in our Extreme Adventures series. Adventure Four - Hatshepsut's Hieroglyphics will open on Monday, January 16. 09/01/06 - Two new succession games have opened. RB 9 - Cottage Cheese will feature - you guessed it - cottages galore. RB 10 - Elitist Hegemony (which still has some open slots, by the way!) prohibits self-built workers. Good luck to both teams! 02/01/06 - The Epics are on hiatus. They will be back after the next Civ4 patch. Fortunately, we have the Adventures, and Adventure Three - Binding of the Three opens today!
29/12/05 - Our first succession game of CIV, RB1 - Cuban Isolationists, has ended. If you haven't checked it out before, it's a classic, with many memorable features such as the "Spain on the Lake" strategy and the "Hydra". It's quite a read! Congratulations, guys! 28/12/05 - Snaproll has started RB8 - Multiplayer Madness. This is a 2 v 2 v 2 multiplayer succession game. Each round will be played by a team of two players, playing against two AI teams of 2 civs each. Sound interesting? There's still a slot open for one more human team! 26/12/05 - Adventure One - Brave New World and Adventure Two - The Frozen Jungle are now open. Enjoy! 24/12/05 - Our first two Adventures have been announced, and will open on Monday! Adventure One - Brave New World is a Warlord-difficulty game featuring the Terra map script. Adventure Two - The Frozen Jungle is the first in our line of Extreme Adventures. Extreme adventures are designed to be significantly more challenging than other Adventures. In this case, that should be apparent after one look at your starting position. Both games will open this Monday, but please note that Adventure Two actually closes the week before Adventure One does. Enjoy! 22/12/05
- I've updated our succession game page. Congratulations to the
RB2 A and B teams, who have won the first two completed RB succession
games of Civilization IV! 21/12/05 - Ack! I was concentrating so hard on the technical side of getting ready for Epic One reports that I completely messed up my usual routine, which is to post notice of when it's reporting time more or less simultaneously with the reporting thread on the forum. So, Epic One - The Honorable French has closed, but the discussion is just beginning. Participation for this Epic is much higher than for past Epics, but I'm happy to say that the reports seem to be written very well, and I am looking forward to getting to know our new players and each of their reporting styles! Because participation is so high, we created a subforum just for Tournament reports. That way, players can create an entire thread for their game report, and it will be easy to keep track of replies. General tournament discussion, as well as other discussion about Civilization can still go in the main Civ forum, of course. :) We also have some upload space available for members to upload files for use on our forums. To find about more about this, see this thread.
28/11/05 - Epic One - The Honorable French is now open! Before playing, please take some time to visit the game's announcement thread. A game's announcement thread is where players ask questions if they need clarification on a rule, so that's always where you can find the most up-to-date information. Feel free to ask if you're unsure about anything. We hope you enjoy the game! Also, our links page has been updated. If you're a member of the RB community, and would like for your site to be included, please send a private message to me (Griselda). 27/11/05 - Our Civilization IV tournament is underway! Epic One - The Honorable French opens tomorrow and will run for three weeks. If you think the name looks familiar, our very first Epic (for Civ3) had the same name and a similar premise. Special
Invitation - Players who participated in and reported for the
opening game of the Civ3 Epics tournament are hereby cordially invited
to join us for the first Civ4 Epic and be showered with flowers
and affection! Of course, you know that CIV patch 1.09 is out by now. Please remember that you will need to patch before you can play Epic One!
31/10/05
- Apolyton has published
the first in a series of CIV interviews, and this one is featuring
Sirian! Only Part
One is available today, but they will be releasing a section
a week until the interview is complete. Apolyton will be interviewing
several people who were involved in the development of the game.
