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General discussion[WINNERS ANNOUNCED] Contest: Share your most awesome city-building moment(83 posts)(83 posts)
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Posted February 14, 2017
Remember when that giant cyclops stomped on the mayor? Good times.


UPDATE: Great stories there, guys! You gave us a really hard time picking the most entertaining, inspiring, or downright weird ones but it was time well spent.

So here are the 10 winning entries:


- <span class="bold">Stevedog13</span> for being wickedly enterprising.
- <span class="bold">mqstout</span> - hope it took at least a few years until the population started rising again.
- <span class="bold">Utuzuu</span> - for his Story #3 that made our office tiger smack its lips with delight.
- <span class="bold">SpiderFighter</span> for staying sane long enough to recount this ill-fated moment of glory.
- <span class="bold">dusty788</span> - for honoring their badass citizens thusly. This is what epic soundtracks are made for.
- <span class="bold">Ghorpm</span> - for creating the first ancient city that ran primarily on gas.
- <span class="bold">Novicia20</span> - for this inspiring story of why sometimes videogames > real-life grind.
- <span class="bold">Nastyg</span> - for hitting us right in the feels.
- <span class="bold">MadalinStroe</span> - for their perseverance through the emergent challenges of city-building games.
- <span class="bold">Benzor</span> - for their complete lack of empathy that secured their civilization a "peaceful victory".


Congrats and thanks to everyone who participated!
We will be contacting the winners soon.



---Original announcement below---

Three critically acclaimed city-builders arrived today, as digital exclusives, on GOG.com: <span class="bold">Caesar</span>, <span class="bold">Caesar II</span>, and <span class="bold">Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom</span>. To celebrate, we've built a fun little contest for those of you who are anxious to try or revisit them!

Share with us a story describing your favorite (funniest, most nostalgic, most epic, or even most embarrassing) moment playing city builder games in the comments below, and take your chance at winning one of the 10 game keys for one of the three freshly released titles - the choice is yours.

Be creative: it'll be originality and wit that will win you our hearts and turn your story into a success story. So go ahead and spin us a tale - these historical city-builders are looking forward to joining your collection!


Deadline for entries is Monday, February 13, 2PM GMT.
Posted February 15, 2017
Great contest, GOG. Congratulations winners! It was fun reading the stories.

Once I messed around with my crew members in Space Colony, building rooms that offered features their personal file revealed they hated. That one janitor drunk who disliked sports, I put her bed right in the middle of a dome I had crammed full with training equipment, then routed arriving tourists through there, the only path to their hotel.

As this gym outta hell provided the only entertainment option on that space station, tourists spent a lot of time in there. I hoped for the janitor to start punching people after a while, but only got the generically scripted breakdown: destroying random equipment with a laser rifle. The idea was more fun than the actual turnout, really. I believe you need a really robust, intricate game system for fun, unexpected stuff to happen. Perhaps Space Colony's isn't deep enough for something like that. Or you need to try harder.
Posted February 15, 2017
really, how much is the 'thanks'? cause i won it! hoooorrraaayy!

congrats to real winners ;-]
Posted February 15, 2017
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GOG.com: Utuzuu[/url] - for his Story #3 that made our office tiger smack its lips with delight.
- https://www.gog.com/forum/general/contest_share_your_most_awesome_citybuilding_moment_2ec73
Really happy that my story was entertaining, yet I have to ask this: Gog has a TIGER? That can READ?! Regulations what kinds of pets are allowed appear to be very permissive in Poland. ;)
Posted February 15, 2017
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Benzor: [snip]
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Fesin: Jesus ... are you sure you put the right Korea as you're home country? Oo
Congratulations through ... I guess?
Ha ha, for some context I'm living temporarily in S. Korea.

I'm surprised that it actually listed that as it's location, I assumed it would just have cached my address in the United States where I created the account.

Although this thread rekindled my need to start another Civilization 2 campaign and ignore the get grooving with FMV Elvis. Or see if I might be able to go with "upgrading" with Civilization 4 with all the expansions and see if I can recreate the story as well.

I'm also glad that so many people enjoyed my story, I'll never forget that particular game and it was a blast all the way through, I also recommend Civ 2 to anyone, the FMV advisors are absolutely hilarious!
Posted February 15, 2017
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Utuzuu: Really happy that my story was entertaining, yet I have to ask this: Gog has a TIGER? That can READ?! Regulations what kinds of pets are allowed appear to be very permissive in Poland. ;)
His name is Jerry! He's a big fan of Bukowski and James Ellroy.
Posted February 15, 2017
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Utuzuu: Really happy that my story was entertaining, yet I have to ask this: Gog has a TIGER? That can READ?! Regulations what kinds of pets are allowed appear to be very permissive in Poland. ;)
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maladr0Id: His name is Jerry! He's a big fan of Bukowski and James Ellroy.
(Literal) LOL!
Posted February 16, 2017
I found this little story from Banished quite funny. As said, not my story, but the contest is over anyway.

"I built an amazing village, i almost always had at least enough food to sustain everyone, had a gatherers hut, hunters cabin, orchard, crop field, pasture, and fishery. It was great, I had enough houses for everyone, yet it said that people were wihtout houses. Eventually, winter came around, and every single one of my people froze to death, help?"
Posted February 23, 2017
I am a bit late, but I have a story I'd really like to share. The game was Civ2 gold with the Midgard mod.
It is essentially Civilization, but with magic and fantasy creatures.

The game was going as usual, building cities, developing knowledge, and keeping an army. However, it was a fairly bad game, I had the feeling I was lagging behind in troops and economy... When something happened.

The yellow player starts the game with some extra units including a uber-powerful Flying Dragon. To put stuff in perspective, it's like a WWII flying Tank going around in Iron Age.

I do not recall the exact unit, but it was one of the weakest expendable ones I sent to explore new areas. The unit meets the Dragon. I thought: -Oh, well... unit lost.- Then I noticed the Dragon has the health bar totally empty! So I think: -what the hell! Attack!- The health bar of my unit halves, reach the minimum, and.... then the unit actually defeats the Dragon!

In Midgard the death of the unique Dragon starts a special event, before leaving the land the Dragon gives the winner "knowledge of dragons" as immediate discovery. I did not thought of that too much at the time, but I could start building Ground Dragon, not nearly as powerful as the Flying Dragons but still quite strong.... a bit too strong actually. The game flipped, my little but growing legion of Ground Dragons start walking the world stomping on any enemies with ease. I liked to imagine the word going around of my undefeatable army...

Many turns later, I finally learn the knowledge that is the usual prerequisite of "knowledge of dragons" and only in that moment I realized that that small, almost random, event gave me hundred of years technology enhancement!


I played both Civ2 and Midgard dozens of hours, but I only remember that game and that feeling.
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