Civ IV Pitboss Interest Thread
Post below if you are interested in a pitboss game and how many turns a day you think you would average, in case we need to split the game. I will keep the list updated in this post.
Choice of Civilization in Order of Selection
Game 1
1. Crouton Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia
2. Elliottx Chairman Mao of China
3. Grumpicus Hannibal of Carthage
4. Wizkid, Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire
5. Buzzfang, Genghis Khan and the stupid Mongorians
6. Ubrakto, Sitting Bull of the Native American Empire
7. Robear, Roosevelt of the Americans
8. Farscry, Napoleon of France
9. Absurddoctor, Billy Citrus of the Dutch
10. Dejanzie, Surayavarman III of the Khmer
11. Sephirotic, Suleiman of the Ottoman Empire
12. Yoyoson, Ragnar of the Vikings
Game 2
13. Old Man P n, Qin Shi Huan of China
14. Scrub, Peter of Russia
15. Atras, Hannibal of the Carthaginians
16. Alien13z, Huayna Capac of the Incans
17. Jonnypolite, Pacal II of the Mayans
18. Scaphism, Brennus of Celtia
19. QuintonStone, Julius Caesar of Rome
20. Lampshade, Bismarck of the Germans
21. SwampYankee, Saladin of Arabia
22. Redhwk, Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia
23. Deserter, Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire
24.
Tentative Rules
1. Two games, large map
2. No trading technologies that you have not researched yourself
3. War may be declared from turn one
4. 1000 bonus points to the player in Game 2 who destroys Quinton Stone's civilization.
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
Interested, 2 turns per day.
XBL: elliottxW
MMO Aliases: Jozak or Ezzamar
Interested, 1 turn a day.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Lampshade (my kid) and I if room. If not we'll share. German, Arab, Celt, American Indian, American, or Random.
1 turn a day
You don't have to call me Lieutenant, Rosie......
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Interested, 1 turn every 18 hours sounds good to me.
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I'm in. The Civ I play as doesn't matter. 1-3 turns per day I could probably keep up with (evenings and weekends).
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Every 18 hours sounds good to me as well.
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I'm totally in for 1 turn per day. I don't know how I could fit more than that in though except on weekends. Which civ I play doesn't matter to me that much. If given a choice, I'd probably most prefer Japan or Russia.
ooh! add Japan and Russia to my list too!
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At one turn/day, wouldn't it take about a year and a half to play the game?
Count me as interested, but seeing as I've only played Civ 4 twice so far (just bought it last weekend), and know very little about how pitboss games work, you may want to skip me.
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Oh and if I can semi-pick my civilization: Chinese or Sumerian. But I'd be happy with just about anybody.
XBL: elliottxW
MMO Aliases: Jozak or Ezzamar
Yes, it will take more than a year. The silver lining is that, at one turn a day, it will be a year before your lack of skillz is apparent.
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They still haven't fixed the bug where if you change something from the city list the list becomes unsorted? That's bush league!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I'm for, er, one per day, but let's see if we can do a weekend start and get a bunch in while the game is slow and friendly. After that, of course, it's open season on Swamplandia.
Extremism in the defense of liberty *is* a vice. It has been since the first Crown Loyalist was tarred, feathered and set afire, and it's no better now. It corrupts first the individual, then ultimately the institution it defends.
People's Democratic Republic of Swampistan to you, sir
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I'm in. I don't think 18 hour shifts would be good though - the time would keep rotating to a different hour and it would be difficult to keep track of.
I'd be up to try twice a day but I'm not sure how that would work either. If it's possible I'd prefer to play 1 or 2 rounds a day and then get all of us on for ~30 minutes every other weekend or so to play X rounds (10-20 rounds I'd guess).
If no one wins early, a Score/Time victory is triggered after 500 turns. I don't think we'll be playing this game for 1.36 years.
And honestly the early ages fly by - when you only have 1 unit to move, 1 city to build in, and a pretty well-understood early tech path then the decision go quickly. Once you have a bit of an empire, and different builds going in different cities with more units to move around, then rounds may take a bit longer and there's more to think about in between rounds. Right now it's mainly: where do I move my scout/warrior?
MrDeVil909: I feel it necessary to point out that there are drug resistant strains of most STDs. Especially in developing nations.
Funkenpants: Great. Yet another area in which we're losing our lead to foreigners.
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Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Hey, can we use that setting that makes it so you can only trade away techs you discover yourself? Help make teching up more interesting that way.
Good plan Quintin. Assign extra scientist specialists to speed up research.
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Now's probably a good time to ask this question:
Are there going to be any "house rules"? Like not rushing a neighbor before they have 2 cities or something.
This is obviously different than a multiplayer game where you're playing with strangers and you play at blazing fast speed to wreck everyone as quickly as possible.
Essentially, everyone is at their most vulnerable early on, and it's no fun to get knocked out of a game early. Later on it's possible to fight a war and lose but still retain parts of your empire and fight the invaders to a stalemate. There are also Vassals and Colonies to explore. So are we going to have a "gentlemen's agreement" or go free-for-all?
MrDeVil909: I feel it necessary to point out that there are drug resistant strains of most STDs. Especially in developing nations.
Funkenpants: Great. Yet another area in which we're losing our lead to foreigners.
I say the best way to moderate that is to put an aggression time limit (like, no wars during the first X turns) or just go free-for-all. If criteria is "no attacking someone until they get their second city", well, I could just make sure my capitol is VERY well established before I expand, then just expand rapidly.
I think this is a noble sentiment but difficult to enact for any civ that peaks early. Do the Babylonians and Zulus really need to sit back and play nice and sacrifice their comparative advantage? We can get around that by picking later-peaking civs but in the test game if we're that worried about it, I guess.
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
whatever the clock is set to, if everyone does their turn, the clock rolls forward and resets the timer. Therfore I like 24 hours as the game can still go faster if everyone does their turn fast.
You don't have to call me Lieutenant, Rosie......
Woof Woof! That's my other dog imitation...
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To reiterate my 18 hour turn preference, 18 hours is plenty of time to take a turn before work, then another later in the day. Queuing up actions takes care of the situations where you can't make it on for your turn, and the 6 hour savings for everyone else add up really fast. That said, 1 turn a day can move faster if everyone takes their turns regularly, too. I'd be on board for some faster turns, just agree on a time/day.
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Wait... are there any gentlemen who will actually be playing?
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I'm not advocating - I'm just posing the question. It matters if I'm going to pick someone like the Zulu though.
(Where do you all get those devil smilies?)
MrDeVil909: I feel it necessary to point out that there are drug resistant strains of most STDs. Especially in developing nations.
Funkenpants: Great. Yet another area in which we're losing our lead to foreigners.
Well, yes. But after El Liberacion, the name she will return to the older one.
I vote for nature, red in tooth and claw. I also want my own private island, kthxbye.
Extremism in the defense of liberty *is* a vice. It has been since the first Crown Loyalist was tarred, feathered and set afire, and it's no better now. It corrupts first the individual, then ultimately the institution it defends.
1 turn per day
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Count me in.
I'd be fine with one turn a day.
Fear the flames...
If you will have my sweet lack of Civ 4 skills, i am in like flynt.
Could do 2 turns a day.
The more unskilled players, the better!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Simply won't work for me. I'm going to be running 14-15 hour days during the week and I won't really be able to fit time in before I start my day to take another Civ turn (I only run my pc in the evening when I'm home and using it).
Well, I plan to play, so your wish is partially granted.
I'm not really that good a Civ player, though I have somewhat of a vague idea of what I'm doing. I'm expecting to have a lot of fun regardless!