You can keep track of all the interviews by visiting their "Four
Times the Charm" page. 30/10/05 - RB Succession Games are underway! I have updated the list to help you quickly reference the thread you're looking for if you're not in the habit of keeping up with the succession games forum at CFC. Interested in the mechanics of combat in CIV? In this thread, over at Apolyton, Solver, DeepO, and alexman lay it out for us. You may want to look it over before you get yourself into any fierce battles. If the numbers are too much for you, the important concept to keep in mind is that any difference in the comparative strength of fighting units will be applied several times during the combat calculations. As in Civ3, it will be used to determine the winner of each round. But, unlike Civ3, it will also be used to determine how much damage will be done! So, a weaker unit would need to win more total combat rounds to win the battle, unlike in Civ3 where it just had to be lucky 3 or 4 times. It's also important to remember that you *really* want your units to be full strength, and that you will need to factor in a unit type's weakness (think rock, paper, scissors) and the terrain to make the most out of combat. 28/10/05 - Map scripts! Choosing your map will be one of the first decisions that you have to make when your copy of CIV arrives, but this can be overwhelming as there are lots of new maps available with the game. Luckily, our own Sirian was Lead Map Designer for the game, and he's written a reference guide that will help you make an informed decision. It contains a text file with information about each type of map, a graphical sample of each map, plus a discussion of maps that are particularly geared towards Single- or Multi-player. You can find it here at Civfanatics. 27/10/05 - Graphics Card Fix! Many players with ATI cards are having trouble with CIV. This appears to be due to a problem with two versions of DirectX9c and some video card drivers. However, there is a fix available! If you haven't installed the game yet, you can probably prevent the problem from happening at all by following these steps-
If you've already installed the game, and are having problems, there is a fix available! 2K Games has a walkthrough on their site that's pretty specific. The fix is only part of 2K's support site, which you might want to keep in mind if you have other issues as well (French tech tree, anyone?). 24/10/05
- It's been kind of slow here lately, right? Actually, we've been
pretty busy! Our Civilization IV section opens today, and we have
some goodies for you! You see, there's a reason we've been somewhat inattentive to Civilization III for the past year and a half or so- many of us have been working on Civilization IV for quite some time! For more information, please read our updated Welcome Page. In addition , we are thrilled to announce our Civilization IV Tournament. We can't just call it the Epics anymore, because it's bigger than that! We will be hosting "Epics" and "Adventures" tournaments for CIV. For more information, please visit the main CIV Tournament Page. Welcome
to Realms Beyond Civilization IV! We hope you enjoy your time here.
01/08/05 - Epic Fifty: Wine, Women, and Song! closes today, so you can post your reports to this thread. 27/06/05
- Sing us a song, Hammurabi-man, sing us a song tonight. It's
also reporting day for Epic Forty-nine:
Domination Dilemma. Enjoy! 23/05/05 - Ready to take over the world? Epic Forty-nine: Domination Dilemma opens today, and will run for five weeks. It's also our first Epic sponsored by Kodi. Enjoy! 04/04/05 - Oh, sorry, I didn't hear you come in. I've been working on a project, you see, and, well, I need to get back to it...
You're still here? Well, go ahead and take this, and let me know how you get on with it. I need to get back to my work. Here- Epic Forty-eight: The Absent-Minded Professor. Yes, Epic Forty-eight is open, and we hope you enjoy the change of pace! 24/01/05 - Sirian has sponsored Epic Forty-seven: You've Got to be Kidding Me, and it even comes with a money-back guarantee! What a deal! 17/01/05 - It's closing day for Epic Forty-six: The Two Towers. That means that you have until midnight tonight (Monday) to complete your game, and until midnight on Tuesday to post your report. You can post your report to this thread in our forums.
20/12/04 - Epic Forty-six: The Two Towers opens today. It's our first Epic to be sponsored by microbe, and our last Epic for 2004. Enjoy! 17/10/04 - Epic Forty-four: Denial of the Nile closes today, and you can post your reports to this thread. We have new forums! If you haven't visited our forums lately, you can find them at http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/, because we're now able to host them right here on our own server! :) If you were registered at our old forums, you should have received an email with an explanation of how to log into the new forums. If you're having trouble, please email me.
27/09/04 - It's here, folks. The first Always War Epic that will be run on Emperor difficulty. It's Epic Forty-five: The X Factor! But, don't think that you will be able to use Conquests armies and lethal bombard on this one folks- it's not an expansion game. It will be run on un-expanded Civ3- version 1.29f. You will have eight weeks, though, which should give you plenty of time to slog it out until whatever end. Good luck! 15/09/04
- Denial is not
a river in Egypt (sorry 14/09/04 - It's been *far* to long without an update. Sorry about that! Epic Forty-three: Ports Your Goal closed last week, and I hope to have the results up shortly. Thanks to some prodding by Dwip, I got the succession games page updated. There have been 54 completed "RBC" games! That's amazing considering that there were only 19 games completed in the original "RBD" SG series. It's great that there are so many players who have participated in an RB succession game. Things have slowed down a bit this fall, but there are still 4 open RBC games. I will do my best to keep the SG page up-to-date so that it is easy to find current SG's and track down those old threads.
