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By Ozbenno at 2010-01-01 18:52
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 Welcome to the first running of the Civfanatics Hall of Fame Challenge Series. 
The series is a collection of 10 games with a time limit of 4 months to complete them (from 1st Jan 2010 - 30th April 2010). The games are designed to (hopefully) be more defined than the usual gauntlet games and more challenging than a general Hall of Fame game, yet far from impossible to complete.
The winner will be the person who finishes all ten games and collects the most points along the way (10 for 1st in each individual game, down to 1 for 10th). Progress results for all games can be found here.
All of the games need to be played using version 2 of the BUFFY mod, found here.
There are individual threads for each game in the Challenge Series forum so head on over and check it out.
>>> HOF Challenge Series I - Discussion
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By Magic_gorter at 2010-01-01 13:16
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A new year started so let play some civ2. This month's Game of the Month is a nice challenge. With our starting position on the north pole and playing at deity it might be a difficult game. Who takes the challenge and win this GOTM.
To download the game, visit this page.
And of course, a screenshot of the starting location:
Have fun playing.
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By Ginger_Ale at 2009-12-27 20:16
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 Thanks to Musketeer935 for today's image:
"So, I was playing in the Ancient age... and I got this Great Spy, and I build the scotland yard with it. It appears that the Ancients hired some Alien help to build it. Or maybe this is just the Ancient Tower of Babel. (It IS in Babylon.)"
Clearly, Firaxis was not expecting people to use early Great Spies from the Great Wall build the Scotland Yard. Considering that settling the Great Spy or using him to infiltrate has more benefit than +100% espionage point output, I suppose that's reasonable.
>> View the Screenshot of the Day gallery and submit your own image!
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By Denniz at 2009-12-25 18:27
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 The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated. 160 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to The-Hawk for the highest score of the update with a Standard Emperor Domination game for 243,915 points.
sanabas was the most active player during this update, submitting 20 games.
Only 4 players were brave enough to take on Deity this update Sandman2003 submitted a 3835 BC Duel Deity Conquest game for 16238 points
shulec submitted a 900 BC Small Deity Religious game for 36062 points and a 1605 AD Standard Deity Cultural game for 79697 points and a 775 BC Small Deity Religious game for 32215 points
Sir Bugsy submitted a 1840 BC Duel Deity Conquest game for 56224 points
Sir Drake submitted a 1799 AD Tiny Deity Conquest game for 144555 points Gauntlet Info:
G-Major 64 - Domination, Emperor, Standard, Epic on Oasis with Hatshepsut
1st The-Hawk 5 BC
2nd silentounce Jan 1945 AD
G-Minor 86 - Space Colony, Warlord, Standard Quick
1st ZPV 1430 AD
2nd Dynamic 1540 AD
3rd KingMorgan 1690 AD
** New Gauntlets Starting **
G-Minor 87 - Religious, Prince, Large, Quick on Global Highlands with Gilgamesh (Opponent=Tokugawa)
G-Major 66 - Conquest, Immortal, Standard, Normal on Archipelago with Ragnar Lodbrok
>> Civ IV HOF
>> Full Update Details
>> Discussion Thread
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By GarretSidzaka at 2009-12-24 17:02
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 For joy in the world. The 2009 PolyCast Christmas Special is now netcasting. "'Tis the Time for Civving" brings together a number of regular co-hosts across the label's three shows: Daniel "DanQ" Quick, Makahlua and Philip "TheMeInTeam" Bellew from PC, Wouter "Locutus" Snijders from ModCast and both Joe "joebreeves" Reeves and Matt "elthrasher" Morgan from RevCast.
The summary of topics is as follows:
- 01m58s | Decade
Civilization III is a top game of the decade according to Destructoid, and Civilization IV looses out early on in Crispy Gamer's comparable feature.
- 10m22s | Giving
The new Christmas PBEM Game -- this time, with some revised rules and set in the CivIV environment.
- 14m42s | Fansite
A strong showing at launch and its first months of existence: the Fastmoves CivIV fansite.
- 17m12s | Game Highlights #1
2009 gaming highlights for CivIV: official, press and community-based.
- 19m33s | Game Highlights #2
2009 gaming highlights for Civilization: Revolution: official, press and community-based.
- 22m19s | Show Highlights
2009 show highlights for ModCast, PolyCast and RevCast.
- 26m36s | Quizzes
How many of the technologies, and also civilizations and leaders, from Civilization II can you name from memory under given time limits.
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production in an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game strategy; it has one more episode to be released as its season finale, a composite of archived segments. Sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding and RevCast focuses on Civilization: Revolution. All three shows have been renewed for a return to production in 2010 which are to be its fourth, third and second seasons respectively.
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By Blue Monkey at 2009-12-23 17:17
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 "... sacks of unread letters stacked up yadda yadda coal & switches on back order yadda yadda reindeer down with the flu yadda yadda elves on strike yadda yadda ..."
... but at the least the announcement of over 2 months of uploaded work is posted before the three guys on the long trip get their gps in synch.
