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Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 07, 2017, 06:04:45 PM
[I was told by the admins I should put this here]  :unsure:

Heya guys, here's a pretty insane project I'm gonna do: I'm gonna start a game of Civ 4 in the Hot Seat mode, playing as Littlefoot & Co. They'll each write a sort of "story" about their game from their perspective (in their unique way of talking minus Spike) and each play according to their personalities (eg. Cera will be more aggressive while Ducky will be rather pacifistic). I'll try to make it as entertaining as I can (especially once we get to the time of the first wars ;)) yet also give as many information as I can (maybe you'll learn something about the game, who knows? :p)

Since the whole project would result in a ridiculous amount of posts due to the picture limit on this forum, I've decided to start a blog, where I write all of this though I'd post teasers here regularly, I guess? At any case, I'll keep you informed about the status quo of the game, editing the most recent post whenever there's something new :yes

Anyway, here's the link (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/) to the blog. I hope I didn't mess up something  :lol

Comments should probably be posted on the blog itself though I'll leave that up to you. Everything you need to know in detail is written in the first blog entry too :)

I haven't started writing the first entries of the characters yet (there'll be 8 of them, Gang of Seven plus Ali :)) but I'll hopefully get 2 or 3 done until the end of the day. The first posts always take the longest, after that I'll try to develop a schedule that I intend to keep as best as I can.

Hope some of you will find it interesting  ^^spike

EDIT: Oh shoot, I'm a Littlefoot now! Yay  :)littlefoot )

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Starting-game (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/starting-game.html)
Littlefoot start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.com/2017/05/littlefoot.html)
Cera start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/cera.html)
Ducky start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-i-like-water-yep-yep-yep.html)
Petrie start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/petrie-me-has-goooooooooooold.html)
Spike start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/spike-lots-of-food-and-strong-military.html)
Chomper start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/chomper-war-is-inevitable-just-matter.html)
Ruby start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ruby-right-next-to-petrie-but-this-is.html)
Ali start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ali-good-start.html)
Turn 1 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-1.html)
Turn 2 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-2.html)
Littlefoot 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/littlefoot_25.html)
Ducky 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-strange-unit.html)
Spike 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/spike-pesky-ai-neighbors.html)
Turn 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-3.html)
Ducky 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-oh-no-no-no.html)
Petrie 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/petrie-first-preparations-for-war.html)
Spike 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/spike-meeting-isabella-of-mayan-empire.html)
Ruby 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ruby_29.html)
Turn 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-4.html)
Littlefoot 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/littlefoot-guess-i-could-call-that.html)
Cera 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/cera-no-big-deal.html)
Ducky 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-more-scouts-yep-yep-yep.html)
Chomper 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/chomper-prey-is-spying-on-me.html)
Ali 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ali.html)
Turn 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-5.html)
Ducky 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-contacting-friendly-sharptooth.html)
Chomper 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper.html)
Ruby 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ruby-first-work-boat.html)
Turn 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-6.html)
Littlefoot 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/littlefoot-there-is-hope-after-all.html)
Cera 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/cera-more-warriors.html)
Ducky 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-more-diplomatic-talk.html)
Spike 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/spike-scout-in-danger.html)
Chomper 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper-im-not-sure-ducky.html)
Ruby 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ruby-fishing-boats.html)
Turn 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-7.html)
Littlefoot 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/littlefoot-fishing-next-turn.html)
Ducky 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-got-another-special-scout-yep-yep.html)
Spike 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/spike-successful-hunt.html)
Chomper 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper-alliance-hmm.html)
Ruby 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ruby-now-working-on-scout.html)
Turn 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-8.html)
Littlefoot 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/littlefoot-we-have-fishing.html)
Cera 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/cera-damn-animals.html)
Ducky 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-more-neighbors-oh-no-no-no.html)
Petrie 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/petrie-more-gold.html)
Chomper 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper-diplomacy-sucks.html)
Ali 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ali-focussing-on-fast-production-right.html)
Turn 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-9.html)
Littlefoot 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/littlefoot-exploring-mysterious-beyond.html)
Cera 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/cera-we-need-archers.html)
Ducky 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ducky-i-like-this-new-neighbor-lot-yep.html)
Spike 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/spike-i-like-swimmers.html)'
Chomper 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/chomper-darn-it.html)
Ruby 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ruby-my-scout-goes-adventuring.html)
Turn 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/turn-10.html) (watch out for this one! xD)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: The Chronicler on May 07, 2017, 09:00:17 PM
This seems like a rather interesting concept. I think I'll keep an eye on this and see how it goes.

This actually wouldn't be the first time I've seen something like this. In the past, I've occasionally visited civfanatics.com (a forum for fans of the entire Civilization game series), and I've noticed a subforum dedicated to sharing stories of games that people have played, many of them written out like fanfiction, and in a few cases even including screenshots of each and every turn. I think it'll be quite neat to see this kind of game-fiction being attempted here on this site.

I should also probably note that while I have certainly played Civ4 before, it's been almost ten years since I last played, so my understanding of how the game works may be a little rusty. (Not to mention, I'm much more familiar with Civ5, since that's the game I'm still working my way through. Though I am familiar with the concept of playing a "hotseat" game, since I had to use that option in order to unlock some rather tricky achievements in Civ5.)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 07, 2017, 11:45:34 PM
Great :)

I'm also playing a mod of the game so you might not recognise too much.

