News: BOTM 59 Results and Congratulations

[kcd_swede]

BOTM 59: Peter and the Mongol hordes

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I am not pleased with myself for failing to know that very fast conquest victories and losses were possible. But on the other hand, I am mightily impressed that all of the top ten finishers made scores with six digits! And we have 4 new ALL-TIME FASTEST awards!!!
So, without a settler to start with, it was kind of an experiment. Most of you seemed to have some fun with it, so as that is the main objective of these friendly competitions, mission accomplished!

sossos takes the gold medal with his spaceship victory. However, the fastst diplomatic victory by Duckweed was very very close to stealing that gold medal, and instead gets the silver with an ALL-TIME FASTEST diplo. bcool takes the bronze with his spaceship.

So one weird side effect is that domination/conquest victories are completely left out of the medals, but not by much... shulec only needed a handful of points to get a medal to go with his Moooooooo - domination.

Neilmeister was fastest to reach domination, and Rajaat fastest to acheive Conquest--yes that's another ALL-TIME FASTEST, btw (though to be fair, I must add that a lot of conquests were seperated by just a few turns).

Htadus excellent culoture victory was another beneficiary of the experiment, as other culture contenders achieved accidental conquest, but that in no way diminishes his fine effort.

Conquistador63 gave us a very impressive spaceship finish date, another ALL-TIME FASTEST record.

And Wastintime gave us the fastest religious victory, AND SET A NEW "ALL-TIME FASTEST" record in the process. Wooohoo!!!!

Congrats to all the new players, its great to see a lot of interest in the game. Hope you enjoyed it. Good job, everyone!

Oh yeah... Here is where everyone settled:

Spoiler :

BtS BOTM 59 Results:
Summary of Medal Winners:

sossos: 1550 AD Spaceship Victory, 219,812 points.

Duckweed: 475 AD Diplomatic Victory, 219,305 points.

bcool: 1605 AD Spaceship Victory, 199,829 points.


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Fastest Finish Award Winners:

shulec: 1740 AD Domination Victory, 197,812 points.

htadus: 1540 AD Cultural Victory, 196,028 points.

neilmeister: 820 AD Domination Victory, 152,044 points.

Conquistador 63: 1545 AD Spaceship Victory, 141,137 points.

WastinTime: 450 BC Religious Victory, 21,597 points.

Rajaat: 3280 BC Conquest Victory, 17,053 points.


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Other Award Winners:

terminator3k: 1880 AD Spaceship Victory, 75,756 points.

keiselhorn13: 1735 AD Cultural Victory, 48,869 points.

TopMonkey: 1927 AD Domination Victory, 21,093 points.

WelshGandalf: 1939 AD Diplomatic Victory, 17,620 points.

Jastrow: 2960 BC Conquest Victory, 8,196 points.

Fluffy_Rabbit: 2002 AD Spaceship Loss, 4,821 points.

cas: 3240 BC Conquest Loss, 11 points.


>> See the full results here.
>> See the updated global rankings here.
>> See the latest Pantheon of Heroes here.
>> Award symbols are listed here.

 

[neilmeister]

Thanks kcd, it was an interesting game!

Fastest domination I'll take that. Congrats to all the record breakers

 

[keiselhorn13]

Indeed a remarkable game, with gold and bronze going for spaceships.

Very happy with my shield.

 

[Duckweed]

Thanks for a very interesting map, good for learning how to manage the over-expansion in ancient era. The records achieved in this game would be extremely hard to break.

 

[Htadus]

Once again kcd, you have provided a fun map. Congrats to the winners and thank you for going for an accidental non culture win to jesusin.
But damn it, I missed my goal again but will gladly accept a culture award.

 

[Alamankarazieff]

Wow, I'm 7th, happy to crack the top 10.
Thanks a lots for this interesting setting and challenge !

 

[Benginal]

Is that a new record by Mastiff for longest game in terms of time played?

If so, nicely done!

 

[cas]

I am not pleased with myself for failing to know that very fast conquest victories and losses were possible.
...

cas: 3240 BC Conquest Loss, 11 points.

I'll have to take the adventurer save next time. Nooble is clearly above my abilities.*

*NEVER TRUST A MAPMAKER



cas

 

[WelshGandalf]

475AD Diplomatic victory?!

Amazing.

 

[kcd_swede]

475AD Diplomatic victory?!

Amazing.

Yeah... its like someone hacked a digit from that date.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

I just looked at the victories sorted by date. The range is incredible - no less than thirteen BC victories, the earliest by Rajaat in 3280BC - pretty amazing, and at the other end Mastiff_of_Ar's time victory (not often we see those) in 2050AD! I don't think I've ever seen a game before with victories spread out over so nearly the entire game.

 

[vranasm]

600 hours?

I think he just doesn't like turning off civilization... is it even possible in the timeframe of botm?

 

[Manco Capac]

600 hours?

I think he just doesn't like turning off civilization... is it even possible in the timeframe of botm?

Yes. For 30 days, it's 720 hours.

 

[Jester Fool]

Thanks for the interesting scenario kcd swede! I had fun playing the map (even got #10 to boot ) I tend to judge maps on creativity and your effort was outstanding...looking forward to your next BOTM scenario.

 

[lymond]

Yeah, Duck's Diplo win is just fascinating. Ok...off to go study it intensely

 

[Manco Capac]

Yeah, Duck's Diplo win is just fascinating. Ok...off to go study it intensely

In fact, not totally. Because of Keshiks, the game we all had was almost comparable to a HoF game at Chieftain/Warlord where we captured undefended capitals.

I have played some normal speed games like that and approaching <500 AD is really feasible. Getting free capitals like this game allowed is simply breaking the usual balance and hasten enormously the typical game's slow start.

And Complete kill, I think, helps a lot as surviving units allow possibility to give back cities later, but doesn't force the player to spare the AI capitals early game.

Duckweed's deity games are more impressive to me.

And shame I didn't try this one after longer; that was my chance for a cultural award lol.

 

[Manco Capac]

@sossos

You're doing really well on multiple victories. That is sign of a balanced player; I understand your feeling awards are easy to collect.

 

[Mastiff_of_Ar]

600 hours?

I think he just doesn't like turning off civilization... is it even possible in the timeframe of botm?

My computer is always on, so I just minimize the game.

I probably could have won another way, but I thought I might be the only time victory.

 

[Rajaat]

Wow, that is my first ever reward And I registered and played on and off here for longer than most. Thank you!

The game was fun, but short. I'd appreciate a similar challenge/scenario where you start with an army and have to preserve it and achieve a goal. I'm much better at that than the traditional build up.