30/07/04 - The summer Epics continue with their watery theme - Epic Forty-three: Ports Your Goal opens today, and will run until Labor Day. Good luck! 26/07/04 - Summer's not over yet, but Epic Forty-two: Summer Breeze is. You can post your results to this thread.
28/06/04 - The Epics are heading to the islands for the summer! Epic Forty-two: Summer Breeze opens today. It's sponsored by T-hawk and is set in the Caribbean. Please note that this will be the first Epic using the Conquests 1.22 patch. Also, results are up for Epic Forty-one: Balance of Power. Congratulations to all players! 21/06/04 - It's reporting day for Epic Forty-one: Balance of Power. Get out of your milk baths and post your results! Results have also been posted for Epic Thirty-nine: Division of Labor. Thanks for your patience, and thanks to T-hawk for compiling the results and for the helpful reminder. :)
24/05/04 - Epic Forty-one: Balance of Power is now open. Good luck! Just when you thought it was never going to happen, results have been posted for Epic Forty: The Hittite Cosmonauts. Congratulations to all players! 23/05/04 - Epic Forty-one: Balance of Power, our first Epic sponsored by Bihary, will open on Monday. This Epic is primarily characterized by the scoring. Your goal is to maintain balance among the world's powers, rather than to drown them in your milk bath. Enjoy! 03/05/04 - It's reporting day for Epic Forty: The Hittite Cosmonauts. Please post your reports to this thread.
05/04/04 - Epic Forty: The Hittite Cosmonauts is now open! Good luck to all participants! 03/04/04 - Epic Forty: The Hittite Cosmonauts has been announced, and will open Monday, April 5. Epic Forty will feature a new Conquests Civ, but will be revisiting an older variant to see how things play out in Conquests. Please note that this Epic will be played in Conquests version 1.15 (the beta patch), although a newer patch is available. This is a small-map Epic, and I hope that will give many players an opportunity to play and complete the game early before patching.
28/03/04 - It's closing day for Epic Thirty-nine: Division of Labor. Post your reports to this thread. 07/03/04 - Rome Everlasting, a Conquests scenario, is now available for playtesting! This scenario is a variant of Fall of Rome, in which the player can choose to play as either the Eastern or Western Roman Empire. Several aspects of the scenario have been changed to help the AI give Rome a proper threat: -
Update the scenario name and description Thanks to Gobi Bear of BreakAway Games, we now have Rome Everlasting hosted here for players who are interested in testing the scenario. You can find it in the files section. Please post any questions, comments, or other feedback about the scenario in this thread. If you'd like to read more about this scenario, but aren't interested in playing it yourself, you can follow along with the succession game teams. RBC12I features the Western Roman Empire, and RBC12J the East. Enjoy! In other succession game news, two more teams finished up their Fall of Rome games- the Huns, and the Anglo-Saxons. Congratulations! 01/03/04 - Epic Thirty-nine: Division of Labor is now open! This Epic, sponsored by T-hawk, features a variant ruleset that should encourage the use of specialists. Enjoy!
29/02/04 - Results have been posted for Epic Thirty-eight: Slavetrader Mayan ECC. Thirteen games are included in the official results, and several other players participated but missed the reporting deadline. It's interesting to see what a wide variety of approaches players had to this game- from OCC Culture to Always War! While this variation makes comparison more difficult, I find it fascinating to see what is possible in a single map and variant. Congratulations to all who played! Several players have asked when the next Epic will be starting. Check back on Monday! :) Over on the succession game front, several games have been completed. RBC9 - Hittite Charioteers has come to an end, along with several RBC12 games- RBC12A - Fall of Rome - Vizigoths, RBC12B - Fall of Rome - Celts, RBC12D - Fall of Rome - Vandals, RBC12F - Fall of Rome - Ostrogoths, and RBC12G - Fall of Rome - Sassanids. Congratulations to all players! 23/02/04 - It's closing day for Epic Thirty-eight: Slavetrader Mayan ECC! You can post your reports, or read others' reports, in this thread. 20/02/04 - Updated the succession games page with a link to RBC 12C, the Huns version of Fall of Rome. 15/02/04
- The RBC1
SG team has finally finished their game! Also, the RBC12
game has started. Eight teams 05/02/04 - The succession games page has been updated. RBC3C - Ancient Mediterranean Mayhem - Roma is now complete, along with RBC6 - Scrappy Scientific Sumerians and RBC7 - Austrian Fascists. Two new games have opened- RBC10 - Cultured Communist Comrades and RBC11 - Cultured Communist Comrades variant. With all of the Rise of Rome games now complete, and some other recent closures, I'd expect some more games to be starting up soon- Fall of Rome, perhaps? The nice thing about Fall of Rome is that with several teams there should be room for lots of interested players, so there's probably still time to state your interest in this thread.
