Invasion Planet Earth

[Thoddy]

Thanks for greetings.

My problem in accessing the Apolyton Forum was not the www.
Our firewall had blocked me. Now the problem seems to be disappeared.

[Thoddy]

Only short story,

After a short reign of only 13 turns Thoddy must retire, due to illness.

At the beginnig of my turn I saw some cities starving, because of settler support (food and shields). Keep some eyes open.
My first priority was to establish more income. I rushbuild some monetary improvements and in this way our cash flow grows from
expenses 107 and income 143 to 141/262. Research is 4 turns.
We have now almost 10 million people in our fine Empire.
Americans build Hoover Dam, someone else Bachs Cathedral.

[This message has been edited by Thoddy (edited April 24, 2001).]

[Julius Brenzaida]

Damn ! The AI bastard are building all the wonders. It’s really going to be a tough one ! Malignantx it’s all in your hands now !

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Thoddy]

I'm back.

[Roman]

Wow, this game is going slowly.

[Julius Brenzaida]

quote: Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida on 04-06-2001 03:46 PM Malignantx it’s all in your hands now !

Well, it's still in Malignantx's hands. If he hasn't given us notice by Sunday, I'll skip him and play the next 15-20 turns.

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[fluffy]

yeah, us lurkers are curious to see how badly you will be beaten!

[Roman]

I am leaving for a summer holiday (three months) tommorow, where I will not have access to the internet, so skip me until I return.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

quote: Originally posted by fluffy on 05-15-2001 09:19 AM yeah, us lurkers are curious to see how badly you will be beaten!

Yeah, that was my original motivation for reading this thread, too. But now I'd be willing to play, just to keep things going! Let me know if you need a player, guys.

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Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches.
-- Rufus T. Firefly, the original rush-builder

[Thoth]

quote: Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly on 05-17-2001 03:57 AM Yeah, that was my original motivation for reading this thread, too. But now I'd be willing to play, just to keep things going! Let me know if you need a player, guys.

What he said. This was looking intersesting. I'll have a go if you need an extra player.

[Julius Brenzaida]

Well, guys :
I'm sorry for the delay as I am the one in charge of this Sucession Game. Malignantx has disappeared and he was at the bottom of the list, so Rufus and Thot could join now. I'm going to send Rufus the file tomorrow morning. Roman is on holiday, he will join back if the game isn't finished when he returns.
Does it look ok ?

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Julius Brenzaida]

quote: Originally posted by Roman on 05-16-2001 12:21 PM I am leaving for a summer holiday (three months) tommorow, where I will not have access to the internet, so skip me until I return.

Woav, you lucky man ! thanks for telling.

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Cool! Julius, send the file to johngroch@yahoo.com (why, oh why won't Apolyton accept yahoo addresses?). Am I to play 10 turns or 20? I'll play it this weekend and pass it on (please make it this weekend, though, if you can; my students begin turning in their exams on Monday).

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Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches.
-- Rufus T. Firefly, the original rush-builder

[Julius Brenzaida]

Game sent to Rufus. You may play between 10 and 20 turns. Good luck ! We're not in the strongest of a position. But it should be sufficient to win in the long run.
Thot, can you confirm that you want to join, too ?

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Problems, gang. Just got the file, unzipped it, and tried to play. Instead I got this message: "Failed to load game. File in obsolete format." Any ideas about what that may mean or how to fix it? If not, i guess I have to pass, having enjoyed a brief, Al-Gore-like almost-presidency.

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Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches.
-- Rufus T. Firefly, the original rush-builder

[Julius Brenzaida]

Rufus, the saved game works fine for me. What version of ToT do you have. You should install my no-limits add-on (avalaible at Apolyton or that I can send to you). It could be the problem.
And sorry to ask, but did you put the saved file in the extended original folder ?

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Julius Brenzaida]

Good, I am glad it works. Yeah, I had to ask for the folder.
I agree with you on our difficult situation. But this is not desesperate. It's really bad about the wonders though. But we shall do some earth-shopping pretty soon. Good luck Rufus !

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I suppose you had to ask about the folder thing Julius, but no; the problem was that I had never installed patch 1.1! Having done so, I'm ready to rock (though that hardly seems the word for our current position).

quote: "Staring at your screen in horror and disbelief when you open a saved game is one of the fun things of a succession game " - Hueij

1851 and we're only researching magnetism? And we've got all of two wonders? This is going to be interesting -- in that Chinese curse sense of the term.

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Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches.
-- Rufus T. Firefly, the original rush-builder

[Thoth]

quote: Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida on 05-19-2001 04:48 AM Game sent to Rufus. You may play between 10 and 20 turns. Good luck ! We're not in the strongest of a position. But it should be sufficient to win in the long run. Thot, can you confirm that you want to join, too ?