We've got more delightful surprises for you than could be played with on a single holiday. Maybe in 12 days if you’re lucky. Pride of place must be given to the completely redone Age of Imperialism scenario (version 4.0)- a major production to which so many contributed. There are contributions in depth from many of the other regulars - and a couple of new contributors as well.
SCENARIOS
UNITS
TERRAIN GRAPHICS
RESOURCE GRAPHICS CITY GRAPHICS
BUILDINGS & IMPROVEMENTS
WONDERS
TECH ICONS
CIVILOPEDIA
INTERFACE GRAPHICS
UTILITIES
- Steph's expanded editor v. 0.8.0 . The general presentation of the editor has been reworked & tools added to edit preplaced cities and get statistics for preplaced units.
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By Tone at 2009-12-17 09:27
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The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 17 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to Spoonwood for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Huge Deity Histographic game for 56150 points.
Also congratulations to Spoonwood for victory in the latest gauntlet.
CKS was the most active player during this update, submitting 5 games.
Only 1 player was brave enough to take on Sid this update. Drazek submitted a 1405 AD Tiny Sid Cultural 20k game for 8696 points.
A number of players gained number one positions on harder difficulty levels:
Drazek with a 1405 AD Tiny Sid Cultural 20k game for 8696 points.
Tone with a 470 AD Large Deity Domination game for 15380 points.
Spoonwood with a 1230 AD Small Demigod Spaceship game for 7080 points.
Tone with a 730 BC Standard Demigod Conquest game for 17583 points.
Congratulations to CKS for becoming a Quartermaster.
>> Civ III HOF
>> Full Update Details
>> Discussion Thread
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By Ginger_Ale at 2009-12-15 09:36
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 Another monthly update of Civ4 creations for the holidays.  There is a pretty wide variety of files, but a noticeable concentration in leaderheads by the likes of cfkane and Cybrxkhan. Also, making up for last month's lack of a picture, I went with a 900x900 preview of various files as a special surprise. Check out some of the creative (and scary) leaderheads.
UNITS GRAPHICS/AUDIO/VIDEO
MODPACKSNEW CIVILIZATIONS
HYBRID MOD COMPONENTS
SDK MODCOMP
MODMODS
MAPS/SCENARIOS/MAP SCRIPTS
TUTORIALS
>> Announce your files for future posts
>> View all files in the Downloads Database
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By GarretSidzaka at 2009-12-14 00:14
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 A super exclusive interview with Soren Johnson, it might be too much to handle. The thirty-eighth episode of ModCast is now netcasting. Entitled ""Soren Johnson Exclusive", it features core panelists Tony "GarretSidzaka" Kiehl, Wouter "Locutus" Snijders, Kenneth "Impaler[WrG]" Ferland and Peter "Maniac" Steenbeke with special guest co-host Soren Johnson.
- 02m55s | Exclusive (Part 1 of 5)
Starting off, Soren Johnson's gaming career to date: what led him into the industry, the Civilization III catalyst and the evolution of modding in the series.
- 18m43s | Exclusive (Part 2 of 5)
What does it take to be a driving force in the game industry?
- 24m33s | Exclusive (Part 3 of 5)
Considering Spore, the 'one big mod' experience including its expansion pack, and whether this is a reflection of modding going mainstream into gaming.
- 35m13s | Exclusive (Part 4 of 5)
The uncertain future for strategy gaming -- the need to break the existing mold.
- 38m03s | Exclusive (Part 5 of 5)
Focus on Johnson's open-beta gaming project, Strategy Station, and some unfinished business between CivIII and Civilization IV.
ModCast is a bi-weekly audio production in an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game modding; sibling show PolyCast focuses on Civ strategy and RevCast focuses on Civilization: Revolution.
Please become our fan at our new facebook page!
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By Denniz at 2009-12-10 19:39
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated. 110 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to ChrisFromLux for the highest score of the update with a Standard Emperor Domination game for 234,348 points.
shulec and ianw1610 were the most active players during this update, submitting 8 games each.
Only 1 player was brave enough to take on Deity this updateGlozinius submitted a 2130 BC Small Deity Conquest game for 65386 points Gauntlet Info:[/B][/COLOR]
G-Major 63 - Cultural, Immortal, Standard, Epic on Archipelago
1st ryzax 1315 AD
2nd jesusin 1380 AD
3rd Infantry#14 1620 AD
G-Minor 85 - Diplomatic, Prince, Any Era, Duel, Epic (Opponents: Roosevelt, Mao Zedong)
1st Dynamic 640 AD
2nd ozbenno 1170 AD
3rd Fluroscent 1240 AD
** New Gauntlets Starting **
G-Minor 86 - Space Colony, Warlord, Standard Quick
G-Major 65 - Cultural, Emperor, Standard, Epic on Pangaea with Mehmed II (See guantlet page for other settings)
>> Civ IV HOF
>> Full Update Details
>> Discussion Thread
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By Magic_gorter at 2009-12-07 13:49
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It's already december. So time to start the last game of the month for civ2 this year.
This month just a normal one.
To download the game, visit this page.