31/01/04 - Whew! I have site access again, and there's lots of new things to report! First off, Epic Thirty-eight: Slavetrader Mayan ECC opened last week, and will remain open for three more weeks. So, there's still time to jump in on that one if you haven't already. The results page for Epic Thirty-seven is now up on the site. Also, there continues to be strong participation in Conquests succession games. The succession games page has been updated. I haven't added RBC10 - Cultured Communist Comrades to the list just yet, because I think the game (and maybe RBC11 too) will start in a new thread. RBC3a - Ancient Mediterranean Mayhem - Carthago is now complete, and the Roma team is within a few turns of completion. RB4b - The Bloody Incas Mesoamerica Conquest and RBC4c - Mesoamerican Aztecs have been completed, finishing up the Mesoamerican games. Also, the open succession game, RBC5 - Feudalistic Mongols is now complete. The new "RBC" succession games that have opened since the last site update are RBC8 - Revenge of the North Koreans and RBC9 - Hittite Charioteers. I haven't added RBC10 - Cultured Communist Comrades to the list just yet, because I think the game (and maybe RBC11 too) will start in a new thread.
02/01/04 - Happy New Year! With no open Epics, there is a lot of activity in the RBC series of succession games! First of all, I did not realize that the Macedonian team of RBC3 was not yet listed on the succession games page. Not only has that game started, it's complete! Congratulations to the Macedonian team on what's turned out to be a very tough scenario. Two new succession games have started. The first is RBC6 - Scrappy Scientific Sumerians, a game that continues to explore "defiance" as a variant rule, and encourages self-research at Demigod. The second is RBC7 - Austrian Fascists, unlocking the "hidden" civ of Austria, and exploring fascism. In the RBC Discussion Thread, Charis proposes several other succession game ideas, and is seeking participants for the Fall of Rome Conquest.
31/12/03 - When I updated the succession games page, somehow I missed RBC5 - Feudalistic Mongols. This is an open game, so there is no set roster. After each player, the game is "open" for another player who has some spare time to play the next ten turns. So, if you're not sure that you'd have the time to commit to a full succession game, but would like to play, jump on in and play a round or two! Also today, the RBC4a - Mesoamerican Mayans team has completed their game. Congratulations! 26/12/03 - As you can see, it's been a while since the page has been updated, although the RBCiv community has continued to explore Conquests. First of all, Epic Thirty-Seven: Ditchdigger is now closed. You can read the reports here, and the results page should be up on the site before too long. I've updated the succession games page. RBC2 - Phoenicians of Mesopotamia is complete, and the RBC3b team (the Persians) have also completed their game. Congratulations to both teams! The Carthago and Roman RBC3 teams are nearing the end of their games, and both teams appear to be headed for a close finish. RBC4 is now open, playing the Mesoamerica conquest. There are three teams, each playing through the Conquest in a different way. Good luck! There is a beta patch out for Conquests, which addresses the major Conquests bugs and fixes the gold-per-turn bug. The Forbidden Palace appears to work differently in the beta patch than in Play the World or in unpatched Conquests. It will be interesting to see how this is implemented in the final version of the patch. You can download the beta patch from Atari or from Civfanatics.
28/11/03 - Epic Thirty-seven: Ditchdigger is now open! How far can you dig yourself out? 26/11/03 - Results are up for Epic Thirty-six: Pax Americana. Nine players survived this 540-turn Epic. Congratulations! 18/11/03 - Over at Civfanatics, alexman has released some tests related to corrption in Conquests. It seems that some of the fixes for recent exploits have rather extreme consequences. Read more about it in this thread. We're hoping that these issues will be dealt with via patch relatively quickly. While we do have Conquests Epics planned, the Epics will be on hold until we learn more about this bug. In the mean time, the succession games page has been updated to include the current RBC (Realms Beyond Conquests) succession games. The plan is to play through the set of Conquests as succession games. While each game has its own thread, interested players can keep track of upcoming games and suggest ideas here.
