Victorious Nations/Hall of Honor

[archaeolept]

Excuse me, how exactly am I being hypocritical? That is a serious charge, and offensive. Are you saying that my wins were as a vet in games designed for newbies? - as that would be the only way what I said could be construed as hypocritical, as far as I can see.

All I did, following the comments of Lingchih and doncorazon, is that I checked the game and saw that you had subbed into a leading position in a game where the players were playing their second or third games, who then began staling, and never technically conceded; nor did you "technically win" a month ago as you claimed, as that would have involved the game notifying you that your pretender had ascended... At first, I thought you were counting this as a half a victory, as you played half the game and took over the already winning position, but I see from the winning games list that that is not the case.

I guess we just have different standards.

I have never even posted in this thread before this, so it would be rather difficult to claim that I take this ranking so seriously. I'm certainly on no such crusade; merely pointing out the obvious.

[archaeolept]

i have no objections.

[DonCorazon]

I usually look at game threads when people post wins because I like to check out endgame files when they are posted. Most games threads end with players voting and congratulating a winner. That is why your game thread seemed funny and prompted my joke about it being solitaire since you had a single post when you joined in Oct saying how your nation "seems really strong", then there was a single post by another player before the game seems to have ended in Nov with your unanswered post asking for the game to end and referencing someone with 18 stales etc. I didn't even think about you being a vet or whatever in a noob game. It was more a comment on the fact you joined and won in a total of 2 posts.

I did notice looking at the thread though that there were only 7 players, not 8 in that game. Well at the start. I don't know how many you actually had to defeat...

PS I don't really think its silly either though. As much as people may play it off like its not a big deal, I think it does matter. There are a lot of smart competitive people in MP and the HoF is one of the ways of demonstrating mastery of the game aka pwnage. You were quick to point out the 2.5 so I would guess it matters to you. I am writing this now so I guess I care about it a little bit too. As do probably most people who take the time to post their wins here.

[JimMorrison]

Well, I wish someone else had a second opinion. I am ignoring the other poster's provocations at this point, since he's sorely biased - so if anyone else thinks it is that out of the norm, I'll just rescind the whole thing and go back to plotting current and future conquests

I will say, I did just check, and I noted that Zhao refrained from posting the win for Chlorolera, as it ended up being a bit of a Premature Ascension (should see a doctor, Admiral! ), but I've seen a couple other games posted here that didn't seem like much to be proud of, so I'm just unclear on what is actually considered as justified to be posted as a victory, and what is questionable. Even more confusing is that I am this big bad vet, and I don't know these things yet, even though I watch this thread like a soap opera.

[rabelais]

Rabe won cbm_flapped on gamdalf's server as LA TC. Yay fewer games!

Oops didnt read the rules. only 3 players really (4 but one never logged in and was turned AI) random map obviously.

[Lingchih]

This is a sticky for Wins, right? Not a forum for discussion.

[Zeldor]

I should be quite high in HoF now for that Kingmaker victory

[licker]

Game: Byleswar
Winner: Licker
Nation: Niefelheim
Age: EA
Players: 9
Mods: None
Map: Cradle of Dominion
Host: llamaserver
Thread:http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=41032

My 2nd win where a main competitor went AI as things were getting interesting. However the position I had was largely unassailable short of some nap cancellations which didn't seem likely.

Even with some extra opponents I had 50+ Jarls the forge had been up for 15+ turns (maybe 20, it did go down once) huge gem income, everything pertinent researched, as many artifacts as i wanted...

So yeah, premature perhaps, but when the game becomes a race to see who can pick up the most of a big AI nations territories it loses alot of everyones interest.

I did nothing special with Neifel either E9N8S6 bless with moderately crappy scales and just rushed Abysia (which may not have been real smart, but hey, it worked) after researching Wolven Winter.

[Psycho]

Game: Greenrow
Winner: Psycho
Race: Kailasa
Age: Early
Players: 12
Mods: none
Map: Dawn of Dominions
Game Thread: here
Other: Predefined nations and starting locations

[Psycho]

Game: MadCradle
Winner: Psycho
Race: MA Caelum
Age: Middle
Players: 11
Mods: none
Map: Cradle of Dominions
Game Thread: here
Other: Random assigned nations