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Civ4 AI Survivor Season Nine

#11
March 9th, 2026, 20:44
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This is going to be wonderful. Hooray for new brackets.
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#12
March 10th, 2026, 21:01
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Good times! I love the way the new seeding system has shaken up the lists too. Thanks for putting this together again, Sullla!
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#13
March 12th, 2026, 19:03
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Oh cool! Great to see this back again!
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#14
March 13th, 2026, 21:35
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I just want to say I'm very excited for this, but will not be doing the picking contest. The fact that I always, always pick the wrong winner makes me too annoyed to enjoy the games. So add +1 to your official numbers! This year I'm just going to enjoy the ridiculous ride of 2007 crap "AI".
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March 17th, 2026, 10:07
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(March 9th, 2026, 19:13)Cyneheard Wrote:
(March 7th, 2026, 15:38)Brian Shanahan Wrote: Glad to see the AI series back.

Unfortunately I won't be able to take part or watch again this year, especially now that I'm living back home and am commuting between Limerick and Cork.  So if somebody wants to run the random.org strange selection process, it's wide open again.

I volunteer as tribute. Using the attested min/max for # of wars and victory date, given the giant sample size we have.

For wars I put a maximum of 25 (maybe 30 might be better for an especially shark tankish game), and for win turn I put in a floor of 200 (I kept time as a win condition so if that came up in the RNG I'd stick 500 as the win turn. I don't think we've ever gotten a time win yet).
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#16
March 17th, 2026, 14:23
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Happy to lurk here.. I'll cheer for the underdog AI's smile
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#17
March 17th, 2026, 20:19
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(March 17th, 2026, 10:07)Brian Shanahan Wrote:
(March 9th, 2026, 19:13)Cyneheard Wrote:
(March 7th, 2026, 15:38)Brian Shanahan Wrote: Glad to see the AI series back.

Unfortunately I won't be able to take part or watch again this year, especially now that I'm living back home and am commuting between Limerick and Cork.  So if somebody wants to run the random.org strange selection process, it's wide open again.

I volunteer as tribute. Using the attested min/max for # of wars and victory date, given the giant sample size we have.

For wars I put a maximum of 25 (maybe 30 might be better for an especially shark tankish game), and for win turn I put in a floor of 200 (I kept time as a win condition so if that came up in the RNG I'd stick 500 as the win turn.  I don't think we've ever gotten a time win yet).

5-25 wars (attested range is 5 - 26), 250 - 425 on turns (unless it's Time, good catch, attested range is 253 - 422). Time has never happened but removing that is going too far against the random.org creed.
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#18
Yesterday, 16:37
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Is there any interest in using https://manifold.markets/home to bet play money on this? It's a prediction market site where anyone can set up a market for anything, but only play money. Might be fun.
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