G-Major 58

[Ozbenno]

[img=right]http://www.civfanatics.net/methos/hof/staff/gauntlet.gif[/img]While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but any games meeting the settings will be counted towards the Gauntlet.

(*) Please read the >> HOF rules << BEFORE playing!​

Settings:

• Victory Condition: Time (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Noble
• Starting Era: Any
• Map Size: Huge
• Map Type: Any
• Speed: Epic
• Civ: Any
• Opponents: Any
• Version: 1.74.004, 2.13.004 or 3.19.001
• Date: 25th August to 25th September 2009

Must not play as Inca.
The highest score wins.

 

[Ozbenno]

Empty slot in the tables. We haven't run a time gauntlet for ages so its time to do it all again.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Woohoo! I'm glad my graphics card has blown up so I'm stuck playing scrabble and NetHack.

Enjoy

 

[pholtz]

Great! This will will my last Gauntlet blank spot so it will help my score. Also I've been working on Noble Future starts, Time victories, and was surprised to find them competitive. A Modern Prince Dual Time game I just turned in, in fact took the number one spot. But then I've only been working on Dual and this game is Huge. Going to be much more work. I think I'll try a Future start first just to get into the swing of things, and to get a legal entry in, then move the starting time back.

Ummm, I think the date needs fixing. Ending 25th September?

 

[Ozbenno]

Fixed end date and updated first post.

 

[Dynamic]

Huge size is cruel... Running with 200 cities through the ages... and try to avoid own Domination and Cultural victories...

 

[oyzar]

Noble time? That isn't even hard (if you don't consider the fact that you have to avoid winning by yourself), it is just soooo slow (and imo boring).

 

[Fluroscent]

noble+epic+time...

Nope, too bothersome

 

[cabert]

it's any era.
just go with a future start, kill em' all but one city (preferably an iceball), win

Or, if you have too much time on hand, a crashsafe computer, you can go for supercrazy cereal mills festival from ancient.
There is an advantage in playing big and small (useful to get loads of resources and still a few of those 1 tile islands) IMHO.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Industrial or earlier (possibly even modern?) might get you enough time to conquest everything and spread a corp competitively.

Still doesn't strike me as a "major" in terms of difficulty, ultimately it just boils down to huge noble conquest that pulls up at the end :/.

 

[Ozbenno]

Still doesn't strike me as a "major" in terms of difficulty, ultimately it just boils down to huge noble conquest that pulls up at the end :/.

Major doesn't just refer to the difficulty, the time taken to play a game comes into consideration as well.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Major doesn't just refer to the difficulty, the time taken to play a game comes into consideration as well.

Makes sense. Nothing like one marathon time game to teach me that "difficulty" can be added in doses via boredom . Epic is much kinder here, as is the starting era.

 

[pholtz]

Yay, I got the # 1 spot!!!

OK, I've also got the only entry, but I got to enjoy it while I have it as I'm sure it won't last. It wasn't a very good score, as it was a Future Era game. I had just done some future/modern games on a Duel map and the strategy didn't match up too well. On the small map I avoided all fights as I was able to expand to the domination limit without any. In my Modern game, the only fight was a surgical strike to prevent a space victory. But part way into this one, I noobishly realized that the fastest way to expand the number of cities was to conquer them. I now have visions of mechanized infantry rushes similar to warrior rushes, but that will be another game. I also tried an archipelago map which probably didn't help.

So now that I have a legal entry accepted, I need to think about what era for my next try along with which map and leader

 

[Infantry#14]

does building spaceship parts or world projects increase the score?

 

[Ozbenno]

does building spaceship parts or world projects increase the score?

Nope, your wonder score comes from world wonders, national wonders, shrines and corp HQs only.

 

[Hsinchu]

Incidentally, the Internet has swung me a last minute time victory before. It would be the only project that cannot be hurried by an Engineer that *can* contribute points to your score.... That is you will hopefully end up stealing oodles of tech with it.

 

[YakieS1]

It was really disappointing to watch my computer crash twice (on consecutive turns) in the modern era just as I was about to "unleash the fury" on my competitors that had the nerve to start building spaceship parts... Maybe it's a sign that my 5-year-old laptop (that might catch on fire any moment) can't handle a "huge" map... On to the GOTM! Best of luck to all of you with better computers!

 

[pholtz]

Glad to see some other games being submitted (and approved). My 'Future' game is now #2 out of 3. I'm working on an ancient start, but it's going to be a while

 

[Ozbenno]

I've got an ancient start game underway as well, I've completed half the turns but currently at war with two civs so the turns take an eternity to complete. Will have it done in a week or so!

 

[pholtz]

I've got an ancient start game underway as well, I've completed half the turns but currently at war with two civs so the turns take an eternity to complete. Will have it done in a week or so!

I've been at war, it seems forever, with very few breaks. 3 Civs are dead. I've fought two others, then watched them become vassals of a third. Just took out another civ, all but one city, which is on a separate small continent, that I plan to leave alone.

I am playing on a Terra map, I hope to completely take over the original continent, so that I'll get all the starting cities. Also forcing all the AI's to a sub continent will severely cripple them, so I don't think I'll need to worry about a space launch, or culture win.

I've been refusing all vassal's as I think I'll end up with a higher score if I don't have any. But now I get to go after the second biggest AI which will mean fighting both it and the two vassals for a while.