HOF Update-Feb 6th, 2006

The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 36 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to Donny Brook for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Huge Regent Histographic game for 20188 points.

Tone was the most active player during this update, submitting 6 games.

Only 2 players were brave enough to take on Sid this update. sanabas submitted a 1430 AD Huge Sid Diplomatic game for 6981 points. zerksees submitted a 1902 AD Standard Sid Conquest game for 8077 points.

A number of players gained number one positions:

Congratulations to archphoenix for rising from 8th to 7th, to Bartleby for rising from 14th to 10th, to Marsden for rising from 20th to 13th and to bluejay for rising from 21st to 19th in the Quartermasters competition.

Commiserations to Sandman2003 for falling from 7th to 8th, to sanabas for falling from 10th to 11th, to Dianthus for falling from 11th to 12th, to Mad2rix for falling from 12th to 16th, to Tone for falling from 13th to 14th, to killercane for falling from 16th to 17th, to theos for falling from 17th to 18th, to zex for falling from 18th to 20th and to Ljdjr for falling from 19th to 21st in the Quartermasters competition.

A number of players are working towards the Quartermaster, gaining awards as follows:
Machiavelli : sanabas rose from 5th to 2nd, Marsden rose from 24th to 11th, Bartleby rose from 29th to 25th and Miraculix rose from 31st to 30th.
Pentathlon : sanabas rose from 5th to 3rd, Sandman2003 rose from 11th to 10th, Dianthus rose from 12th to 11th, bluejay rose from 19th to 13th, zerksees rose from 24th to 14th, Marsden rose from 27th to 20th and Bartleby rose from 28th to 27th.
Octathlon : archphoenix rose from 5th to 3rd, bluejay rose from 24th to 14th, zerksees rose from 21st to 15th, Marsden rose from 25th to 20th, Bartleby rose from 31st to 29th and zex rose from 34th to 33rd.
Histographic : Donny Brook gained entrance to the Histographic table. JIMMY NEUTRON dropped out of the Histographic table.


More congratulations to archphoenix for winning the Gauntlet with a 460AD Small Emperor Diplomatic, with Tone in 2nd/3rd with 500AD/550AD and sanabas in 4th with 960AD.

The next Gauntlet starts here

Thanks, now you can see why I was impatient. But now I think I'm pretty sure I've topped out. From here on it's all down hill. Never thought I'd make it all the way to lucky 13.

Thanks for getting in the update Dianthus!

Marsden you submitted a bunch of games. Where do you find the time?

Well, it was a whole month between updates. And, actually, my wife has kind of given up on the whole stop playing so much thing. Oh, and I used another tip from your sid thread about the AI sending units uselessly after "easy targets." I've been using slave workers as bait, drawing off the enemy longbowmen.

congratulation to evryone, especially Sanabas and zerkzees

zerksees, how can you get a number one on sid and not go up on the quatermaster table?

BTW, sorry I didn't say this sooner but, Congratulations on beating sid

Thanks guys. I felt like I was in a little over my head but I am sure I can get better at Sid next time I try it.

There were a couple reasons I can see why I did not move up.

The first was my small emperor diplo game went from #2 to #6 in one update. Also someone submitted a bunch of games to really improve their position.

I was disappointed at the outcome but no matter. If I had not put that game in I would have gone backwards.

There are some other weak links in my chain and I could be out of the top 20 soon. My only deity submission is going to take a big hit next month due to the gauntlet for February.

Whoops Sorry, I hope you didn't think I was taunting, judging by your post you didn't but I didn't mean to at all. I think I will be sliding a bit as I think I've exploited the weakest links of the HoF as much as I can. Although I am just a little bit happy with my Monarch 100k win I'm sure someone can come along and boot me down the ladder.

I figure you were not aware of what happened - no apology needed.

What you did just shows how weak my 15th place spot really is. A good portion of my scores are in the weak areas as well and I think I will need to elevate my game to stay in the top 20. It might take a couple months for my huge map milking effort but it should give me a boost.

Wow, I just realized what you mean about the diplomatic victory, that was the G3, and now the current G3 is going to hurt you again. Sorry. Fact is I don't think I would have been able to beat either of those.

Actually, one of the things I like about the whole quartemasters challange is participation does count. A person could submit only 7 games and qualify, but it seems like you need to do a lot more to really have a good rank. Unless of course your Moonsinger, and who else is? I know i'm not

BTW, about the stuff before, it really could have be read into it like, "ha ha I pulled ahead of you" or somthing, which we both know wasn't the case at all. We've always been civil and I always try to take everyone's feelings into account when I post, except for the terrible jokes I throw in.
I really like this forum, the HoF forum in particular, and I think we have a lot of good people here. I just wanted to say that. You can tell me to shut-up now if you like, thanks.

A good Histo score is very useful for raising your rank in the QM; my scores show this pretty well.

Actually eight or ten really good games is all it takes IMO. I suppose seven stellar #1 in several categories games could do it but that would require a level of mastery that I am not interested in achieving.

I think I have a reasonably good mastery of the game but it takes me too long to play a game to be able to play enough games to challenge for a top 5 spot. And I am not going to sacrifice the fun factor to move up the HOF.

Eventually these gauntlets will fill all the gaps in the standard and smaller maps. Large and huge will have a chance because it takes a lot longer to play, and not everyone has the patience for that.

If I ever become independently wealthy though ....

Bartleby said:

A good Histo score is very useful for raising your rank in the QM; my scores show this pretty well.

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I think mine illustrates that as well but in a different way. My OCC histo score doesn't help me get a top spot. I just get bored with milking.

Tone said:

I think mine illustrates that as well but in a different way. My OCC histo score doesn't help me get a top spot. I just get bored with milking.

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Ditto on that. My histo is piss poor, and I just have 200 turns left in my huge deity histo that should net about 66-70K, but the boredom involved in the last turns is excruciating.

killercane said:

Ditto on that. My histo is piss poor, and I just have 200 turns left in my huge deity histo that should net about 66-70K, but the boredom involved in the last turns is excruciating.

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My first histo game was also kinda statement (still #1 on tiny sid ), though at that point I only needed it to gualify as QM. Then last fall I started my huge DG histo project, which took me 3 months of pretty heavy playing -- could't spend that much on civ any more. Even though I feel I could improve - think I will rather concider going to C-IV instead.

Anyway, once You have started You should not turn back--the feeling playing one of the finest games kept me going!

Although I've lately felt somewhat bored on C-III (maybe I 'm past my skill and unable to compete), the HOFfing has been a great experience and I've learned a lot -- thx on that for everyone on HOF staff and all the collegues !