We have no idea when the game's coming out, and until it actually does, there will be much we won't know about it. However, there's been enough that I can give at least a a brief glimpse into what's in store for HOF-IV:
1-The fate of HOF III:
1-The fate of HOF III:
- The start of IV will not end III!
- As a matter of fact, so long as I'm running HOF-III and games are being submitted, this will remain open for business. After all, CivII's GOTM is still going!
- I will still continue to update this HOF at least twice a month, although as traffic adjusts over to IV, front page news about the updates may end. If traffic in III drops low enough, I might even start updating the tables with every game clearance.
- Thunderfall has graciously offered the position of HOF-IV executive leadership to me, and I have accepted. He's commented on more than one occasion in recent months about how impressed he is with the amount of games you all play, how well you play them, and how very little work it is for him to be the dedicated moderator of this forum.
- Dianthus has already agreed (some months back) to serve as my first IV-staff member. I sleep easier at night knowing this, as we certainly wouldn't be where we are without him (either from staff contributions, or personal projects such as CRpSuite and Mapfinder). It's very beneficial having someone around who knows what a schema is.
- I can't make it an iron-clad promise, but I'm planning on having HOF-IV open for business the day the game is released!
- The initial HOF-IV, however, will probably not be full tables, but instead just top ten score lists for each difficulty. There will also probably not be many, if any, rules to start with. What we'll be doing is quite simply getting to know the game. In particular for the HOF, we'll be looking for bugs and exploits and deciding rules of fair play.
- Once we've gone through the adjustment phase (and had a patch or two), the full tables will open, as will the evil sequel to the Quartermaster's Challenge.
- As per the Quartermaster's Challenge, the Cartographer's Challenge Award will go to players who complete each of the qualifying events.
- Definite events:
- "Histographic"-As long as there's Civilization games to play, worlds will be filled, dominated, succumbed and sucked for score until the end of time. At this time, though, I have yet to come up with a good name for the milking event as all my ideas have been udderly ridiculous.
- Machiavelli-This will again be based on fastest finish games of the fastest finish victory conditions.
- League of Nations-Players must submit at least one HOF win using each of the 19 civilizations.
- Probable events:
- "Difficulty*thlon-Currently known as the Octathlon. I've not seen any information regarding Civ4 difficulty levels, nor how many, but it's a safe assumption there will be multiple difficulties in the traditional Civilization sense.
- *Map*thlon-Currently known as the Pentathlon. Again, various mapsizes not confirmed, but assumable.
- There will likely be other events. They will likely not be kind.
