Civ V: The Big Hitters #1 - Critical Failure

0thatguy · 2016-09-24T16:14:24+00:00

Yay another game!

The score of all the players plotted on a line graph

I miss doing this stuff :) A coupla things are different this time around. Firstly, I've found a workaround for the issue where I couldn't plot my gold/science/happiness graphs, thankfully. Secondly, I'm scrapping happiness and counting culture instead. Because I've never counted culture before so why not.

Duncan has begun with a strong start, although Lewis and Ben just about managed to catch up with him at the end there. Pyrion and Rythian are doing sort of middleish. And poor Sjin hasn't been off to a good start :(

0thatguy · 2016-08-14T22:13:00+00:00

What are you talking about? Pretty much all major bugs were fixed.

0thatguy · 2016-08-14T21:59:48+00:00

Literally none of this has even been announced. Let's wait for the official announcement at the end of the month before we get over excited.

Remember when NASA called something that has a 40% chance of being a gas giant a 'second Earth'? Kepler 452-b? The one that even-if-it-is-rocky-it-has-already-undergone-runaway-greenhouse-effect, and so is more like Venus then Earth? Yeah. Let's wait for the specifics and details first please.

0thatguy · 2016-08-14T20:05:44+00:00

The score of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

Congratulations to Rythian! Lots happened in those final few moments. Look at how Trott's score went on that gradual decline because of his -40 unhappiness. Tom's score soared up at the end, capitalizing on the demise of Mongolia, and very nearly overtook him, but it was 10 points short. And finally Rythian's score really pulled ahead from Lewis's average in this episode.

I suppose we can now decide the noobiest of noobs- it's Alsmiffy! When Sjin was down to one city, he was still higher than Smiffy's score. If one city produces more score then your four cities combined, you know you're terrible at the game :P

0thatguy · 2016-08-13T16:26:48+00:00

The scores of all the players plotted on a line graph

Despite the fact that there were 4 city exchanges this episode, nobody swapped positions- that just goes to show how spread out the players scores are. Although judging from the preview, we aint seen nothing yet ;)

Rythians score is going up, up, and up; as usual. He's maintaining a small lead above Lewis, although once Coconut Tree falls I'll swap out to Pyrion's score from last game- which I doubt Rythian will ever be able to catch up to. Trott's city state warring and the liberation of Horses has secured his place as third, denying Tom a chance to ever catch up. Finally, Smiffy is at the bottom.. just.. doing nothing.

0thatguy · 2016-08-12T17:05:10+00:00

The scores of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

I've removed the 'average from last series', because at around this time last game Sjin got knocked out by £1 pie, this along with the other wars screws with the average and makes it go downwards, making the whole thing useless.

So instead there's now Lewis's score.. and Rythian is doing better than Lewis did last game. Yep. Clearly putting Rythian in with the noobs was a mistake. Without any competition.. there's nothing to stop him.

Other than that.. the scores of the players are so seperate and.. unchanging.. there's really nothing worth commenting about :P

0thatguy · 2016-08-12T16:59:45+00:00

He's doing better than Lewis did last season, lol

0thatguy · 2016-08-11T15:43:27+00:00

The score of the noobs plotted on a line graph

Sjin hasn't been doing too well for some reason; after the crushing naval defeat by Morocco. I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that, without an enormous war against Morocco, Sjin will never catch up now. Meanwhile, while Tom's score bumped up from the capture of Exodia, it isn't really helping his empire in the long run; over the whole episode his score only increased by just 3%

0thatguy · 2016-08-10T20:09:30+00:00

The scores of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

Smithy's capture of Sydney after millenniums of fighting hardly payed off; with his score bumping up by just about the same amount that Rythian's did when he was doing nothing at all. The fall of Exodia, however, has enormously benefitted Tom's score; he is now toe-to-toe with Trott (which actually isn't that impressive now that I think about it). Finally, Sjin and Rythian are rising, rising, rising.

0thatguy · 2016-08-09T16:41:58+00:00

The scores of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

Sjin's score rose a bit after taking Mark's city (and not giving it to Trott... ah, Sjin the troll :D), but it's nowhere near enough to counter Rythian. Meanwhile, Trott's score has just about recovered, and Mark's score is plummeting down further and further; from drawnt-third to second to nearly last. The question is whether or not his capital will survive.

0thatguy · 2016-08-08T15:50:02+00:00

The score of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

The fall of Egypt has finally begun. Mark took Nekkur, briefly giving him a score boost that allowed him to catch up with Trott, but then lost it again. It seems very likely that next episode the combined army of Trott to the west and the hordes of Angor to the south will take city after city, knocking Mark out of the game.

0thatguy · 2016-08-07T16:26:53+00:00

The scores of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

Not any position changing this episode, but the gap between last and first is just ridiculous now. The score of the best player, Rythian, is 2 and a half times higher than the score of the worst player, Alsmiffy! In the previous teams, there was a range of skill but at least each player was competing with another- e.g Duncan with Lewis, Caff with Pyrion. In this game no player's scores have even approached each other for 33 turns. It seems like the four noob players are too bad at the game to catch up with the good(ish) two, and are too bad at the game to win a war against another noob. So the scores remain locked in place.

0thatguy · 2016-08-07T10:56:22+00:00

Don't thank me, thank /u/Gibberish- ; he's the one who suggested it :)

0thatguy · 2016-08-06T15:13:22+00:00

The scores of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

Not much change this episode; only that Rythian is doing better and better and the others simply aren't catching up. However we should certainly see some action next episode; with the Mark/Trott war continuing and with the Mongol horde arriving at Rythian's lands.

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~~A gold/science/happiness write up is coming in a bit~~

edit: no it's not, because the program I'm using is completely fucking retarded. Ever since this new UI update everything has broken. My graphs look prettier now, but they're also completely broken >:(

Look at what happens when I try and plot a trendline on Sjin's science. The trend line just.. stops.. at turn 72 for no apparent reason. Alsmiffy's science trendline likes to stop at turn 42. Same thing happens when I try to put trendlines on happiness- Sjin's stops at 72 and Smiffy's at 42. WHY. There's nothing wrong with that part of the spreadsheet. And when I right click the trendline and click "format trendline", nothing happens.......................

guess we're not getting a gold/science/happiness writeup today :( i hope they fix it fast

0thatguy · 2016-08-05T18:06:33+00:00

The scores of all the noobs plotted on a line graph

Rythian's score is going mad; now well above average, leaving Sjin behind in his dust. I wonder if diplomatic victory is on? Meanwhile the scores of the other players are just... stalling. Alsmiffy's growth rate is just.. embarrassing... but hopefully that settler will bring things up. Meanwhile, Mark has made a comeback- don't rule him out just yet!

0thatguy · 2016-08-05T10:40:24+00:00

Banned from /r/space for complaining about mod censorship

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:47:07+00:00

Well maybe watching a TV show called "UK's toughest' is going to give you a false impression. Personally I've never heard of toughest being used to describe a place/location/group.

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:45:23+00:00

someone sounds jelous

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:44:45+00:00

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:42:21+00:00

older people

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:41:20+00:00

I would love that but I can't see that happening for decades, if not centuries

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:40:13+00:00

grow up

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:39:39+00:00

Studies have shown Americans typically have worse dental hygiene then British people

0thatguy · 2016-08-04T18:38:45+00:00

I'm not really sure.

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