Littlefoot's first post has been finished at last. He's less than amused about his chunk of land  :lol
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sneak on May 08, 2017, 04:01:52 AM
Our gang spreads into everything. XD

never played Civilization games. I don't think I will read this.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on May 08, 2017, 03:13:06 PM
I read this and I truly like the idea of it.  :) Some of your comments about the game from Littlefoot's point of view like "the developer of the map must hate me" are very funny but as someone who has only once played Civilization, many of the technical details in the blog went past me. In any case, if you continue doing this, I'll take a look on the posts to see if there's something that I understand.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: ADFan185 on May 08, 2017, 04:54:16 PM
Sounds very interesting and enjoyable to see looking forward to hearing the outcome of this project that you're working on.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: The Lone Dragon on May 08, 2017, 08:01:08 PM
Well this certainly looks like an ambitious project. I've never played the Civ games but I can't think of a better opportunity to learn how and of course you playing as the Gang that will make for something interesting. I would suggest really getting in character for when you play each of them, keep the formality so we know what's going on but keep in character so as to make it fun as well. (Mabye even a chat between the Gang while playing)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on May 09, 2017, 12:20:05 PM
This looks like a very promising start to a unique concept.  :) If I could make one suggestion though, it might be good to either have the characters explain the technical stuff in-character or perhaps put the technical stuff in italics or something like that and to leave the in-character material in normal text.  In this way the character roleplay elements are kept distinct in the posts.

I must agree with Littlefoot though, he has been utterly screwed in terms of his starting location.  What is a longneck going to do with fur and fish anyway?  :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 09, 2017, 03:42:24 PM
Whoa, I didn't expect so many comments  :lol

I kinda didn't get much sleep yesterday so I didn't get to work on it further but at least Cera and Ducky should be finished today. The first posts just take an eternity but the normal posts should be rather short.

Thanks for the suggestions too :) If you'd rather have more technical stuff, just let me know as well as if there are any game-related questions. I know it's hard to understand when you don't know the game at all  :sducky I wouldn't understand it right away either if somebody tried doing this with, say, a pokemon game  :lol

And... there was something else I wanted to say but I forgot  :bang

EDIT: Not what I was going to say but something else: What do you think about the picture size? Can you read everything fine? If not, I can make the screenshots bigger (though they'd be almost as big as the screen in that case :p)

EDITEDIT: (here's the short Author's note I posted on Cera's post which I just finished)

Quick question, guys. I've done a few things a bit differently here, what do you think? When I talk (not the characters) I used brackets as an indication and put some of it in italics. I don't really like the looks of the italics though, I'd rather indicate changes through colour or something similar...

Another thing, what about picture sizes? I made one of these original sized, would you rather have all pictures at this size? Also, I really wish I didn't have to post screenshots of LBT characters when ever I want to show emotions of them :p
http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/ (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on May 10, 2017, 02:10:46 AM
To answer your question on the latest post, I think the new format works quite well, with the technical details in italics.  The only thing that might make it easier to follow would be to make the characters' words appear in bold but overall the new format is an improvement over the original incarnation.  As for the picture sizes, they seem to work well on my machine.  :yes

Btw, I think you have captured Cera's aggression and arrogance quite well in her post.  :lol I wonder how she will react when she gets to deal with the other characters...
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on May 10, 2017, 03:08:24 PM
This time things were a bit easier to follow as it was a good idea to separate Cera's comments and your thoughts about her position as well as information of the game. Thus far, the concept has seemed pretty random but I'm sure you'll have some ideas on how to make this work.  :) The picture sizes are fine as well as the pictures of the character emotions. I can relate to Cera for disliking her starting position. As for the italics, I was fine with them but you can do whatever you feel is the best way.

Just to ask, why is most of the talk on the Civilization series focused on this fourth installment even if there are two newer ones?
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 11, 2017, 05:30:39 PM
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To answer your question on the latest post, I think the new format works quite well, with the technical details in italics. The only thing that might make it easier to follow would be to make the characters' words appear in bold but overall the new format is an improvement over the original incarnation. As for the picture sizes, they seem to work well on my machine. in-yes.gif

Btw, I think you have captured Cera's aggression and arrogance quite well in her post. dino_laugh.gif I wonder how she will react when she gets to deal with the other characters...
Thanks for the feedback :) Yeah, Cera is fun to write and I had enough opportunities to portrait her in fanfictions already to get an idea of her character :yes

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This time things were a bit easier to follow as it was a good idea to separate Cera's comments and your thoughts about her position as well as information of the game. Thus far, the concept has seemed pretty random but I'm sure you'll have some ideas on how to make this work. smile.gif The picture sizes are fine as well as the pictures of the character emotions. I can relate to Cera for disliking her starting position. As for the italics, I was fine with them but you can do whatever you feel is the best way.
Thanks for your feedback as well :) I'm still thinking about these things but I suppose I can use these first posts of the characters to figure out what's best to use, yep, yep, yep (and, besides, I can edit everything whenever I want/need)

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ust to ask, why is most of the talk on the Civilization series focused on this fourth installment even if there are two newer ones?
That's a very good question to ask... Personally, I have only ever played this installment of the series. I have taken a look at Civ 5 & 6 but some of the changes weren't all in my favor which kept me away from playing them thus far. I actually own Civ 5 but I never really played it. Just didn't get hooked while I got hooked almost instantly on Civ 4...

Working on Ducky + Petrie now... should be online in a bit.

EDIT: Ducky is finished. I just spontaneously had the idea to help her out a little because... I couldn't resist her request, honestly  :lol Also figured out how to do link to the individual posts, here are all blog entries so far, I'll also keep these more or less up to date in the first post (that is, if the GoF allows for an unlimited number of links to be posted in the same post... I'll find out eventually :p
Starting-game (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/starting-game.html)
Littlefoot start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.com/2017/05/littlefoot.html)
Cera start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/cera.html)
Ducky start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-i-like-water-yep-yep-yep.html)
Petrie start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/petrie-me-has-goooooooooooold.html)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on May 14, 2017, 02:46:05 PM
I'd say your last posts are already a major improvement from the first ones.  :)  I'd say these ones are already more interesting and definitely easier to follow. Even though I must say that it feels like you were more inspired in Ducky's than Petrie's start.  :p Still, it'll be interesting to see how the game progresses.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on May 14, 2017, 08:00:59 PM
Very nicely done.  I absolutely love Ducky's post - she seems to be happy as long as her citizens have water to swim in.  :lol Petrie's was done nicely as well.  The current formating I think does an awesome job of explaining everything without compromising the dialogue of the players.  I can't wait to see what happens with the rest of the gang.  :)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 15, 2017, 07:12:04 AM
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I'd say your last posts are already a major improvement from the first ones. smile.gif I'd say these ones are already more interesting and definitely easier to follow. Even though I must say that it feels like you were more inspired in Ducky's than Petrie's start. dino_tongue.gif Still, it'll be interesting to see how the game progresses.
Thanks! :D

