Histographic victory award

[Matrix]

Mogon sent his game quite late, but he got this award. If you didn't submitted I would have it. If that was the case I'd be in a far better position to state that I find that award meaningless. But of course it's always up to you to decide.

Hence this poll. It's been a discussion before, but I got persuaded, to do you (plurity) a favour. But I wonder if that was the case.

Anyway, my opinion: a histographic victory means a failure of all other types of victories. If you go for a histographic victory, you do that because you can't another one. That will always give you more points namely. And going for a histographic victory because you get an award then is agruing the other way around.

What do you think?

 

[LaRo]

Your argument are okay, I agree.

 

[mogon]

Conquest or space race were also possible ...
But retirement victory was the best choice, i tought that i had the highest probability of getting an award, and according to the results i was right, wasn't i ?
The main problem in CIV 3 is that milking gives more points than middle/late conquest, i hate milking but this is a contest. Maybe, we could find another way to evaluate each player's performance. For example, we could had to the score a bonus based on the date of retirement. But, this seems to be another poll, i'm going to check it.
Congratulations to Eman (ealy conquest 590 AD), i could retry one billion times, i would not be able to get such a score.

 

[Taé Shala]

I don´t agree.

In my opinion a histographic victory means that you have been able to stop the AI from winning.

If you have got a bad starting position (like this time ) and have been unlucky in your first fights you will be doomed to lack in score compared to others. A histographic victory award gives some players (including me) a goal to go for even if things are going worse.

So please keep it.

 

[ChumChum]

i don't think the question is whether to keep histographic victory as a viable win, rather it is whether to give out an award for the highest histo win.

 

[SirPleb]

I voted to keep it. I think it is good to have more goals to shoot for.

Maybe this ought to be yet another poll : I think it would be cool to add another medal, for highest score loss.

 

[Aeson]

Then we'd just get games like my HOF submission SirPleb! Of course maybe that was what you meant, just give all us milkers one more icon to shoot for.

 

[SirPleb]

Originally posted by Aeson
Then we'd just get games like my HOF submission SirPleb! Of course maybe that was what you meant, just give all us milkers one more icon to shoot for.

You're right, I'm afraid that's exactly what I meant. I replied on this thread before seeing the other poll. When I replied here I was in I-want-more-icons-beside-my-name mode. I'm glad you understand that one!

On reading the other thread I considered what I was doing a bit more. I.e. milking toward a cultural win because I don't have the nice note icon yet. (I did however try to finish a bit more in the style to match the win, letting the other Civs live for a change ) Doesn't seem quite right after all, what you propose makes more sense to me. Which in most GOTMs will mean histographic == high score trophy, so histographic is not required at all.

 

[Matrix]

Well, it seems a big majority wants to keep the histographic victory award, so we'll just keep it.

 

[lawren8]

Originally posted by SirPleb
I voted to keep it. I think it is good to have more goals to shoot for.

Maybe this ought to be yet another poll : I think it would be cool to add another medal, for highest score loss.

I'd like to see a lowest score win medal