What's Happening With the Game?

Robber Baron · July 11, 2002, 12:14

For those of us who couldn't make the turnchat, would someone in the ministry please post a report, a savegame link, some screenshots, anything?
Sheesh, it's been almost 20 hours.

ThePlagueRat · July 11, 2002, 12:41

Are you sure something really happens these days?

Robber Baron · July 11, 2002, 12:46

Hah.
Our scouts are climbing mountains. Our warriors are squatting menacingly over our citites. Our workers are digging tirelessly. Our constitutional philosophers are debating back and forth about weighty issues like the form our judiciary is to take. And our ministers .... presumably played a few turns yesterday.

Timeline · July 11, 2002, 12:46

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Originally posted by Robber Baron
For those of us who couldn't make the turnchat, would someone in the ministry please post a report, a savegame link, some screenshots, anything?
Sheesh, it's been almost 20 hours.

Ninot for President!!!

I don't have the savegame unfortunantly, or I would tell you more.

LordImpact · July 11, 2002, 12:49

Well, yesterday we played one turn. Bismark offered us a crappy deal involving communications which we rejected because he was unwilling to come down on the price. We explored a bit, and I think we found the English, but no contact yet. Nothing much happened really... I'd like to know where the save is as well.

Papa Chubby · July 11, 2002, 12:56

Things do seem a bit hectic in the preperation phase for the elections, hope the current ministers will get of their butts and post something. I know everybody has been busy posting and flaming one-another, but i´m talking about material related to the game itself.

The ministers should remember that the biggest incentive to revote a candidate is if they performed well, and people remember far better what happened yesterday than what happened 3 weeks ago. (Just spending my time pointing out the obvious, its so much fun)

Robber Baron · July 11, 2002, 13:16

Plus (sorry to pile on here) if the ministers want input from the citizens before the turnchat on Friday, they need to see what's going on, of course.

UnOrthOdOx · July 11, 2002, 13:47

Does anyone here mind if I quote one or two of you? For the paper, that is.

Robber Baron · July 11, 2002, 13:51

Yikes, and risk finding Trip's secret "palace guard" knocking on the door of my mud hut in the wee hours to take me in for "questioning"?

Sure, I guess I don't mind, 'dOx.
(I should add, for the benefit of our elected officials, that I do appreciate the fact that they put a lot of time into this game, and that RL does sometimes interfere.)

[edited to clarify -- r.b.]

UnOrthOdOx · July 11, 2002, 13:58

I think they realize it is all in good fun. (Or there may very well be only one edition...if I dissappear, be sure all my banana's go to jdjdjd)

Robber Baron · July 11, 2002, 17:29

Still no response? Aaarrgh!! There's no point in scheming up evil plans to conquer the world (

) if we don't have up-to-date maps! Even if "nothing happened," I assume more black spaces were uncovered.
Over 24 hours, and counting ....

Ninot · July 11, 2002, 18:05

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Originally posted by Timeline

Ninot for President!!!

I don't have the savegame unfortunantly, or I would tell you more.

nice place to throw that in, eh?
Yeah.. erm, if I were president, that SAV would be like.. out there! oh yeah!

it would be so out there.. like, it would be like out of the closet, all on a cross dresser and... oh right, scandals AFTER im elected.

jdjdjd · July 11, 2002, 19:47

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Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
I think they realize it is all in good fun. (Or there may very well be only one edition...if I dissappear, be sure all my banana's go to jdjdjd)

Cool. Not that I wish harm to Dox.

Kuciwalker · July 11, 2002, 20:49

I'm back. I also want to know what's been going on. Timeline, did you do the website contest poll?

Jon Shafer · July 11, 2002, 20:56

It was the most boring chat ever, trust me.

Epistax · July 11, 2002, 21:16

We found (?) the english? Holy sh*t how many people are next to us?

I bet that the world is divided into two chunks. We're on one side, with everyone. On the other side are the Zulu's, who are half way done with their alpha centauri bound vessel.

UnOrthOdOx · July 11, 2002, 21:43

Oh, its worse, looks like some of the others have alot of conacts too...could it be...pangea????

Donal Graeme · July 12, 2002, 00:55

Dude, I forget to ask!!! What kind of map are we playing on??? LAs in, what are the map stats: size, water content, land formation, age, moisture, temp, etc.

LordImpact · July 12, 2002, 01:03

Huge map. Everything else is random. How mysterious! bwahahahahahahaha

Butch Cassidy · July 12, 2002, 06:01

this is going to sound incredibly noob, but where do you save the game?

Franses · July 12, 2002, 07:25

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Originally posted by Butch Cassidy
this is going to sound incredibly noob, but where do you save the game?

If you accepted the standard installation names the save should be saved in:

C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Saves

Butch Cassidy · July 12, 2002, 09:36

It still won`t let me: its in the directory, but in the "Load Game " box it appears as civ3demogame.sav..sav if I do nothing to it, or civ3demogame1870..sav if i remove the "sav" from the file name. I save it as a savdocument. Is that right?

Robber Baron · July 12, 2002, 10:01

Mine saved to hard disk as civ3demogame1870.sav..sa, don't know why, but it loaded fine when I went into the directory and changed the name to civ3demogame1870.sav

jdjdjd · July 12, 2002, 11:34

Butch,

Make sure the file is saved with .sav file, use the name the Baron used, it should work. .sav at the end tells it the file is a saved file, "sav", and thus a game and then it knows what to do. ..sav confuses it, it sees the file as a "." file and has no idea what to do with it. When you open make sure name is filename.sav..only one dot.

Hope that works.