HOF Update: December 5th, 2005

[superslug]

The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 15 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to Bartleby for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Huge Demigod Histographic game for 43561 points.

sanabas was the most active player during this update, submitting 4 games.

A number of players gained number one positions:

Rustwork with a 1490 AD Tiny Deity Diplomatic game for 5887 points.

Rustwork with a 30 AD Large Monarch Domination game for 9313 points.

Rustwork with a 110 AD Huge Regent Domination game for 7093 points.
sanabas with a 1530 AD Standard Regent Cultural 20k game for 3074 points.

sanabas with a 1320 AD Huge Warlord Cultural 100k game for 4297 points.

sanabas with a 1595 AD Huge Chieftain Cultural 20k game for 1428 points.
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Congratulations to Rustwork, Ljdjr & Marsden for becoming Quartermasters.
Congratulations to Bartleby for rising from 14th to 13th in the Quartermasters competition.
Commiserations to Dianthus for falling from 8th to 10th, to Karl_t_great for falling from 10th to 11th, to Mad2rix for falling from 11th to 12th, to Tone for falling from 12th to 14th, to zerksees for falling from 13th to 15th, to theos for falling from 15th to 16th, to killercane for falling from 16th to 17th, to zex for falling from 17th to 18th, to WillowBrook for falling from 18th to 20th, to bluejay for falling from 19th to 21st, to Pentium for falling from 20th to 22nd, to superslug for falling from 21st to 23rd and to Miraculix for falling from 22nd to 25th in the Quartermasters competition.

A number of players are working towards the Quartermaster, gaining awards as follows:
Machiavelli : Rustwork rose from 7th to 6th, archphoenix rose from 9th to 8th, EMan rose from 10th to 9th, Ljdjr rose from 29th to 25th and Marsden rose from 34th to 30th.
Pentathlon : Rustwork rose from 9th to 6th, Sandman2003 rose from 11th to 10th, a space oddity rose from 13th to 12th, SideshowBob rose from 16th to 15th, Mad2rix rose from 17th to 16th, EMan rose from 18th to 17th, eldar rose from 24th to 23rd, zerksees rose from 25th to 24th, Warelit rose from 26th to 25th and Ljdjr rose from 31st to 27th.
Octathlon : Rustwork, Ljdjr & Marsden became full Octathletes.
Histographic : Bartleby rose from 15th to 6th.

 

[Bartleby]

Needless to say it gives me extreme pleasure to look at the Histo table .

 

[boogaboo]

Needless to say it gives me extreme pleasure to look at the Histo table .

Needless 2 say.
Needles 4 sale.
spam 2 me now or 4ever milk the cow!

 

[Marsden]

Sorry I haven't posted sooner, I've been working to get that Quartermaster award since April and when I'm going to see it finally, I'm sick and home from work. Well I couldn't wait any longer and checked from home, and all I can say is


Wow, have we lost our gauntlets to the 4 Hof? We'll have to slap each other with mittens now.

 

[superslug]

Wow, have we lost our gauntlets to the 4 Hof? We'll have to slap each other with mittens now.

Well, that was the plan, but if there's still interest we could still run one at a time here.

 

[Tone]

I'd be interested if others were. The games that I've found particularly enjoyable have been the ones where a number of players have competed and also shared their progress and tactics.

Maybe if we do then perhaps just one per month might suffice. I prefer the minor games as I find it difficult to always find the time to play large/huge games.

IMO it would be a shame to see it die out altogether. I have C-IV (but yet to complete a full game) so I could move onto those gauntlets but I'm waiting until the Christmas holidays before trying to improve my understanding of this game. Either way I can't see me giving up civ III for a while yet so if you have the time to manage both, then I'd be up for some more civ III gauntlets.

 

[superslug]

One per month was what I was thinking.

I'll start a new one up in the next day or so.

 

[Tone]

Thanks!

 

[archphoenix]

I wonder before I finished the HUGE deity Histographic game, I have drop out of the full QM.

just now, I estimate that I will finish the HUGE deity Histo on this laptop over 500 hours.

So I have some questions which don't too much relation to HOF but only civ-III play time.

1.with my current computer, which game I should engage.
my current laptop configuration:
cpu: P-IV 1.6G;
intel 82852/82855 GM/GME integrated graphic contorller.
Memory: 256M
Does it enough to play a Large Demi Histo in 100 hours (that is mean don't count my move, just AI move time)?

2.which kinds of configuration was recommended to play a HUGE deity games without wait AI too long?
(ok, don't consider of the evil Sid)

I have play Huge and Large games before, but all of them
finished rather early (less than 300 turns ,not 540 turns)

and which kind of thing will I do when I have to wait over 30 minutes per turn?
work, read, enjoy movie or something else.
I can handle this, If I suffer such wait just 20 turns .
but for more than 300-turns wait, I need suggestions.

if some thread have discuss this, please kindly give me a link. I'm not familiar with the search tools.

 

[Dianthus]

1.with my current computer, which game I should engage.
my current laptop configuration:
cpu: P-IV 1.6G;
intel 82852/82855 GM/GME integrated graphic contorller.
Memory: 256M
Does it enough to play a Large Demi Histo in 100 hours (that is mean don't count my move, just AI move time)?

This isn't something I've got any experience with, but I would think that the AI move time should reduce dramatically when there's only one AI left with a single tundra city and no units .

 

[Bartleby]

This isn't something I've got any experience with, but I would think that the AI move time should reduce dramatically when there's only one AI left with a single tundra city and no units .

Yeah, there isn't really an interturn in those circumstances. It can still take a minute or two if you abandon or found a city though.

 

[killercane]

My comp is slightly faster (AMD 1.7 gig, 64 MB graphics card, 512 RAM) and it takes a very long time (5 or more minutes in later times) on huge deity maps with a lot of units.

 

[superslug]

I've posted a new Gauntlet:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=146627

HOF IV is obviously going to be the staff priority from now on, but I am by no means abandoning HOF III! CivII still has a GOTM, and it looks like the CivI crowd is about to start one.

 

[archphoenix]

thanks, consider of the time that AI spend,
maybe I will try Huge Monarch instead of deity.
but consider of the city register time.
(that's take minutes when abandon or settle citys)
maybe I will try after I get a better computer.
So I should try a Huge Monarch Histo, if city-register time
comes to long enough, I will suspend the game and wait a better laptop.