Hello again, I decided that I wanted to do a ranking again since I have actually bothered to edit worldbuilding file to make a fair map of 8 leaders so why not use it. The map Commodore made for Sulla's final game had lots of errors when fresh downlaoded from the zip files and one of the mistakes I forgot to fix is capital 4 had two wines while other starting positions had a wine and a cow.
Beside I couldn't unmet and hide from AIs for testing a tech trading on ranking other than just passing turns one by one instead of AI Autoplay mode. So there I made my own map stealing their design and a bit changing, adding all the missing resources or tiles such as incense or oasis and a few more to the map.
Why 8 is pretty obvious due to grind system and by default you just create maps with tiles multiple of 4 only. I think 8 is better than 6 for ranking. Beside I really don't know how to change map sizes but no need. So with 8 leaders in a game, I could make the map fair.
Now to make ranking more fair I decided to use a seeding system just like Sulla but mine is based on peaceweight.
Here are the pots:
Pot 1 of High peaceweight leaders:
1 Gandhi 10
2 Elizabeth 9
3 Hatshepsut 9
4 Lincoln 9
5 Mansa Musa 9
6 Asoka 8
7 Darius I 8
8 Frederick 8
9 Hammurabi 8
10 Roosevelt 8
11 Sitting Bull 8
12 Augustus Caesar 8
13 Wang Kon 8
Pot 2 of Above avg peaceweight leaders:
1 Victoria 8
2 Washington 8
3 Bismarck 6
4 Charlemagne 6
5 Churchill 6
6 Isabella 6
7 Joao II 6
8 Pericles 6
9 Ramesses II 6
10 Zara Yaqob 6
11 Willem van Oranje 4
12 Saladin 4
13 Suleiman 4
Pot 3 of Below avg peaceweight leaders:
1 Julius Caesar 4
2 Justinian I 4
3 Cyrus 3
4 Boudica 2
5 Catherina 2
6 Gilgamesh 2
7 Hannibal 2
8 Huayna Capac 2
9 Mehmed II 2
10 Pacal II 2
11 Qin Shi Huang 2
12 Shaka 2
13 Stalin 2
Pot 4 of Low peaceweight leaders:
1 Kublai Khan 1
2 Louis XIV 1
3 Mao Zedong 1
4 Peter 1
5 Suryavarman II 1
6 Tokugawa 1
7 Brennus 0
8 De Gaulle 0
9 Genghis Khan 0
10 Montezuma 0
11 Napoleon 0
12 Ragnar 0
13 Alexander 0
So basically in every game there will be 2 leaders drawn of all four pots to same game so leaders in same pot have a chance to appear on same game too. I objectively put Willem to pot 2 since he totally sits down and build culture'n stuff and Julius caesar to pot 3 since he is a total warmonger. I decided that 3 american leaders shouldn't be in same pot so I moved washington to pot 2 from 1 since he seems less into teching or cultural winning. And I subjectively decided Victoria and Justinian to be in lower pots, I think they like fighting more than other same peaceweight leaders which is making them more evil.
Now their starting positions are also going to be same.
Leaders in Pot 1 will always start in capital 1 or 2.
Leaders in Pot 2 will always start in capital 3 or 4.
Leaders in Pot 3 will always start in capital 5 or 6.
Leaders in Pot 4 will always start in capital 7 or 8.
So this means everyone will have a warmonger next to them, there is no hiding from fight, surrounding themselves with allies. And there won't be any unlucky loser in the ranking consistently ending up a game full of warmongers etc, being worst enemy of everyone since turn one.
The high peaceweight leaders have the advantage of turn order for finding religions or building wonders at same turn but I don't think this will be a very big issue.
For every round a leader from every pot cannot appear on any games so to complete the cycle I make 13 rounds where every leader appears in 12 games.
I will make multiple different series, replaying same games with different settings once I am done with 13 rounds 78 games of a certain settings for a comparison later. It's the same story as what I have done before but with more settings this time and only 13 rounds for now. I set my excel file ready. And the very first game's world building file.
I will try to record the first 78 games for the very first settings no tech trading&aggressive AI games but not the others. And I definitely can't stream their tech trading on versions as I am suppose to not meet them for a very long time until UN. So don't expect much.
I will give 5 points to winner, 2 for runner up and 1 for kill credits. Stuff that you know.
Ok, I hope this won't be a terrible idea. And more to track other than Kjotleik's and Sulla's very nice content
I will post once I am done with every 6 game (1 round) to here as results.
And more thing, I disabled barbarians, they disgust me and another luck factor in the game against fairness.