Epic 48- The Absent-Minded Professor - Reports and Discussion

[Sirian]

My stepfather had quadruple-bypass heart surgery yesterday morning. He's in recovery and expected to do well.

There are also other reasons why I lack the energy to write this report. None have to do with the game, which I enjoyed. I'll try to get a summary written and talk a little about it, but I'm not sure if I'll get that done today. I played to within a couple of turns of launching but never technically crossed the finish line.

- Sirian

[Sullla]

Umm, you sure about that Sirian?



I might be rusty after some time away from Civ3, but I wasn't smoking THAT much of the pungent weed.

[Sirian]

Maybe that was changed in C3C? I'm fairly sure it wasn't like that from earlier.

OK, so that would make the scenario harder than I conceived of it, and STILL we have Urug and Ky grousing about encountering no challenge here. Yet we got some new folks to come out and play, too.

I hope that Civ4 is tight enough that I don't have to write six or eight pages of tourney rules to obtain fun gameplay in the RB traditions.


- Sirian

[Rik Meleet]

Why wait for Civ4? There's plenty of time and willingness to do another Realms game

[microbe]

Looks like compared to some of yours, my game plan is, urhh.. lack of plan. I didn't plan to grab wonders, for example, (I just tried to get them when they were available) and just kept researching till the end.

Frankly speaking, I don't like my game, especially the late wars. On one hand I was too aggressive and wiped out AIs on my continent and another on the other continent (b/c they wouldn't make peace), on the other hand I didn't accept peaces when there were strings attached, so I was forced to continue the war.

[Dunedine]

My report. It didn't... is... you'll see what I mean.




Epic 48: The Absent Minded Professor

It is Wednesday, May 3 right now and the reports are due when? May TENTH! Oh geez. I guess I should have started earlier .

In this game you can’t contact anyone else… ever and you have to win a space race. So, peaceful expansion to get as many cities as possible. I decided to start with a farmer’s gambit. Almost no military units, but tons of scouts. Sounds like a good plan to me!

After exploring my area, I figured out there were almost no barbarians around, so no barbarians to mess with my gambit! Lookin good! I found Joanie around 3,000 BC and since I can’t trade with her, it doesn’t really matter. But, I lucked out and she actually offered a good tech deal to me, I of course excepted this.

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What I am looking foreward to seeing is if the other players pop a settler out of a goodie hut, because I did. If others don’t, then it could seriously affect the game. Also, the Volcano around Hattusas exploded early on, the orange stuff looks really bad.

I’ve forgotten how useful the expansionist trait can be. I have probably popped four techs in total from huts.

I believe I am going to get Philosophy free tech. Although there is no real way to tell with the variant rules, I have made it to researching Philosophy quickly. If I get the free tech I will choose Literature, then attempt to build The Great Library.

2230 BC- Mysticism from a hut!

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In 1990 BC I got the free tech! WooHoo. Great Library here I come.




My whole continent is mapped out by 1550 BC. It looks large with a huge peninsula with no one on it. If I expand into that the cities in it will be hugely corrupted.

It’s 925 BC and nothing is happening. 26 turns until The Great Library is done.

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The Great Library was finished some time ago. I reached the middle Ages in around 200 BC, I haven’t gotten any techs from GL. That’s no surprise since both the Spanish and French are still in the Ancient times (from the looks of their cities).

How am I leading in Technology? I have only traded twice (both offered by the AI). This is crazy.

30 AD- I research Republic and go into anarchy. Ugh, 6 turns of it.

Somewhere in the anarchy got Monarchy from the French via GL, my people asked me if we could be one but I said: No, we are happy with anarchy. Lol

In 150 AD the new Hittite Republic is formed.

I am giving up on my scheme to wait for those bums to get into the middle ages and steel techs (again with GL), there never going to get in! Self Research is fine anyways, taking 15 turns for Monotheism.

230 AD- There is not much to talk about here. The French and Spanish are in the middle ages.

A FATAL MISATE!!! I uhhh, saved over the game! I think I was playing one of the conquests and... I saved over it! Nooooo.

There you have it, my report. My idiocy. Can you blame me for getting so caught up in a conquest? Oh well. What I find interesting is how true it is that the AI only fall farther behind as a result of no trading.

Because of the current almost derelict state of the Epics, I can't wait for Civ4 to come out so we can have some new fresh things to work with. Is there going to be a new site for RBCiv4? Someone please explain all the things about what will happen here after the release of Civ4. That person could start a new thread in the Forums also. Thanks!

[Dunedine]

Also, in case your feeling a little down, heres some humor.

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[microbe]

Have you tried your links? All broken. Also, we do not typically use .bmp as it's too big. Convert to .jpg instead.

[Dunedine]

Oh my goodness. They all worked when I first posted this. I thought I had the picture thing down. Put them in paintbucket, then inserted them. How would I convert them to Jpegs?

[bed_head7]

Kylearan, I believe the reason you saw AIs demand techs instead of gold, as opposed to higher levels where gold is demanded, is because on those higher levels the AI have the tech lead, while in this game the human had the tech lead (even if lacking a military).

My report is still in progress, but I should get it in by the due date.