HOF Civ4 Update Discussion

[Seraiel]

That's a good point, I apologize. Actually now I cannot see the real reason. What I haven't noticed is that WastinTime ruined a slot as well, so I lost 2 slots while submitting 2 games. Wastintime suffered 2 ruining as well while submitting only one game. Obviously this is a very rough calculation, but still... Is that anyone understands why the above mentioned events leaded to make my +0.7 advantage to a 0.1 defeat?

It's easy to understand actually. WastinTime just got 3 times more games in the HoF than both of us together. When one of your games gets beaten, it's hard for you because you only own a certain # of HoF slots. Him owning so many more means that every single game he has, has xy backup-games that take over one of the two ratings for Quattromaster once he's beaten, therefor, he wins relatively when being beaten at equal rates.

 

[Seraiel]

That's what normally I aim to do as well, like when I played my cultural game on rainforest with Peter.

As far as I know Ironhead hasn't submitted a game for ages, and he was never a particularly active player. What made you suspecious about him?

In the 7xx AD Spacerace, he walked with the Settler multiple turns to settle at a spot that had Horses and Copper, ofc without having the necessary techs to see any of them. To me, that's a clear sign that he had map-knowledge. He also found 3 techs including Writing in the huts, which makes me very cautious. I know that that could have been only luck, but the 3 best techs he could get from huts + the settling action? No way, but as I cannot prove it, that's only my opinion.

 

[WastinTime]

And that 0.1 points is a joke. I still could finish my diplomatic game way earlier if I gained a great engineer if my capitol wasn't polluted by... guess what? 10% GA.

Your diplo game got the #1 spot, Congrats! that was a really good date. But finishing earlier would not help your QM score (as you know). Now...if you had played Raging barbs...
You'd still be
(oh, and that was my spot. Thanks for knocking out my Vicky #1 )

I'm also not specifically targeting you. It's just that you have (or should I say had ) a lot of games with Industrial starts, etc that have been giving you 100 points each for a long time. Like Seraiel said, some of them are just easy pickins. Of course, a lot of the games that replaced yours are also still easy to beat.
When I see an 1800AD+ game, I target that. My latest game goes after a Firmlife 'cheesy' spot.

 

[WastinTime]

That's a good point, I apologize. Actually now I cannot see the real reason. What I haven't noticed is that WastinTime ruined a slot as well, so I lost 2 slots while submitting 2 games. Wastintime suffered 2 ruining as well while submitting only one game. Obviously this is a very rough calculation, but still... Is that anyone understands why the above mentioned events leaded to make my +0.7 advantage to a 0.1 defeat?

Like Seraiel explained, the loss of a standard size Time game would have no effect on my QM score.
The loss of the Vicky game was also probably very small. I have a lot of Liz games, so it wouldn't affect my England score much.

But you lost a 90 point game which is now only 25 points. It really depends on how many places that game was scored. It could have been holding up your Inferno/Immortal, and your Monty score, and your Oasis, etc. So you probably lost ground in Mapquest, League of Nations, etc.
You built a delicate house of cards! But it's getting stronger all the time. Keep playing!

 

[Walter_Wolf]

Epic thread

Congratulations to all three of you guys for all the badass deity games

cheers

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Indeed, great to see the competition raging at this level.