The aims of logs in decreasing order of importance are:

1. To describe the game progress
This is the what, when and how of the progress of a unique individual game

2. As an illustration to novices on the application of the principles of OCC in practice.

Obviously opinions on what are essential in a log would depend on how important one considers aim 2.

Here’s a tentative listing based what has been done, in a loose classification:

<u>Essential</u>

1. Founding of city
2. Tech advances – including those from gifts and exchanges
3. Improvements built
4. Wonders built
5. Trade routes and bonuses
6. Contact with AI civs – relations, tech exchanges and gifts/tributes
7. Change of relations with AI civs – alliance, peace, war, ceasefire
8. Destruction of AI civs
9. Diplomat activities eg embassies, bribery of units, stealing of techs
10. Goodies from huts
11. Gold bonus for capturing Barbarian Leader
12. Type of Spaceship built and date of Launch
13. Landing AC
14. Revolution and Government changes

<u>Desirable</u>

1. Units built especially commodity Caravans/Freight and Diplomats
2. Techs given to AI civs
3. Units disbanded or destroyed

My own personal view is that logs are a necessary evil in a challenge game, which helps to discipline one’s approach to the intensive micromanagement and concentration required to achieve the best result. I have also found logs helpful for jotting down useful timely information eg the location of seeding points for Barb activity and of important transient features (including unpopped huts!) revealed when maps are shared, the development of new techs by AI civs and the periodic list of ranking of wealth and advance for use later.

If they take everything at once,thats easy-gift all.

for techs gifted to the AI, I usually only list those on 'cutting edge' so to speak later in the game (Space Flight, Fusion Power, etc), since one of the key concepts of OCC is to gift all of your techs to lower your own research rate.

One other thing a lot of people do, which could go on the "desirable" list could be the overview/intros about the game. This usually covers your thoughts on the game and gives extra insight as to why you did things in a certain order, or possible mistakes you think you made and why you thought they were mistakes

Paul's fortnight comparison table requirements usually are:

game settings:
AC date:

government establishment dates
Monarchy:
Republic:
Democracy:

key wonders built
Colossus:
Copernicus:
Shakespeare:
Isaac Newton:
Darwin:
Apollo:

first three Trade Routes
first:
second:
third:

target technologies
Trade:
Cons:
San:
Refr:
Auto:
Comp:
SF:

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There have been so many comparison games, all done with detailed logs, that newcomers can get a good feel for strategy by looking at them.

quote: Originally posted by Smash on 09-18-2000 10:30 PM One thing that happens to me ALOT is the ais will only accept 1 tech at a time.This can go on for 10+ turns at times,each one accepting 1 at a time.

If you wait a few turns the AI's will not break up the conversation. In MGE asking for gifts after giving just a single tech is too risky anyway, so I took up the habit of waiting until I have 3-5 techs to give. Only if the AI is worshipful you can be reasonably sure in MGE that asking for a gift won't result in war (but even then it can happen), and next turn they will be hostile again, or uncooperative if you are so lucky to have an ally.

1. The Minimalist Approach:
A verbal summary as preamble to the "Highlights" summary used for the comparison table.

SCG - you've got it!!

:Eek:

p.s. OCC#17 still to advance past -3500! I'm slipping again.

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