Victorious Nations/Hall of Honor - Page 8

JimMorrison · #1 February 18th, 2009, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Lingchih

2.5 victories. Hmm. Ok.That's worth a medal I guess.

Hall of Fame is 2+ victories, and I seem to recall Mister Tyrant asking people to let him know, so he doesn't have to check every time he is entering a victory onto the list.

Oh also, the 2 victories were against 23 total players, and the shared victory was against 15, dunno if you cut that in half, or just let it be.

AreaOfEffect · #2 February 17th, 2009, 03:09 AM

DonCorazon · #3 February 18th, 2009, 01:35 AM

Sounds like you were playing solitaire - a player staled, uh, 18 times? Did anyone ever respond to your declaration the game was over?

JimMorrison · #4 February 18th, 2009, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DonCorazon

Sounds like you were playing solitaire - a player staled, uh, 18 times? Did anyone ever respond to your declaration the game was over?

The other active player at that time doesn't log into the forums, go figure.

The game was technically complete over a month ago, with Vanheim's dominance already solidified.

That player who staled 18 times was Dedas, a quite active MP player, and the host at the time. Didn't say anything, nor set himself to AI.

archaeolept · #5 February 18th, 2009, 01:51 AM

hmm, that's true - no one responded. Game still technically in contention, it would seem.

"This game should only be joined by people with no more than 5 played games"

archaeolept · #6 February 18th, 2009, 02:35 AM

Which reminds me,

1. First Jomon Win

Game: Wheel of Time
Winner: Archaeolept
Nation: Jomon
Age: LA
Players: 12
Mods: CBM 1.3
Map: Alexander (no sites)
Host: llamaserver
Thread: Wheel of Time

High gems game. initial Jomon cav expansion. 4a4e4d Celestial General, Nishida_Kitaro. 3.5k gems in the bank.

2. Another Hinnom

Game: Hellscape
Winner: Archaeolept
Nation: Hinnom
Age: EA
Players: 8
Mods:
Map: random
Host: llamaserver
Thread: Hellscape

bulldogged through initial constricted front war vs. Formoria and Mictlan. Then just built castles and created solid wall of unstoppable dominion. Patch that nerfed Hinnom came through half way in the game. Some dumb rock as pretender, JHVH-777.

3. The Final Moloch

Game: Dawn of War
Winner: Archaeolept
Nation: Mictlan
Age: MA
Players: 19
Mods: none
Map: random
Host: evilzombie
Thread: DawnofWar

my first domIII mp game, starting the previous little bout. corner position; moderate bless; flying communions. Had the very last ever MA Mictlan Moloch pretender, ignifluous_jones. 9F4N4B.

Which adds up to 3 wins, w/ a total of 39 players.

archaeolept · #7 February 18th, 2009, 12:33 PM

Jim. As an experienced DomIII vet you subbed into an explicitly noob only game, taking over the leading position, and then prevailed against a bunch of staling nations. Sure, subbing in is fine, since they needed someone, but being a vet in a nub game would seem to disqualify this as any sort of real win.

JimMorrison · #8 February 18th, 2009, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by archaeolept

Jim. As an experienced DomIII vet you subbed into an explicitly noob only game, taking over the leading position, and then prevailed against a bunch of staling nations. Sure, subbing in is fine, since they needed someone, but being a vet in a nub game would seem to disqualify this as any sort of real win.

If you look at the time in which I accepted the sub, I hardly see how I could be considered a vet. In fact, if you look at page 8 of this thread, the -first- game that I joined on this forum, did not come to a close until the week -after- I entered this game. Thus, 4 months ago when I joined Divine Might, I am quite certain that I met the criteria for the game itself.

Honestly this just feels like a vaguely hypocritical, personally biased observation on your part. Most of the real vets (people who have been here more than a year, that excludes me) say that this Hall of Fame and whatnot are just for fun, because the relative level of competition between games cannot be quantified. It's obvious that you are not on some sort of crusade to improve the veracity of the list, it's just that you don't like me.

Anyway, regardless of what point in time anyone would have started considering me a "vet" rather than a "newbie", I can't imagine that point was reached at any time before I joined this game, so please find something else to do. I'm quite sure that everyone else would rather that you and I didn't interact - something that I am most happy to oblige them with, if you can bring yourself to do the same (at least until such point as we regain some measure of respect for one another).

Lingchih · #9 February 19th, 2009, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by archaeolept

Jim. As an experienced DomIII vet you subbed into an explicitly noob only game, taking over the leading position, and then prevailed against a bunch of staling nations. Sure, subbing in is fine, since they needed someone, but being a vet in a nub game would seem to disqualify this as any sort of real win.

I also subbed into a noob game, by the request of the other players. I will probably win it (if it does not just peter out due to disinterest), but I'm not sure I will count it as a win here.

JimMorrison · #10 February 19th, 2009, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Lingchih

I also subbed into a noob game, by the request of the other players. I will probably win it (if it does not just peter out due to disinterest), but I'm not sure I will count it as a win here.

Well and like I said, the first game that I joined here was not even concluded until a week after my first post in the Divine_Might game thread, so even if I was walking the line between n00b and something greater, I fail to see how I could be a vet before even finishing a single game.

Certainly if I were to sub into such a game now, it would be only to avoid the entire game being ruined by a powerful nation (hardly dominant, they were large, but had 10k pop in the capital, NO research, and NO site searching done yet) being turned to AI. I'd basically just do fast, minimal turns, and not invade anyone - just to help out.

Anyway, I suppose I'd be willing to call it a half-win - obviously from my last post in the game thread, I was waffling a bit. But I did put a lot of effort into the position, and ultimately felt it was worth something. And yes, I can post the last turn of the game if anyone wishes, since there was a comment that the "game" didn't end naturally, nor did every existing player "technically concede". Most of the games I've ever been in ended without "a true god ascending" in game, and usually with just a few of the stronger nations conceding in thread, and the silence of the rest echoing a lack of overt objections in the game ending.....

God this whole thing seems silly.