HOF Questions and Answers Thread

[Ozbenno]

Is the submission system down? I am trying to submit a game (can select saves etc.) but no response from server when hitting the "submit" button.

Doesn't appear to be, all seems fine. Try again and see if you have any better luck.

 

[strijder20]

I'm unable to access the HOF rules. Could anyone be so kind to copy-paste them here (or message them to me)?

 

[Ozbenno]

We seem to be having on/off issues with the website but it seems fine at the moment.

Rules are found here...

http://hof.civfanatics.net/civ4/rules.php

Spoiler :

Versions

The only versions currently acceptable are:
• Vanilla Civ: v.1.74 with version 1.74.004 of the HOF Mod.
•Warlords: v.2.13 with the version 2.13.004 of the HOF Mod.
•BTS: v.3.19 with the version BUFFY 3.19.003 of the BUFFY Mod.
•Submissions not using the HOF/BUFFY mods are not permitted.
•Games started in one mod version must be finished in thae same mod version.

Game Type

Single Player only - All submissions must be played in single player mode by only one player. Multiple players cannot play the same submission.

Opponents

You may select who your opponents are. The selection must not include any leader multiple times, nor can you choose an AI leader identical to the one you're playing. The number of opponents per mapsize should be between (or equal to) the following Minimum/Maximum per map size: (will be the same for any game type).
























Mapsize

Minimum

Maximum



Duel

1

2



Tiny

2

4



Small

4

7



Standard

6

10



Large

8

14



Huge

10

17












Difficulty

Any difficulty may be used.

Map Settings

Each map may only be played through once. Each map must be submitted from the turn after your first victory condition. The following are the legal maptypes:
•Archipelago
•Continents
•Fractal
•Great Plains
•Highlands
•Ice Age
•Inland Sea
•Lakes
•Oasis
•Pangaea
•Shuffle
•Terra
•Big & Small
•Boreal
•Global Highlands
•Hemispheres
•Medium and Small
•Rainforest

Resources: Standard/Balanced

You must choose Standard.

Worldwrap: Flat/Cylindrical/Toroidal

The following are the allowable settings for world wrap for each map type:























Type

Flat

Cylindrical

Toroidal



Archipelago

Yes

Yes

Yes



Continents

Yes

Yes

Yes



Fractal

Yes

Yes

Yes



Great_Plains

Yes

NO

NO



Highlands

Yes

Yes

NO



Ice_Age

N/A



Inland_Sea

Yes

NO

NO



Lakes

Yes

Yes

NO



Oasis

Yes

NO

NO



Pangaea

Yes

Yes

Yes



Shuffle

Yes

Yes

Yes



Terra

Yes

Yes

Yes



Big_&_Small

Yes

Yes

Yes



Boreal

Yes

NO

NO



Global_Highlands

Yes

Yes

Yes



Hemispheres

Yes

Yes

Yes



Medium_and_Small

Yes

Yes

Yes



Rainforest

Yes

NO

NO












Starting Era

Any starting era may be used.

Speed

Any game speed may be used.

Options

Mandatory

The following must be checked:
•Lock Modified Assets (previously named "No Cheating")

Illegal

The following must not be checked:
•No City Flipping From Culture
•No Technology Trading
•Always Peace
•Permanent War or Peace
•New Random Seed on Reload
•Advanced Start
•No Technology Brokering
•Unrestricted Leaders
•No Espionage

Optional

The following are optional:
•City Flipping after Conquest
•No Barbarians
•Raging Barbarians
•Aggressive AI
•Random Personalities
•Permanent Alliances
•Always War
•One-City Challenge
•Require Complete Kills
•No City Razing
•No Vassal States
•No Tribal Villages
•Choose Religions
•No Random Events
•Rising Seas

Victory Conditions

All victory conditions must be enabled.

Team Play

Team play is not allowed. The assignment of players to teams must be left as default. For those that are not sure that means the red-ringed settings in the following screenshot

 

[Sun Tzu Wu]

The latest date I've been able to select on the main Civ IV HOF page is Sept. 11th.

When will the update occur?

Thanks,

Sun Tzu Wu

 

[Ozbenno]

Apologies, will happen today.

 

[Jesper Portus]

I need help.

I´ve played BTS at my PC at home. It has Windows XP. Now I am on a journey. (Actually I am sitting in a train. ) I want to play the next session onm my laptop with Windows 7. When I want to load the save, the program told me, the game couldent send to HOF. I need adminpower. But I have only one acess to this lasptop. The save is on an usb.

What can I do?

 

[Jesper Portus]

I have found the fix. It is all ok.

 

[Dasphios]

I seem to have something of an asset checker problem. Several months ago, I had an HOF submission rejected because of differing assets, which was strange since I'd had several earlier games accepted. I assumed my installation had somehow been corrupted, since I hadn't changed anything else. Today I finally dug up my original discs again and uninstalled and reinstalled everything, but the Asset Checker is still giving me errors- curiously enough, they're missing files in the vanilla mods/HOF folder, which (I think) is not only the wrong location, but the wrong mod. Buffy doesn't seem to have installed anything in that folder, and I'm a little confused as to why it would have. I'd appreciate any help in getting this sorted out.

