GOTM 14 Results & Congratulations

[ainwood]

In GOTM 14, the difficulty was increasing - it was an emperor game, but it was good to see that we had a lot of people trying to give it a go (107 entries) and a significant number were wins (around 40).

The top of the heap was Cactus Pete, who with an 1826 AD domination victory, grabbed the gold medal. Coincidentally, second place also went to an 1826 AD domination victory - this time by Doc TK, but with around 7,000 fewer points. In third, RobertTheBruce also got domination - slightly faster than the other two, but with less points.

Summary of Medal Winners:

Cactus Pete: 1826 AD Domination Victory, 77,972 points.

Doc TK: 1826 AD Domination Victory, 70,363 points.

RobertTheBruce: 1785 AD Domination Victory, 67,581 points.

 

[ainwood]

Other Award Winners:

jesusin: 1720 AD Domination Victory, 58,315 points.

Lexad: 1675 AD Conquest Victory, 48,055 points.

Obormot: 1580 AD Diplomatic Victory, 44,830 points.

thresh74: 1958 AD Spaceship Victory, 20,012 points.

Balbes: 1834 AD Cultural Victory, 15,955 points.

Alraun: 2050 AD Time Victory, 12,541 points.

 

[ainwood]

B_A_V: 1986 AD Domination Victory, 17,236 points.

Lagashvili: 1960 AD Diplomatic Victory, 11,910 points.

terminator3k: 2023 AD Spaceship Victory, 8,418 points.

VitalSol: 2012 AD Spaceship Loss, 7,758 points.

damnrunner: 1968 AD Cultural Victory, 4,960 points.

deadloss: 2006 AD Spaceship Loss, 877 points.


>> See the full results here.
>> See the updated global rankings here.
>> See the latest Pantheon of Heroes here.
>> Award symbols are listed here.

 

[Mutineer]

Every one is a whimp here too. Lol, I am rolfing about.

 

[Lagashvili]

My first award ever! Marvelous, after so many attempts! Let me now just check what it is for. Might be for exploring completely new ways to reduce your own population by starvation. I got rather desperate in the end.

And there were actually two challenger entries in this game, although Mutineer was the only successful "non-whimp". /The whimp

 

[Mutineer]

True, how did I miss mart777??
Now I feel warm, I had a comrade!

 

[Lexad]

Now that was a Russian run for badges: me, Obormot, Balbes, B_A_V. Congrats to all and to winners, regular kautau to staff!

jesus, man, watch your back, number one speed man, take no second chances. I somehow have a good feeling about my impi in WOTM5

 

[akots]

True, how did I miss mart777??
Now I feel warm, I had a comrade!

You'll get yourself a comrade in GOTM15.

 

[jesusin]

Waw, I didn't expect this after the galley disaster.

Lexad, I don't have Wardlords and my result in GOTM15 is... you will read that in the spoilers when the month ends. So I hope to see you in the top of the hill next month.

Maybe I should have kept on being a whimp in GOTM15... but I wanted to play the real Deity thing.

Thanks to the staff, this GOTM event is a wonderful experience.

 

[Khalid]

Oh Lexad. There were only 2 conquests in this GOTM and you got both the fastest and lowest scoring award. And me nothing

Congrats to all winners.

Besides, except Obormot's 1580 AD diplo win, all the others are quite late wins IMO. I thought it would be faster.

 

[VitalSol]

Wow, cool!
I've got a green ambulance

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Besides, except Obormot's 1580 AD diplo win, all the others are quite late wins IMO. I thought it would be faster.

I'm very impressed by Obormot's win. Congrats Obormot! I went diplomatic as well and although my game went to pot a bit after around 1400-1500AD, I thought up to then I was pushing science close to how fast it was reasonably possible to get it from cottages/scientists/trading, given the constraints of this map. Still, at 1500AD I was miles away from mass media, and I'd guessed about 1750 as the fastest possible time to get there; yet Obormot managed to win in 1580!

What makes it more intriguing is that, looking at his savefile, he did it with a pretty small but widely scattered and expensive empire - at the end he was only making 250-odd beakers/turn on 40% science (50% max sustainable). He was even still running decentralization for his economy. He was miles ahead of the AI in tech, so must've researched everything on the mass media path himself later on. I can only guess that he must've lightbulbed a lot of great scientists. So Obormot, if you fancy writing a spoiler, feel free I'd be very interested to read it.

 

[Vynd]

Congrats to all of the winners and thanks very much to the staff. Thanks as well to the folks who were manly (or, as the case may be, womanly) enough to submit their losses, and keep me company down here in the bottom half of the rankings.

 

[Obormot]

What makes it more intriguing is that, looking at his savefile, he did it with a pretty small but widely scattered and expensive empire - at the end he was only making 250-odd beakers/turn on 40% science (50% max sustainable). He was even still running decentralization for his economy. He was miles ahead of the AI in tech, so must've researched everything on the mass media path himself later on. I can only guess that he must've lightbulbed a lot of great scientists. So Obormot, if you fancy writing a spoiler, feel free I'd be very interested to read it.

The indian cities were captured in the last stages of the game to get enough votes, for the most part of the game I had a compact 6 cities empire. I don't think I played this game that well, but sure I can write a spoiler.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

The indian cities were captured in the last stages of the game to get enough votes, for the most part of the game I had a compact 6 cities empire. I don't think I played this game that well, but sure I can write a spoiler.

Ta! I did wonder if the Indian cities were a recent acquisition - the lack of infrastructure in some of them certainly suggested that. But then I saw that your military consisted of 6 warriors, 3 maces, 2 cats, 1 frigate and 1 galleon: that didn't look quite like the kind of military force you'd expect a civ that's recently waged a successful war to have built up, which made me think the war couldn't have been recent You must've judged very accurately how many units you'd need to knock out Asoka

 

[Lexad]

Well, what else could you expect from CFR-W armada's man-o-war?

 

[Obormot]

I think disbanded some units to save money, after the war was over. I also attacked the last cities without bombardment taking large losses to end the war quickly (to get rid of WW). MM was already in, but I wanted to get Chemistry quickly to upgrade the workshops for faster UN. But that whole war was a mistake, I should have just spammed missionaries.