29/10/03 - The Epic Thirty-six reporting thread is open (and has been for a couple of days, sorry for the delay). You can post completed reports here. If you haven't completed your report, but have submitted your scoring summary (like me), there's still three days left! 27/10/03 - The Epic Epic, number Thirty-six, is closing today! Unless you've been granted an extension, you have until tonight to finish playing, and until November 1 to complete your report. If your game is completed but not your report, email your scoring summary to Griselda or Sirian to verify that you finished on time. Then, you can post your summary and your report when they are completed (on or before November 1, that is). If you're done with your game and your report, look for the reporting thread, which should open this evening. I'll put a link up when the thread is open. Finally, I do hope that all players will stick around over the next week or two to participate in the discussion. This Epic will be a little bit different because the reports won't all be coming in at once, but there certainly is a lot to talk about! Personally, looking forward to the discussion and comparison was what kept me going through those last turns of end-game.
09/20/03 - When Epic 36 closes, participants will have extra time to gather their reports, but a scoring summary will be required within the usual two-day deadline. Sirian has provided this text file scorecard to streamline summary reporting. Fill in the statistics and paste to the forum when Closing Day arrives. T-hawk has provided scenario files for the PTW Epics that he's sponsored. So, if you're interested in trying another helping of Epic 35, or playing a modified version of Epics 24 or 29, you can download the files from the game's main page. Results are up for Epic Thirty-five: Gourmet Menu. Congratulations to all! 15/09/03 - A review of Epic Thirty-five: Gourmet Menu is underway, and it's time for the restaurant critics to report on their meals. 07/09/03 - Results are up for Epic Thirty-four: Dance of the Feathered Serpent. I apologize for the delay in updating the page; I was out of town. Thanks to Bam-Bam for compiling the results while I was away! This was an interesting Epic because the relatively open scenario allowed players to take additional risks if they chose. The hand-drawn map also served to make the game unique. Congratulations to all who played!
20/08/03 - Results are up for Epic Thirty-two: Falsfire's Folly. Eight players were victorious, three by domination and five by histogram. Congratulations to all! 18/08/03 - Epic Thirty-six: Pax Americana is now open! Good luck! It's also reporting day for Epic Thirty-two: Falsfire's Folly. 15/08/03 - Sirian has made a small clarification to the Epic 36 rules. Use of Propaganda will be considered an "invasion" for scoring purposes. Cultural flips will not. 14/08/03 - Believe it or not, the Huge Map Epic has finally arrived! Epic Thirty-six: Pax Americana will open this coming Monday, August 18, 2003. If you have any questions on the scoring, you can ask in this thread. Results
are up for Epic Thirty-three: The Tortoise and the
Hare. We had 11 tortoises, and 8 hares in the race! Now, excuse me while I
finish cooking these noodles... 11/08/03 - It's reporting day for Epic Thirty-three: The Tortoise and the Hare. Remember, if you signed up, you need to report your results to avoid becoming a hare! Epic Thirty-five: Gourmet Menu is now open. Bon Appetit! 10/08/03 - Epic Thirty-five: Gourmet Menu will open tomorrow. This Epic allows you to choose your own flavor, and features T-hawk in the kitchen! I'm sure you can find something that on the menu that you will enjoy! Please note that Epic Thirty-five should be played using PTW version 1.27f. The patch should now be available for all versions of PTW. Keep in mind that Epics Thirty-two and Thirty-three need to be played with version 1.21f! This will help to ensure consistency between reports. Epic Thirty-four can be played using versions 1.21f or 1.27f, but it would be helpful if you make a note of if you patched, and when, in your report. 03/08/03
- The RBP11b
- We, the People team has completed their game. Congratulations! This
is the first time since I began updating the succession games page
that there have been no current succession games carrying the "RB" name.