Here are the errors I'm getting, by the way:

Spoiler :

Vanilla Files - Path: C:\Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4
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Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\CvGameCoreDLL.dll
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\autolog.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\autologEventManager.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Civ4lerts.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\configobj.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\CvCustomEventManager.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\CvEventManager.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\CvUtil.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\DomPyHelpers.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvEventInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvHOFCallbackInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvOptionsScreenCallbackInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvScreensInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\HOFContext.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\HOFSettings.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\HOFUtil.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\MoreCiv4lerts.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvDawnOfMan.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvExoticForeignAdvisor.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvMainInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvModSpecialDomesticAdvisor.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvOptionsScreen.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvVictoryScreen.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\IconGrid.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\art\CIV4ArtDefines_Interface.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\GameInfo\CIV4GameSpeedInfo.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4AdvisorInfo.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4EnhancedTextInfos.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4GameText_HOFmod.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\Civ4lertsTextInfos.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4ModSpecDomAdvisorInfo.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\HOFGraphicsOptionsTextInfos.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\MoreCiv4lertsTextInfos.xml

* * * Vanilla: 33 Errors have been found * * *


Warlords Files - Path: Not Installed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * Warlords: No Errors were found * * *


BTS Files - Path: C:\Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * BTS: No Errors were found * * *

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * 33 Errors have been found * * *

 

[Ozbenno]

Have you loaded the latest Vanilla patch? That looks like the problem. Even though Buffy uses BtS, it still needs vanilla to be patched to the latest version.

 

[IglooDame]

I may be resuming some Civ-4ing shortly (if I can find the disks), and naturally would be resuming my HoF progress. One quick question - the MapQuest portion lists 17 maps, and I've apparently got more than two to go, but my submissions (most recent one is Feb 2008 ) don't show what map each game was done on. How would I be able to tell what ones I've done or not done?

Other than that, 15 civs and a religious and space colony victory gets me to QuattroMaster...

Edit: I just figured it out. My Submissions, click on the linked number in the left-hand column, Map tab.

 

[Dasphios]

Have you loaded the latest Vanilla patch? That looks like the problem. Even though Buffy uses BtS, it still needs vanilla to be patched to the latest version.

Assuming that it's still 1.74, that doesn't help. Installing BTS updated vanilla, and manually repatching anyway left the same problem. Would getting a copy of the files and moving them in manually help?

 

[Methos]

How would I be able to tell what ones I've done or not done?

The easiest way is to click on 'Quattromasters' and then click on 'Status'. In the center will be the column 'Map Quest' and it'll show you your best two scores for each map, or be blank if you don't have any submissions with that map.

You'll find the same thing under 'Elite Quattromasters' and the tab 'Status'.

 

[IglooDame]

The easiest way is to click on 'Quattromasters' and then click on 'Status'. In the center will be the column 'Map Quest' and it'll show you your best two scores for each map, or be blank if you don't have any submissions with that map.

You'll find the same thing under 'Elite Quattromasters' and the tab 'Status'.

Doh! Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

 

[Denniz]

I seem to have something of an asset checker problem. Several months ago, I had an HOF submission rejected because of differing assets, which was strange since I'd had several earlier games accepted. I assumed my installation had somehow been corrupted, since I hadn't changed anything else. Today I finally dug up my original discs again and uninstalled and reinstalled everything, but the Asset Checker is still giving me errors- curiously enough, they're missing files in the vanilla mods/HOF folder, which (I think) is not only the wrong location, but the wrong mod. Buffy doesn't seem to have installed anything in that folder, and I'm a little confused as to why it would have. I'd appreciate any help in getting this sorted out.

Here are the errors I'm getting, by the way:

Spoiler :

Vanilla Files - Path: C:\Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\CvGameCoreDLL.dll
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\autolog.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\autologEventManager.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Civ4lerts.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\configobj.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\CvCustomEventManager.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\CvEventManager.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\CvUtil.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\DomPyHelpers.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvEventInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvHOFCallbackInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvOptionsScreenCallbackInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\EntryPoints\CvScreensInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\HOFContext.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\HOFSettings.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\HOFUtil.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\MoreCiv4lerts.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvDawnOfMan.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvExoticForeignAdvisor.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvMainInterface.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvModSpecialDomesticAdvisor.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvOptionsScreen.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\CvVictoryScreen.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\python\Screens\IconGrid.py
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\art\CIV4ArtDefines_Interface.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\GameInfo\CIV4GameSpeedInfo.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4AdvisorInfo.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4EnhancedTextInfos.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4GameText_HOFmod.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\Civ4lertsTextInfos.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\CIV4ModSpecDomAdvisorInfo.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\HOFGraphicsOptionsTextInfos.xml
Vanilla: Mods\HOF-1.74.004\Assets\xml\text\MoreCiv4lertsTextInfos.xml

* * * Vanilla: 33 Errors have been found * * *


Warlords Files - Path: Not Installed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * Warlords: No Errors were found * * *


BTS Files - Path: C:\Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * BTS: No Errors were found * * *

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * 33 Errors have been found * * *

There is no problem if the errors are just about the HOF mod folder. The program just assumes you have the vanilla HOF Mod installed. You seem to have a clean installion. You might want to check the Vista\Win 7 fixes if you are getting messages from the HOF Mod.

 

[Jouzou]

Can I change the name and description of my empire mid-game without risking my game being rejected?

 

[Ozbenno]

Can I change the name and description of my empire mid-game without risking my game being rejected?

Yes, that's no problem.

 

[lymond]

No HOF update this month?

 

[Ozbenno]

No HOF update this month?

Update was done on the 10th. The thread originally wasn't stickied but is now.

 

[lymond]

Update was done on the 10th. The thread originally wasn't stickied but is now.

yeah...i don't see it

 

[Ozbenno]

Here it is