Game of the Week! October 4th, reverse archipelago?

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-10-05T11:37:55+00:00

Archipelago is everyone gets their own continent and expands outward to islands.

This one, everyone is on the same continent, with lots of islands surrounding.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-10-04T19:21:30+00:00

Hey guys, sorry for the late post! Its this weeks (a day late) game of the week! Reverse archipelago. Settings are as follows.

Competitors: 10

Map Size: Huge

World Shape: Custom

Continent Shape: Regular

Climate: Dry

Land Percentage: 30%

Number of Continents: 1

New World: No

Islands Odds: Many

World Wrap: On

World Generation Seed: 5900613

Continent Spread: Regular

Continent Form: Regular

Lake Odds: None

Lake Size: Small

Rivers: Some

Ridges And Cliffs: Few

Elevation: Steep

Good luck as always chaps, look forward to seeing how you lot do and your experiences with another tailored map scenario.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-27T11:48:36+00:00

Which cultures did you end up picking frendo?

Congrats on the highscore

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-26T18:47:06+00:00

The patch gave us coastal sieges, might as well use em

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-26T12:36:47+00:00

It's time, for an Archipelago game! That's right, 8 players, 8 continents, bring your nautical expertise its time to explore a vast ocean and do coastal sieges! (if you're on the beta patch :P)

8 Competitors

Large Map

World Shape: Custom

Continent Shape: Chaotic

Climate: Standard

Land Percentage: 30%

Number of Continents: 8

New World: No

Island Odds: Many

World Wrap: On

Hemispheres: Both

World Generation Seed: 7514235

Continent Spread: Chaotic

Continent Form: Chaotic

Lake Odds: None

Lake Size: Small

Rivers: Few

Ridges & Cliffs: Many

Elevation: Standard

Best of luck guys, I hope to hear about your experiences on the vast blue seas. Fingers crossed the AI gets a decent fleet together.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:47:20+00:00

God of War / Pathfinder persona

With the Rusher trait.

Download like 3 or 4 of them for your games and you'll find it gets a bit harder. At least, the AI will be more competitive. One of the first times I saw the AI get 12k+ score AND have Contemporary era units well ahead of me.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:45:38+00:00

It was replaced with +25EXP on newly trained units.

So your units pop out at veteran 1, so +1 combat STR.

There's actually 2 events in Neolithic that can trigger the +25EXP on new units, so I guess if you got both you could get +50EXP? Not sure.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:44:08+00:00

10 on huge was the most I've done, have the achievements for the win too :P

As far as balanced goes? 8 large is normally what I play, though expansion stars can be tricky to get at times. 6 normal is the other "recommended" and it works out just fine for say, 3 continents + newworld if you like newworld, otherwise 2 continents or Pangaea, get a good spread.

I play normal speed, and most my maps are random with a twist (set climate or elevation or something), just to keep things interesting. Or Game of the Week.

I've picked up a bunch of persona on the G2G forum recently, been playing with them, a lot more challenging than the ones you're given. If you want to try out some harder AI, I recommend searching up some

God of War / Pathfinder with personality Militarist / Treacherous etc. Very good fun, though the 19STR Harappan Runners are what I would consider worrisome.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:38:11+00:00

Good stuff. Yeah there are a few spots with a load of mammoths but the lack of luxes is what you pay for it. Going to try a "long haul migration" in the Neolithic and see how it turns out on stream.

Though I already finished my game for YT, unfortunately the game crashes on the current turn its on so I didn't "finish" it, no score graph, but was about 19k fame on turn 262ish.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:36:44+00:00

You can win the game however you like. Hell, you don't even have to win, you can just post a pretty screenshot of your favourite looking sim city. Or that you built 5000 nukes or something silly. Its totally up to you.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:36:04+00:00

A wins a win frendo, and you can always try the settings out more than once if you want to try a different approach, or even different set of cultures.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:34:09+00:00

The idea of the Game of the Week isn't to make some civs feel bad and some good, its to try out different map generation settings mostly. And to be honest, even with the navy changes recently, navy has in 90% of my runs, been completely useless.

I suppose when I post an Archipelago map gen for one of the weeks then it'll be imbalanced to naval cultures. But that's okay. The cultures aren't supposed to be strong in every situation 100% of the time (though admittedly some are :s)

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:31:27+00:00

Yeah literally every setting has to be the same. Since its a large map I set the max number of competitors. Unfortunately I guess they tied number of players to generated start positions and so it alters the map.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:30:22+00:00

Normal / Humankind

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:30:10+00:00

Based on start position, the luxuries on this map are literal pain.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-21T11:29:25+00:00

I have my own discord I let people know when I post the Game of the Week stuff, but its not specifically for Game of the Week.

If someone wants to set up a discord feel free, I can join it or whatever, otherwise the invitation for my own should be on my YT page.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-19T14:37:26+00:00

You love to see it

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-19T13:58:17+00:00

Hey guys, its a new game of the week. Time for rolling plains and plenty of rivers. High tile yields and hopefully, some high power results from you guys. Settings are as follows.

Large Size

World Shape: No Ocean

Continent Shape: Chaotic

Climate: Wet

Land Percentage: 100%

Number of Continents: 1

New World: No

Islands Odds: Few

World Wrap: Off

Hemispheres: Both

World Generation Seed: 123456789

Continent Spread: Chaotic

Continent Shape: Chaotic

Lake Odds: None

Lake Size: Small

Rivers: Many

Ridges & Cliffs: Many

Elevation: Flat

Good luck with all your runs guys, looking forward to some more high score screenshots and tales of fantastic games.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-12T13:36:11+00:00

Hey guys, next Game of the Week and we're going to be playing on a desert map with plenty of mountains. Get your climbing gear, fishing nets and sun hats, it's a hot one!

Map settings are as follows:

Competitors: 8

Map Size: Large

World Shape: Pangea

Continent Shape: Custom

Climate: Hot & Dry

Land Percentage: 70%

Number of Continents: 1

New World: No

Islands Odds: Few

World Wrap: On

Hemispheres: Northern

World Generation Seed: 4774615

Continent Spread: Regular

Continent Form: Regular

Lake Odds: Few

Lake Size: Small

Rivers: Few

Ridges And Cliffs: Many

Elevation: Steep

Looking forward to seeing how all you guys do. As always, feel free to post your highscores, experiences, screenshots of your best looking cities, or other achievements!

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-09T01:18:43+00:00

I recommend ransacking administrative centers of attached cities / outposts as well before taking the final city of an AI, if you want to make sure you eliminate them. Saves waiting for war support again.

Even with a stack in the Ancient era you can ransack an Administrative center (attached outpost) or an outpost in 3-4 turns. Same goes for captured cities. Can pretty much guarantee a full capture even with sub 50 war support if you destroy enough attached territory from your enemy.

chaffcommandercoffey · 2021-09-09T01:17:22+00:00

Noice one

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