Of course, there's still a vibrant and active succession game community. For example,
Sirian has sponsored four new succession games using his new mod, Sirian's
Tweaks. LKendter has started the 52nd
game
28/07/03 - Epic Thirty-four: Dance of the Feathered Serpent opens today. Good luck! 27/07/03 - Somehow I missed the conclusion of RBP7 - Defiant Nationalists of China. The team won their game about a month ago, staging an incredible comeback from a position that, at one point, seemed like certain loss. More recently, the RBP11 - We, the People team won their game as well. Congrats to both teams! RBP11b is still in progress. 21/07/03 - Lots of updates today. Epic Thirty-four: Dance of the Feathered Serpent has been announced, and it will open next Monday, July 28. Team B of RBP10: The Spanish Explorers completed their game, which was the last active RBP10 team. It was interesting to see how the game played out with different teams! Scenario files have been uploaded for Epics 22: War Paint, 26: Mystery Meatloaf, 27: The Ming Dynasty, 28: Mistress of the Sun, 30: Shogun's Challenge (just the rule set, because it was a random map), and 31: Potluck Brunch! You can use these files to play through the Epics on a different difficulty, change your starting Civ, or even tweak the game's rules. Each scenario is linked on the Epic's main page. Enjoy! Epic Thirty-three: The Tortoise and the Hare opens today, and there's still time to sign up. Would be tortoises and hares can post their name and email addresses in this thread. Finally, results are up for Epic Thirty: Shogun's Challenge, and Epic Thirty-one: Potluck Brunch. Congratulations to all who played, and thanks to everyone who took the time to report, win or loss.
14/07/03
- During this process, I took another look at our Epics rules, and noticed that one of them was quite vague. It said: * Sponsors asking for earlier save files is permitted, though not standard for every event. This information will be provided when each game is announced. Sponsors may choose to require saves at particular points in the game. Earlier saves can enhance discussion, by marking the same point in each player's game for further comparisons. You'll notice that the mention of earlier save files implies but doesn't specifically mention that players should be keeping their final save files. This was mentioned on the forums when we began, but somehow didn't make it into the rules. So, I wanted to clarify. The rule now reads: * Players should keep their game's final save file. Although file submission is not standard for Epics games, the game's Sponsor or an Epics organizer may request files from players for verification purposes. In addition to the final saves, players may want to keep save files from earlier points in the game to enhance discussion. Sponsors may choose to require saves at particular points in the game, although this is not standard for every event. If earlier saves are necessary, this information will be provided when the game is announced. Epic Thirty-three: The Tortoise and the Hare has been announced. You'll need to sign up for this Epic, but it's not a potluck. Confused? You'll have to visit the Epic's page to find out! It's also reporting day for Epic Thirty-One: Potluck Brunch. You have until the end of the day to complete your game, and until Tuesday night to post your report (or synopsis). I hope you enjoyed your meal, and have some room left for dinner! 07/07/03 - Epic Thirty-two: Falsfire's Folly opens today, and will be run under PTW 1.21f. Also, it's reporting day for Epic Thirty: Shogun's Challenge. Results are up for Epic Twenty-nine: The Five Pillars. Congratulations to all players, and thanks to T-hawk for compiling the results!
22/06/03 - Tomorrow is closing day for Epic Twenty-nine: The Five Pillars, and opening day for Epic Thirty-one: Potluck Brunch. I'll be out of town from now until July 1, so the site won't be updated in that time, and Sirian will be mailing out the potluck start files (I have a copy of the saves already, for verification purposes). My attbi.com email address might be changing while I'm gone, so if you want to be sure I get your mail, use griselda@lurkerlounge.com. 19/06/03 - What the (bleep) happened to the resources? Sirian is sponsoring our first Epic to feature a player's name in the title- Epic Thirty-two: Falsfire's Folly. This Epic feature's a hand-drawn map with plenty of surprises in store. The map has already been drawn, but we're holding off on a release date at the moment, just in case a patch or something else comes up before opening date. There is a shot of the opener on the start page, though, if you want to take a peek. T-hawk has started RBP11 - We, the People, and RBP11b - We, the People - Emperor Team. Both games use the same modified scenario that allows each civ to start with Democracy (without the tech), but they will be using separate maps. Good luck, teams! 17/06/03 - It's been a while since we've had a page update, so there's quite a few things going up today. Epic Thirty-one: Potluck Brunch has been announced. Signups will open today, and the game itself will open Monday, June 23. Results are finally up for Epic Twenty-eight: Mistress of the Sun. Ra must be quite proud of his children! I've updated the succession games page, because the RBP8 - Culture Conquerers team has emerged victorious! Congratulations! The RBP10A team has completed its game, and is looking forward to comparing notes with Team B and Team C, whose games are ongoing. 09/06/03 - Epic Thirty: Shogun's Challenge opens today, and Epic Twenty-eight: Mistress of the Sun closes. I'm looking forward to seeing how other games went! 02/06/03 - Epic 29: The Five Pillars is now open. Good luck! 01/06/03 - Two new Epics will be opening shortly. Epic Twenty-nine: The Five Pillars is on a small map, and is sponsored by T-hawk. It will open tomorrow, June 2. The screenshot of the starting location will be added to the page when the Epic opens. Also, Sirian is sponsoring Epic Thirty: Shogun's Challenge. That one's on Deity, but with a twist. It will open next week, on Monday, June 9. Enjoy!
