GOTM scoring formula and number of cities

[TimTheEnchanter]

I like your suggestion. We can do both . I take it as a personal challenge to develop a modified formula for GOTM scoring that takes into account the number of cities. Then you can arrange for us to play a few special-rules GOTM games using my formula to see how every one feels about it.

Just playing devil's advocate - wouldn't rewarding a smaller number of cities, but still basing on civ score encourage use/abuse of the FCT to inflate population. I would find that far more unsavory than rapid expansion.

 

[Ali Ardavan]

Good point. As with anything else, the details need to be worked out. And it could only be worked out if we play a few games. I personally rarely use Food caravans as I do not think they are worth much. Best you can achieve is 1 score point per caravan.

Besides, the score will still be based on how fast you finish. That by itself should limit widespread use as it does right now. Furthermore, with fewer cities there is no way you can mass produce these caravans anyways.