I just tried the Defense-mod of Beyond the Sword and wrote a little wiki-article about it. I made the mistake of having just one city for too long, because I didn't realize that one gets money on per city basis. I was also hoping for some more interesting terrain. I did not try if the terrain is randomized every time but I don't think it is. I lost the game on turn 11 when the Psycho Samurais attacked me...
maanantai 26. tammikuuta 2009
Defense Snack
I just tried the Defense-mod of Beyond the Sword and wrote a little wiki-article about it. I made the mistake of having just one city for too long, because I didn't realize that one gets money on per city basis. I was also hoping for some more interesting terrain. I did not try if the terrain is randomized every time but I don't think it is. I lost the game on turn 11 when the Psycho Samurais attacked me...
lauantai 17. tammikuuta 2009
Parrots
In 1170 AD (turn 177) I get a contact to Pacal II of the Mayans. We agree that there shall be peace in our time and exchange some technologies: he gives me Monarchy and Aesthethics and a little money for Civil Service.
The next turn a Great Engineer is born in Edirne. I use him to discover Engineering the next turn, after first discovering Paper and buying Pacal's and Hammurabi's maps.
Edirne completes the Colossus in 1300 AD (turn 190), which is rather stupid, because Colossus is obsoleted by Astronomy, which I have been wanting for a long time and am about to get soon.
In 1350 (turn 195) I change my labor civic from Caste System to Serfdom. Edirne is building the Apostolic Palace which unfortunately is later completed in a far away land. At least according to some historian, the Ottoman civilization is the most cultured one, out of seven civilizations.
Gunpowder is invented in 1480 (turn 208) which starts the Renaissance Era. Three turns later: another Great Engineer is born in Edirne; I establish Gaziantep to a new island, east from Istanbul; Gandhi of the India contacts me and sells me his map:
The next turn a Great Engineer is born in Edirne. I use him to discover Engineering the next turn, after first discovering Paper and buying Pacal's and Hammurabi's maps.
Edirne completes the Colossus in 1300 AD (turn 190), which is rather stupid, because Colossus is obsoleted by Astronomy, which I have been wanting for a long time and am about to get soon.
In 1350 (turn 195) I change my labor civic from Caste System to Serfdom. Edirne is building the Apostolic Palace which unfortunately is later completed in a far away land. At least according to some historian, the Ottoman civilization is the most cultured one, out of seven civilizations.
Gunpowder is invented in 1480 (turn 208) which starts the Renaissance Era. Three turns later: another Great Engineer is born in Edirne; I establish Gaziantep to a new island, east from Istanbul; Gandhi of the India contacts me and sells me his map:
tiistai 6. tammikuuta 2009
Links
The more I write to this blog the less time I have to play the game... Oh well. Last evening I was going to play Civ again but instead ended up browsing the AiGameDev.com blog archive. I found an article called Good AI vs. Fun AI which is about Soren Johnson's lecture entitled Playing to Lose: AI and Civilization. Soren Johnson is the lead designer of Civilization IV. The blog article and the presentation slides are interesting to read. I also found Soren Johnson's own, interesting blog called Designer Notes. Finally I ended up playing Desktop Tower Defense, which turned out to be quite an addictive little browser game...
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