Looking for a duo-partner for League. Playing mostly Ranked rift, but willing to do ARAM as well. Not a fan of TFT.

Hi,

we at civforum.de are planning the PB95 right know.
We are planning to start in about 3 months (and after the PB93 ends) in September.
Nothing is really fina right now, so you could try to influence things.

Right now, I expect a classical CF game.
This means:
- Deity
- Only the PB Mod vom Ramk (weaker Corps, Elefants)
- 48h timer (not discussable)
- usual doublemove rules; coin flip during peace time
- events, but no huts (I think no to both is possible)
- no techtrade
- espionage active, but tech theft and civic change forbidden
- unit gifting allowed, if the receiver has the tech to built them
- city trades are subjected to arbitrator approval, Guideline: Relative free as border correction AFTER a common war. Otherwise the city needs to be a trade object. - No "strategic" trades.

while waiting on the setup, the most important question of all remains: what naming scheme?

two things came to mind:

seinfeld episodes
the folk music pieces that were arranged for civ 6's soundtract

If this song doesn't make you feel things you may be a robot.



I reserve the right to reuse this song in the future.

So ya I stepped in to save the turn pace / this game. Not thrilled about it. My lurker thread comment was something like "oh yeah a game emphasizing the worst part of civ4". I'm not a big fan of philosophic here. Gingers plan was to oracle MC, but to me that puts you at odds with the excellent charismatic part of this. One of these plans wants to go pottery first, get some grans whipped out, and that opens up overwhipping and fast expanding. The other wants to go priesthood, produce extra workers, and chop out Oracle. I think I mentioned I would have chosen cre/pro, but I don't hate the cha pick but especially with spain I would have gone protective. Would it be weird to ask if this is possible to change? Feels weird after the fact and having some insight into map, but there isn't any way I would have chosen this combo.

Anyways, here is the home island.



Don't hate the BW before AH Ginger went with. Not sure when I'll find time to rework the sheep (will farm after corn) but ah well. It does mean worker isn't idle and it will help chop out workboat / 1st settler. Probably do settler size 4.

I'm actually leaning towards the alt spots. Especially with farming the grassland river I may not need to spend a chop on an instant monument. Save the forest and more importantly save the worker turns. Go 1 worker into 2 settlers.

Anyways not sure how much I'll be reporting. PB75 takes precedence over this game.

So I came back to the game after a couple years break, decided to try a phantasm game with 13 wizards, fair everything, normal size land, mixed continents, turned on monsters gone wild and final war to add some extra difficulty.

The game progressed smoothly for the first 60 or so turns, and then it just got really annoying. I don't know what the cause is, whether it's difficulty at phantasm vs. lunatic, or one of the toggles, but some of the AI behaviors just don't make any sense given the settings I chose. Difficulty has never used to mean the AI starts ganging up on you, especially when it's not strategically sensible for them to do so because they can't possibly defeat me, effectively making it easier for the player.

I didn't banish anyone until turn 72 so it's not because of the banish penalty either, this stuff started at least 10 turns ago:

-3-4 AIs rushed to try settling my home continent, for 3 of them it's on land that's at least 20 squares away from their nearest settlement, building just ONE isolated town with low <15 pop cap right next to my center of power, there is no possible way they can defend that. So obviously I let them settle because I could take it anytime I want, effectively helping me build more cities for free and letting me stay under the overexpansion threshold, while wasting their settler production.
-Nature node spawns a fat stack literally right next to the dumb AI. It had 1 swordsmen defender with no buffs or city enchantments. That should've been an obvious target right? No matter how much the multiplier is for the player for same continent, all of MY cities were at least 4 squares away, with almost maxed garrisons and strong units defending. Instead of attacking the AI's city, this stack tries to go for MY city that's 5 squares away with 7 defenders. This seriously shouldn't be allowed. If it destroyed the AI city then at least I wouldn't be able to conquer it later, but instead it's coming to suicide against my powerful stacks? Wtf.
-Another dumb AI decides to randomly attack two of my active nodes with spearmen defenders. Well my defenders were weak so tempting target right? But they are so damn far away there is no chance of them keeping it. And it's not like they brought over some epic doom stack to occupy/invade. One even attacked with a single naga!  There's not any magic spirits of theirs within 15 squares either. It's basically pointlessly annoying me and goading me into attacking their one pathetic settlement that I allowed them to settle
-Yet ANOTHER AI  attacked my third lightly defended sorcery node and decided to suicide their weak Druid ritual master hero into my territory?? It brought over a stack of mere hell hounds and berserkers as support and got rekt against 3 of my fodder units, leaving just the half dead hero and 2 hell hounds after the first fight. Now I can kill the hero anytime I want (literally 1 tile from my heavily defended city, where I could and did summon a water elemental the next turn to deal with them) and they're not even trying to retreat after, just sitting there on the node with 3 trash units? If the AI was trying to get rid of a hero after a full 6 that would be something else (they only had 4), but they're basically just suiciding their economy unit here

Keeping in mind, these AI's fortresses are like 30+ squares away from me, on other continents, separated by a huge amount of ocean. I have nature's eye on all my cities and can clearly see they have NO reinforcements anywhere near me.
They have all of 1 highly underdeveloped, barely garrisoned city within 20 squares of me. In fact, their names are ALL in (brackets) on the F5 relations menu so is this just bugged or what? Why are they trying to attack me in MY territory if they're not prepared for a war and have no ability to reinforce their front? I could fight all of them at the same time and still win, but they're not in some grand alliance, and not allied with the one wizard I was actually at war with either--I was also winning that war easily so it's not like there was an opportunity to prey on my weakness.

Once I finally banished somebody the latest turn, only 2 wizards gave me the diplo warning, so that seems to be working correctly, and they weren't any of these guys. The F5 relations hit only came after the banishment, so all that stuff before had to be caused by something else.

This feels way too artificial and counterproductive. How is this Phantasm difficulty? I was under the impression that the AI only received more numerical bonuses going from lunatic to phantasm...this seems like something went wrong with the AI's strategic judgment.

Maybe the problem was my "Army" rating being weak, but that's just a terrible metric. My population was way in the lead (double or triple theirs), my overall power was even or higher than theirs too. My power income was on par with them as well, despite their bonuses, implying that they had barely started attacking nodes near themselves. Why aren't they focused on grabbing neutral nodes instead of provoking an at least equally powerful or superior foe so far away?

I didn't turn on Final War to fight against everybody on turn 60. That was for the endgame...the Domination rate is only 23% by turn 73 and I wasn't even in the lead yet.

The AI shouldn't be getting involved in pointless fights in faraway land where they have 0 chance of victory or keeping their gains, especially not when the diplo (name) indicate that they're out of range. Nor should the wild stacks be attacking my cities when there is a way better target immediately next to them. No amount of difficulty/player penalty should overcome a 5 square and 6 garrison (plus the garrison's actual strength) difference.

I don't recall this stuff happening on lunatic before. It doesn't make sense, and it isn't fun or improving the difficulty.

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.

Thread starter

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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