GOTM 13 Results & Congratulations

[EEO]

Special congratulations to Cactus Pete.
I have just had a look at your game. Very interesting, because you did not need Biology to achieve your score. By simply focusing on speed and capturing a maximum of cities just before the domination limit (while letting your main cities grow), you could do it ...

Nevertheless, I think a very precisely milked game can do better, but it is very difficult to play because the domination limit occurs very soon with the map parameters ... I completely missed it in my game due to several imprecisions, but also because too many Great Artists appeared while I expected the more likely Great Scientists (It would have been better without the National Epic ...)

Well, Cactus: will you this time do us the favor of writing a spoiler ... ? I am sure I am not the only one to be interested by this.

 

[Vynd]

I don't think you can play the games with the other version (the SGOTMs have different start files).

What I meant is that by not playing the WOTMs (and that Hendrickszoon hasn't been playing), you've allowed me to sneak ahead of you in the rankings. And it's purely because I've been submitting every game. I like to think of it as an award for sticking to it.

Of course, I'm now very concerned with GOTM15 given that I've played some deity practice games that didn't end well. Not sure what a bad loss will do to me.

As I understand it, the way they're handling WOTM and GOTM together in the standings is that if you submit a GOTM and a WOTM for the same month, they take the better score out of the two. This is to allow people, like Cactus Pete, who aren't submitting both types of games to remain competitive. That's provided that they, like Cactus Pete, consistently score well in the one game a month that they submit.

There is still a "sticking to it" advantage to submitting both games, since you get two chances every month to post a good score. So don't worry too much about GOTM15 DocTK! Even if it goes really badly it won't affect your standings... unless your WOTM5 score is even worse.

 

[Doc TK]

Vynd - had not realized that and now that I think about it ... thanks for not saying, "duh" when you explained it to me.

 

[ainwood]

Yes, Vynd is correct.

 

[Cactus Pete]

EEO . . .

You honor me by requesting a spoiler. I have learned a great deal from reading other people's spoilers and have tried to do as much of that as I could (especially back in the days when I was concentrating on QSC in CivIII), because I want to both reciprocate and participate in the community.

Very regettably, I usually just don't have time. I have limited discretionary hours, and I am a very slow player. If you will look at my finish dates, they are rarely more than a day early, and by that time the set-up for the next GOTM (not to mention RL issues that I've been neglecting in order to finish) demands my attention.

I do make an effort and have posted short messages (probably none longer than this one) occasionally in the spoilers when I've either had something to contribute to the discussion or had a query for my fellow fanatics. I hope to do more of that.

Right now, GOTM15 is all I can handle.

 

[da_Vinci]

There is still a "sticking to it" advantage to submitting both games, since you get two chances every month to post a good score. So don't worry too much about GOTM15 DocTK! Even if it goes really badly it won't affect your standings... unless your WOTM5 score is even worse.

The points we get in global rankings are based on a proportion of the highest score achieved (or proportion of best time on the time rankings), right? So a low absolute score in the deity game (GOTM 15) could end up being a better relative score than a higher absolute score in the prince game (WOTM 5), at least in theory. So no guarantee that the lower difficulty level will be the one that counts!

dV

 

[Jove]

That's a convincing victory you got there Cactus Pete. Congrats from #2!