Civ4 AI Survivor: Season Three

[Sullla]

As a reminder, we have the Season Three Championship game coming up this weekend on Saturday, November 18th. I'll be updating the preview tomorrow with the community predictions for the game. We still have about three and a half days left to get in predictions, which I'll link again here.

[Fluffball]

I'd be interested in seeing that game Fluffball

I got bored of it and started a new one on a higher difficulty. The same thing happened without raging barbs on (highlands map again.) It seems like any larger size highlands map is going to produce similar results. Give yourself a bunch of great spies on a huge highlands map on monarch or so and just watch the ai get absolutely slaughtered. I'm not sure if even diety could survive at all.

It makes sense since highlands map has zero ocean. The amount of land for barbs to spawn is probably 200% more than a pangea. Whacky map.

How many AIs were in the game?

Just saw this. Each game on a few different difficulties and map size, with and without raging barbs, all at the default number of AIs. The map is just insane with barb spawns. I played a... I think it was monarch game without raging barbs on and Germany straight up died to the barbs. Lost like 4 cities and was eliminated.

[Sullla]

Community predictions have been added to the preview for the Championship Game. There's about two and a half days remaining until the Saturday start at our usual time of noon EST. Make sure to get your predictions in using the link in the above post.

[Gustaran]

How many AIs were in the game?

Just saw this. Each game on a few different difficulties and map size, with and without raging barbs, all at the default number of AIs. The map is just insane with barb spawns. I played a... I think it was monarch game without raging barbs on and Germany straight up died to the barbs. Lost like 4 cities and was eliminated.

Hm, I can't confirm that. I started a game on "noble" on the largest mapside (Highlands/Raging Barbs with default AI number (9?) and while the barbs did slow everything down a little, no AI had trouble building a larger civilization. Maybe the mega-barb-invasion only occurs on higher difficulty settings?

Community predictions have been added to the preview for the Championship Game. There's about two and a half days remaining until the Saturday start at our usual time of noon EST. Make sure to get your predictions in using the link in the above post.

My prediction is in - good thing your post reminded me that the Championship Game takes place on a Saturday instead of a Friday.    Go Mansa!  

[Fluffball]

How many AIs were in the game?

Just saw this. Each game on a few different difficulties and map size, with and without raging barbs, all at the default number of AIs. The map is just insane with barb spawns. I played a... I think it was monarch game without raging barbs on and Germany straight up died to the barbs. Lost like 4 cities and was eliminated.

Hm, I can't confirm that. I started a game on "noble" on the largest mapside (Highlands/Raging Barbs with default AI number (9?) and while the barbs did slow everything down a little, no AI had trouble building a larger civilization. Maybe the mega-barb-invasion only occurs on higher difficulty settings?

Interesting. Might be some setting I don't pay attention to making the difference. Perhaps game speed? I want to run a few games on deity to see if I can spot what happens (safely sheltered in a mountain of course, no way I'm playing raging barbs/highlands/deity!!) Will screw around with that after the AI finals are over.

Edit: How do you set up a map to have vision over everything at all times? Is there some sort of special script I'd need to run? I don't think I'm that invested in this experiment if so, haha.

[yuris125]

In CivilizationIV.ini, find the entry CheatCode, and change it to

Code:

CheatCode = chipotle

Then start a game, and press Ctrl+Z to enter debug mode, which will reveal the map

Be careful not to accidentally cheat in games you don't want to cheat it (such as RB events)

[Zalson]

How many AIs were in the game?

Just saw this. Each game on a few different difficulties and map size, with and without raging barbs, all at the default number of AIs. The map is just insane with barb spawns. I played a... I think it was monarch game without raging barbs on and Germany straight up died to the barbs. Lost like 4 cities and was eliminated.

Hm, I can't confirm that. I started a game on "noble" on the largest mapside (Highlands/Raging Barbs with default AI number (9?) and while the barbs did slow everything down a little, no AI had trouble building a larger civilization. Maybe the mega-barb-invasion only occurs on higher difficulty settings?

Interesting. Might be some setting I don't pay attention to making the difference. Perhaps game speed? I want to run a few games on deity to see if I can spot what happens (safely sheltered in a mountain of course, no way I'm playing raging barbs/highlands/deity!!) Will screw around with that after the AI finals are over.

Edit: How do you set up a map to have vision over everything at all times? Is there some sort of special script I'd need to run? I don't think I'm that invested in this experiment if so, haha.

Try playing a one-city challenge on Deity. Or just turtle in the corner and watch the chaos? Or give yourself some mech infantry? if you want to watch, just watch!

[Sullla]

As a last reminder, the Championship Game is about to start in less than two hours. I'm about to begin the Livestream now. If you want to enter a pick for the contest, this is your last chance to do it.

[sisko197]

Thank you for hosting the event this year.

I hope you had as much fun hosting it as I did watching it!

[yuris125]

Thank you indeed. This was the first year I tried my hand at prediction contest, and finishing in top20 with a bunch of mediocre results is good enough

Congrats to the champion as well

Stalin?!?!?!?