Yes. email: dv685@ncf.ca

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In 1851, newly-elected Consul Rufus T. Firefly years developed a 4-point agenda that could be summed up in one word -- "more": more people; more cities; more income; and more scientific advance more quickly. Beyond these goals, the appalling corruption in cities on the edge of the empire led Firefly to desire to replace the ancient Republic with a modern Democracy, so that the old wealthy elite would relinquish their seats in the Senate in favor of men and women who would be instead the lapdogs of the old wealthy elite. After consulting the ancient Scrolls of Odeo, he decided 1855 would be a good year for this change; and so it was.

Judged by his own goals, the Firefly presidency would appear to be a success. By the time he retired in 1871, the population of the Alien Empire had more than doubled, from 9,980,000 to 21,430,000; 16 new cities had been founded, and Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Zoot Suit, Be Bop, and Almost Blue in particular were beginning to flourish. The net income of the empire doubled (from 121g per annum to 233g), while the rate of scientific discovery had been halved (from four years to two). Magnetism, the Steam Engine, Metallurgy, Railroad, Industrialization, Electricity, Electronics, and the Corporation had all been discovered; a breakthrough on Atomic Theory was expected in 1872, and space flight before the end of the century seemed possible. The only disappointment of his tenure was the continued loss of wonders, as the "Americans" built the SETI Project and discovered the Cure for Cancer, while the "Spanish," more distressingly, built the Manhattan Project. As he retired to the recently founded resort town of Duck Soup, then, he must have rued the fact that history would remember none of this, and would recall only his walk-in humidor and his comely, if zaftig, intern.

Game sent to Julius and Scouse Git in one piece of e-mail, Thoth in another (I only just saw his reply). Good luck Thoth!

[Julius Brenzaida]

Nice job Rufus
At least we see some civilization in our alien tribe. One day they shall learn to write
BTW what do you teach ? me, I teach history in Switzerland and you ?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thanks Julius! The situation doesn't actually seem that dire, and might be less so if those nukes start flying down below . It would be interesting to see whether, after the long game of catch-up, we end up building Apollo after all! And me, I teach media studies at a university in Turkey, though I'm originally from the States.

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly

Game sent to Julius and Scouse Git in one piece of e-mail, Thoth in another (I only just saw his reply). Good luck Thoth!

Game recieved, I'm working away at my turns, I should be finished by Friday evening. Who should I forward the game to?

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by Thoth
Game recieved, I'm working away at my turns, I should be finished by Friday evening. Who should I forward the game to?

To me : julius.brenzaida@infomaniak.ch

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida


To me : julius.brenzaida@infomaniak.ch

Will do.


The reign of Thoth proved to be a profitable one. Continuing the campaign of development started by Rufus, only three cities were founded (Slime Pit, Whut? and Huh?). A small army of engineers were constructed to improve the land for our rapidly expanding cities. Many freight and much infrastructure were completed during the Thoth years. Population has increased to 55, 800, 000
and our net income is now 890g per turn, with advances every turn.

Atomic Theory, Refining, Steel, Combustion, Automobile, Refrigeration, Conscription, Chivalry, Leadership, Fundamentalism, Tactics, Amphibious Warfare, Machine Tools, Mobile Warfare, Miniturization, Comunism, Espionage, Mass Production, Recycling, and Nuclear Fission were all completed by 1891. Nuclear Power is expected in 1892.

Pollution is starting to become a problem, but several mass transits have been rushbuilt, and others are under construction to be completed by my sucessors.

(game sent to Julius)

[Julius Brenzaida]

Game received
I'm gonna play it as soon as possible

Hey!!! how come i'm not part of this anymore??? thought the game died out, yet it is still alive and no one mention it??

*looks through the entire thread*

.......ah, its just slow, okay


to get the world map, can also export it with ToT, thats what i done, with the 775bc save...where there was less terrain improvements to remove.

how do you enlarge a map? like enlarge a small world map of civ to a maxisize? succeeded in getting a Chiron map from SMAC into Civ2, but just need to figure how to enlarge it :/ would of been interesting to play a earth map and play aliens on the Chiron map

-LordLMP

[Julius Brenzaida]

Yes, it’s going slowly ! And right now this is my fault !
I’m going to play Saturday or Sunday of next week.
Too much work or too many holidays, make your pick !

[Julius Brenzaida]

The map is available at : http://www.civ2.gamesweb.de/kart_blau.html

[Julius Brenzaida]

I have finally played my turns !
Game send to Sandmonkey, the story follows.