Histographic rank question

[Svar]

You could just divide the scores by the difficulty modifier before compareing.. that way a 10k chieftain game would compare to a 80k sid game in the ranking numbers.

You really can't compare the difficulties in this way. The goal of every good milker is to have the conquest phase of the game completed by 1000 AD. On Pangaea maps this is possible for the lower difficulties but as the difficulty level increases, the conquest phase gets longer and longer. While I have posted high scores in Warlord, Regent, and Emepror as well as a fastest finish in Deity I can tell you that I have never achieved the 1000 AD conquest goal.

My Warlord game achieved conquest by 1140 AD, my Regent game achieved conquest by 1080 AD, and my Emperor game achieved conquest by 1275 AD. My Deity fastest finish game achieved the conquest phase by about 1465 AD so I don't really expect my current high score attempt to do any better. Go read Sir Pleb's Sid game to see when he achieved the conquest phase.

The reason this is important is until you reach conquest you really can't start milking in earnest and the quicker you do that the higher your overall score will be. It takes a lot of work to just get to the milking phase in the higher difficulty games while my Warlord and Regent games required more time in the pure milking phase.

The most competative difficulty level out there is Monarch so go give that a try, I think I'm currently 9th.

 

[Gyathaar]

Very true.. on a huge sid archepelagio it would be hard to reach domination limit before 1400AD (about when Moonsinger did it in the 80k game), while on chieftain/warlord you can reach it prolly as early as around 10AD.

Perhaps something like:

score / difficulty + score / 10
(this is the same as dividing by difficulty, and then multiplying with 1.1 for chieftain, 1.2 for warlord, 1.7 for diety and 1.8 for sid)

this way Darkness' 10117 chieftain game gets an effective value of : 11128.7
Sir Plebs 64296 game gets : 14466.6
Moonsingers 81501 gets: 18337.7

Kunnigas 41453 monarch: 14508.5
Svars 41732 emperor: 12519.6

 

[Chamnix]

Does your histographic score have to be on (and stay on) a top 10 table to get credit for it? I know it works that way for the fastest finishes, but is histographic different in this way too?

 

[Dianthus]

Does your histographic score have to be on (and stay on) a top 10 table to get credit for it? I know it works that way for the fastest finishes, but is histographic different in this way too?

Histographic is the same as fastest finish in this respect. Yes, it does have to be on (and stay on) a top 10 table.

 

[sanabas]

Position 31 on the histographic list has just been claimed. (i.e. I scored higher than 0, but that's about it.) Also discovered something new about the game, theory of evolution gives you nothing at all if you're into future techs already. That surprised me slightly.