Actually, I feel like Petrie is the kind of player who doesn't think much about what he's doing which is probably why you got that impression :p

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Very nicely done. I absolutely love Ducky's post - she seems to be happy as long as her citizens have water to swim in. dino_laugh.gif Petrie's was done nicely as well. The current formating I think does an awesome job of explaining everything without compromising the dialogue of the players. I can't wait to see what happens with the rest of the gang. smile.gif
Thanks :) I'm trying to get them done until... hopefully tommorrow :p Spike's almost finished now.

EDIT: Four days later... Spike start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/spike-lots-of-food-and-strong-military.html)
Chomper start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/chomper-war-is-inevitable-just-matter.html) [Cookie to whoever figures out who is his neighbor ^^spike]
Ruby start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ruby-right-next-to-petrie-but-this-is.html) Ruby has a neighbor too. It's Petrie!  :wow
Ali start (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ali-good-start.html)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 22, 2017, 10:57:25 AM
Hey guys, the first turn is finished whew  :lol  It won't take me nearly as much time to do the next 100 turns or so since there's not much happening and not nearly as much explaining to do ^^spike

I'm still not sure about a few things concerning formatting so some enhanced feedback would be great. Here are my ideas:Turn 1 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-1.html)
Turn 2 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-2.html)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on May 22, 2017, 02:47:30 PM
I don't think there's anything really wrong with the format. Things are rather easy to follow and the pictures seem to be large enough. I can read the info that is in the pictures even if they tell me very little. :p I liked the last three posts as they were written in a fun style that was easy to understand. You may experiment with the colors but at this point, I'm not completely sure if they're mandatory. And you may do these short summary posts in order to sum up the overall situation after major events. They might clear things up a bit. :)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on May 22, 2017, 03:26:43 PM
I concur with Sovereign.  I think that colored posts might be a good idea to show who is talking, but otherwise the previous posts were quite easy to understand and follow.  I am not very interested in the upcoming Petrie/Ruby drama though... we all know how close borders tend to lead to early wars in Civ 4.  :DD I also quite like how Chomper's sharptooth reasoning is able to come to the fore in this game... something tells me that he will not be the "friendly" sharptooth in this game.  :p And as for Cera destroying Ducky's spaceship in the last game, I must approve of her tactics.  I wonder if, in retaliation, Ducky might become the most evil swimmer in this game.  :sducky
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: ADFan185 on May 22, 2017, 04:19:39 PM
Yes I agree the color posts will make it more easier to follow what's going on.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: The Chronicler on May 22, 2017, 08:15:25 PM
Alright, now that all the players have been set up, it's time to see how they'll do.

Looks like everyone has built their first city on the coast (except for Petrie, who appears to have built his on a inland lake, so no boats for him yet), so I'm guessing this is some kind of archipelago map they're playing on.

Littlefoot and Cera are starting near the polar region (judging by the ice, Littlefoot in the north and Cera in the south), Ruby and Petrie are so close to each other that another city cannot be built between their capitals, same goes for Chomper and Ducky (I checked both the color and the terrain to confirm it), while Spike is on the west coast of a large landmass and Ali is on the east coast of some large landmass.

Let's see how the first few turns will go.

(I'd like to mention that, as a gamer who never downloads any mods, I'm completely unfamiliar with the version you're playing here. I personally would have preferred sticking to the official version so that anyone with any familiarity would have a good understanding, but this is your project so I'll just let you do your thing.)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 25, 2017, 07:22:12 PM
Polished the previous posts a little. Now everything is colourcoded (are the colours okay?) and the font is now bold because... it looks better imo :unsure:

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I don't think there's anything really wrong with the format. Things are rather easy to follow and the pictures seem to be large enough. I can read the info that is in the pictures even if they tell me very little. dino_tongue.gif I liked the last three posts as they were written in a fun style that was easy to understand. You may experiment with the colors but at this point, I'm not completely sure if they're mandatory. And you may do these short summary posts in order to sum up the overall situation after major events. They might clear things up a bit. smile.gif
Thanks for the feedback, Sovereign. Glad to know you enjoy this a little despite knowing very little about the game. I'm always open for questions if you don't understand something though many things/concepts will become clearer as they become relevant in the game and you begin to get a feeling for it I guess. I mean, I remember playing my first game after just a short tutorial and I did pretty good until I died :lol

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I concur with Sovereign. I think that colored posts might be a good idea to show who is talking, but otherwise the previous posts were quite easy to understand and follow. I am not very interested in the upcoming Petrie/Ruby drama though... we all know how close borders tend to lead to early wars in Civ 4.  dino_happier.gif I also quite like how Chomper's sharptooth reasoning is able to come to the fore in this game... something tells me that he will not be the "friendly" sharptooth in this game.  dino_tongue.gif And as for Cera destroying Ducky's spaceship in the last game, I must approve of her tactics. I wonder if, in retaliation, Ducky might become the most evil swimmer in this game.  land_before_time8_disneyscreencaps_com_1342_by_rockingscorpion-d9nxkr9.png
hehe, thanks ^^spike

Close borders are always unpleasant in Civ 4... I still remember some of our games... there was no way Malte and I got along if we're neighbors :DD

As for Ducky... yeah who knows? :p I mean, if somebody manages to manipulate her a liiiiiiiittle bit, waking her ambitions...  :idea

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Yes I agree the color posts will make it more easier to follow what's going on.
Ah okay, glad you think so :)

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Alright, now that all the players have been set up, it's time to see how they'll do.

