[BTS] News: BOTM 133 Results

[Deckhand]

Congratulations
Six Deity wins over five victory conditions. Everyone who won got awards.
Four losses and two abandoned. All three Adventurer saves were Culture losses. Ronnie1 was only loss on Deity, by conquest.
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This game was much harder than intended. I did it as a clean map you might make for HOF. I kept regenerating map until had a nice start with gold (or gems). And checked that AI not too close. The large empty tundra area looked ominous and I warned about barbarians, but it and the rest of land was worse than I expected. And I didn't realize your land wasn't connected to the rest.

I will be making more deity maps as challenger (or adventurer) saves if you keep playing them. You won't have problems with barbarians in botm135; again no AIs are on your landmass.

Amazing victories by some of civ4's top players.

Summary of Medal Winners:

Kaitzilla: 1540 AD Conquest Victory, 334,722 points.

Jeffa: 1400 AD Religious Victory, 233,026 points.

Rusten: 1750 AD Spaceship Victory, 208,211 points.


Fastest Finish Award Winners:

solyaris: 1785 AD Domination Victory, 165,583 points.

WastinTime: 450 AD Religious Victory, 120,635 points.

Pangaea: 1690 AD Cultural Victory, 62,566 points.


Other Award Winners:

greatbeyond: 1935 AD Cultural Loss, 5,962 points.

Ronnie1: 2080 BC Conquest Loss, 136 points.


Here's where everyone settled.

The Small Print:
The numbers by each player's name indicate the turn settled on (starting turn is 0). Players are colour coded by game class (challenger=red, adventurer=blue). Symbols indicate victory condition, if there's no symbol then the player either retired or was defeated. The yellow border indicates the land that was visible at the start of the game.

>> See the full results here.
>> See the updated global rankings here.
>> See the latest Pantheon of Heroes here.
>> You can see and compare graphic replays of all the submissions here.
>> Award symbols are listed here.

 

[Pangaea]

Some impressive dates again; looks like the level of play in these games is pretty high, despite fewer active players now than in years gone by.

Thankfully nobody else went for culture, so I got something for my efforts Lousy score, though.

Barbs were brutal on this map, so it took a while to expand. Territory was rather lousy as well, apart from the capital with double gold. Since everybody settled in the same spot, it would actually be interesting to see where people put their 2nd city. Believe I put it SE of the pig to the west.

 

[MarleysGh0st]

Thankfully nobody else went for culture, so I got something for my efforts Lousy score, though.

Oh, I went for culture. Just didn't get it.

 

[greatbeyond]

I was waiting for the results to see if anyone was able to win a diplomatic victory. I replayed this trying for a diplomatic win using slightly different strategies. In each of these cases the civ that was eligible for the win that did not build the UN was always Babylon. The Koreans were the builders of the UN 8 out of 10 times with Ethiopia and the Maya each taking a turn. I am sure this scenario wasn't designed to make a UN win next to impossible, but I just couldn't find a way to build my population high enough to edge out Babylon. On a side note, I need to remember that eligibility for the UN vote goes to the Civ with the highest population, not land area. That left me severely disappointed...