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  Should Famous retort be removed or replaced?
Posted by: GMBarak - October 26th, 2024, 10:41 - Forum: Caster of Magic for Windows (CoM II) - Replies (30)

This retort in my opinion is very weak compared to other retorts, especially the fact that heroes offering to join are of higher level, because many times when a lower level hero offers to join you you want to kill them to prevent them from re-offering to join you and the higher level is giving you a much higher hiring cost, a sort of fine, a penalty for finding this jinxed retort instead of a useful one.

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  PBEM25 Mapmaking and Lurking
Posted by: Chevalier Mal Fet - October 25th, 2024, 10:14 - Forum: Civilization 6 PBEM 25 - Replies (84)

-randomly mashes buttons- 

How d'you make this thing work

I don't remember how to make maps
Map settings: Seven Seas, Small, 2 CS per player
[I will also set world age to new and sea level to low, giving lots of hills for production and I find more interesting land masses with low sea levels.]

here are our five slates of three leaders:

Slate One:

Yuris Wrote:Latoro
Victoria
Theodora

Slate Two:
greenline Wrote:Genghis Khan
Abraham Lincoln
Cleopatra

Slate Three:
Woden Wrote:Nader Shah
Pericles
Seondeok

Slate Four:
pindicator Wrote:Suleiman
Gandhi
Pachacuti

Slate Five:
the Archduke Wrote:Mvemba a Nzinga
Gilgamesh
Eleanor

Randomly assigning each slate to a player gets us:

  1. Yuris
  2. Greenline
  3. Woden
  4. Pindicator
  5. Archduke


Alternate slates:
Preregistering alternate slates 1-5. If any player wants to re-roll I'll toss another dice 1-5 and assign them the appropriate slate. 

Alternate 1:
Quote:Hojo
Kublai Khan
Julius Caesar

Alternate 2:
Quote:Saladin
Qin Shi Huang
Dido

Alternate 3
Quote:Menelik
Pedro
Gorgo

Alternate 4
Quote:Amanitore
John Curtin
Wilhemina

Alternate 5
Quote:Wu Zetian
Sundieta Keta
Montezuma

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  New CIV VI Pbem
Posted by: TheArchduke - October 16th, 2024, 01:50 - Forum: Civilization 6 PBEM 25 - Replies (130)

I doubt we will start up CIV VII MPs so soon. Any interest?

Rules would be the standard MJW rules.

Pangea, size depending on the players.

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  Number One Civ6 Player BUSTED!!!
Posted by: MJW (ya that one) - October 12th, 2024, 18:08 - Forum: Civilization General Discussion - Replies (13)


It is fog-of-war hack of course. Other methods would cause desyncs (mods/hacking gold. mike4all managed to hack gold without an instant desync but that only happened because only one player opens the save at a time in PBEM) or get caught much sooner (illegal diplomacy, it's only a matter of time until someone leaks). 

He got audited because he streamed while cheating. Edit: And moved settler, not scout, first  lol

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  Want to hear some music in Sumerian?
Posted by: TheHumanHydra - October 3rd, 2024, 19:36 - Forum: Off Topic - No Replies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGo9WGxONF0&list=PLWpNCv4fCx68B8cBtNUehBJfOduloQXX2&pp=iAQB

(I went back to uni and am taking a course in ancient Near Eastern literature. P.S., you may be interested to know it's apparently correctly pronounced "Shumer"!)

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  PB81 - Continental Drifters (TBS)
Posted by: The Black Sword - October 1st, 2024, 04:18 - Forum: Pitboss 81 - Replies (104)

Looking forward to obsessing over some civ again. smile

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  [PB 81] Yin-Yang transcontinental game
Posted by: giraflorens - September 18th, 2024, 16:38 - Forum: Pitboss 81 - Replies (83)

Hello,

First post. Another step more. Welcome to readers!

I'd love to be Dedlurked  by anyone who wanted to share the game!!!  Tell me if you think about it.

The final sneak peak results of all players:

Greenline: Wang Kong (PRO/FIN) of Persia
Superdeath: Catherine (IMP/CRE) of Byzantium
Xist: Tokugawa (AGG/PRO) of Sumer (Vulture/Ziggurat)
Giraflorens: Qin Shi Huang (PRO/IND) of India (Fast Worker/Mausoleum)
Mjmd: Julius Caesar (ORG/IMP) of Zulu (Impi/Ikhanda)
Naufragar: Boudica (AGG/CHA) of Portugal (Carrack/Feitoria)
TBS: Pericles(CRE/PHI) of America (Navy SEAL/Carnegie Public Libary)
Dreylin: Willem (CRE/FIN) of Rome (Praetorian/Forum)

I will play with Qin Shi Huang (PRO/IND) of India (Fast Worker/Mausoleum) with initial techs of Mysticism and Mining + extra tech:  FISHING

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  New spellbooks
Posted by: TeufelDK - September 16th, 2024, 14:00 - Forum: Caster of Magic for Windows (CoM II) - Replies (1)

Hi

Can you find new spellbooks and retorts at nodes from turn 1 or is that only enabled at a later turn?

Regards
Kristian

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  [PB81] naufragar is a rock. He is an iiiiiiiiiisland.
Posted by: naufragar - September 15th, 2024, 07:40 - Forum: Pitboss 81 - Replies (135)

I touch no one and no one touches me. nono


Edit: Password is anjin

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  [PB81] Clash of Island
Posted by: xist10 - September 14th, 2024, 15:32 - Forum: Pitboss 81 - Replies (56)

I don't think I will post many updates here.

