My priorities are:

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My study. But my exam is over (and it didn't even went well http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/frown.gif http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/cry.gif). I only have to make reports of experiments, but thursday is the deadline. So whether I will be able to finish them before that or not; after thursday, it's over.
My girlfriend, not since long and first one ever. But than again, we got all the time in the world. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
The GOTM 2 results
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As a result: expect them next weekend.

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And each time Pedro says: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh", I feel so good!!!</FONT s>

WHEN DOES THE GOTM #2 RESLUTS COME?!?!? I wan't to know how it went for me.http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

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Congratulations on your new girlfriend, Matrix. Take all the time you need. There's no early finish bonus with her, I'm sure http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif

Originally posted by goodbye_mr_bond:
There's no early finish bonus with her, I'm sure
http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif Brilliant! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif Best comment I've seen on CivFanatics for a long time! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/goodwork.gif


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GenghisK has a way of making great comments.

Congratulations with your girlfriend, Matrix. Take your time. There is probably no excitement about who won, but...

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forever!!

And may this man <IMG SRC="http://www.vg.no/grafikk/frontbilder/1225.gif" border=0> recover!

[This message has been edited by Håkon (edited April 06, 2001).]

Hehe, sounds good! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

But she's with her parents this weekend - I will work on saturday - so I can make the results sunday. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif

But not today... http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/spinsmile.gif. Not today at all...

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<FONT size="1">Studying chemistry means: having fun, drinking beer, having more fun, drinking more beer, hang above the toilet and have a good night sleep!

And each time Pedro says: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh", I feel so good!!!</FONT s>

Originally posted by Håkon:
GenghisK has a way of making great comments.


Ahem. You mean, GenghisK has a way of making great comments ALSO, right?

<FONT size="5">The results are here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</FONT s>

He http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif he http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif he http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif he http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif he http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/snipersmilie.gif

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Veni Vidi Vici.

Coolbook:
Håkan Eriksson, Stormerne, vladmir_illych_lenin, Cunobelin Of Hippo, vanillacube.

You are the best shadowdale http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gifhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gifhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gifhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

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But you only have seven post left Håkan!!!!!!! I still remember when we where very close in postings - then I moved and every thing changed!!! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Veni Vidi Vici.

Coolbook:
Håkan Eriksson, Stormerne, vladmir_illych_lenin, Cunobelin Of Hippo, vanillacube.

1741?..what took you so long http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif

Ai ai ai, I've made a blunder: I forgot hotrod0823. Luckily he didn't stole a medal from someone or changed the rating too much: he became 26th. But still, such a mistake shouldn't happen again. I'm changing it now (don't know about Thunderfall who has to upload it http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif).

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And each time Pedro says: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrggh", I feel so good!!!</FONT s>

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Rats! Foiled again by shadowdale! But I shall prevail, oh yes. I'll show you! I'll show you all...

Mwahahahahaha!

(P.S. congrats shad & kev)

Great job Matrix.

I do have one nitpicky thing. I thought the global ranking was to be normalized. I would have expected Shadowdale's global ranking number to be 100, not 41.

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Originally posted by TimTheEnchanter:
I do have one nitpicky thing. I thought the global ranking was to be normalized. I would have expected Shadowdale's global ranking number to be 100, not 41.
It is normalized. Only, to avoid this first counting GOTM to become too important, I didn't use the full normalized score, but used the median score of this specific GOTM as old score.
So each persons Global_Ranking_ Score equals on this moment: 0,7*Median_Score+0,3*(Normalized)GOTM_Score.

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<FONT size="1">Studying chemistry means: having fun, drinking beer, having more fun, drinking more beer, hang above the toilet and have a good night sleep!

And each time Pedro says: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrggh", I feel so good!!!</FONT s>

Dang! Thought I might have a chance to win this thing, but Shadowdale just kicked a**!! That was a great job! I'll be happy to slink away with the silver.

Just you wait... now that I am up to date on the scoring bonuses I'm going to try to give you a run for your money!!!

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"Now that you know the scoring bonuses...?"

<FONT COLOR="blue">(Naughty, naughty goodbye_mr_bond!!! [Matrix] http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif)</FONT c>, Kev! You're *already* giving us a run for our money. Looks like it'll be tough for me just holding on to where I am!

(Hey! I didn't know I could swear. I thought there was an auto-censor or something?)

[This message has been edited by goodbye_mr_bond (edited April 11, 2001).]

[This message has been edited by Matrix (edited April 11, 2001).]

I'm sorry that I didn't see the pre-censored version http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

Well, I actually meant that I would try to give Shadowdale a run, but looking at the scores more closely I don't know how that could even be done. In fact, I doubt that I'll be holding any global rank for very long given the level of play I read about from everyone here.

We'll have to see how all of this progresses with the combining of all of the scores. I'm thinking that I am fanatical enough to force myself to play this game every month to try to ensure that I don't drop in the global ranking, but my fiance may have other plans for me. http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/spanking.gif

I know, I know: the GOTM is supposed to be just a casual, friendly game. I am WAY too competitive.

That reminds me - gotta move forward on GOTM #3.

