Some of you remembered that I asked about this topic a while ago and I decided to take matters into my own hands. I checked back with Krill and he's ok with me doing that as long as I supply him with anything he needs to be changed in the DLL. Of course adding BUG to RtR is no small feat so I worked out the following plan:

1. Discuss with the community which features should be added.
   
2. Try to add every feature that the community deems worthy in the mod. Please understand that it may not be possible to add a feature due to changes in the DLL in the past.
   
3. Release new features piece by piece with upcoming releases.
   

• Misc: Min/Max Commerce Buttons: It always annoys me that I have to hit those buttons 10 times to go from 0% to 100% and vice versa. This feature eliminates that and is basically a quality of life feature.
  
• Misc Build/Action Icon Size: This shrinks or grows the action buttons. I see no problem with this feature as it's just cosmetic.
  
• Misc City Cycle Arrows: Similar to the Min/Max Buttons this is just a quality of life feature.
  

• Misc: Field of View: Players can already use camera flying feature, so there should be no harm in adding this.
  

• Great Person Bar Turns until Birth
  
• Great Person Bar types and percentage
  
• Misc Culture Turns: I grouped these three features together, because every single one just displays information directly on the city screen, which is usually only presented in a hover effect.
  
• Misc City Specialist: A Cosmetic change for the visualization of multiple specialist.
  

• Domestic Space Above
  
• Domestic Space to Side: Both are mainly cosmetic changes to the Domestic Advisor
  
• Foreign Deals Turn Left: Normally this information is presented in a hover if I'm not mistaken, so this is once again a quality of life feature
  
• Technology Wide Screen: Cosmetic
  
• Graphs Tabs: Quality of Life
  
• Graphs Wonders Tab: Cleans up the wonder tab and makes a better overview
  

• Everything except for the golden age stuff: I think most stuff here is mainly cosmetic and/or quality of life
  

• Promotion Icon Offset: Cosmetic
  
• Unit Name: Cosmetic (Text color)
  
• Upgrade cost: Quality of life feature. It's not like it's hidden information if you can't pay for something.
  

• Everything: As this only helps in naming units, which can be tedious, it's mostly a quality of life feature.
  

• These are no real features and will be mandatory to add for debugging reasons or just common sense.
  

Have at 'er.

I'm working a night shift, but I'll have a map uploaded tomorrow for review and game could be live from Tuesday.

Looking forward to playing base BTS with a pretty diverse mix of players.  Now to check out the Civilopedia to deprogram myself from RtR before my turn in the draft.

Welcome to my spoiler thread for the Pitboss game! This is my first Pitboss game in over a decade! I've played two before, back in the day. However, I played them like I would in a single-player game, getting conquered very fast by my more aggressive neighbors. I'm hoping to do a little better this time around! I was very active at CFC when Civ III and Civ IV were the current entries, but have fallen off of the Civ bandwagon with the introduction of One Unit per Tile. I haven't participated at RB at all (minus one Civ III epic that I bombed), but I really enjoy reading the threads of users here, namely Sullla's website. Here's to me at least not being the first one eliminated!

We're doing a points-based snake pick for leaders and civs, and I drew last pick! While that means seven leaders/civs will be gone when it's my turn, I get to essentially double-pick my leader and civ, since the pick order reverses once it gets to the end. Here is the points list for reference:

5 Points to Spend
4: FIN
3: EXP, CRE, India, Inca
2: SPI, IND, ORG, IMP, China.
1: PHI, Agriculture Civs
0: CHM, AGG, All other civs
-1: PRO

I personally am looking for a leader with FIN, EXP, CRE, or PHI. Obviously I can't have a combo of the first three, so it'll boil down to what is left after seven people go ahead of me. Here are the leaders I am looking at:

Elizabeth (FIN/PHI) - 5 points, must pick a non-Agriculture civ.
Peter (EXP/PHI) - 4 points, can pick any civ.
Pericles (CRE/PHI) - 4 points, can pick any civ.

What civ should I go for? Heads up: I'm not anticipating executing an early rush or ancient war, so I won't be considering a civ that can do those well. Since I anticipate the seven choices ahead of me being leaders, I should be able to pick the civ that I want. I know India and Inca are top-tier due to the Fast Worker and the Terrace, respectively, but with my trait preferences, I will pass on those two. These civs seem to be popular:

The Ottomans (Agriculture)
The Byzantines
The Mayans
The Holy Roman Empire
France (Agriculture)
Babylon (Agriculture)
Greece

I'm debating mainly between the Ottomans and the Byzantines. Both have great unique buildings and units. The Ottomans are my personal preference, but I might want to snag Byzantium just to deny cataphracts to the others. Conversely, the others might see me as a threat as Byzantium, so maybe I will just stick with the Ottomans. I'll have to see what's left when my time comes!

