Sept 27 Update

[Aeson]

The new HOF update has been posted. Check it out at http://hof.civfanatics.net/.

Here are the new additions...

Deity:

Markstar 47716 Huge Cultural 100k
gormdragan 9265 Standard Domination

Emperor:

Moonsinger 38729 Huge Spaceship
Rallonian 12706 Tiny Conquest
Rallonian 10907 Huge Domination

Regent:

Ozymandius 28087 Huge Conquest

Warlord:

Darkness 16513 Huge Conquest
Takeo 11055 Huge Diplomatic

Chieftain:

sourboy 3646 Tiny Conquest

We have new top scores in the Deity, Emperor, Regent, and Warlord categories. Congratulations to everyone who made it into the HOF!

 

[Takeo]

Ozymandius, Markstar and Moonsinger-

outstanding job!!


i would have bet money that these high scores would never have been beat!
we definately have a lot of competition in the hof now!!

 

[superslug]

Congratulations, Markstar. You barely squeeked by, but you got top dog honors now!

 

[Moonsinger]

Congratulations everyone, especially to Takeo The Diplomatic win is the toughest path in the HoF and you did it!

 

[Moonsinger]

Hi Aeson,

You forgot to remove my old game from the list. If the same player has submitted more than one game, the one with the lower score will be droped. Otherwise, if the top player decide to play again a dozen times, nobody else name would show up.

 

[superslug]

Originally posted by Moonsinger
Hi Aeson,

You forgot to remove my old game from the list. If the same player has submitted more than one game, the one with the lower score will be droped. Otherwise, if the top player decide to play again a dozen times, nobody else name would show up.

I thought the old rules said each player was allowed two submissions per list. Has this changed?

 

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by superslug
I thought the old rules said each player was allowed two submissions per list. Has this changed?

I thought the old rules said that each player can have only 1 entry for each level on the HoF, but I could be wrong. Anyway, since theses game take about 1 Meg of diskspace each at Emperor or Deity, I think 1 for each player per each level is good enough. What do you guys think?

 

[superslug]

Oh, I don't object to one entry per person per level at all. I'm just curious what's official since it's no longer posted. Now that I think about it, one post per person per level is a great idea since it allows recognition of more people. HOF might draw more interest if the charts weren't littered with a just a few people's names...

 

[Aeson]

The old rule was that a player could have 2 games listed at a given difficulty. If we're going to change the rule, I'd be more inclined to limit the cross difficulty submissions. I'd rather see a couple games for a player in 'their difficulty' than to see one from each of the same players in each difficulty.

No offense intended, I know that dropping down difficulty levels can be fun, and gives a different feel to the gameplay, but players who can handle Deity don't really deserve recognition on the HOF for games they play on Chieftain... anything that they accomplish there is just expected. If the same list of players is going to be on each difficulty level, we might as well just get rid of the difficulty categories altogether. If you want to play down a few levels and have some fun, the stories of your games are still welcome of course. There isn't any rule against submitting such games at this point either, but there probably will be something of the sort within the next few months.

Discussion on what the rule should be is definitely welcome.

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Any player who wants one of their games de-listed can certainly request it. Moonsinger, I wasn't sure if you wanted the game taken off because of the rule you thought was in effect, or just on general principles, so left it on.

 

[Cartouche Bee]

Actually milking seemed more difficult on Chieftain than Deity. Why, because you get no help in techs nor get the advantage of taking over a slew of cites and land improvements that the AI give you at higher levels. Anyway, I just submitted my Chieftain game even though I feel I made far too many mistakes in the early game and therefore ended up just cruising the last 270 turns instead of ringing out points. 8503 for a pretty much unoptimized run which was about 67% of the points I had developed on the map.

 

[superslug]

@Cartouche: Congratulations on knocking off Eman's score!

You've got a good point about Chieftain and the lack of 'goodies' from the AI. I had a devil of a time coughing up workers because there just weren't that many cities to raze...

At the same token though, I see Aeson's point about people's comfort zones.

BTW: Your score is unfortunatly safe from me, my game's not going that high....

 

[Cartouche Bee]

Thanks, superslug. I only got one GL the whole game (another Chieftain induced problem) and that was way after it could do me any good, think I used it for Wall Street.

I got to the modern age at 1150AD but I think that getting there about 850AD if you take some scientific AI for the ride and don't get side tracked like I did going for economics after steam and sanitation before industrialization.

 

[superslug]

I only got two GL's myself, but I don't know if I can count one of them. I put nothing but Elite troops on the last AI island and just kept attacking everyone but the last spearman. I used both mine for Palace Jumps.

 

[Thunderfall]

Aeson, you should announce it on the main page news too. If you forgot your news updater login, let me know and I will PM it to you again.

 

[EMan]

1. To be able to submit games in all categories because:

A. There are different challenges for each level
B. All players can learn tips from the saved games and thus improve their own standard of play
C. Too difficult to determine who can play at what level

2. To have 2 entries per level because:
A. I have 8 entries in the HOF at the moment and 1 more coming next update......at Monarch level, time permitting! (Just joking)

Congrats to all the players who submitted this period.
Extra credits to the new number 1's..........looks like "The Bar" is quickly being raised!

P.s. I know you're celebrating tonight superslug because the Chieftain #1 has been beaten (finally!) by that old-multi-gold-GOTM player Cartouche Bee (OR maybe Moonsinger, SirPleb or A.N. Other)...........PERHAPS I have till Oct 12 before being officially dethroned from the Chieftain chair!?

 

[EMan]

...........we could always extend the list from 10 to, say, 20 per level.........and drop the game saves (positions 11-20)?

 

[superslug]

Well, for what it's worth EMan, the game I'm wrapping up is going to fall short of your mark. I'm not even sure I'll catch Takeo.

Yes, you do have the honors until 10/12.

 

[Takeo]

Originally posted by Moonsinger
Congratulations everyone, especially to Takeo The Diplomatic win is the toughest path in the HoF and you did it!

Thanks Moonsinger!! i didn't realize people considered diplo win to be tough. i always hear people say it is an easy way to win. the reason i went that route was because i didn't see that type of win under warlord.

 

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by Takeo
Thanks Moonsinger!! i didn't realize people considered diplo win to be tough. i always hear people say it is an easy way to win. the reason i went that route was because i didn't see that type of win under warlord.

Diplomatic win on a normal game is quite easy as people say. However, a diplomatic win on a HoF game isn't easy. In order to go for the high score, we must try to kill off the AI early and we can't do that and expect them to love us at the same time, you know.

 

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by Aeson
Any player who wants one of their games de-listed can certainly request it. Moonsinger, I wasn't sure if you wanted the game taken off because of the rule you thought was in effect, or just on general principles, so left it on.

Yes, please remove my other old one. Since they both are very close in score, there is no need to take up valuable space (and beside, some people may think that I have no life if my name showing up there too many times). Thanks!

PS: I concur with CB that the Chieftain level bring new challenge. There is very little help from the AIs and we have to do virtually all the work. Can't really focus on both research and expansion at the same time. At the Deity level, we can just simply focus on expansion and let the AIs do most research for us. Can't really do that at the Chieftain level.