Looks like everyone has built their first city on the coast (except for Petrie, who appears to have built his on a inland lake, so no boats for him yet), so I'm guessing this is some kind of archipelago map they're playing on.
To be precide, this map is based on the Big and Small mapscript so there would be some continent-like landmasses but also smaller landmasses/islands inbetween, kind of like what Ruby and Petrie started on. Indeed, Petrie didn't start at the coast. You see, Petrie is the kind of player who doesn't think too much about things I think hence I didn't quite choose the best position though his land is good everywhere so there really wasn't much I could have done wrong :angel

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Littlefoot and Cera are starting near the polar region (judging by the ice, Littlefoot in the north and Cera in the south), Ruby and Petrie are so close to each other that another city cannot be built between their capitals, same goes for Chomper and Ducky (I checked both the color and the terrain to confirm it), while Spike is on the west coast of a large landmass and Ali is on the east coast of some large landmass.
Littlefoot and Cera seem to be very far from each other indeed. And yes, it is Ducky Chomper is next to. Take a virtual cookie if you like :lol

As for the others, it's hard to say where they are in relation to each other but time will tell. I've had a few "tests" trying to find a good set-up for such a game in the past months and it was always interesting where they ended up... Spike once had a whole continent for himself but it was almost completely made out of snow and ice while the others had a lot of trouble with neighbors but good land. Spike still did the poorest needless to say... and once three started right next to each other... always interesting to find out where everyone ended up...

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(I'd like to mention that, as a gamer who never downloads any mods, I'm completely unfamiliar with the version you're playing here. I personally would have preferred sticking to the official version so that anyone with any familiarity would have a good understanding, but this is your project so I'll just let you do your thing.)
Yeah, that's a good point. Well, let's just say that this mod is superior to the normal game in numerous ways in my opinion. It doesn't really change the gameplay (like the CavemanToCosmos mod if you've ever heard of that one... it's ridiculous, like a completely new game...) but it adds more interesting features (also looks a bit better graphically and has a few helpful tools) and allows to have more of almost anything, balancing being much better too. In the regular game, the financial trait is OP for example. If you've tried to compare what all the trait's abilities are in this mod, you'll notice they're all pretty strong on their own and you can be much more flexible with your strategy etc.

I hope it is not too confusing for you  :confused

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Alright, that being said, we're up to Turn 3 so here are the next entries of those players who already got something to do (aka. those who went for a scout minus Petrie)

Littlefoot 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/littlefoot_25.html)
Ducky 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-strange-unit.html)
Spike 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/spike-pesky-ai-neighbors.html)
Turn 3 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-3.html)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on May 27, 2017, 03:02:49 PM
Looks like things are developing nicely.  Though I do wonder if the oddity of Littlefoot wanting access to fish will ever enter his mind at some point.  :lol If any of the leaf-eaters win the game they might have to live with being praised for "thinking like a sharpotooth" by Chomper.  :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on May 29, 2017, 04:35:06 PM
Haha  :lol

I've been lazy these past few days because weather has been great but today it was too great (heatwave ugh) so I got to work on this again, finishing no less than 2 turns within the last 2 hours or so (+ some distraction :p). Hope you enjoy the developments :)

Ducky 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-oh-no-no-no.html)
Petrie 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/petrie-first-preparations-for-war.html)
Spike 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/spike-meeting-isabella-of-mayan-empire.html)
Ruby 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ruby_29.html)
Turn 4 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-4.html)
Littlefoot 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/littlefoot-guess-i-could-call-that.html)
Cera 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/cera-no-big-deal.html)
Ducky 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ducky-more-scouts-yep-yep-yep.html)
Chomper 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/chomper-prey-is-spying-on-me.html)
Ali 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/ali.html)
Turn 5 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/05/turn-5.html)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on May 30, 2017, 11:29:54 AM
It seems like these games start pretty slowly. Still, it's nice to see that things are steadily moving forward. The different colors were actually a nice idea to make the interface smoother. Also, I agree with Isabella that a fiendish heathen describes Spike nicely.  :DD

I have played my share of strategy games so I have some kind of idea what this game is about. Actually, I've tried Civ 5 lately as I've already owned it for some time.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on June 01, 2017, 07:13:38 PM
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It seems like these games start pretty slowly. Still, it's nice to see that things are steadily moving forward.
Well, it takes time to write 8 stories at once  :smile At the beginning, I try to take a look at everything that happens so you know what I do and why (ahem, the characters, I mean :p) but, at some point, I can't do that anymore so I'll get a bit more slacky, not mentioning every bit of micromanagement.

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I have played my share of strategy games so I have some kind of idea what this game is about. Actually, I've tried Civ 5 lately as I've already owned it for some time.
I own Civ 5 too, just never got to play it yet because civ 4 hasn't beeen getting boring yet :p The basic concept should be very similar with some exceptions (like not being able to move several units onto one tile which you can do in civ 4 (I've already had stacks of 100+ units, believe me)) :lol )

Ducky 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-contacting-friendly-sharptooth.html)
Chomper 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper.html)
Ruby 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ruby-first-work-boat.html)
Turn 6 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-6.html)
I think the situation between Chomper and Ducky will be interesting to watch :smile
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on June 01, 2017, 07:31:30 PM
Gee, and I thought the barrier between the leaf-eater and sharptooth languages was a barrier in communication, but I guess it has nothing on the Civ Diplomacy screen.  :lol It will be curious to see what happens with that... and with Ruby and the upcoming (and unexpected, it seems, on her part) war with Petrie.  He really wants her resources...
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on June 01, 2017, 07:36:51 PM
It's not like Chomper can't speak leateater... I totally get that pun though ^^spike

Well, Petrie won't be able to attack anytime soon. First, he needs to develop the knowledge of either swimming or flying to get over there :p Considering how late flight units come in this game, I daresay he'll invade with ships if he does :smile
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: The Chronicler on June 01, 2017, 09:01:01 PM
Things are starting to look very interesting already.

