Future Gauntlets

[Mesix]

If you are going to allow Inca for a Gauntlet, it should be a Minor Gauntlet at Prince difficulty or below. The Inca Quecha rush is just too unbalancing on Monarch and above.

 

[killercane]

If you are going to allow Inca for a Gauntlet, it should be a Minor Gauntlet at Prince difficulty or below. The Inca Quecha rush is just too unbalancing on Monarch and above.

No not really. There are better civs overall for a high score game, depending on difficulty level.

 

[unclethrill]

How about a Diety Religious Victory after the current Diety Cultural game is done?

With Toka, Isabella, Asoka and Monty. Small Continents

Or a Major Prince Anything.

 

[ssjos]

Either space colony or space race on diety with PA turned off as a requirement would be nice I think

 

[Mesix]

Man...I'm having a hard enough time getting to Liberalism on Diety level much less teching through the Modern era and getting my space ship launched in the 1500s when the AI builds theirs.

 

[Misotu]

I've been working on League of Nations recently (which is, ahem, rather a lot of games but I'm nearly through it on Emperor now). I know that it's fun to set challenging scenarios and I wouldn't mind giving some of these a go but, since there are a number of Gauntlets playing at any one time, would it be unreasonable to have just one that's straightforward, Emperor or above, ranging through the victory conditions over the coming months? I'd just like to compete on a straightforward game, really and for people trying to collect their Gauntlet qualifier for EQM it would be helpful if some of the Gauntlets were actually doable for ordinary mortals <wry grin>

 

[jesusin]

Maybe a good idea would be to analyze the number of posts that each Gauntlet has had and design the future ones accordingly.

 

[Bram]

Maybe a good idea would be to analyze the number of posts that each Gauntlet has had and design the future ones accordingly.

And the number of submissions.

 

[killercane]

Maybe a good idea would be to analyze the number of posts that each Gauntlet has had and design the future ones accordingly.

Nice catch. By order of posts it looks like:

1. Culture
2. Culture
3. Time (Warlord level)
4. Diplomatic
5. Culture

 

[jesusin]

Another idea:

Cultural victory of one of your vassals. Earliest date wins.

 

[AutomatedTeller]

make a arch map incan gauntlet. Quecha rush is slowed down a lot if you need to build galleys...

 

[Shoot the Moon]

What about OCC highest score?

 

[Sun Tzu Wu]

Deity level or Cultural Victories please.

Preferably both in the same gauntlet.

The last Deity Cultural Gauntlet (G-Major 29) was quite popular, based on the number of game submissions and posts.

Sun Tzu Wu

 

[AnitaGaribaldi]

A minor gauntlet: monarch or above.

 

[Misotu]

Seconded ... although I'd like emperor or above It is good to see at least one gauntlet of three offering a reasonably straightforward opportunity for people to collect their EQM gauntlet games. The current Rome/Domination/Pangaea major is a really nice example of that - it's doable and should hopefully attract quite a few entries by the end.

 

[Mesix]

You only need one Gauntlet to achieve EQM. If you finish a Major Gauntlet on Diety, you have met all of the requirements. There really isn't much of a reason to have a Minor Gauntlet at the higher levels. That would just exculde some players. To me, the Minor Gauntlets are open to all and the Major Gauntlets are achievable by only the best players.

 

[Ozbenno]

There's been at least one minor gauntlet on Deity before. A quecha or praet rush is achievable for most people.

 

[WastinTime]

You only need one Gauntlet to achieve EQM. If you finish a Major Gauntlet on Diety, you have met all of the requirements. There really isn't much of a reason to have a Minor Gauntlet at the higher levels. That would just exculde some players. To me, the Minor Gauntlets are open to all and the Major Gauntlets are achievable by only the best players.

Minors are 2 weeks, majors 4. A major should handle the larger maps, slower game speeds, and longer victories (Time, Score, etc). Difficulty shouldn't have that much to do with it. (It currently does, cus that's how they're running it, but I don't think it should.) I suppose Deity can take some time to learn and may take several attempts to win, so they are more likely to be majors. We are overdue for a quickie Deity minor though. We had that modern start one, but that doesn't count.

 

[Misotu]

You only need one Gauntlet to achieve EQM. If you finish a Major Gauntlet on Diety, you have met all of the requirements. There really isn't much of a reason to have a Minor Gauntlet at the higher levels. That would just exculde some players. To me, the Minor Gauntlets are open to all and the Major Gauntlets are achievable by only the best players.

Minor Gauntlets have been played at Emperor level and above in the past and, for anyone trying for EQM status, it's a bit hard being required to compete on the gauntlet table with people who already have a minor high-level gauntlet under their belts. If there are no further minor gauntlets at these levels, it discriminates unfairly.

My gauntlet scores are never going to look great But if I can't even compete in a minor, they look *execrable*

Quite apart from the fact that it embarrasses me, it's not consistent


Edited to add: And the whole point about a minor high-level gauntlet is that it *is* open to all. Consider Deity Future Space Races