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[SUCCESSION GAME ON] Why Yes, I Do Like Civilization 4, How Did You Know?

enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
edited April 2010 in Games and Technology
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So near the end of the great reign of Hatshetsup, Queen of the Nile, Conqueror of Worlds and what not, the idea of a succession game came up. Those who were interested thought we should put such a thing in a new thread for those who like Civ but were not interested in my LP of Civ to get in. This is that thread.

So what's Civ4?

Read my OP in the other thread, slacker.

What's a Succession Game?

A Succession Game is a game where each player plays a certain number of turns, uploads the save and posts a bunch of screenshots and explains what happened, and then the next person in line plays the next set of turns and does the same.

Cool! What version will we be playing?

We will be playing Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword with its latest patch (3.19). For ease of dotmaps and general awesomeness, the BUG mod is recommended, but not required. It's pretty cool though and makes things easier!

What are the map settings going to be?

We have to decide! I recommend Large Map/Epic speed/Prince but that's my default settings and we just did that for the LP, so we can maybe do something else.

Who are we going to be? Hatshetsup sucks!

Hey, you shut up about Hattie. She's pretty awesome. We could leave it up to the RNG, or we could pick. Personally I hate protective leaders and think Financial is too powerful, but I don't care really. Whoever!

How long will turns last? How many players can sign up?

Epic has 750 turns. I think the ideal would be 50 turns for each player the first time around and then 25 the second time. Which gives us 10 players. This can be up for discussion. If we get more than 10 players, we could possibly have the A Team and B Team and have two competing games. We'd have to operate on the honor system peaking at our territory in the farther ahead game though. Or operate on a strict schedule which is no fun.

How long will we have to take our turn?

I'd hope to get an update every two or three days or so. But no hard deadline. After maybe a week without hearing from you that you're planning on doing it soon we'll skip you and move on to the next player.

Who's playing? And in what order will we be playing?

So far:


Team A in order:
Fourth Estate An update that looks much like that of Sulebum's reign. Spies!
Again with the very similar narrative.
FWD The reign of Emperor Funky
FWD completes the Arcadian domination of the planet
silburnl Silburnl builds a lot of axemen
Streltsy Streltsy decides having a functioning economy is for sissies
Jimmy8091 Had an army and decided to use it
[strike]jclast[/strike] Romantic Undead The Reign of Roman Ticun the Diarist
Smaug6
Kris_xK Kris_xK warmongers. Ouchies.
FencingSax FencingSax continues the push to the tundra

Team 1 in order:
enlightenedbum The reign of Sulebum I
Bumin seizes control of the party apparatus
[strike]ProfMoriarty[/strike] Kivutar The reign of Kivutar, divine messenger of Apollo.
Machismo Mud!
elliotw2 WAR!
jdarksun The bloody reign of Werewolf I
a5ehren Vicious persecution of Zulus continues
Tag Janisarries, bitches
[strike]Thetheroo[/strike] Foefaller Foefaller fells his foes
Samtonia The Stalinist Samtonia destroys the enemies of the Revolution
Rawkking Goodguy Hey look, this game is over.

Reserves:
[strike]Kivutar[/strike]
[strike]Romantic Undead[/strike]
[strike]Rawkking Goodguy[/strike]
GeorgeWashingtonPlunkitt
shalmelo

As far as the order goes, RNG or people can pick approximately what era they'd like to play in. I'd gladly kick things off with the boring first 50 turns since I just did the LP.

Any hints on screenshots and what not?

Civ4 has a very convenient feature of taking shots for you. Just hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard at any time and a shot will be taken. It'll be placed in the Screenshots folder wherever you put your Beyond the Sword directory. Program Files -> Firaxis -> Civ 4 -> Beyond the Sword is default. If you want to crop things to showcase a foreign wonder creation or religion being founded, please do! Or draw pictures, battle plans, dot maps if you don't have BUG mod, or anything like that, go ahead. I suggest getting Rightload or something similar to upload batches of images at once.

How do I sign up to play some turns?

Sign up in some kind of colorful fashion.

Summary!

Everybody plays some turns, hands off to next person.
Need a map size, type, game length, number of opponents, difficulty level, any special settings you want (No Tech Brokering, for instance)
Need a ruler.
Need some players.
Need an order.

The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I will be watching this. I loooooooooove succession games.

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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm pretty inexperienced with Civ4, but I do enjoy it. Sign me up, pretty please.

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sign me up as well, will try to only live up to my name if the last guy left a huge army for me :P

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Foefaller wrote: »
    Sign me up as well, will try to only live up to my name if the last guy left a huge army for me :P

    You is already there from the old thread!

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Foefaller wrote: »
    Sign me up as well, will try to only live up to my name if the last guy left a huge army for me :P

    You is already there from the old thread!

    Well, I... just want to be sure!!

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  • ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    !Sign me up for the brutal dictatorship of Rooland

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  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    There is going to be alot of murder going on and empire mismangement! Mostly from me!

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Really? Tokugawa?

