[BTS] Why All Games End w/ Augustus Ranking?

[Olson]

I looked for a thread that might answer this question but either it doesn't exist or I'm not using the correct search terms.

I'm a mediocre Noble-level player (via Steam) and yet all my wins are ranked Caesar Augustus; that can't be right. My winning "Score" is almost always below 10,000 pts. (the "Normalized" is almost always below 100,000 pts.).

I saw a CivIV Vanilla list that ranked "Augustus" for any score above 15,000...which can't be a "Normalized" score because it's too low for that.

Is it that the victory ranking no longer works correctly? Does playing on Steam have anything to do with it not working?
Thanks.

 

[s.bernbaum]

It is a part of the game original programming. It rates you by a Normalized score that is really quite low and has nothing to do with the level you are playing at. Although it has been many years, I think I began getting Augustus rating when I was only playing at Warlord level.

 

[Lennier]

I guess we could have a competition to see who can win a game and be rated Dan Quale or Nero.

 

[AcaMetis]

IIRC if you play the game on Settler than no matter your Normalized score you're always given a Dan Quale rating, so that could be an interesting competition. If in a different way .

As for Augustus rating being easy to get, two expansion packs and years of people figuring out ways to play the game better has wreaked havoc with what was once considered a great score in v1.0 vanilla. I mean, my personal best Normalized score is over 11 times what's needed to get Augustus rating, and the actual experts on this forum have managed to get a Normalized score like 60 times greater than that, so...yeah. The sheer degree of score inflation that's happened is honestly an achievement in and on itself .

Incidentally, I have won a Noble game and gotten Louis XVI as my rating before, so balance aside I can confirm the system works. It just might take an Always War space race that drags on until mid-1991 AD to see it.

 

[civfanchambers]

A couple years ago when I still played with huts on doing a noble or prince lvl game I got Dan Quayle. Game lasted a whole 3 minutes. I settled my cap, used my warrior to run a circle around my city, but before completing the circle an Ai warrior popped a hut right next to my cap with 3 barbs. I was doomed. 3 F'ing minutes.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I seem to recall getting a barb event next to my capital in the first 20 turns once. It was a long time ago and I can't remember any specifics now, but I do remember that I hadn't even made a warrior yet.

I feel your pain.