My memory on Civ IV is a little rusty so correct me if I'm wrong: if a city has no military units on it, then an enemy unit can capture it just by walking into the city, right? (I'm asking because I've gotten used to how it works in Civ V, where cities don't need a garrison (though one does improve its strength), they can bombard enemy units, and they can't be captured until they loose all hitpoints (from enemy attacks and bombardments) and only then can a unit walk into the city to capture it.)

Anyway, of the eight players we're following, I'm hoping to see Ruby win. She seems interested in a space victory (my preferred way to win), plus I imagine she'll be better prepared for war than Petrie, so his attempt to invade her territory may backfire on him.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on June 02, 2017, 10:29:13 AM
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My memory on Civ IV is a little rusty so correct me if I'm wrong: if a city has no military units on it, then an enemy unit can capture it just by walking into the city, right? (I'm asking because I've gotten used to how it works in Civ V, where cities don't need a garrison (though one does improve its strength), they can bombard enemy units, and they can't be captured until they loose all hitpoints (from enemy attacks and bombardments) and only then can a unit walk into the city to capture it.)
That's correct :) You can simply walk in if there's no unit in there to protect.

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Anyway, of the eight players we're following, I'm hoping to see Ruby win. She seems interested in a space victory (my preferred way to win), plus I imagine she'll be better prepared for war than Petrie, so his attempt to invade her territory may backfire on him.
Yup, Ruby is the most scientific player of the gang, that's what's fit her character best in my opinion. She didn't get a scientific leader, unfortunately so things will be a bit harder for her but her artistic trait (basically what used to the the creative one in the game without mods) might also allow her to try winning by culture.

As for Petrie, yes, he may be trying to bite off more than he can chew :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: DarkWolf91 on June 02, 2017, 03:51:59 PM
I've never played the game, but I'm definitely enjoying this :smile
It looks like they're off to a good start, and I'm interested to see who wins.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on June 03, 2017, 09:19:13 AM
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I've never played the game, but I'm definitely enjoying this Dino_grins.gif
That's great to hear! :lol:

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It looks like they're off to a good start, and I'm interested to see who wins.
So am I! It'll probably take me more than a year to finish this (two or three are more realistic though) but it'll be totally worth it! None of my test games made it very far but that was because I was testing things, sometimes realising the set-up was suboptimal :lol

I'd say all of them have a chance to win, because nobody is totally screwed up right from the start (even Littlefoot's start is somewhat okay).

Littlefoot 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/littlefoot-there-is-hope-after-all.html)
Cera 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/cera-more-warriors.html)
Ducky 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-more-diplomatic-talk.html)
Spike 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/spike-scout-in-danger.html)
Chomper 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper-im-not-sure-ducky.html)
Ruby 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ruby-fishing-boats.html)
Turn 7 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-7.html)

Oh, and I think I'll try something whenever I do the next turn..
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on June 03, 2017, 10:19:16 AM
I hope to see an alliance between the two. It would be a shame if someone were eliminated from the game this early even if a little war always makes things more interesting. :p  It seems like Ruby is doing well and it's great that Littlefoot is getting back into the game.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on June 03, 2017, 02:11:24 PM
Looks like things are looking up for Littlefoot.  :yes On a side note, at some point the gang is going to get into a phase where they will have multiple turns of just waiting for things to happen (as happens a lot early on in our games).  I almost wonder if they might strike up a song at that point as a montage of them waiting for units to be built occurs.  :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on June 04, 2017, 04:16:48 PM
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I hope to see an alliance between the two. It would be a shame if someone were eliminated from the game this early even if a little war always makes things more interesting. dino_tongue.gif It seems like Ruby is doing well and it's great that Littlefoot is getting back into the game.
I agree, it would be a shame indeed. Let's hope Chomper realizes the big chance of a collaboration soon though, you know Ducky... she's just too cute to say no to :p

As for Ruby... you see how strong the expansive trait is at the start of the game there :)

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Looks like things are looking up for Littlefoot.  in-yes.gif
Aye, he'll get himself a better city soon, and then maybe another one... depends on what else pops up on the map :smile

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On a side note, at some point the gang is going to get into a phase where they will have multiple turns of just waiting for things to happen (as happens a lot early on in our games). I almost wonder if they might strike up a song at that point as a montage of them waiting for units to be built occurs.  dino_tongue.gif
The waiting is actually worst at the start ^^spike Interesting idea though  :idea

I only have something planned for Turn 10 as of right now, I'm sure you'll like it  :exactly

Littlefoot 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/littlefoot-fishing-next-turn.html)
Ducky 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-got-another-special-scout-yep-yep.html)
Spike 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/spike-successful-hunt.html)
Chomper 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper-alliance-hmm.html)
Ruby 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ruby-now-working-on-scout.html)
Turn 8 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-8.html)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on June 04, 2017, 06:14:11 PM
Well, well, well... it looks like Chomper is pondering the offer of an alliance with his swimmer friend, but his lack of an enthusiastic response might spell trouble for someone... :sducky Meanwhile, Littlefoot has an advantage at the moment in terms of science.  It will be curious to see how things develop in the next few turns, especially with a certain evil swimmer's cryptic comment about me liking something in turn 10.  :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Flathead770 on June 05, 2017, 06:26:30 PM
I finally got the time to catch up on all of this. I've never played the civilization games before but you explain the details enough so that I'm not completely lost. The drama between Ducky and Chomper is great, with Ducky trying so hard to team up. Petrie focusing on being religious seems spot on as he's the most superstitious. Pictures of the character's reaction is also a nice touch. I've never seen a civ game play out so this will be interesting to see what unfolds.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on June 08, 2017, 06:59:41 PM
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Well, well, well... it looks like Chomper is pondering the offer of an alliance with his swimmer friend, but his lack of an enthusiastic response might spell trouble for someone... land_before_time8_disneyscreencaps_com_1342_by_rockingscorpion-d9nxkr9.png Meanwhile, Littlefoot has an advantage at the moment in terms of science. It will be curious to see how things develop in the next few turns, especially with a certain evil swimmer's cryptic comment about me liking something in turn 10.  dino_tongue.gif
where's a smirking emoji when you need it?  :p

