I have finished a new HoF game on Monarch. First time playing C3C and Mayans. The speciality in this game was that I got frustrated to MapFinder because it couldn't find any good starting locations. Then I thought, this sucks, and selected a map with high metrics (I just counted grasslands vs. hills etc.) and started the game. It was just an average start location with a river and one cow. I was badly lagging in score compared to my earlier unfinished HoF attempts, but I decided that I'll play this until the end to see if "good" overall map makes any difference. Those earlier games were played until 1000CE, so I only had Darkness' game and his report to compare after that. It took a very long time until I reached Darkness' mid-time score, maybe I got higher only at around 1750. It was clear that EMan's score would be lower than mine, but I didn't know how high mine would develop. SirPleb's score estimator capped at 1900CE predicting over 37300 points. That was a relief, because Takeo's new score was "only" about 37100. The final score is 37341, which places me to the #1 spot unless someone else ruins my effort before the next update.
I hope Takeo posts his score development, but here's mine for competitors to beat:
1000BCE 315
530BCE 543
10CE 968
500CE 1861
750CE 3098
1000CE 5245 (800 points lower than in my best unfinished effort!)
1350CE 11171
1500CE 15199
1750CE 21466 (just passing Darkness)
1900CE 29182
2050CE 37341
I didn't get a single SGL although I researched almost all the techs first. SGLs suck even more than MGLs, both should be removed from competition games.
