SGOTM 08 - Geezers

[Sam_Yeager]

I thought the spoons go to the team that finished with the lowest score - that would look like XTeam. Bronze and Spoons.

The text in post #1 says "lowest final score". If Alan takes this to mean the lowest Firaxis score then that might well mean that Geezers gets the spoon. However the win condition for the SGOTM was the wonder points per turn. If Alan uses that as his criteria then Chokonuts currently has the spoon.

In neither case would XTeam qualify for the spoon as their early finish would have given them a high Firaxis final score.

 

[erikthecelt]

Check the score column in the progress page Sam - it looks to me like XTeam has the lowest score of the teams that have finished.

FYI Congrats to Misto, The-Hawk and Aged-One on excellent finishes in the Gauntlets. Nice to see a Geezer sweep.

 

[Sam_Yeager]

Check the score column in the progress page Sam - it looks to me like XTeam has the lowest score of the teams that have finished.

The progress page doesn't show the final saves until everyone has finished. Check this post for XTeam's details. If we had finished on turn 363 then our final score would have been 41040 (5693 + final score of 35347).

FYI Congrats to Misto, The-Hawk and Aged-One on excellent finishes in the Gauntlets. Nice to see a Geezer sweep.

I'm looking forward to all the excellent advice and turnsets they'll produce in the next game.

 

[AgedOne]

I'm looking forward to all the excellent advice and turnsets they'll produce in the next game.

If we get Sitting Bull, trying to get a religious victory at epic speed on a large hemispheres map, come straight to me
...and I'll tell you to do whatever the Mighty Misotu tells ya.
Honestly, having watched the race from (some distance behind) her shoulder, I am even more in awe than I wuz before!

Tell you, though. My confidence is way up on what it was 6 months ago.
I've now beaten deity, and as for emperor -ha! - have that for breakfast

 

[erikthecelt]

The progress page doesn't show the final saves until everyone has finished. Check this post for XTeam's details. If we had finished on turn 363 then our final score would have been 41040 (5693 + final score of 35347).

Does AlanH use final score or raw score for the spoons? Anyway, I think at least two teams will finish below us on the table, so it's academic.

Bring on SGOTM09

 

[ShannonCT]

Does AlanH use final score or raw score for the spoons? Anyway, I think at least two teams will finish below us on the table, so it's academic.

Bring on SGOTM09

Final score. So XTeam is in no danger of getting the Spoons.

 

[erikthecelt]

Final score. So XTeam is in no danger of getting the Spoons.

Danger I think Murky won silver and spoons with the same game. I would think it an honor to have a medal and spoons. Anyway - your team did a great job Shannon.

 

[Harbourboy]

Don't tell me there are teams STILL playing! This must be the longest running game in history.

 

[Sam_Yeager]

Don't tell me there are teams STILL playing! This must be the longest running game in history.

There's still a few days to the deadline yet. Btw Sisiutil's Princes of the Universe thread has been running for over a year now.

 

[Thrallia]

hey everybody!

Sorry to disappear off the face of the earth...I had a computer crisis when my laptop died. I just got it up and running again a few days ago, but it is pretty much limited to internet, programming, and word processing on it now. It will not run Civ4, and for the foreseeable future, I have no way of getting a new computer that will.

So, for the next SGOTM, I *should* be able to lurk in the next game, in you'd have me, but who knows. My computer could crap out on me again in the next few months.

 

[Thrallia]

oh, and my MBTI is ISTJ(I think...it might be INTJ, I don't have my results in front of me )

 

[Sam_Yeager]

hey everybody!

Hi there Thrallia! Nice to hear from you.

Sorry to disappear off the face of the earth...I had a computer crisis when my laptop died.

Sorry to hear that. I was worried that the cause of your absence might have been worse.

So, for the next SGOTM, I *should* be able to lurk in the next game, in you'd have me, but who knows. My computer could crap out on me again in the next few months.

No problem as far as I'm concerned although you may find it challenging if you are unable to load the game.

 

[AgedOne]

oh, and my MBTI is ISTJ(I think...it might be INTJ, I don't have my results in front of me )

Good to see you back. I can't imagine being without a PC or the net for 5 months .

I see you've been catching up with the posts. That's a reference to late September - around 13 pages in. Good luck with the rest.
(Oh, and watch out for mentioning the Myers-Briggs in front of the Geezers. We have some home-spun psychotherapists amongst us . You'll have to have your 5c ready)

 

[Thrallia]

lol, as bad as being without a PC or the net would be for you, try being a computer science major

 

[AgedOne]

lol, as bad as being without a PC or the net would be for you, try being a computer science major

I can picture it now.
Continually sidling up to strangers and saying "Borrow your laptop for half and hour, mate? I've got an essay / project etc."
Not good.

 

[The-Hawk]

Hey Thrallia, welcome back. I too was worried about your long absense...

lol, as bad as being without a PC or the net would be for you, try being a computer science major

OK, you need to remember, we are GEEZERS! When I was working on my computer science degree we did not have PC's (OK, some people had the early Apple, whatever it was called). And Gore had not yet invented the Internet.

 

[Sam_Yeager]

OK, you need to remember, we are GEEZERS! When I was working on my computer science degree we did not have PC's.

Anyone remember Burrough's mainframes and teletypes?

 

[AgedOne]

Anyone remember Burrough's mainframes and teletypes?

Ha!
Indeed!
I started my computer programming career on a B3500.
I'd never seen one during my schooldays. This was my first job - as an operator - but with loads of free time to indulge myself with learning to program.
This was in London, and I was working for Burroughs themselves, at a data centre near Liverpool St station. Night shift. Having to step over winos bodies to get into the office. Ahh. Strange days.
We operated that old system with a teletype console (known as the SPO!), and fed the beast with an assortment of cards, paper tape and 2400ft mag tapes.
I believe it may have had 1K of memory

 

[The-Hawk]

Yep, I wrote my first program as a senior in high school. We had a teletype that was connected to some mainframe in god-knows-where (I think a local University). I still have some of the programs I wrote in high school stored on punched paper tape. Programming in the days when memory was measures in K's was a different challenge wasn't it?

PS... that whippersnapper Thrallia is probably thinking... omg, what a bunch of dinosaurs . Well, lest he forget, our generation invented personal computers!

 

[Sam_Yeager]

I started my computer programming career on a B3500.

I started with a B5700 (aka 2 x B5500) at university. My first permanent job was working with an ICL 1904A (128 Kb) and an ICL 1903T (96Kb).