Nomads GotM - deadline December 20th

[Buster's Uncle]

ah BU ... so it had already doin a gipsy faction, nice the bases too

No kiddin'.  I didn't do anything but put in a new leaderhead, but you gotta love those bases.  I was surprized how good they looked in game.

[sisko]

@ariete: are you going to play this scenario?

[Buster's Uncle]

The GotM team needs your help, whoever you are - we are only human, and we need feedback to help us keep motivated.  Making the scenarios, alone, is a lot of work, and our GotMs usually involve custom art and factions to give it more of that personality and immersive quality that makes Alpha Centauri so special in the first place.  We often include some decent fiction, too.

We believe in the value of the GotM project; it provides content for the SMAC(X) community, and anything that grows our community is good.  But counting downloads is just not a satisfactory measure of success, although Nomads is doing well by that measure.  Tell us how it struck you.  Report on what you liked and didn't like. 

If you want to do something really ambitious to support and encourage us?  Take screenies as you play and write up an AAR.  Everybody loves a good AAR, and it's content all by itself.  Make sure to put everything in spoiler tags, mind - you don't want to ruin surprises for others playing, and this IS a contest, too. 

-Enter the contest, BTW.  What've you got to lose?

[Earthmichael]

I can do an AAR if you like.  It has taken me a long time, maybe 10-12 hours or so, to get to my current turn 2247, where Gaia and PKs have only a couple of bases left each, and Believers is no threat at all.

It is taking a long time to wrap up the game, due to rising water levels (probably mostly due to Believers ecodamage), has made progress more difficult.

I waited until I had copters before I started my attack, so it could be that this could have been done faster.

But I do have various saves along the way, so I can load some and screenshot for highlights.

Might be awhile longer, because I feel I need to finish before I post an AAR.

[Buster's Uncle]

We would be very grateful if you did, sir. 

[t_ras]

After more then 6 hours of playing Miriam is still strong, but falling down. City by city...the clock is ticking for her...

[Earthmichael]

I finally achieved total victory at 2257.  I am not sure how long it took, but I think I played 10-12 hours.  Over half of this was mop up after the game was already decided.  I had some fun at the end, and put all of my energy in Psych just to have a global party.

I have attached the before win save.  Just move a mindworm into the last city, and that's it.  Is there anything else I am supposed to do for the contest?  I did not make any colony pods, and I did not see any other restrictions. Can someone validate that my entry is OK?  I don't want to wait two weeks, and then found out that there was some detail that makes my entry invalid, so please check early enough that I have time to fix and resubmit.  Even if everything is OK, just post and let me know that it is OK.  Thanks!

I thought this was a very fun scenario!  Thanks for making it!

I will follow up with an AAR, but I wanted to get some idea of the preferred format.

The easiest way for me to go is to produce a PDF file.  Is everyone good with PDF?  Again, please post, because I do not want to get too far along  in writing until I know what format I am going to use to write the AAR.

The victory screenshot is below.  Press the spoiler button to see it.

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[Buster's Uncle]

Just so you know that I'm not blowing you off, I just don't know the answers to the contest questions for sure - I'm creative end; the contest is sisko's baby.

I'm not so sure about the .pdf thing, if I understand you.  I mean, this is a forum and it seems like the standard post thing is the best way to go.  Making an album for the pictures and [img] linking isn't nearly as much work as writing the game up.  I dunno...

[Earthmichael]

I don't know how to put an attached image in a specific place in the post.  That is my main problem with just posting the AAR.

If someone tells me how to do this, that would be great.  Otherwise, all my screenshots show up at the end, which is too confusing to the reader.  Also, if someone can give me a better way to screenshot, that would be good as well.  Currently, I use PrtScn to copy from SMAC, and then paste into Paint.  It works OK, but the quality is not the best.

Also, if someone can tell me how to hide my screenshot in my last post in spoiler flags, I will edit the post to do that.

[Buster's Uncle]

The simplest way is to push the Avea Media button 5th or sixth from the left on the second row in the reply box (I don't know why the button is there twice).  Then you can upload pictures to an album.  Here.  I just uploaded one to Forum Images as a test:

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Xfire

That posted automatically when I was done, and I added the spoiler tags around it.  I wish we'd always had that button; woulda saved me a lot of time with two tabs open to copy link to Graphics posts.

You're probably best off creating your own album to post to first, which you can do by hitting "Media" at the top of the page - and you shouldn't have any trouble figuring the rest.

[Earthmichael]

I pressed both of the Aeva Media buttons, but nothing seems to happen.  What is supposed to happend?

[Buster's Uncle]

A window to upload to an album doesn't appear?  Let me break out my DL and look into this.  brb

[BU Admin]

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XfireQuiz65x

Hmm.  Works fine for me, and this is in a different browser, Chrome, too.

[Buster's Uncle]

Now in IE, the window opens, but doesn't usually stay on top where you can see it - maybe check for that?

Come to think of it - BU DL created an album once to test something.  It may not work for anyone who doesn't have an album of their own...

[Earthmichael]

I opened the site with Chrome, and now the Avea Media button opens up an upload window.  So I created an album and uploaded a file.

But how do I get the file to display in a post???