Congratulations to the winners!
Those were the most impressive Organ Guns I've ever seen! I'd like to do another one of these events, but I think we need to come up with ideas for improving the settings first.
I had banned the "new" unique units, such as the Photoman, out of a hesitancy that they would be too strong. In hindsight I probably should have done the same with the custom bonuses and unique technologies. Getting an additional 13 attack for gunpowder units by researching University technologies is pretty OP. And the Royal Battle Elephants had so much HP, especially coupled with the Sicilians bonus, that they couldn't realistically be killed in time to reset the monument timer. It might be worth experimenting with a longer countdown. Maybe 150 years would make the games more interesting, or at least give sufficient time for sniping the King of the player holding the monument.
Most players only stacked military bonuses. I was interested in whether an economic strategy, such as combining the Chinese and Lithuanian bonuses, would work on Nomad. But everyone just made Elephants and gunpowder instead. Perhaps that's just the nature of FFA KotH games though.
I think City Ruins and Cracks of Ornlu worked out well as FFA maps. I'd definitely host a map scripting contest if we do this again.
I was impressed that players were able to navigate the CivBuilder website and get their civs submitted. The accessibility of modding tools is really important. Of course it's been "possible" to run an even like this by using the Advanced Genie Editor. But the website makes it simple to pick a bunch of units and bonuses and combine them to form a civ. It's still a hassle to have to download the local mods, unzip them, and copy files around just to test a civ. Hopefully there are improvements we can make here before doing another one of these.
Here are some questions (for anyone who played or watched the games) for which I'd appreciate any feedback.
chrizbee, Ray, and dianteforlife
I had banned the "new" unique units, such as the Photoman, out of a hesitancy that they would be too strong. In hindsight I probably should have done the same with the custom bonuses and unique technologies. Getting an additional 13 attack for gunpowder units by researching University technologies is pretty OP. And the Royal Battle Elephants had so much HP, especially coupled with the Sicilians bonus, that they couldn't realistically be killed in time to reset the monument timer. It might be worth experimenting with a longer countdown. Maybe 150 years would make the games more interesting, or at least give sufficient time for sniping the King of the player holding the monument.
Most players only stacked military bonuses. I was interested in whether an economic strategy, such as combining the Chinese and Lithuanian bonuses, would work on Nomad. But everyone just made Elephants and gunpowder instead. Perhaps that's just the nature of FFA KotH games though.
I think City Ruins and Cracks of Ornlu worked out well as FFA maps. I'd definitely host a map scripting contest if we do this again.
I was impressed that players were able to navigate the CivBuilder website and get their civs submitted. The accessibility of modding tools is really important. Of course it's been "possible" to run an even like this by using the Advanced Genie Editor. But the website makes it simple to pick a bunch of units and bonuses and combine them to form a civ. It's still a hassle to have to download the local mods, unzip them, and copy files around just to test a civ. Hopefully there are improvements we can make here before doing another one of these.
Here are some questions (for anyone who played or watched the games) for which I'd appreciate any feedback.
- What games modes would you want in a future event (more KotH, pure Regicide, TGs, 1v1s, etc)?
- How should the point costs of items in the technology tree change (e.g. Heresy being 1 point for Elephant civs is super cheap)?
- What bonuses and units should be allowed/disallowed?
- How did you like the maps?
- What difficulties did you have using the website?
- Any other feedback, recommendations, or changes you want to see?
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