G-Major 84

[Denniz]

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.

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Settings:

• Victory Condition: Score (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Monarch
• Starting Era: Ancient
• Map Size: Standard
• Map Type: Any
• Speed: Epic
• Civ: Russia
• Opponents: Any
• Version: 1.74.004, 2.13.004 or 3.19.003
• Date: 25th September to 25th October 2010

Must not play as Inca.

The highest score wins.

 

[Airny]

I love Score challenges!
Sadly it will take a while to complete one game.
I have some questions:
1.) Which map type is the best?
2.) What's the best strategy for highest score? I would try to take as much enemies as possible.
3.) Do you need to have enough money to keep research going for a competitive score?
Continue conquest until you're close to domination victory condition then stop.
4.) This one could get tricky, because you can get too close... oh wait I guess we can give away our cities to the enemy? :O
Then play until my score does not get higher and then in the last turn spam settlers + max culture + take max neighboring cities.
5.) I've heard about "Cossack to domination" strategies, but are they coming early enough for a high score?
If I would be more experienced I should know theses things, but I thought there might be some veterans here who like to give advice. That might get you a better competition anyways. ;-)

 

[Airny]

Score is not a ingame-victory condition.
I guess you mean "any"?
Could also be Time Victory though, which would be totally different.

 

[Denniz]

Score is not a ingame-victory condition.
I guess you mean "any"?
Could also be Time Victory though, which would be totally different.

Right, win anyway you care to. Highest score wins the Gauntlet.

 

[Ozbenno]

Best strategy is to max out population before you hit domination. Aim for Medecine and Sids Sushi as fast as possible and bolster population this way. Given this, Big/Medium and Small are possibly the best maps as they have the most seafood resources on it.

 

[ArenaMan]

I remember reading some thread that suggested highest scores were obtained somewhere into a third of the game, with points diminishing with time after that. Does that jive?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Once your "score for winning this turn" goes down, it's time to trip the win.

 

[The-Hawk]

No takers on this one yet? At the very least someone should post a quick conquest (not even milk it) to post a score .

I've always enjoyed milking games. Since this is a major, plenty of time. I think I will give it a go.

 

[cabert]

No takers on this one yet? At the very least someone should post a quick conquest (not even milk it) to post a score .

I've always enjoyed milking games. Since this is a major, plenty of time. I think I will give it a go.

If there are no entries on the last day, I will

 

[Airny]

I am working on it.
But the speed and my limited time slow me down.
I have a promising game running, currently in 35BC.

 

[The-Hawk]

OK, I put one up. Played Peter because I thought his traits were more useful. Big and Small map for a nice Sushi-fest.

I had over 100 cities and had Sushi in almost all when my economy hit the wall. At that point, took a couple of AI cities to tip domination limit.

Final score was 575K. More than double the current best on the HOF table for this speed so I think this is a pretty good effort.

One screenshot, my final minimap:

 

[Airny]

Impressive result!
When did you get Sushi and what's your final date?
The previous highscores where around 1700AD I think.

 

[The-Hawk]

I got Sushi in 1315 AD. Finished the game in 1704.

By the way, I did a rough count of whips by pulling the autolog into Word and replacing "applied". Looks like I have about 375 whips.

 

[cabert]

I'm not beating this one, so I'll leave it...
There are a few emperor time victories called for

 

[Denniz]

Results:

G-Major 84 - Score, Monarch, Standard, Epic with Russia
1^st The-Hawk 575,891 pts

Contratulations The-Hawk!