Almost time to game! I hope to offer some enjoyment (and laughing at the noob!) to you all. I'm mainly in here to help refine my Civ IV skill. So long as I'm not the first eliminated, I'll consider that a personal victory.

Game Rules
1) Settings:
Pangea mapscript, cylindrical wrap, Emperor level, mapsize and other settings at mapmaker's discretion.
No villages, events, vassal states, technology trading.
Normal barbs.

2) Bans:
AP resolutions, blockades, active espionage (espionage is enabled in settings but no spies can be built; no limits on Great Spies), nukes, War Elephants, city and unit gifting (including city transfer as a part of a peace treaty).
No ban on GLH (should not be OP on Pangea), SoZ, Corporations.

3) Rules:
AI Diplo. No communication with other players in respect to in-game events other than offers in trade window. No use of texts, city names, unit names, numbers (specific amounts of gold) to communicate.
Otherwise, please follow etiquette rules as described in this thread: https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/show...p?tid=7311

BASIC GAME INFO TO BLOCK OUT SPOILERS FROM OTHER GAME PLAYERS.

Pick Order:
1. Superdeath
2. Commodore
3. Irismono & GeneralKilCavalry
4. Chumchu
5. Gavagai
6. Alhazard
7. Donovan Zoi
8. RegentMan


Ruleset and Information:
1) Settings:
Pangea mapscript, cylindrical wrap, Emperor level, mapsize and other settings at mapmaker's discretion.
No villages, events, vassal states, technology trading.
Normal barbs.

2) Bans:
AP resolutions, blockades, active espionage (espionage is enabled in settings but no spies can be built; no limits on Great Spies), nukes, War Elephants, city and unit gifting (including city transfer as a part of a peace treaty). No ban on GLH (should not be OP on Pangea), SoZ, Corporations.

3) Rules:
AI Diplo. No communication with other players in respect to in-game events other than offers in trade window. No use of texts, city names, unit names, numbers (specific amounts of gold) to communicate.
Otherwise, please follow etiquette rules as described in this thread: https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/show...p?tid=7311

4) Pick method. Point-based snakepick. Everyone is limited by five points, features are priced as follows:
4: FIN
3: EXP, CRE, India, Inca
2: SPI, IND, ORG, IMP, China.
1: PHI, Agriculture Civs
0: CHM, AGG, All other civs
-1: PRO
Picks are done blind, before seeing starting positions.

5) Player roster:
1. Alhazard
2. Chumchu
3. Superdeath
4. Commodore
5. Gavagai
6. RegentMan
7. Irismono/GeneralKilCavalry
8. Donovan Zoi

6) Mapmaker: Krill. He is supposed to roll a reasonable map, balance capitals and give everyone strategic resources. No further balancing effort is expected.



Really looking forward to my first pitboss. I've been playing civ 4 since it was released back when I was in elementary school, but have never really been a participant in much of the online multiplayer stuff, so here goes!

Placeholder-/noplayers

Insert start here.

See tracker: http://civ.zulan.net/pbspy/game/77/#players

If you are playing in this game, look no further.

Game info:

1) Settings:
Pangea mapscript, cylindrical wrap, Emperor level, mapsize and other settings at mapmaker's discretion.
No villages, events, vassal states, technology trading.
Normal barbs.

2) Bans:
AP resolutions, blockades, active espionage (espionage is enabled in settings but no spies can be built; no limits on Great Spies), nukes, War Elephants, city and unit gifting (including city transfer as a part of a peace treaty). No ban on GLH (should not be OP on Pangea), SoZ, Corporations.

3) Rules:
AI Diplo. No communication with other players in respect to in-game events other than offers in trade window. No use of texts, city names, unit names, numbers (specific amounts of gold) to communicate.
Otherwise, please follow etiquette rules as described in this thread: https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/show...p?tid=7311

4) Pick method. Point-based snakepick. Everyone is limited by five points, features are priced as follows:
4: FIN
3: EXP, CRE, India, Inca
2: SPI, IND, ORG, IMP, China.
1: PHI, Agriculture Civs
0: CHM, AGG, All other civs
-1: PRO
Picks are done blind, before seeing starting positions.

5) Player roster and snake pick order:

1. Superdeath
2. Commodore
3. Irismono & GeneralKilCavalry
4. Chumchu
5. Gavagai
6. Alhazard
7. Donovan Zoi
8. RegentMan


6) Mapmaker: Krill. He is supposed to roll a reasonable map, balance capitals and give everyone strategic resources. No further balancing effort is expected.

I'll name my cities after more problems I have with civ6 as a continuation of the naming scheme in PBEM76