Why is this a domination victory?

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Id just like to ask, why is this a domination victory?
My cities are the ones that are circled, and purple...
... and There are more islands on the map than you can see btw.
 
Can you post a .sav? Otherwise, I'm clueless...
 
Ok, ill get one just before the victory... You will have to give me a while(maybe 30mins) to get it though, cause its on another PC.
 
Don't know why but I have had this before. I had approx 1/3rd of the map with the other civs covering most of the rest. I was the largest (just) when compaired to each seperatly. I had this (I think) for 2 games in a row and then it stopped again, haven't seen it since. (Have got PTW btw).
 
It may be an hour so before I can look at it, I'm not home yet, but will take a gander.
 
I downloaded your game and looked at it, played it for a turn and triggered the Domination, just like you said. I'm befuddled. I ran the .sav through Mapstat. Territory is 82/451 and population is 24/99, the first numbers what you have and the second what you would need (both) to trigger Domination.

I've never played this mod/scenario before, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that maybe the Domination limits were somehow adjusted by the designer. It might could be your score, too, it's significantly higher than everyone else. Again, I am stabbing a major guess here and would have no idea how to confirm it, I'm not that familiar with the editor yet...

EDIT: I've never played something with Victory points before. Is it possible you held enough long enough that you hit some sort of victory point win condition that was just coded to appear as a Domination win?
 
Errrr, i dont really know. That was the first time i had ever played a map with Victory points before. But the AI had held them for the same amount of time as me, so im as confused as you are :hmm:

Thanks anyway though :)
 
I've just looked at the Editor, and the rules have not been changed at all. The standard ones are used...
That has completely and utterly confused me :hmm:
 
I'm happy to help, but now I'll be as happy as you to see if someone can conjure up an explanation. I'm clueless.

Congratulations on the win though...even if it came unsatisfyingly early. I hate Domination wins, although I'd be furious if I got one as inexplicable as this...
 
I've played that scenario before, and never got a domination victory like that. I'll take a look at it. I've heard of one scenario where if you starved your capital, you'd get a conquest victory. But, this one doesn't seem modded.

EDIT: It seems each city had a vicotry point. In the editor, (I guess you edited it? Since I don't remember that map having victory points), there's probably something that says how many victory points you need to win.

Only 1802 and you're barely out of the middle ages? That's slow for emperor. :D
 
Originally posted by Gainy bo
Errrr, i dont really know. That was the first time i had ever played a map with Victory points before. But the AI had held them for the same amount of time as me, so im as confused as you are :hmm:

Thanks anyway though :)
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I've not played with victoty points before but have seen numerous threads on the topic and had several discussions with friends -- I'd be willing to et that you achieved a victoy point win. As I understand it, the new victory modes with PTW don't have their own "win pop-ups" so that a win through victory points, capture the princess, regicide, etc. all show up as "domination wins." If you and every AI had exactly the same amount of victory points during the enitre game, you should get the win first -- the cycle of city production / commerce / science (and I presume victory points) happens for the human first, and then every other AI sequentially). If in fact you and the AIs all had exactly the same number of points, you could confirm this by abandoning a VP city / location and see if an AI wins the next turn instead of you.
 
I just abandoned one city in the .sav and it still triggered the Domination win. I guess this doesn't prove anything one way or the other, because if the theory is correct, you could have been one point shy that turn and gotten two points that turn.

For a true confirmation, I think we'd need a save from several turns prior where we could maybe build a settler and put it on a tile away from a victory point then abandon your two current cities...
 
I've played Victory Point several times and if you conquest another capital and you have it under control for SEVERAL turns you win by Domination...I know it for a fact...it has happened to me too
 
It's definitely starting to sound like it's just how the scenario is modded then, huh?
 
I cant post a save from several turns prior because, well, i dont have one. Ive started 2 new games since that one, so there are no autosaves :( And in this scenario you can not build settlers, so there goes another option :p

I didnt have much more points than the AI (i think), so im unsure if that is the cause of the winning thang, but that is the only explanation, so ill have to believe it.

Thanks everyone :)
 
Originally posted by Inter32
I've played Victory Point several times and if you conquest another capital and you have it under control for SEVERAL turns you win by Domination...I know it for a fact...it has happened to me too
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It looks like Inter32 just saved the day. Thanks for that bit of information!
 
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