last updated on March 30, 2004

Differential Naval Movement

For all classes of play the naval movement has been differentiated for different types of water terrain as listed below:

NOTE: You may discuss more specifics about this naval Movement rate feature as first introduced in the Gotm21 Predator class game by using the special discussion thread established for that purpose.

Civ3 Conquests Transition Implementations

A number of the changes to the basic game ("The Epic Game" in Civ3Conquests Lingo) have been actively discussed in the GOTM forum and in strategy forums at Apolyton and CFC for well over two years. Changes like updating the great wall wonder, selective modification of event timing in the tech tree, and implementing defensive free shots for standoff units like archers and longbowmen were discussed in the GOTM forum as early as January of 2003. To ease the transition and comparison process between the GOTMs played on Civ3v1.29 and PTW versus those games randomly generated in epic games for Civ3Conquests the following updates have been included in the game setup for Gotm30: :

Conquest Class Game Details for Gotm 30

Players who choose to play in the Conquest class game will receive a set of bonuses designed to help them focus on key early strategic decisions that may help them to get more enjoyment out of the specific conditions of this game. The bonuses ARE NOT designed to guarantee you a win without requiring some good early decisions to be made and without asking you to manage your Civilization properly.

Players who might be interested in playing the conquest class game could be those players who might only feel comfortable playing at Warlord or Regent difficulty.

For the purposes of global ranking and comparison to all other GOTM scores, the Conquest class games scores in the QSC and GOTM results will be weighted downward with an 85% multilpier to factor out the value of the additional starting bonuses.

Conquest Class Starting Bonuses:
Conquest class players will begin the game with following unit and game feature bonuses:

Conquest Save-File for Civ3v1.29 for PC and Mac        Conquest Save-File for PTW

Open Class Game Details for Gotm 30

Players who choose to play in the Open Class game receive no bonuses compared to a game that would be normally be played on Monarch level.

For the purposes of global ranking and comparison to all other GOTM scores, Open class game scores will be ranked according to the Jason score which balances speed and scoring skills for a combined "Best Overall game" rating.

Open Class Starting Bonuses:

Open Save-File for Civ3v1.29 for PC and Mac        Open Save-File for PTW

Predator Class Game Details for Gotm 30

Players who choose to play in the Predator class game must overcome an extra set of obstacles built into their game to provide an extra level of challenge. The intent of these changes is to raise the difficulty without altering strategic play progress from that which you would see for comparison in the conquest class and open class games.

Players who might be interested in playing the Predator class game could be those players who have participated in the Elite or Leader divisions of the Medal Play Series or players who just want an extra level of excitement or challenge.

For the purposes of global ranking and comparison to all other GOTM scores, the Predator class game scores in the QSC and GOTM results do not receive any compensating scoring bonus for the added elements of challenge.

Predator Class Equalizing Obstacles:
The game features for Predator Class Games have been raised to provide the following obstacles:

Predator Save-File for Civ3v1.29 for PC and Mac        Predator Save-File for PTW