The picture to set the tone for the thread. Not quite GPT but his younger brother.

Now, I hope Scooter will show me something just as impressive.

   
Barbarian charity?


   
Melancholy charity.

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Unfortunately, I was playing a lot of Rain World when I should have been pondering how best to CRUSH THE ENEMY in Pitboss 74. The game is just too good for my own good. It is very good. Rain World would perhaps even be the best game ever if not for Civ IV itself, hallowed be its name.
Fortunately, anyway, Rain World might have actually prepared me for this unique post-apocalyptic pitboss.

Rain World takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland of twisted terrain, which I scouted and learned to traverse and survive in.
Rain World includes many horrific and insane barbarians, such as All Vultures, Some Scavengers, White Lizards, and Dropwigs, which I learned to KILL AS THEY SO RICHLY DESERVE. .
Now, Rain World is not so strong on the whole "relearning what was forgotten and rebuilding civilization from the mud" part, as it is instead about The Void. However, in some campaigns the Local Group is slightly more civilized at the end than the beginning, I guess. Maybe. Technically. Except for the exceptions...

Please give me the screenshot of first noodling. And don't read beyond if you should not read beyond.

P.S. WELCOME VALUED TEAMMATES. Sincerely. This will be a lot of fun. .

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I'll have some thoughts on the setup later.

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Maybe a Star Trek theme?


Easy reference location:

Gavagai - Bismark (EXP, IND) of India (Fast Worker, Jail)
Superdeath - Kublai Khan (AGG, CRE) of Sumeria (Vulture, Ziggurat)
Thrawn - Boudica (AGG, CHA) of Native America (Dog Soldier, Totem Pole)
Magic Science - Louis XIV (CRE, IND) of Persia (Immortal, Bazaar)
Dreylin - Saladin (SPI, PRO) of Inca (Quechua, Terrace)


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RFC: Dawn of Civilization is a mod of a mod that dramatically extends the originally RFC mod for Civ 4. The RFC mod attempted to simulate all of known history on a large earth map. I'm posting here because a big update for Dawn of Civilization just came out, a complete overhaul of the map that's produced the biggest and most detailed earth map ever used by a Civ game, hosting a bunch of unique historical civs with unique abilities and victory conditions. Check it out! https://github.com/dguenms/Dawn-of-Civil...ee/develop .

Note that the installer provided on the github page doesn't work for the new version. To get it working, just download the develop branch as a zip file, and extract it in your mod folder for Civ 4.

If anyone wants a rundown of what playing the mod is like, I'd be willing to do a runthrough of a sample single player game once I have a chance to get a feel for the new map, myself.

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.


The earth is a withering shell of its past. All civilization on earth has been razed to the ground in an apocalyptic conflict long lost to history. Technology is long forgotten. Roving bands of raiders rule what's left of the world. Some have even made rudimentary barbaric outposts of their own to horde natural resources. All over the earth there are signs of what used to be a civilized society, but many doubt they were ever home to anything at all. Amongst the desolate world, five brave tribes have decided to try to rebuild and relearn what was forgotten. Will they succeed, or will they simply repeat the past?


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This is a 5 player Pitboss signup thread for what I hope will be a fun game. I'm not going to say a ton about the game beyond the general theme hinted at above. However, I should clarify that a signup is expecting there may be some unfairness here. There have been real attempts at map balance here, but there are map quirks that will likely result in more variance than normal. I think the risk of variance is worth what I think/hope will be a fun map to explore and play.


Here are some map/settings details that help you know what you're signing up for.


* Barbarians: Raging

* Tribal Villages: Technically disabled

* Difficulty: Monarch

* Map Size: Small

* I recommend good scouting.

* No Spies. This includes no scouting with Great Spies - keep them in your cultural borders!

* Close to Home: I'm assuming this. It's not strictly necessary though, so if players would prefer something else, I might tweak a minor rule or two

This game also comes with some unique rules! Here those are.


1) No pillaging tiles in neutral territory allowed.


2) After leaders/civs are selected and locked in, you are allowed to select a third starting technology. It must be one of the normal starting technologies. This should be done privately (PM to me or in-thread) so as not to reveal this info directly to other players.


3) The following civs are banned: Vikings, America, Rome, China, and Byzantium. The Imperialistic trait is also banned. I will likely not elaborate.


4) Your capitals will be placed for you on T0 rather than starting with a settler.


Finally, I'll leave a few options up to the players:


1) Despite being an events disliker, I would loosely suggest playing with them on, maybe even doubled. I think thematically it fits the game. However, this is totally optional and can be left to a vote.


2) Picking method can also be left to players. I would loosely suggest a draft because it makes it easy to compensate for turn order given sequential, however a random block of options + rerolls fits this game well, so I think this can be left to players. A blind pick ranked choice with ties going off turn order could be a good option here too.

3) I assume this is a Sequential Pitboss given that it's 5 players, but if folks prefer Simultaneous it really does not matter.


There's no huge rush on filling and launching this game, but some have asked me about it, and there are indications that we may be in the late stages of a couple games, so I figured this is a good time to launch a signup thread and see where we get.

Breaking this out so as to stop interrupting your Succession game thread. :D

RefSteel said:

Quote:For me, it's a slightly subtler distinction: My rule isn't to artificially handicap my ship designs, but to assume (or say pretend) that the AI is smarter than it is when I'm making my ship designs: If I want a huge gunship, I'll design it the way I like, with banks and banks of beams. If I know the AI is suicidally obsessed with stopping bombers, I could also throw a few random bombs onto my gunship, hoping to bait the AI into uselessly shooting at the dreadnought's ARS instead of at the swarms of fighters that are my real ship-to-ship offense and actually vulnerable to attrition. I don't do that because I'm assuming/pretending the AI will attack my vulnerable ships even if I know it won't. And if I want a huge gunship that will also be able to sit on a planet while transports fly in from far away, blowing up missile bases as they get rebuilt, I'll put some bombs on it (or rather, if someone else in an SG has already built one like that, I'll use it) even if I'm worried the AI might be able to slag it or force it to retreat: I'll just reserve it for fights that I expect it to survive, or retreat it when necessary, and plan around the possibility that they will go after it, and make sure I have enough force of other kinds to win in case they do.

Also, when on defense, I wouldn't necessarily go after the bombers first. In RotP, as I understand it at least, it's possible to defend a planet from dedicated bombers in incredibly cheesy but effective ways as long as you can take out their space superiority ships and survive whatever space-to-space weapons their bombers carry. You don't even need Repulsors or Dissipators - just enough different designs in the same battle - though I don't know if even the Xilmi AI uses tactics as ridiculous as this.

Even without that though, if I'm not going to be able to stop their bombers from doing ~the worst they can do (destroying all the bases? wiping out the whole colony from the combat screen, especially with spores?) then I probably wouldn't target them until I've beaten their space superiority fleet. Then if the bombers don't retreat for whatever reason, my spacefleet can burn them down, and if they do, they're still taken out of action while they're forced to retreat to a friendly colony - where I may be able to chase them again if I can hit it with a winning fleet. Of course, that's just theorycrafting. If I think I can save a colony (or substantial parts of its value) by hitting the bombers first (and still win the space battle so it isn't wasted effort) that I couldn't without, I probably would - but I'd hope it's a much more complicated decision than just "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa kill the bombers kill them!!!!!" if I'm (or if any player or AI is) playing the battle well!

Nothing like asking basic technical questions 20 years in...

The F1 screen shows food, hammers, gold, and beakers. But the latter two are derived from commerce. Is there any way to see commerce for each city without cycling through each city screen?

Thanks!