No problems RayChua, I just want to say that my opinion is that playing Maso shows not only skill (which should be certainly high) but great patience. I think that if you easily win at crippling then after few attempts and some tactics adjustments you can manage Maso. My view is: skill for Maso = Skill for Crippling + a lot of patience.
Sorry, double post
[quote]Staffa is more skilful than Sergey even though Staffa wins 10% of his Maso games but Sergey wins all his Crippling. Can Staffa beat Crippling in his sleep? Most certainly.[/quote] I think that Staffa can wins all his Maso games if using ctrl+N. I can win 90% tiny Maso with proper use of ctrl+N. The reason why I don't play Maso is that its more like work not fun. In most strategy games like different Civs, I tried highest difficulty only once, in all cases I can win but winning is
[quote]Staffa is more skilful than Sergey even though Staffa wins 10% of his Maso games but Sergey wins all his Crippling. Can Staffa beat Crippling in his sleep? Most certainly.[/quote] I think that Staffa can wins all his Maso games if using ctrl+N. I can win 90% tiny Maso with proper use of ctrl+N. The reason why I don't play Maso is that its more like work not fun. In most strategy games like different Civs, I tried highest difficulty only once, in all cases I can win but winning is
Hi RayChua. I just try the scoring system with painful. The game was completely diplomatic-influence. I had only battleaxes, never been at war. Again I found that scoring is strange I got the score even better than for very similar crippling game. Can you give some details about your medium crippling game with score around 15000 ? I'm not going to play much, but from time to time I'll submit just to stay at top 50, or top 100.
[quote]After reading Staffa's and Sergey's posts, I can say I empathise with what they are going through. I think the Metaverse is a great idea for a single player game and it deserves to be supported. However, I find myself playing the Metaverse much more than playing the game because honestly, who doesn't like to see himself move up the ladder and also to see his own empire do well?As such, I have decided that I will no longer participate in the Metaverse and I will be disbanding the White Cou
I have read, its really ironic. So, you also bored. It was good time when I was trying to steal medal from you. Good luck Staffa. It seems that you also prefer single player games.
I'm tired with this discussion. The truth is: if your goal is to get gold medal my strategy is just more effective. You are right I can get gold medal in a week or faster, but I dont want to waste my time to really playing all these similar games. You talk that my way is silly and playing this way is not interesting. I agree, I lost interest, because I found only two main strategies to win any particular game - 1. "fast" agressive and 2 "slow" diplomatic. In both cases the game esse
[quote]KseAli will spend about 70%of his turns playing a game that is essentially overwith only one AI left cornered on some system whilehe finishes poping and teching.[/quote] It is shame for you Staffa. You know that my last game was over in 2210 and you clearly undestand that in such case I cant spend 70% of my turns playing the game essentially over.
I just found the answer it is possible.
Hi, all.Its me former Sergey Pakhomov. I have just started as new player. It was not fun to throw away all my games medals, titles etc. But I dont see other way to explain that the current system is ill. If White Council members consider this action as unworthy to be a member of the Council feel free to exile me, but I'll be happy to stay a member of empire.
Good point Staffa. I think that my action prove it. Its me former Sergey Pakhomov. I have just started as new player. It was not fun to throw away all my games medals, titles etc. But I dont see other way to explain that the current system is ill. If I submitted one more similar game my score will be 19106 score no 5. If 3 more games - score 27020 - silver medal, 8 more - gold medal. And this just for usual crippling medium. This game was finished in 2209 dec with pop 3200 and
I have a question. If I want start the new player, I understand that I'll loose all my previous submissions, but is it possible to start as new player. If it is possible what exactly should I do ?
Again it seems that you missed that my system didn't assume that there is no aging, Calculation of max should be done after applying aging decreasing of the scores.
I think you missed something. If you submit 4 20K games your score will be 40K, but if you submit 9 20K games the score will be 60K, so there is no possibility for perfect set.
I have proposal about new method for calculation overall score. Let s1, s2,...sN ordered (from best to worse) list of scores with any type of aging applied. I propose calculate the overall score in the following way: calculate score in usual way only for 1 game this will be s1, for 2 games (s1+s2)/sqrt(2), etc., and take as overall score the max of those. Advantages: 1. With this method of calculating submitting the game will never decrease the overall score, so more games will
I have another proposal how to fix the problem. Let s1, s2,...sN ordered (from best to worse) list of scores with any type of aging applied. I propose calculate the overall score in the following way: calculate score in usual way only for 1 game this will be s1, for 2 games (s1+s2)/sqrt(2), etc., and take as overall score the max of those. Advanteges: 1. With this method of calculating submitting the game will never decrease the overall score, so more games will be submitted.<br
I'm really dont worry about newbies, but the new scoring system punish those top players who have more games submitted. For example let all top 10 players submitted game with score 10000 (its not difficult with 1.05), then for some of them it will be worth roughly 3000 overal score increase, for some 2000, and for me ( with 41 games already submitted) only about 1500. I'm thinking that if this situation will not be changed, I can just make new registration, loose all my old submissions
I just submitted the tiny game with 1.05, the score is really much higher then for prevoius versions
Using of lease for me is quite different for different map size. For larger maps never-ending Mitrosoft lease 40-60 per month can be easily survived, but on tiny map it may crush your economy. Certainly I use fsk+ strategy also. I found that after changing lease system in late game I sometime use other lease options than Mitrosoft.
For me tuned off tech victory does not work, two times I got tech victory with being turn off just after researching final frontier. So, be careful to achieve military victory at the same turn. About pop, yes it certainly rewarded to much. My two last games are very similar (I believe that difference between crippling and painful scorewise is very small because I made notes about in game scores at different moments). In my second game I managed to build more TG/wonders and research mor
To Frogboy I just submitted the medium painful game with score 6323. Finished 2214 Jan Pop 3900, All techs. I can send the zipped save game, but dont know where.
It works well on painful also but on crippling the best profit is about 10% and only for small amounts of money
Thanks J4
Unfortunately I dont preserve my save games. As for scoring system as described by Frogboy, I think that it is very good, except the multiplying by victory condition. The idea that tech victory can be easily achieved in the corner of galaxy seems wrong to me. And again about Staffa and many others idea "the faster the better", I disagree because of this force aggressive military gaming not leaving room for peaceful diplomatic and scientific approach.
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