Warren G Harding, my jazz

[contempted]

I just won a time victory where I had one civ peace vassal me, and I made the other 3 civs on my continent capitulate. On the other continent Elizabet had Shaka as a vassal, just before time ran out I dropped about 6 nukes on liz two on London. It was the first ime in Bts i've been able to nuke, It was thrilling. But after I won, I was made into Warren Harding. I thought I would be Augustus. How does the game decide your rank?
Should I have worked harder to destroy at least one civ completely? I olnly didnt becasue sometimes in this game they vassal to someone elese before I can destroy them. How can I know when they are about to do that?

Thanks

 

[contempted]

Oh yeah, and what kind of damage do nukes do to cities?

 

[Sian]

time is very important when calculating your score ... Conquest likely brings in the highest scores, simply by being that much eariler, just as Time is likely to have a very low score since they're so late

 

[Ghpstage]

Land/pop are important too, and combined with time are the main factors in score. Other things do impact it, like difficulty, techs, wonders you control and a few others but much less so.
The score rankings the game uses are pretty useless as once you learn to get proper victories on noble you will get an Augustus ranking most of the time, and if you go higher, pretty much all of the time.

Oh yeah, and what kind of damage do nukes do to cities?

Kills a fair amount of pop, destroys some buildings that aren't wonders, damges/kills units and causes fallout. The amount is considerable, but nuking cities specifically to damage the city isn't particularly helpful most of the time as it doesn't give you anything in return. This limits the usefulnes of smashing cities to slowing AIs down, for reasons like delaying culture or space wins, or killing pop.

Where nukes really shine is in destroying stacks.

 

[Ataxerxes]

time is very important when calculating your score ... Conquest likely brings in the highest scores, simply by being that much eariler, just as Time is likely to have a very low score since they're so late

Very true. Time victories will always score low. Not only does conquest or domination give you a fast victory, but you also have a lot of land and population to further ramp up the score. So if you want Augustus Caesar you have to beat up the world.

 

[contempted]

Oh> I'm not on noble yet, just warlord, so the difficulty DOES hurt your ranking. I thought I had beat the world up pretty good as I had 4 out of 6 vassals. Thanks.

 

[Ghpstage]

Oh> I'm not on noble yet, just warlord, so the difficulty DOES hurt your ranking. I thought I had beat the world up pretty good as I had 4 out of 6 vassals. Thanks.

If you get a proper victory (space/culture/diplo etc) you will get a much higher score even on that difficulty. Winning date is far more important than difficulty, and time victories are the defacto slowest.....