28/05/03 - Bam-Bam has compiled the results for Epic Twenty-seven: The Ming Dynasty, and they're now up on the site. There were five winning games and seven losses, which, I believe, is the most losing games we've had since Epic Twelve: The Gauntlet. I'm glad that so many players took up the challenge, and played it through until the conlcusion! Also,
I've updated the succession games page, because RBP9:
Old School Deity is now complete! That team was looking for a fast paced
game, and it sounds like they found it. 12/05/03 - Epic Twenty-seven: The Ming Dynasty closes today, so you have until the end of Monday to complete your game, and until the end of Tuesday to post your report. 09/05/03 - I've updated the succession games page to include RBP10 - The Spanish Explorers. Three teams of relatively new Deity players (including myself, yay!) are playing from the same start file. The goal is to gain Deity experience within a relatively friendly team environment. Also the teams hope to meet and compare their games once they've finished. :) 05/05/03 - Epic Twenty-eight: Mistress of the Sun is now open. Good luck! 01/05/03 - Our first "Lesser Demigod" difficulty Epic has been announced. Epic Twenty-eight: Mistress of the Sun will open this Monday, May 5!
27/04/03 - Sullla has opened RBP9 - Old School Deity. This game features a steeply discounted tech price combined with a higher AI to AI trade factor, in order to recreate the pre-1.29f tech pace. 24/04/03
- You'd think, since I even plugged the RBP7
game on the front page, that I'd have remembered to include it on the succession
games page. But, you'd be wrong! 19/04/03 - Results are up from Epic Twenty-six: Mystery Meatloaf. Although there were only four games included in the official results, there were several more "unofficial" games, and quite an interesting discussion. Thanks to all who participated. I wanted to point out the ongoing succession game- RBP7- Defiant Nationalists of China. Just over a week ago, the game looked like a certain loss, and most of the discussion in the thread consisted in planning for the next Deity Defiant Nationalist attempt. But, the team has pulled together, and may have managed to turn things around. It's definitely a game that's worth keeping an eye on! 14/04/03 - It's reporting day for Epic Twenty-six: Mystery Meatloaf. We hope you enjoyed your meal! 12/04/03 - The official results page for Epic Twenty-five: Numismatic Numidians is now available. Congratulations to all who played, and thanks to T-hawk for compiling the results!
31/03/03 - A new Always War Epic opens today- Epic Twenty-seven: The Ming Dynasty. Also, it's reporting day for Epic Twenty-five: Numismatic Numidians! A new succession game has also begun- RBP8 - Culture Conquerors. 30/03/03 - It's WAR! Your chance to take the Ming Dynasty to glory starts tomorrow, with Epic Twenty-seven. 29/03/03 - Congratulations to the RBP6 - MOW! Ottoman Deity SG team! 17/03/03 - Epic Twenty-six is now open. Enjoy your meal! 15/03/03 - Sirian has coo |
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You will be enshrined as Epic Heroes for being an integral part
of building the future. (If none of you had showed up way back there
in 2002, there wouldn't have been an Epic Two, much less a Civ4
Epics tournament!) Come and join us as the new era dawns. We would
love to see you all again!
'Cause we're all in the mood for 
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and it's got us feeling all right.
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In this case, the Nile isn't in Egypt either. Welcome to 
Congratulations!
A big thanks to Dwip for pointing that out, and also for the heads up on the correct
URLs for his Epics reports.