Civilization 5: Giant Multiplayer in the Playground II

[Closet_Skeleton]

I'm not sure about booting people who aren't in the other game.

Have you sent either of them a PM?

[Somebloke]

Somebloke here.

Sorry for the radio silence. My computer has gone kaput. Will try to fix it for good tomorrow, but if its an inconvenience please feel free to start without me.

[Studoku]

Sorry, have been busy and hadn't looked at the thread in a while. I'm joined now.

[Driderman]

Alright, so now we're just waiting on Somebloke...

[Somebloke]

Start. Got the comp working but got a couple of things to so first so Tuesday would be the earliest I could set up. Annoyed I missed it but this has been delayed too long already. Please start without me.

[Mx.Silver]

Game has begun (barring any more disasters). For the benefit of any spectators, the list of who is what is as follows:

• Driderman - Austria
• Closet Skeleton - Spain
• Studoku - Arabia
• Mr.Silver - Indonesia
• Silverraptor - The Huns
• Qwertystop - The Zulu
• VonFenris - India
• druid91 - Russia
• Dhavaer - China

[Silverraptor]

Alright, so. Whoever's turn it is, you have only 8 hours left. Don't want you to miss your first turn.

[Driderman]

It's Studoku's turn, and he still hasn't taken it, with 3 hours left

[Studoku]

Crap, didn't realise we'd started.

I have to leave for work in 10 mins so I'll just let the AI get this one. It's only turn 1- even the AI can't screw it up that badly, right?

[Driderman]

Crap, didn't realise we'd started.

I have to leave for work in 10 mins so I'll just let the AI get this one. It's only turn 1- even the AI can't screw it up that badly, right?

I just realised that I can change the turn limit at any time, so I just gave you another 12 hours to take your turn. I'm going to assume that'll be enough.

[Mx.Silver]

It's Studoku's turn, and he still hasn't taken it, with 3 hours left

12 hours later, I'm having a weird sensation of Deja Vu.

[Dhavaer]

I'm guessing he hasn't seen the post regarding the timer being extended and thinks he's already been skipped.

[Driderman]

Well he's on Steam.

I have to say, I'm starting to get general sense of worry considering the involvement in this particular game...

[Somebloke]

It really hasn't been smooth sailing, has it?

[Silverraptor]

Maybe message him on steam?

[Driderman]

Maybe message him on steam?

I tried, but he's not reacting to my friend request.

[Silverraptor]

Alright, who's up next? Don't miss your turn.

[Mx.Silver]

^Already done. Let's get this show on the road. (Driderman can probably set the timer back to 24 hours if he hasn't already done so).



The pre-history of the Indonesian people is, like so much of the earlier times, shrouded in mystery. OUr best archeological evidence suggests they began as nomads travelling along the banks of the Ciliwung river for some time before the founding of Jakarta. Such a lifestyle coupled with the extensive water erosion makes hard evidence difficult to find however.

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And I have found myself extremely far from any sort of coast, because this game has apparently decided to forget about that whole 'coastal start bias' thing. Lots of swamp though, so maybe it's gotten me confused with the Dutch?

So yeah, this may end-up being an 'interesting' game. On the plus side, there are plenty of flood plains and wheat to exploit, although it does mean delaying founding my city until turn 2 to actually benefit from that (not much of a loss in the long time though, one hopes).

[VonFenris]

That would be you, Silverraptor, so you just gave advice to yourself

[Silverraptor]

Actually, I just told Mr. Silver. Its now my turn. Finally! I'm about to do multiplayer with Brave New World!


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Our people were wandering Nomads, moving about through the wilderness with no place to call home. Until our glorious leader appeared holding 2 animals with him. With these animals to help travel, we soon found a place to settle down. He has done so much for us and our people are quite happy with his rule, we have decided to name our settlement, and ourselves after him. Living from Attila's Court, our great group of Huns will now make this land our own, and with the horses he provided, explore farther than the eye could see.

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So, I spawned on top of a hill with horses 3 spaces away from where my settler was. There was some cotton near a river and I moved my settler 1 movement space towards it. I'm glad I did because not only did I make the horses just barely out of my city territory, I now have 2 sources of cotton and now some cattle within range of my first city.

As for how I will play Attila, that remains to be seen. I probably will play this smart and not become a warmonger, but I will still probably go down the honor tree. It just means I'm going to have to pick my allies and fights carefully. I'm hoping to find a player who will sit down and practice all on research and development. I would make an alliance with him with the offer to become the military protection of both our civilizations in exchange for resources and some science.

OOC: How do I Print Screen in Fullscreen mode? Steam won't take one and if I do it manually its just a black screen. I would like to provide screen shots for the spectators if I can.

[efdf]

Zulu and Huns in the same game should make the early game fun

[VonFenris]

Lured by his promises of a great weapon that can destroy entire tribes at once, the Indian people have finally settled down under the wise leadership of their leader Ghandi.

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No coast, which is bad I think, looking at the few BNW games I've played/seen, but the rest of the terrain is fabulous, with bananas, wine and dyes all within very easy grasp, a river and plenty of hills to fuel my production. Delhi could turn out very nice indeed...

[factotum]

Lured by his promises of a great weapon that can destroy entire tribes at once

"Our words are backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"--always used to love it when the AI came out with that in Civ2, particularly when it was Ghandi doing it!

[Dhavaer]

Just took my turn. Weirdly, I started with a jaguar warrior and had Aztec colours, although my leaderscreen and tech tree are properly Chinese.

[druid91]

Yeah, and I think my colors are englands, but otherwise I'm Russia.

[Mx.Silver]

From The Spice of Life: The memoirs of Prime Minister Gajah Mada (vol.1)

Those early days after Jakarta's founding were an auspicious time for the Indonesian people. Barely had our great city been founded when my warriors returned with from the south with numerous artworks, found in the ruins of one of the less successful Indonesian tribes. Although now such a practice seems innocuous, at the time it seemed to many that this was a sign from the gods that we were the true inheritors of the land. This included the king, who was happy to allow our soldiers to carrying out further exploration missions.

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The Indonesian Cartographers have produced this map of the starting location

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Plenty of good food land, plus some gold and silver which should help with production at least at first.
Also, coast has been found. We may actually see some use out of the Spice Islands this game.

[Silverraptor]

Our people have discovered a volcano of great wonder. We deem this a sign of our manifest destiny, and many of our people wish to flock to write songs and poems as well as worship this marvelous natural wonder. This grand sight our leader has named "Mt. Fuji".

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I'm still scouting out the area and needing to clear a barbarian camp, but looks like I'm going for a fast settler to claim this wonder. Its actually pretty close to my capital.

[druid91]

Is anyone else finding these first few turns rather... uneventful?

[Silverraptor]

Is anyone else finding these first few turns rather... uneventful?

You mean how most civilization games start, but rather then being able to take multiple consecutive turns quickly, you have to wait for everyone else?

[druid91]

You mean how most civilization games start, but rather then being able to take multiple consecutive turns quickly, you have to wait for everyone else?

Maybe that's it.