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I finally got the time to catch up on all of this. I've never played the civilization games before but you explain the details enough so that I'm not completely lost.
Hey, great to know you're keeping an eye on this as well. Gee, this gets kinda popular :smile

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The drama between Ducky and Chomper is great, with Ducky trying so hard to team up.
Yep, yep, yep. I'm not quite sure myself what the result of that will be. Since I'm trying as hard as I can to block any knowlegde I have about the other players, I might make a choice that I don't expect myself. Gotta try to stay as neutral as I can and not favor Ducky over Chomper, just to give an example :)

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Petrie focusing on being religious seems spot on as he's the most superstitious.
That's exactly what I was thinking too ^^spike

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Pictures of the character's reaction is also a nice touch. I've never seen a civ game play out so this will be interesting to see what unfolds.
It'll be awfully slow to be fair. I'd be 10 times faster if I didn't have to document everything and write these stories, haha. But then again, you would get to see this then so what's the point then? :lol

Anyway, update time!
Littlefoot 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/littlefoot-we-have-fishing.html)
Cera 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/cera-damn-animals.html)
Ducky 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ducky-more-neighbors-oh-no-no-no.html)
Petrie 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/petrie-more-gold.html)
Chomper 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/chomper-diplomacy-sucks.html)
Ali 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/ali-focussing-on-fast-production-right.html)
Turn 9 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/06/turn-9.html)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Hypno on June 08, 2017, 07:58:10 PM
I just noticed this. This is amazing! I love historical stuff and turn-based strategy games, and mixing it with my favorite movie franchise makes everything even better!
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on June 09, 2017, 04:30:55 PM
You have to be joyful about small things in Littlefoot's position. At least he has a peaceful start in the middle of nowhere.  :p Chomper is really not making things easy for Ducky but we'll see if she accepts Chomper's proposal. Somehow I have a feeling that she won't... I think that we'll have a couple rather low-key turns from now in terms of development if it takes six turns to research a tech. At least diplomacy and exploration are getting really interesting.  :)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 02, 2017, 09:24:55 AM
Sorry for the long wait, guys, things suddenly got very busy and I needed a break lol. This should continue with a more or less regular schedule now  ^^spike

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I just noticed this. This is amazing! I love historical stuff and turn-based strategy games, and mixing it with my favorite movie franchise makes everything even better!
Yay, another follower, glad you like this  :lol

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You have to be joyful about small things in Littlefoot's position. At least he has a peaceful start in the middle of nowhere.  dino_tongue.gif Chomper is really not making things easy for Ducky but we'll see if she accepts Chomper's proposal. Somehow I have a feeling that she won't... I think that we'll have a couple rather low-key turns from now in terms of development if it takes six turns to research a tech. At least diplomacy and exploration are getting really interesting.  smile.gif
Well, Littlefoot just hasn't met anybody YET :p

You are right about Chomper. Let's see how you like the developments of this turn  :lol

Littlefoot 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/littlefoot-exploring-mysterious-beyond.html)
Cera 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/cera-we-need-archers.html)
Ducky 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ducky-i-like-this-new-neighbor-lot-yep.html)
Spike 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/spike-i-like-swimmers.html)'
Chomper 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/chomper-darn-it.html)
Ruby 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ruby-my-scout-goes-adventuring.html)
Turn 10 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/turn-10.html) (watch out for this one! xD)

I did promise that I had something special planned, right? Well, typing Turn 10 was fun to say the least  ^^spike I'll do this every 10 turns now!

Oh, also another thing: I was thinking about replacing the boring link titles with some more exciting titles. Always give the blog entries a title, might use that one instead in the future as a little teaser to make the whole thing more interesting. Opinions? :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Hypno on July 02, 2017, 10:18:22 AM
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Ducky: Spiky, old habits die hard huh? Thanks to these rainbowfaces, we can have a chat on these weird devices now and play fun games together, yes we can!
LOL! The rainbowfaces gave them the devices!!! :lol  :lol  :lol  :D  :)littlefoot
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on July 02, 2017, 10:57:58 AM
Nice to see more of this!  :) I was wondering if it was going to continue at all but I'm glad I was proven wrong. It's a nice development that Ducky and Spike are neighbors as I think we have a rather strong and peaceful alliance right there! At least Chomper and Cera's playstyles will take a good hit from this development. The former is now forced to target the mainly the AI for now. The way you use that Spike eating Ducky caption is hilarious!  :lol Ruby is having a good time and there's a good chance she'll emerge as a major power soon enough.

The end chat was a really funny idea! The characterizations worked nicely here and I liked the flow of the conversation as well as the funny parts like the "Who's that creepy guy?!" and the Rainbowfaces explanation for this whole concept (Just don't do that in an actual fanfic, okay  :DD ). As for the question, these titles might not be too exciting but they sure are informative about the parts we want to see or revisit later. If you can combine the information about the post's content and the more interesting title, then do it by all means!  :yes
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 02, 2017, 01:31:21 PM
Thanks you two :lol:

Well, this whole concept could be classified as crack fic I think (which is a type of fanfiction I usually stay away from) and this was a pretty easy way to explain how the heck the GoF got hold of the game  :DD

We actually have yet to see what Ducky and Chomper are going to do. Chomper is not aware of Spike's presence yet which is a huge diplomatic advantage of Ducky! I figured continuing the Ducky-Chomper conversation would be too much to fit into one post.