I'm reasonable sure I will find time to play, but time to post ?

Still, there was a question for players to provide rankings, so I will do it.
Civ/Leader still needs a complete assessment, but you can write a few words.

Signups and short rating - I can't say much besides a few general words for most.
1. Greenline:

3 PB games are known to me. The PB72 was okay. I think greenline suffered maybe the most from the map.
In the end, I wasn't that easy of a target and Greenline the only target for Bing. Greenline overextended and got bailed out by aetryn in the end.
PB74 was okay too ? Not the best expansion decisions and greenline got run over by a better player - only later than me, so greenline was able to survie on a island. I really like to think that I would fare better, if greenline was Gavagai target - still there is the question if that is player skill or player civ ?
PB75 is still running, so only spoilers:

Another solid game. I don't like greenlines thinking near the end (Ginger is runaway, I will help the runaway to attack a neighbour and will border the runaway after that.

In the end, I would say greenline is a solid player. The problem ? All players here are solid cIV players. So greenline is still one of the weaker players here.
There are a few old PBEM, which I didn't looked at, but I think, the 3 recent PB are enough.


2. TBS:

I know TBS has a very good reputation.
civac introduced TBS to us (civfourm.de) for PB59 that some here consider him to be the best cIV player of all time ?
I think this might be a bit exaggerated.
The last 3 games (from 2021) didn't seem particularly outstanding. No victory there ?
A second place I think and to stop TBS, is seems it needed at least 2 players.
The last (single) victory is from 2016 ?


3. Mjmd:

Mjmd feels like the best player here ?

On a quick skim with less successes than expected (and why do you always play without points ? The PBSPy archive don't helps in this case to get a quick info about success.), but still a lot of game participation in the ‘last’ time. Mjmd survived most games, so there is that at least.
Achievements are of course always relative to other players and it could be that with PB 59 some good players have disappeared ?

Successful was the PB70 (and the broken NAP) and as DeadLurker the PB72.
PB75 Spoiler:
And in PB75 good chances for a 2nd victory, after a really lucky early game. I don't know how Mjmd was able to secure a pole position ? Mjmd seemed to be the (second) weakest target for a long time.
Also worth mentioning is PB66, in which Mjmd held out against Plemo for a very long time. (And only towards the end there was real momentum for Plemo). I think, Plemo would win the duel on the long run, but Plemo was regarded as runaway and came out as contender.



4. SD:

SD is difficult to categorise.
It feels like SD's game plan is to build an army and smash into someone.
This is of course a great simplification, but in the end it fits, doesn't it?
It should also be mentioned that this is SD 35th PB participation (with story). Unless SD is 100% resistant to learning (which can't be ruled out, since the game plan feels the same), something has to stick.
PB 75 again:
This game is interesting for a SD rating.
SD was able to run over Rick - a totally green player - very fast. SD has the early lead and the good praetorians ? What's the next action ? SD loses (draws) a war against Gavagai, which lost (drew) a war against Mjmd earlier.
Another skirmish with Nauf in the north a little bit later and SD is isolated and out of running.


5. Naufragar:

Another one where I know not much.
Not as good as Mjmd or TBS, but still a good player ?
PB 75 spoiler:
Nauf seems to play a good game, but nothing outstanding. A longer war with GT and then a few skirmishes with SD ?
Nauf is still big enough to be relevant, but Nauf seems to be out of the running at the moment.

6. Giraflorens

Let me copy my PB79 assessment.
Giraflorens also has 4 PBs behind him, but that was 3 years ago and was semi-successful.
The first 3 - including in the ‘Greensgame’, which Plemo won by a wide margin - were probably not particularly successful according to the last page of the stories.
The first player eliminated in each case?
Positive trend, at least, first eliminated against horse archers, then against mace men, then against cataphracts.

Neither many nor successful games.

PB79 spoiler:
Giraflorens seems to come second last out of the landgrab phase. And the last player if Rick, who got better in comparison to the PB75, but is still clearly the weakest player.

7. Xist
Self-assessments are always difficult.
This is my 11th PB, so I have a bit experience - I think Mjmd or TBS could have fewer games ?
And I had a few semi successful games - CF PB91 had a good position at the end, same for CF PB 90. But the good games were all games with a partner, so I can't claim 100% success for myself. I'm afraid I've also made a smaller contribution.


8. Dreylin
Let me copy my earlier assessment from the PB79 again.
Dreylin is a very old veteran at RB in terms of activity.
13 PB/PBEM and participation in 6 EitB PBEM - before 2017. There are not many surviving documentations, so I can't say much about this games.
Recently, Dreylin was the only one to be successfully rushed in the RB PB 74 and this year he was eliminated as 3rd in the PB75.
PB 75 spoiler:
Dreylin got attacked from 2 sides. The momentary runaway Ginger and the weak greenline.
Still a good defense and Ginger lost his runaway status.

Not one of the weaker players here, but I don't really think, Dreylin is one of the better too.



To sum it up:
Mjmd, Nauf and TBS on one island.
I'm not sure about SD and Dreylin and I really want to put me in this category too.
But I think, I should be with Greenline and Gira on one island.


In the end, I expect to person to win, who gets at first to Astro and ends off invading the noob island.
To counteract this a bit, I want SD on the Pro island, because I don't think, SD wants to wait till Astro and as such, this could slow down all players on this island.

And maybe we could activate Colonial cost too ?

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