walletta
King
The Hall of Fame isn't about points scored, it's categorised by victory date and is a completely separate form of game-training which requires such abstractions as reloading a Tiny Pangea until your rival/s start really close to your first city and then attempting to capture their only Towns before they can even build more than a Warrior for defence - so also involves the luck factor of your Unit defeating their Unit.
When I first saw the list the biggest gaps available to get an entry were on the Huge maps, where there wasn't even 10 people who had completed a Huge Emperor Science win, for example. I completed a lame Dutch Huge Science win in about 1798 which got me on the board (about 8th), but it was rejected because I didn't have the requisite save-games at the exact dates they required - because I never start a game with the intention of making a HoF game, in this map I just happen to notice how easy it was as I was playing.
So the HoF is more about how quickly than how many points and also how quickly within the framework of the rules the HoF allows (such as minimum number of opponents) and does not differentiate between, for example, Continents and Pangea - (good luck getting the fastest domination possible on an Archipelago map on Monarch etc etc.).
But it provides a fun objective for some and people, such as Spoonwood, get a huge amount of enjoyment from attempting to solve early victories on all difficulties and sizes.
So speed is the key, Buttercup? I see, thanks. Oh well, I'm not too bothered about the HofF. I'm really pleased to have won at Deity, learned more doing it and also found (what may be) an original way to go about it. I suppose at some point I should tackle a huge archipelago or something but I am not overly keen on the idea. Multi-player is another interesting way to go, or perhaps a succession game. I'm open to offers on both fronts.