Second August Update

[superslug]

GENERAL NEWS:
The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 35 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to zex for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Tiny Monarch Conquest game for 18341 points.

Tone was the most active player during this update, submitting 5 games.

A number of players gained number one positions:

Khan_Asparuh with a 2050 AD Standard Emperor Histographic game for 14966 points.
Tone with a 1025 BC Tiny Emperor Domination game for 15846 points.

Denniz with a 30 AD Huge Monarch Conquest game for 9077 points.
EMan with a 950 BC Tiny Monarch Domination game for 12357 points.
Svar with a 820 AD Small Monarch Diplomatic game for 8552 points.

SideshowBob with a 1635 AD Standard Regent Cultural 100k game for 3882 points.

Head Serf with a 1973 AD Huge Warlord Spaceship game for 1910 points.
Warelit with a 1872 AD Huge Warlord Conquest game for 2366 points.
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GAUNTLET NEWS:
Congratulations to Tone for winning our first ever Minor Gauntlet Sprint Award! The first Major Gauntlet is still open for competition (any Huge/Monarch/Conquest submission) and the new Minor Gauntlet is Small/Warlord/Conquest.

QUARTERMASTER's NEWS:
Congratulations to zex for becoming a Quartermaster.

Congratulations to sanabas for rising from 8th to 7th in the Quartermasters competition.
Commiserations to Mad2rix for falling from 7th to 8th, to Bartleby for falling from 9th to 10th, to Tone for falling from 10th to 11th, to killercane for falling from 11th to 12th, to zerksees for falling from 12th to 13th, to superslug for falling from 13th to 15th and to Pentium for falling from 15th to 16th in the Quartermasters competition.

A number of players are working towards the Quartermaster, gaining awards as follows:
Machiavelli : zex & Ljdjr became full Machiavellians. Denniz rose from 12th to 10th, zerksees rose from 15th to 14th, WilliamOfOrange rose from 17th to 15th and superslug rose from 19th to 17th.
Pentathlon : Ljdjr & Warelit became full Pentathletes. Tone rose from 6th to 4th, Mad2rix rose from 13th to 12th, Jason8R rose from 14th to 13th, EMan rose from 15th to 14th, bluejay rose from 16th to 15th, Mistfit rose from 20th to 19th, Xeroyne rose from 22nd to 20th and SideshowBob rose from 27th to 21st. Baalzebul is no longer a Pentathlete.
Octathlon : Tone rose from 3rd to 2nd, Denniz rose from 15th to 14th, Mad2rix rose from 16th to 15th, Jason8R rose from 17th to 16th, bluejay rose from 18th to 17th, zerksees rose from 19th to 18th and zex rose from 22nd to 21st.
Histographic : Khan_Asparuh & Miraculix gained entrance to the Histographic table.

 

[boogaboo]

I must say I'm still following u all
Good going!

 

[zex]

yea! finally qm for me. i must say im pretty suprised how easy was it to make it to quartermaster. so, guys, what are you waiting for? get on it. its funny and not really hard.
congrats to all.

 

[Ljdjr]

Congratulations zex and all other award winners!

I hope to join the ranks of Quartermaster by the next update.

Working on COTM right now...

 

[Head Serf]

Yay, my first submission was accepted and is in the HoF. Yay!

 

[Own]

Me too. [xcl]

 

[superslug]

Yay, my first submission was accepted and is in the HoF. Yay!

You weren't waiting for the update to find out about your game acceptance, were you? Just so you know, when you're logged into the HOF, you can click on "My Submissions" and see the up to the minute status of all your games.

 

[Pentium]

Congratulations to Own and Head Serf, and of course to zex for joining the club. I'm still the last one there .

 

[Khan_Asparuh]

Great! I have a game of mine worth something!
Actually I'll soon try to do the same in the upper levels. There are a lot of slots in standard, I'm quite surprised. Why do you guys all go for huge games that take months? If I ever see a game of mine that took me 100 hours I'll stop civving...

 

[superslug]

Why do you guys all go for huge games that take months?

I have to milk in Civ because I'm lactose intolerant in real life.

Actually, if you look I think you'll notice that the overwhelming majority of HOF activity is on Tiny and Small maps.

 

[Khan_Asparuh]

Yes, but not in the MILK-ing category... Those are mainly done on huge maps.
The small and tiny are better for the octatlon...

 

[Pentium]

Oh, Khan, I'd almost forget you! Congratulations!

Is it your New Frontier?

 

[EMan]

Yes, but not in the MILK-ing category... Those are mainly done on huge maps.
The small and tiny are better for the octatlon...

In the "Old" days, the HOF consisted simply of High-Score tables for different Map sizes. So, for the mostpart, if you wanted to get in the HOF with a High Score, you had to Milk a Huge Map, lactose intolerant or not!

 

[Tone]

Yes, but not in the MILK-ing category... Those are mainly done on huge maps.
The small and tiny are better for the octatlon...

Maybe this is what I should try to get into this milking thing. My OCC histographic game is letting me down in the QC standings. How long did your game take, Khan?

 

[superslug]

How long did your game take, Khan?

The game clock is one of the details we post on the individual game pages:
http://hof.civfanatics.net/game_info.php?entryID=1085

 

[Tone]

Thanks 'slug. I never noticed that!

i know that some of my games may have inflated times. I'll often leave them running when I take a break-maybe for more than an hour at a stretch if I get distracted!

Still, 37 hours sounds OK. Maybe this can be my gateway to a better QC score. I'll check out the times for the huge maps as well though whilst I'm at it.

 

[superslug]

I'll check out the times for the huge maps as well though whilst I'm at it.

Might be a good idea to take an aspirin and call an ambulance first. You're likely in for some heart trouble when you look at them.

 

[Tone]

Might be a good idea to take an aspirin and call an ambulance first. You're likely in for some heart trouble when you look at them.

No kidding! Now I see why these games are so highly valued. Maybe I'll stick to the G-minor games for a while as in my current situation, one of those games would take up all of my civ time until Christmas!

 

[superslug]

I *think* I've got the only Huge milk run in progress at the moment, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's the last one before IV is released.

 

[Pentium]

My OCC histographic game is letting me down in the QC standings.

You're not the only one