Pitboss 18 Organizing Thread (RB Mod 34 Civs)

[Krill]

Think people need to tidy these up a bit, maybe make a few more...

Below is a direct copy of the original post from the tech thread.

I thought it might be fun to name all of the awards and add a few more. As someone who's lurked pretty comprehensively, I democratically elected myself for this duty.

Hopefully anyone who has a "negative" award named after them takes it in the fun spirit its intended.

• The Tatan Award (PBEM4g, PBEM10) - Making the most of your position in the game, good or bad, and showing good spirits.
  
• The plako Award - Not abusing the turn timer, even trying specifically to not abuse it, as though you were roleplaying some sort of perfect turn timer gentleman.
  
• The Ilios Award (FFH2)- Fighting honorably and fiercely until the bitter end, never trying to throw the game or be spiteful, and keeping all the enmity in-game.
  
• The SevenSpirits Award (PBEM19, PBEM23)- Showing innovative play and an enthusiasm for making the game fun and exciting.
  
• The Pocketbeetle Award (FFH1)- Most entertaining thread updater
  
• The Oledavy Award (PBEM17)- Most interesting thread updater (note, not the same thing)
  
• The Athlete4Life Award (PB2) - Sneakiest back stab gold star
  
• The Sandover Award (PBEM3) - Mostest with the Leastest award for crap land award
  
• The Adlain Award (PB4) - Leastest with mostest award for really good land frittered away
  
• The WarlordDr Award (PB4) - Warmonger of the year award for least infrastructure
  
• The FFH7 Clowns Award Warmonger of the year award for most military (important distinction there)
  
• The novice Award (PBEM13, 17, 23) - for most insanely thorough spreadsheet MM plan
  
• The "Krills' 12 steps to greatness" award (See all Krill games) from most retarded drunken behaviour
  
• The "WTF Darrell" award (FFH2 I think is the best example) for greatest WTF moment of the game (Always a goody)
  
• The "bloody sunrise" award for most crippling early game strike
  
• The regoarrarr award (PB1) - For most disappointing moment
  
• The Lewwyn award (PBEM14) - For most ill-advised rush
  
• The Commodore award (PBEM19, 24) - For most convincing desperate victory attempt
  
• The Lord Parkin award (PB4) - For most 1t techs in a row
  
• The mackoti award (many) - For the team that builds the Pyramids
  
• The Ruff Award - For best naming-scheme
  
• The Bobchillingworth award (FFH11) - For best military action devised solely for metagame reasons
  
• The Jowy Award (PBEM6) - For worst leveraging of traits (i.e. never going to war with Boudica of Rome)
  
• The Whosit Award (PB2) - For biggest misuse of military units
  
• The Gaspar Award (Pretty much every game) - For most war plans composed but not enacted.
  
• The Sareln Award (Um, every game) - For first player eliminated in a rush
  
• The TMIT's Speed civving award - For being shortest time logged in to the game.
  
• The Kuro Slow civving award - For being longest time logged in to the game.
  
• The Thoth Award (Pretty much every game) - For most youtube links posted in thread.
  
• The Catwalk Award (Pretty much every game) - For most headscratching thread spam.
  
• The Munro Award (PB1) - For Biggest Upset
  
• The Cyneheard Award (Every game) - For the biggest bridesmaid
  
• The Locke Award (PB4) - For most effective personality change
  
• The Serdoa Award (PBEM10, PBEM25) - For biggest wonderwhore
  
• The DrNomadic Award (PB2) - For most inane lurker comment
  
• The MJW Award (All) - For most confusing lurker behavior
  
• The Dazedroyalty Award (PBEM7) - For most impressive dogged defense
  
• The Sulla Award (Demogame) - For best pink dot
  
• The Speaker Award (PB2, PB6) - For most impressive military tactics
  
• The Twinkletoes89 Award (All) - For surviving against impossible odds
  
• The Iskender Award (FFH5) (All) - For best performance with a lesser Civ/Leader pairing
  
• The Exploit Award (PB1, PB3) (All) - For poorest performance with a stronger Civ/Leader pairing.
  
