My two last games before I move up to IV/V

[Spoonwood]

Wow, that is a quick milk run superslug! Thanks for sharing. If we had a few players who were willing to play a few quick milk runs like that, we could probably fill up most of the tables by the end of 2014. I've usually tended to play far more perfectionalistically myself. It's one of my weaknesses.

How many hours does such a game require? I haven't tried such a game because it seems to such a long and tedious process.

You might want to read this.

Also, I managed to finish a histographic game in less than 10 minutes, and another in little more than 3 hours. Alright, I guess that sounds like bragging, and perhaps lacks relevance to what you're asking. But, if you consider it another light it shows you how little you need to finish a game for a histographic HoF game. If I understand correctly, the only requirements for an HoF histographic game comes as that you make it to 2050, and that it charts on the table. Suppose you play for a game that doesn't have 10 spots on the table yet. What do you need to do in order to keep your people around until 2050, and prevent the AIs from winning?

 

[superslug]

Thanks Spoonwood, although the low hour count was due largely to sloppy milking and Warlord AI, so not a lot of combat.

Wiping out all the AI but one city is a must, not just to contain them, but also to get all the best milking terrain.

 

[bluejay]

Spoonwood takes the coveted bottom place with a small chieftain histographic run, scoring zero points in 8 minutes 9 seconds.

Pentium seems to have the quickest positive score, tiny chieftain, 196 points in 37 minutes 11 seconds.

Still lots of empty slots.

 

[bluejay]

Just for fun, I did a Tiny Warlord Histographic (4 empty slots) and submitted it.
Score = 0, time according to MapStat 7 minutes 4 seconds.
It's hard to do much faster than that; after fortifying my settler and disbanding my worker, I just held down the Enter key until the end. Nothing happened; I saw two ships and one enemy; no settlers anywhere near.

 

[Quintillus]

I suppose holding down the Enter key to get a Histographic Loss is one way to get on the tables and fill empty slots. Though I hope if the tables are filled by the end of 2014, we don't have tables where half the entries are sub-10-minute losses with 0 points!

Good luck with the milkruns, superslug. Looks like you might be in for more than two games!

 

[Quintillus]

You inspired me to try to reclaim the title of Pentathlete that I had at one point for a month or two before my Tiny game was knocked off the charts. And, it took 3 tries, but I managed an 8th Place Tiny Chieftain 100K game, in 1380 AD. The Temple of Artemis was crucial, and it didn't hurt that I was able to rush it after very appropriately getting Hammurabi as a scientific leader after researching Code of Laws.

So there's another HOF submission. With yours and bluejay's, that's three so far in 2014 at least - maybe we'll get enough for an update before a year has passed since the previous one!

 

[superslug]

I'm guessing formal updates may be a thing of the past. The tables were updated with three entries on 12/13/13...