Lexis Nexis - My Kobayashi Maru

[Bobchillingworth]

It's not an impossible game, just terribly unfair





Save attached. I didn't design this as an Adventure or anything though, so YMMV on how fun/challenging the map is.

[Lord Parkin]

And Dave shows his age...

Anyone attempting an "Unwinnable" civ game should read that thread. Unfortunately the pictures have gone, but the starting island was nothing but tundra and hills. No tile provided more than 1 food except a few ()less than 4) tiles. Anyone with a working copy of that game can still open the save and take screenshots.

Not bad.



(Terrible.)

[Bobchillingworth]

Persia?! Hah, what is that, easy mode ?

[Lord Parkin]

Gold start too. And settling on Gold gives you the full yield in Civ3 I believe.

Whole map, spoilered in case someone wants to actually play it:

Persia is the island at the top middle.

[Lord Parkin]

Hmm, just noticed quick speed on Bob's game... this isn't a PBEM you know. (Just remembered one of the other reasons I prefer Pitboss - Normal speed. )

[Thoth]

This should be an Adventure.

So Very Warm...

+10 points to whomever gets the reference with link to relevant material.

To easy.

It refers to Aeson's epic So Very Cold (of the Map Generator) thread from Civ 3. He got stuck with a few icebound islands and abused the GLib to slingshot his tech.


Linky: http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/53686...enerator)
(hah. Just noticed that it was 12 years ago today that the thread was started)
Pics unfortunately appear to be gone.

[Thoth]

Hah. Guess I should have read the whole thread before replying.

[LexiSilva]

Here we go, Part Two of this Hell:



Nothing to do for 7 turns, then get the workboat to work on the fish. Kind of obvious...:P
Buddhism FIDL on Turn 5!
And then once my work boat is finished, Hinduism is FIDL!

1 turn on a warrior for Sailing to finish (Nothing I could micro), and remember to actually turn on resource and yield displays! Go into Hunting:
My plan is to build a Galley, and put a Scout on it so he can look at lands beyond.

I start a Pottery -> Writing -> Alphabet beeline so techs can be swapped with the superior AI kingdoms.



This is where I stop for right now.

[WilliamLP]

You're not improving that cow?

[LexiSilva]

You're not improving that cow?

I don't think spending time on a worker and slowing my growth is worth falling even MORE behind in tech. The cow gives no commerce!