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Earth2? is that "Real world geography with not-real world resource locations" or "Everyone starts on one continent and can migrate to a second"?

    Anyway, my Leader suggestions are both the Celts, Cathrine, and the Caesars.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    jdarksun wrote: »
    If you're not declaring war and wrecking shit, you're doing it wrong.

    Well, sure, but... ew. I suppose in the sense you don't have to deal with him, but they have such a crap unique building!

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  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I vote to use the Dutch!

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Smaug6 wrote: »
    I vote to use the Dutch!

    You vote to win easily?

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    If there is a slot open and you all don't mind me sucking terribly at this game I would love to play Civ IV with you guys! :)

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  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Smaug6 wrote: »
    I vote to use the Dutch!

    You vote to win easily?

    Depends what difficulty we are playing on, but it also might help the newer players.

    If not we could always play as AMERICA! Washington all the way

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    We have 10, by the way. Start arguing about settings! And turn format! And stuff!

    If more sign up we can have competing Succession games or something else. Who knows!

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  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I say Earth 2, epic time length, HIGH WATER!!!!

    Noble difficulty and I get to name all the cities.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    We're not doing Dutch with high water.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Yeah, boats can suck it. I frequently don't build one the entire game. Stupid navies.

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  • FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    jdarksun wrote: »
    Foefaller wrote: »
    Earth2? is that "Real world geography with not-real world resource locations" or "Everyone starts on one continent and can migrate to a second"?
    Pseudo-"real world geography."

    I'd rather not do Earth2 then, otherwise I'd get annoyed how everything is off (silly I know, but still)

    If we are gonna go Dutch (which personally I don't want to) perhaps, Pangea/Large/rocky(or anything but temprate/arid)/low water level?

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    jdarksun wrote: »
    Then let's do one giant continent. Terra or whatever it's called.

    That'd be Pangaea, Terra is the everyone starts on one continent, there is another continent with no one on it, and the AIs are REALLY bad at it.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    jdarksun wrote: »
    Pangea (Solid) / Temperate / Low / Huge?

    No Dutch, Creative is terrible. Hammurabi?

    You really want Aggressive, don't you?

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  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Lakes is also pretty fun for map type. If we do pangea I vote for Mongolians.

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  • ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Terra, Cyrus (Persians), and Temperate! Onward to the new world!

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm going to ban:

    The Dutch, Romans, Inca, and Darius unilaterally.

    Anyone else is fair game.

    Go nuts, I'll stop pushing my preference.

    Also: if more people want in, come on down!

    And we need to discuss how we're ordering people.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'd do the succession part, but I suck at writing things sometimes.

    I vote Pangaea, any civ, temperate climate

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    I'd do the succession part, but I suck at writing things sometimes.

    I vote Pangaea, any civ, temperate climate

    Utilitarian descriptions are fine.

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  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I like Big and Small, or anything else that gives you approximately two big continents. Pangaea is a little boring but I can live with it.

    On player ordering, I suggest we attempt to alternate experienced and rookie players, so that the new players have a decent base to build off and the experienced folks end up with plenty of problems to fix. :P

    EDIT: Game length Epic, difficulty in the Warlord to Prince range depending on the balance of player skills.

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  • ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm not a rookie player, but I am generally regarded as terrible. The game length should be Epic, and I'm fine with any difficulty level.

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  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    We should consider a Spiritual leader to facilitate the continual changing of civics for any reason, or no reason at all.

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ok then, I'll sign up and attempt to lead this nation out of whatever hellhole we collective manage to make it. If it matters at all, I'm fairly experienced in the game, and decent enough to hold my own on Prince

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I never did pick up Beyond the Sword, somehow, so I'll just watch this and laugh at your failures.

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sign me up!

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I like FWD's suggestion, so I think I'll ask for the highest level you've won a Civ4 game on if you've signed up.

    Emperor for me. Getting Horseback Riding from a goodie hut in 3200 BC is kind of silly.

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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I've uh... never won a Civ4 game.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm game, so this is my sign up

    Highest completion is Diety but that was British/Water Map/Space so it was kinda rigged.

    Monarch may be a good middle of the road choice.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Yeah, Monarch is a bad idea, remember we have some true newbies involved.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    EDIT: Wow I was completely out to lunch with the difficulty names. Monarch would be an awful idea, sorry.

    I meant to say Noble.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    It seems like it's Noble or Prince. I lean towards Prince.

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  • silburnlsilburnl Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Am I too late for this party? [grrr - stupid timezone differences]

    If not, then I'd like to sign up for a stint.

    As to setup I say let's *not* have a spiritual leader - massive civic switching (and consequential chaos) will give the grognard players another thing to deal with. Beyond that (and any other proscriptions that are agreed) I say let's go with a random civ and see how well we can flex to the strengths/weaknesses of the hand we are dealt.

    Indeed I'd like to push for pretty much random everything - knowing the map type can lead to unrealistic strategies.

    I generally play around the Prince level, but I'm out of practise.

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I've only ever won on Chieftain. If this makes you guys not want to play with me I'm okay with sitting on the sidelines and reading.

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