Pretty funny though how 5 out of 8 "human" players out of 46 players in total end up having another human neighbor.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on July 02, 2017, 03:06:03 PM
And of course it was the rainbowfaces who did it.  :p The breakdown between the negotiations between Chomper and Ducky has led into an alliance with Spike for the time being... though I wonder if this might make Chomper consider an alliance of his own to counter the brother and sister duo.  The loss of Chomper's scout was probably a wake up call for him.

On a final note, I do think the chat log after every ten turns is a wonderful idea.  :yes It allows for some good plot-building and banter which can help add some additional life into the turn-by-turn situation.

On a side note I hope the rainbowfaces didn't give Rhett one of those devices, if so then they might be getting a lot of Rhett-centric spam.  :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: The Lone Dragon on July 03, 2017, 12:20:08 AM
This game of Civ is really shaping up well. The recent developments have really set the stage for what looks to be an exciting battle. I did find Littlefoot's entry a little shirt but hey he wasn't in much of an interesting position. I wonder if they other's will find him before he takes off. Ducky also appears to be in an interesting position between Spike and Chomper, of course she and Spike will probably ally themselves but if Chomper joined that alliance then that'll be on impressive force to go against.  

Also the idea for the chat between the friends was just brilliant and was a really enjoyable read. Nice work there, keep it up.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Midnight on July 03, 2017, 03:13:01 AM
Haha, this is great mate :D

I just read a few of the entries; very informative as well as funny :)
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 03, 2017, 11:53:19 AM
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And of course it was the rainbowfaces who did it.  dino_tongue.gif The breakdown between the negotiations between Chomper and Ducky has led into an alliance with Spike for the time being... though I wonder if this might make Chomper consider an alliance of his own to counter the brother and sister duo. The loss of Chomper's scout was probably a wake up call for him.
The alliance so far hasn't been officially confirmed but, of course, you know it's gonna happen :D As for Chomper, I'm not sure yet how he'd react. On the one hand I picture him to be rather pragmatic in this game, trying to attack whoever he can to gain an advantage. Then again, he probably wouldn't be stupid enough to take on Ducky and Spike combined? The negotiations aren't exactly disrupted, I just figured it'd be too much for one post in this early stage of the game (Ducky probably just forgot with all that excitement welling up in her :p)

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This game of Civ is really shaping up well. The recent developments have really set the stage for what looks to be an exciting battle. I did find Littlefoot's entry a little shirt but hey he wasn't in much of an interesting position. I wonder if they other's will find him before he takes off. Ducky also appears to be in an interesting position between Spike and Chomper, of course she and Spike will probably ally themselves but if Chomper joined that alliance then that'll be on impressive force to go against.
Well, sometimes there just isn't much to report on. Some characters get more attention than others depending on their situation too. For example, Petrie and Ali are pretty silent so far because Petrie is  not very good at the game (seriously, I do make some stupid decision on purpose in his case because... that's what I'd imagine Petrie to do  :lol ) and Ali had the luck to be able to go for a work boat straight, limiting her reports due to the lack of scouts. Then we have the likes of Ducky who is trying hard to survive with lots of neighbors and good scouting to create regular reports :p

I agree though, if Chomper joins that alliance, they'll be super tough! ^^spike After all, they all got some military advantages to use against their enemies (though Ducky's are mostly in defensive nature)

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   Haha, this is great mate biggrin.gif

I just read a few of the entries; very informative as well as funny smile.gif
Thanks mate, glad to see you're liking this too! Gee, I wish my fanfics were this popular!  :lol:
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Flathead770 on July 05, 2017, 01:03:42 AM
The rainbow faces giving the gang this is hilarious. I can picture how it would it would go, quite literally.


(http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa86/mrmeat770/Drawings/Rainbow_Face_Gift_Civ5.jpg)


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On a side note I hope the rainbowfaces didn't give Rhett one of those devices, if so then they might be getting a lot of Rhett-centric spam.
They won't be able to stand Rhett's...rhetoric.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 05, 2017, 10:28:03 AM
:spit

Perfect, mate, perfect :lol
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 18, 2017, 02:42:08 PM
I'll be getting back to a somewhat regular schedule next week, promised :p

Littlefoot 11 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/littlefoot-uhh-crap.html)
Ducky 11 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ducky-spike-and-chomper.html)
Spike 11 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/spike-time-to-find-ducky.html)
Chomper 11 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/chomper-ultimatum.html)
Ruby 11 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ruby-lions-are-bad-bad-they-are.html)
Ali 11 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ali-time-to-conquer-seas.html)
Turn 11 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/turn-11.html)

Some surprises in [Turn 11] again :smile
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Flathead770 on July 18, 2017, 06:29:56 PM
Wow Littlefoot cannot seem to get a break. It sure keeps things interesting though.

The graphs are nice, though it would be nice if the axes (or at least the y-axis. The x-axis is clearly turns) were labeled so I knew what I was looking at better (in physics they really pound that into your head).
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: rhombus on July 18, 2017, 07:38:21 PM
Poor Littlefoot, it looks like he might have to take a more "sharptooth" like strategy going forward.  As for Ruby it looks like her scout might be tested quite soon... and Chomper is laying down the gauntlet to Ducky... it will be interesting to see how that resolves itself.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on July 19, 2017, 11:17:56 AM
I hope Littlefoot manages to overcome this terrible start as it wouldn't be nice if he were eliminated this easily. Hopefully the AI isn't too smart.  :p As for Chomper, it's starting to seem like Ducky is going to spend the next nine turns trying to gain an upper hand in the long term by keeping Chomper in the dark about the new alliance. Very good developments!  :) As for the graphs, I guess they'll get interesting soon enough but, sadly, they don't tell me too much.  :lol Is this your main project right now?
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 19, 2017, 11:43:13 AM
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Wow Littlefoot cannot seem to get a break. It sure keeps things interesting though.
Yeah, poor Littlefoot. Well, at least he might give us the first war of the game if the AI does what I expect them to do (because, let's be honest, they ALWAYS put their cities where you want to put yours just out of spite!  :p )