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Originally posted by goodbye_mr_bond:
Ahem. You mean, GenghisK has a way of making great comments ALSO, right?
Eheheh, talking about me? http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif



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Luckily I didn't participate in this one, or you would've all been blown away!!!!!! Mwahaha!

Question to all the people who got super high scores and finished in the 1700's.

HOW?

And to Smash: How'd you get a spaceship in like 1000 AD?

[This message has been edited by vladmir_illych_lenin (edited April 11, 2001).]

Originally posted by vladmir_illych_lenin:
Question to all the people who got super high scores and finished in the 1700's.
HOW?

I never really stop expanding, even while at war. I also don't worry about the growth of my cities too much until after I control the world and can safely switch to democracy. Super-growth will mushroom them up to size 20-30's in no time, while building a SS in about 100 cities at once.

In GOTM II, went straight south with my triremes (following the chain of islands) seeding new cities on the way. It was a lucky direction, but made for a really strange game. It was like, "where the hell is everyone?"

How'd you get a spaceship in like 1000 AD?

I launched a 15-3-3-1-1-1+Fusion in 1210AD

The island allowed for peaceful development

The usual stuff.Super Science City and big perfectionist cities.We love days.Many caravans/freights.Basically,OCC with a bunch of support cities for awhile.Once the SSC was finished,I then rushed improvements in all the other cities while simultaneously celebrating up the pop levels.I get the SSC pop level ASAP then do the others in stages.size 8.size 12.Then a final spurt up.

a size 6 city with courthouse, temple, and colliseum requires no luxuries in Democracy.size 7 after electronics.You can go straight to size 8 and hire scientists with The Gardens.If you want to add Michs or cathedral and
JSB you can go to size 12 without luxuries.Combine this with a SSC with Shake's running 100% science and 1 turn advances are no problem.2-4 is possible with freights.

My goal was to land by 1000ad.Might have done it if Thunderfall hadn't mucked around for so many turnshttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif

1225 is pretty good.Its not really,really good.At least not for some of the speed demons out there.1075 on diety(by Arii) is still the official random map record AFAIK and this was king.

A player called Solo did a 776ad landing on deity recently.But it was a second attempt on the same map.Darn impressive though

That's truly, hats off, awe-inspiringly, mind-blogglingly impressive Smash!

I'd like to hear from Cactus Pete. He finished in 500 CE and still got an unadjusted score higher than Smash!

At 388% and 1831 CE finish, mine is a good but not excellent effort. I could easily have launched a century earlier but my score was still increasing faster than by early finish bonus was decreasing. I needed either:
* another weeks play, or
* to have known about the x7 factor earlier, and
* to have developed lots more trade routes.

Massive exploration and massive expansion was my primary strategy. Thus I had: 14 cities in 1 CE, 51 cities in 1000 CE and 181 cities at the finish. I did change strategy a couple of times, once when I found that the GOTM bonus was x7 rather than x4 and it was already 1400 CE, and once when I started running out of days at the end of the month.

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[This message has been edited by stormerne (edited April 12, 2001).]

Stormerne,

I did what I do every game: set out to conquer the world ASAP.

I wish I knew why my unadjusted score is higher than Smash's. I'm suspicious that it's underservingly so. Though I don't enjoy the time-consuming aspects of launching a spaceship, I've tried it and have some appreciation for Smash's game.

If you could explain to me where the unadjusted score comes from and what it's based on (especially how it factors in game level and map size), I would be most appreciative and perhaps could give you and me both some insight as to why my unadjusted GOTMII score is relatively high.

Thanks,

Cactus Pete

I think that's one for Matrix to answer. He does that part of the scoring. I only consulted with him about formulae before the game.

Matrix? ...

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First I forgot two players (hotrod0823 and radman), but this is much more serious: Cactus Pete, your score is simply way too high. You shouldn't be 11th, but...25th. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/frown.gif" border=0> Your real score isn't 1425, but 741. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/frown.gif" border=0>

The only thing I can do about it is adjust it ASAP and give you my deepest apologies. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/frown.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/frown.gif" border=0>

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Same thing with KaaK: he has 1107 point, not 1300.

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[This message has been edited by Matrix (edited April 13, 2001).]

Apology accepted, Matrix; and, Stormerne, your query would now seem unfounded.

I do have a query for Matrix, however. What is your rationale for designing a scoring system that reduces the potential bonuses for early finishes as the game level rises? A player who finishes the game in 150 turns at Prince level has his score multiplied by 1 + 7(520 - 150)/520, or 1 + 7(.711), or 1 + 4.98, or 5.98; on the other hand, a player who finishes in the same number of turns at Emperor level (a more skillfull effort) has his score multiplied by only 1 + 7(420 - 150)/420, or 1 + 7(.643), or 1 + 4.5, or 5.5.

Indeed it's harder to get a high GOTM score in at a higher difficulty and we could've used the rating instead of the normal score to calculate the GOTM score. But it really doesn't matter that much. You just can't really compare games with different difficulty levels.

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And each time Pedro says: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrggh", I feel so good!!!</FONT s>