And of course, a screenshot of the starting location:
Have fun playing.
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By Ginger_Ale at 2009-12-05 22:10
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Earlier this week, Take-Two released preliminary financial data for the fourth quarter and entire fiscal year 2009.
For the quarter, Take-Two achieved a slightly positive earnings per share of about $0.05 on revenue of $325 million. For the year, earnings were -$1.10/share (therefore, a loss) on $950 million in revenue.
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Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two, stated, "Our anticipated results for the balance of fiscal 2009 primarily reflect the challenges related to our Major League Baseball business, inventory write downs in our distribution business, and retail conditions that have proven to be more difficult than the assumptions built into our prior outlook. These factors were partially offset by the performance of our catalog business and a number of our holiday titles...Looking ahead, we remain committed to our goal of operating profitably on a non-GAAP basis; however, we do not currently expect to achieve that goal in fiscal 2010."
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Take-Two currently seems to be unable to turn a profit, at best breaking even. How this affects the future of the Civilization franchise and Firaxis is unclear. For previous Take-Two finance updates, see this thread.
>> Read the full press release
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By Thunderfall at 2009-12-05 11:45
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 PolyCast is giving away 25 copies of Civilization IV: Complete in conjunction with developer Firaxis. The title combines Civ4 and its two expansion packs Warlods and Beyond the Sword, and retails for US$39.99. Five of these copies include a special extra: the signature of Sid Meier.
Between December 1st-25th, 2009, complete the following sentence in response to this thread here on CivFanatics:
"Civilization IV makes my life complete by..."
The 25 most creative and constructive responses, across this as well as corresponding threads on Apolyton and WePlayCiv (reference #1/#2), will be selected to win its poster one of these copies -- the top 5 to receive one with Sid's signature on it. One entry per person; note that any responses that indicate they have been edited will not be considered. Further, if selected, one must respond with mailing address and phone number for delivery within the specified time period. The judging of these entries is being done by Daniel "DanQ" Quick, PolyCast's owner and one of its regular co-hosts.
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By Thunderfall at 2009-12-01 22:22
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In part II of "The Top 50 Videogames of the Decade" feature on Destructoid, Civilization III is listed in the 31st position. Here is what they had to say about it:
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As complex and intimidating as they are, the Civilization games -- originally created by mastermind Sid Meier -- are surprisingly accessible. Once you get past the initial fear of trying to manage a deep and evolved empire simulator that follows the player from the start of recorded history to modern times, the Civilization games are some of the most playable, oh-my-gosh-I-can't-believe-it's-already-4-in-the-morning videogames ever created (trust me on this one from personal experience).
Civilization III is a highly balanced, impressively designed simulation game that is a must play for anyone with a PC and even the smallest interest in the very particular, sometimes overwhelming genre. Don't let the educational subject matter fool you -- Civilization III is not Mavis Beacon Teaches History! It is a real testament when, even today, eight years since the game's release, people are still falling in love with Civilization III.
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It would be interesting to see if they also list Civilization IV on the list somewhere... So far the games listed are:
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By Thunderfall at 2009-11-28 22:26
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A new Civ4 fan site is in town. Fastmoves is an almost daily updated source for articles on strategy and game mechanics from the Civ4 multiplayer perspective, though the claim is that most of the content is applicable to single player as well. All strategies and concepts are explained and evaluated in the context of specific settings. The self-proclaimed goal of the makers is to convey general concepts and ideas in a coherent, well reasoned way, not to announce "what's good and what's bad" free from any context or without justification.
"We are trying to make the site about civ, we always wanted to browse ourselves, but never could find. Being dedicated multiplayer addicts, we hope to establish a place, where seasoned players can exchange ideas, while those new to multiplayer can be sure that what they read is of high quality and worth exploring for those with a deeper interest for civ", said jobe, the site's founder.
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By Denniz at 2009-11-25 18:23
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated. 129 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to WastinTime for the highest score of the update with a Small Deity Domination game for 3,172,513 points.
AndreyForever was the most active player during this update, submitting 19 games.
Only 2 players were brave enough to take on Deity this updateSun Tzu Wu submitted a 125 BC Large Deity Religious game for 35256 points
WastinTime submitted a 795 AD Small Deity Domination game for 3172513 points Gauntlet Info:
G-Major 62 - Space Colony, Monarch, Standard, Epic on Ice Age with Khmer and selected opponents (Raging Barbs, Aggressive AI)
1st Fluroscent 1726 AD
2nd Htadus 1816 AD
3rd Mitchifer 1911 AD
G-Minor 84 - Space Colony, Prince, Small, Quick on Fractal with Saladin
1st Dynamic 1730 AD
2nd Fluroscent 1830 AD
3rd Shakes 1898 AD
** New Gauntlets Starting **
G-Minor 85 - Diplomatic, Prince, Any Era, Duel, Epic (Opponents: Roosevelt, Mao Zedong)
G-Major 64 - Domination, Emperor, Standard, Epic on Oasis with Hatshepsut
>> Civ IV HOF
>> Full Update Details
>> Discussion Thread
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