• The Kyan Award (PBEM4g) - For most consecutive turns in a Golden Age
  
• The Mist Award (PB7) - For the player who annoys the game admin the most
  
• The Uberfish Award (FFH2) - For best sneaky good game position
  
• The Amelia Award (FFH2) - For most damage on a single turn
  
• The spacemanmf Award (PBEM13) - For best war turn report (single turn) [rego already has an award before anyone mentions PBEM8]
  
• The Selrahc Award (FFH6) - For longest delay to settle first city
  
• The Washington, Mongolia Award (sunrise089 - all PBs) - For worst power/internet situation for someone who purportedly does not live in a 3rd world country.
  
• The pindicator Award (PBEM26) - For cheesiest yet deserved success
  
• The yuris125 Award (PBEM20, PBEM26) - For player who swings the balance of game most while having no actual benefit to his own empire
  
• The Mortius Award (PB2) - For allowing someone to walk into your undefended capital
  

Keep em coming, of course.

Once the game starts, post links to nominations for the awards in this thread. I'll try and keep everything collated and then when the game is over we can decide if we're voting on the awards or letting the namesake hand out the award.

[Jowy]

Was I really known for that?

[Krill]

Hey, that's a straight copy/paste from the PB7 forum.

Then again, it being a straight copy/paste, I may have still made a mistake somewhere

[Old Harry]

Was I really known for that?

And now you're making up for it?

[spacetyrantxenu]

What do we plan on doing with players who quit?

There is only one punishment for oath breakers.

[plako]

As it seems sign-ups are filling up soon what is the status of map and our special version of the mod?

[Krill]

Uh, actually...not close.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Just confirming, but events are still set to off, despite being fixed? (I don't care either way, just confirming).

While I was testing to find the ikhanda bug last night I played through a game as a OCC looking for other oddities. I didn't really find anything else broken (though testing as a cheaty OCC doesn't cover every situation). One thing that I noticed was that the pace of random events was very rapid. I got one it seemed every few turns. I don't know how many fewer events I would have received if I didn't have all the tech tree cleared from T0, if any fewer, but the pace was probably too high given that the rewards are all useful now. Individually nothing was game breaking but in the aggregate the events will considerably alter gameplay if the pace is that fast in a regular game with normal research unlocking the stronger events era by era. I probably won't have time to play through a regular single player game to get a feel for event pacing under normal research circumstances in the next few days, though. Maybe someone else can take a look?

[Krill]

Just confirming, but events are still set to off, despite being fixed? (I don't care either way, just confirming).

While I was testing to find the ikhanda bug last night I played through a game as a OCC looking for other oddities. I didn't really find anything else broken (though testing as a cheaty OCC doesn't cover every situation). One thing that I noticed was that the pace of random events was very rapid. I got one it seemed every few turns. I don't know how many fewer events I would have received if I didn't have all the tech tree cleared from T0, if any fewer, but the pace was probably too high given that the rewards are all useful now. Individually nothing was game breaking but in the aggregate the events will considerably alter gameplay if the pace is that fast in a regular game with normal research unlocking the stronger events era by era. I probably won't have time to play through a regular single player game to get a feel for event pacing under normal research circumstances in the next few days, though. Maybe someone else can take a look?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.p...stcount=17

how can I change this value in mod?

There is a chance of 1%/2%/4%/4%/6%/8%/10% per turn for any event to occur (era specific Ancient/Classical/Medieval/Renaissance/Industrial/Modern/Future).

It's to low to me in quick, normal and epic games. Perhaps it should be changed by speed.

You cannot easily change it by speed, but if you want to adjust the values for the eras you can just open ...\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\GameInfo\CIV4EraInfos.xml using any text editor and change the values within the <iEventChancePerTurn></iEventChancePerTurn> tags for each era.

If you gave yourself all of the tech,s the odds of an event occurring is 10% per turn, but it increases through the game and is era dependent. I think the numbers look OK, the changes to Events should not increase their occurrance above what occurs in a normal base BtS game with events left on.

We have a problem when it comes to the map trading funtion however. As I'm sure most people are aware, map trading has been commandeered as a function of the known tech bonus; if I were to just remove it in the XML, then there would be 0 known tech bonus in the entire game. This has been done in the DLL, so I don't have any method of changing anything. There is a way to solve this problem, which is novices suggestion as a method of implementing a hidden resource to provide the known tech bonus. If that is implemented (and it requires DLL work) then I can just edit the XML to remove map trading from the game and there shouldn't be a problem, but otherwise, kinda need ideas.

[Hashoosh]

Forgive my ignorance, but why can't you have 5 sets on 'enables tech trading' in lieu of map trading at those techs?