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The graphs are nice, though it would be nice if the axes (or at least the y-axis. The x-axis is clearly turns) were labeled so I knew what I was looking at better (in physics they really pound that into your head).
Sure, I think my Excel skills should be good enough to accomplish that somehow  :angel

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Poor Littlefoot, it looks like he might have to take a more "sharptooth" like strategy going forward.
Yeah, good point and nice wording :lol

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As for Ruby it looks like her scout might be tested quite soon... and Chomper is laying down the gauntlet to Ducky... it will be interesting to see how that resolves itself.
Yep, yep, yep! I'll try to update as soon as I can. If work isn't too hard tomorrow, I might have the guts to do the next turn tomorrow... let's see :)

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I hope Littlefoot manages to overcome this terrible start as it wouldn't be nice if he were eliminated this easily.
I guess the AI wouldn't take him out that easily but his game would be ruined for sure as he'd have to put all his resources into fighting wars instead of pursuing long-term goals that improve his economy...

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Hopefully the AI isn't too smart
Well, the difficulty of this game (aka. how much the AI is cheating :p) is rather low for this one (the AI only having marginal advantages I think). I usually take one of the highest ranks rather quick on this difficulty level so we shouldn't have to worry too much, especially since the AI won't work together in most cases :p

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s for Chomper, it's starting to seem like Ducky is going to spend the next nine turns trying to gain an upper hand in the long term by keeping Chomper in the dark about the new alliance. Very good developments!  smile.gif
hehehe, I'm sure she will do that  ^^spike

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As for the graphs, I guess they'll get interesting soon enough but, sadly, they don't tell me too much.  dino_laugh.gif
You don't really see much in them yet anyway. This is going to get much more interesting and informative soon enough :yes

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Is this your main project right now?
As in... among my other creative projects? I know I haven't been doing much writing lately which had a lot of reasons but I'd still say writing/drawing are my main projects. This is more like a fun thing to do whenever I have some time  :lol
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Hypno on July 19, 2017, 02:23:06 PM
Littlefoot is in trouble. I hope he can bounce back from this.
It's nice to see that Ducky and Spike are together now, they may soon be a formidable force indeed :yes
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 24, 2017, 11:07:56 AM
Yep, yep, yep, I'm sure they will be :yes

Littlefoot 12 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/littlefoot-pondering-about-city-names.html)
Cera 12 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/cera-about-time-to-get-economy-going.html)
Ducky 12 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ducky-spike-is-really-close.html)
Petrie 12 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/petrie-me-have-great-name-for-city.html)
Spike 12 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/spike-improving-my-scouts-hunting-skills.html)
Ruby 12 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/ruby-oops-eeps.html)
Turn 12 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/07/turn-12.html)

Well, about time to start customizing some city names, eh? :DD
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Hypno on July 24, 2017, 11:14:44 AM
plz no op ducky if so plz nerf

"Me win game!" :lol

Cera's name could be: City of the Threehorns or something.
Ducky's could be Swimmer Land.
Spike: Green Food Land???
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on July 24, 2017, 03:39:47 PM
Rather short but interesting developments! It's quite an coincidence that the siblings were so close to each other but that's only good for them.  :) Petrie's city name is pretty great even if I doubt it'll be truthful but you never know! :D As for the other names, I'm terrible at coming up with them so I don't think I'm too helpful with those.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on July 26, 2017, 02:53:06 PM
As for names, I'd like to have some systematic choices at least for some of the characters.

As I mentioned in Littlefoot's post, he may just name his cities after people he's close to (the city of Grandpa, anyone? :p)

Cera will be trying to underline that her species is the superior species of course

Ducky might have city names like "Big Water" or just "YepYepYep" xD

Petrie... well, Petrie's names might be really uhh random?  :lol Certainly, I have a city of "SnugglingStick" in mind :p

Spike ---> food (What else?) ^^spike

Chomper might point out how tasty certain friends of his taste, surely Ducky would approve of a city right next to her called "liver of duck"  :nyah

Ruby... I'm not really sure about her.

Ali... same thing. Not sure yet... Maybe I'll reference some things that she can be affiliated with (like... Rhett xD Nightflowers, the Valley of Mists... or she might just express her deep affection for Littlefoot by naming a city after him ehh...  :p )

So yeah, just some ideas of mine
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Ducky123 on August 11, 2017, 10:35:13 PM
Sorry for the long break once again... too many projects to keep up with ugh :p

I played up to turn 15 now, so just a matter of writing these posts for a while :p

Littlefoot 13 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/08/littlefoot-first-religion.html)
Ducky 13 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/08/ducky-more-neighbors.html)
Petrie 13 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/08/petrie-petrie-worried.html)
Spike 13 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/08/spike-talking.html)
Turn 13 (http://lbtmeetsciv4.blogspot.de/2017/08/turn-13.html)

This is a really uneventful turn, though turn 15 will be quite the opposite! I have 12 screenshots for one character :o Although most of these are just to explain a couple things for people unfamiliar with the game :p
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Flathead770 on August 11, 2017, 11:54:46 PM
I was quite convinced that Petrie was the one with the religion. The plot thickens...

As for the city names I do like Petrie's name for his (as well as Ruby's reaction). The only city names I can think of for Ruby would be either Hanging Rock or Thinking Place. Not very original I know.
Title: LBT characters playing Civilization 4
Post by: Sovereign on August 12, 2017, 11:23:31 AM
Well, there's not much to say except that Petrie most likely feels bad for someone outresearching him. Even then, I'm sure he'll be able to beat the AI sooner or later.  :p Also, I'll look forward to seeing what will happen on turn 15.  :)