2010-09-18

gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Baseball - ATT Park)
2010-09-18 09:36 am
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Thirty days, Day 21

Day 21- A picture of something that makes you happy

24 Willie Mays Plaza
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Civ 4)
2010-09-18 01:54 pm
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Once you start building worlds, you just can't stop!

Just finished a game of CivIV played solely because I wanted to stomp other cultures into the ground. It worked, Domination victory in 1858, actually my best of all time, but on a lower difficultly level than I normally play.

What caught my attention was how the map was set up at the beginning of the game:

The Inland Sea

Take a look at that large circular ocean. Doesn't that suggest a very large impact crater to you? The civilizations are the surviving colonists who have fallen back to Iron Age technology while a few can still use the nanotech "magic items." Of course, there are numerous bunkers and storehouses, even a few forbidden cities dotting the terrain...