Tournament - Invulnerable Challenge

primitive · #1 July 8th, 2003, 10:02 AM

Wow,

Stone, I’ll play the challenge any way you make it. I’m saving it until a rainy day anyway, so I can play this in one continuous streak.

Stone Mill · #2 July 8th, 2003, 05:08 PM

Folks,

After considering the Posts...

I'm going to ask you all to try and play as is. It seems most of you are more anxious to get going, and I don't want to keep you waiting. Please try it out and see how it goes... so...

The Invulnerable Challenge has Officially Begun!!!

For those of you who find the extra step too annoying, my apologies. I can't really commit to a timeframe to re-doing the challenge via hotseat. My wife is expecting our first child this weekend... any day now...

and if that happens... well... you know, I'll be busy.

So if there are any questions unanswered (I think most of you have the gist of how to process a simultaneous game), please ask again.

Turn 57 is an odd number. Just think of "Heinz 57." If I played out 3 more turns to get it to 60, you'd really be in trouble!!!

Asmala- I do not know exactly how to set up the shortcuts- could you elaborate a bit on the steps? I know using the Matrix Mod Launcher helps...

[ July 08, 2003, 16:10: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

Stone Mill · #3 July 8th, 2003, 06:21 PM

The point of this game is pretty much suicide.

I really will be surprised if anyone can take out the AI home system. Go big or stay home.

The reason I put this together is that as I was playing, I thought... "Wouldn't that be a darn tough defense... hmmm... " I've always wanted to set it up to see how difficult it proves. Well, now it is in your hands.

One thing I promise is that even if you have to throw in the towel, you may learn some interesting things, or get some new ideas about defense...

Asmala · #4 July 8th, 2003, 09:12 PM

Here is the code of my batch files. Notice that when you run the Run turn.bat it informs that it's ready. However the turn is still processing at the backround (you can see it using for example ctr-alt-del)

The Invulnerable Challenge.bat:

code:

"C:\Games\Space Empires IV Gold\se4.exe" "C:\Games\Space Empires IV Gold\TDM-ModPack\Savegame\inv.gam" "password" "1" "TDM-ModPack"

Run turn.bat:

code:

"C:\Games\Space Empires IV Gold\se4.exe" "C:\Games\Space Empires IV Gold\TDM-ModPack\Savegame\inv.gam" "maximum" "0" "TDM-ModPack"

Stone Mill · #5 July 8th, 2003, 10:49 PM

Asmala, thank you!! I'm sure that will help. I'll try them out tonight.

Stone Mill · #6 July 9th, 2003, 08:48 PM

I would love to hear some updates on the Challenger's progression.

Since I can't check in on your progression...

Can you all post in this thread or shoot me an email that you have begun, and maybe how far you've progressed?

What do you think about starting another thread called "Invulnerable Challenge - Spoilers" where players can post their progress, summaries, and debriefs? Participants can post their wrap-ups there, and this way, other players refrain from reading other participants' spoiler Posts (unless they really want to).

Since this game is run on the honor system, and, really, it's all about having fun, I don't think that would be a problem. I think many of us would find that very enjoyable...

Erax · #7 July 10th, 2003, 04:04 AM

Hi all. Considering that the Olympics are coming up, I decided to pick up this Challenge as a training tool. I don't expect to win, I just want to learn something along the way.

I started playing yesterday and am currently on turn 82. It's supposed to be hard and I've made a lot of mistakes, so the Sharks will probably have me for lunch. I'll see how long I can Last, then play a second time (and a third, fourth...).

I'm all for a spoilers thread, I'm curious to learn about other players' strategies and how well (or in my case, how badly) we are doing.