SUL1 - The Zulu Navy!!!

[Sullla]

And our save game...

 

[Jaffa Tamarin]

[dance]

Thanks, Sulla

 

[Chieftess]

Originally posted by Sullla
After waiting 24 hours, I finished the game myself. We won a conquest victory in 930AD, and got a huge bonus for the early finish. I'm posting the save game from the turn before victory for anyone who wants to look at it. Good job guys! And anyone interested should apply for the remaining open spots in SUL2.

Yep, just reading your previous Zulu SG.
How'd you get that high of a score!?
The highest I ever got was 2,000 and something.
I'm gonna take a look at that save!

 

[Sullla]

Well, to be honest I don't really consider this to be a "fair" score. See, the bonus you get for winning a victory equals:

(2050 - date of victory) * difficulty factor

with Chieftan having a difficulty factor of 1, Warlord = 2... up to Diety = 6. Not sure exactly how this is worked with BC years; I think they might be counted as negative years.

The point is that the bonus is the same regardless of map size. This is how we get those absurdly high scores in the Hall of Fame - start a Tiny map on Diety with one opponent, keep generating random maps until they appear right next to you, and win an early victory through massive whipping. This is also the reason why the HOF won't accept scores from Tiny or Small maps anymore. In our game, we finished in 920AD, so we got a bonus of (2050 - 920) * 4 = 4520! We had a natural score of about 400, so the result was that 4950 or so I posted. But it's not like we did anything spectacular, we just won an early victory. I hope that explains it