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I don't know how many of you have heard of / played in the SGOTM over at Civ Fanatics. It's basically a succession game, but with multiple teams playing the same start.
I know that some folks here at RB played in the first one, which is just about to end. The signups for the 2nd one are starting already.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=178766
The start looks fairly interesting, from a variant perspective. You are Tokugawa on a fractal map at Monarch level. The twist is that in addition to your opening settler / warrior, you start with a city already founded, on a one tile island surrounded by ocean, quite a distance from your settler.
I don't know if there is room on the SGOTM1 RB team, or if there is enough interest from other folks here for a 2nd team, but I thought I'd bring it up.
What I'm looking for is a team of people that will be able to spend a day or two between turns analyzing things, and trying to reach consensus about the general plan that we're trying to accomplish, as well as be on-time and write good reports.
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regoarrarr Wrote:I figured if the list of players better than me got TOO long, I might get depressed and cry 
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regoarrarr Wrote:What I'm looking for is a team of people that will be able to spend a day or two between turns analyzing things, and trying to reach consensus about the general plan that we're trying to accomplish, as well as be on-time and write good reports.
hehe, analyzing - OK, playing - not, reporting - definately not
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I played with Team Chaotica last time but I am looking for a change this time. So, yes, I am interested in playing on a RB team.
If we do put together a new team, then we will face the very difficult challenge of coming up with a team name!
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I had a good time playing the first game, and my feeling is that only 2 or maybe 3 people on the first team will want to be on the team for the second go. Please count me into the team!
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Dumb question: if it takes longer than a month to play and comes out less often than once a month, why are they calling it "--OTM"? No, don't answer. 8)
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why are they calling it "--OTM"?
Hey, DiabloII.net has a "Fact of the Day" on the front page that hasn't changed for over two years now.
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regoarrarr Wrote:Physics discovered in 1625 AD, Artillery in 1655, and Rocketry in 1690. The Apollo Program was of course started in Berlin. Steam Power (1710), Electricity (1730)
Man, the breadth of the Civ 4 tech tree still surprises me. You can go to the moon without knowing of steam power or electricity? Did they have big mechanical adding machines calculating the rocket trajectories? 8) And kerosene lamps for illumination onboard?
regoarrarr Wrote:My experience with space race is that tech is the limiting factor, so I knew I needed to push through the tech tree.
Usually it is, but it's eminently possible to take a tech path that prioritizes other stuff before Rocketry - perhaps Computers for the research, or Industrialism if you decide you want tanks on hand, or even Fiber Optics for the Internet if you need to catch up on tech. With those plans, the production most certainly can be the limiting factor, particularly if you can't manage to get aluminum. However, the deadline for building all the parts isn't when you _research_ the last tech (as in Civ 3), it's when you finish building the last part. Other part builds can run concurrently with the last one, which usually is enough time for the production to be only a small bottleneck at most. (Assuming a normal game situation, not like a tiny map with only four cities.)
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Sirian Wrote:Dumb question: if it takes longer than a month to play and comes out less often than once a month, why are they calling it "--OTM"? No, don't answer. 8)
- Sirian Sorry but I just couldn't resist answering ... there is in fact a discussion thread about this very thing. My fav was SGOAT (SG of any timeperiod).
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T-hawk Wrote:Man, the breadth of the Civ 4 tech tree still surprises me. You can go to the moon without knowing of steam power or electricity? Did they have big mechanical adding machines calculating the rocket trajectories? 8) And kerosene lamps for illumination onboard?
Hey man we knew Physics for the rocket trajectories!!!
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some sites even have a Quote of the Month that hasn't changed...in months
...press 1-8 randomly, and then we win
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