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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Command Nexus => Topic started by: Mart on January 31, 2014, 08:15:21 PM

Title: [Faction Ranking] Gaians - scenario 1
Post by: Mart on January 31, 2014, 08:15:21 PM

Faction Ranking game, playing Gaians - scenario 1 on map 01.

This is scenario, however monuments are active. Intended for:
Yitzi patch 2.4c
Please place the folder in scenario folder and start as scenario the file .sc inside. There is also alphax.txt
Transcend difficulty.

This is competition of the factions. We do not play for ourselves, we play for AI faction leaders.
Please do not "ideologically" profile and perform badly for leaders you do not like  ;)
When submitting attach the save before winning the game.
For easier statistics, please write ending mission year, score.
I am not sure what else we would take into account when comparing factions.
Writing shortly about it is welcomed.
All 5 victory conditions enabled.

Attached is Transcend difficulty game.

Title: Re: [Faction Ranking] Gaians - scenario 1
Post by: Mart on February 01, 2014, 07:45:01 PM

And the same scenario on Librarian difficulty.

I could also add, that a lost game is completely valid to submit. We do want good tests and they include also games where you need to just survive as long as possible.

I haven't tested that yet, so if anyone notices some errors, please write.

It is valid also to complete one game, and then start another, either the same difficulty or different.

Title: Re: [Faction Ranking] Gaians - scenario 1
Post by: Mart on February 04, 2014, 07:55:04 PM

Playing Gaians transcend scenario.
MY 2200, I put info in spoiler brackets so only players reaching year 2200 are to view this data.

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Till around 2155 Gaians were at the same power graph level, as other factions. After this year, power graph went much quicker up.
For MY 2200
Research:
Explore 36%
Discover 35%
Build 36%
Conquer 28%

Tech per turn 163
+183 EC/turn
10 SP
Hive 1 SP (The Weather Paradigm)

Score:
Populatopn +110
Commerce +82
Technology +29
Secret Projects +250
Abundant Life Forms +117
Total Score 588

Title: Re: [Faction Ranking] Gaians - scenario 1
Post by: Mart on February 08, 2014, 05:28:59 PM

MY 2250
The scenario on transcend is not very difficult. I guess this is cause of map not being particularly designed for AI. And this is good, because scenario is easier despite start in the center of the map.

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Playing Gaians transcend difficulty scenario.
Vendettas with many factions. After some turns in war with Morgan, he signed truce for around 700EC. Pact with Lal, others: Vendettas
For MY 2250
Research:
Explore 59%
Discover 60%
Build 68%
Conquer 71%

Tech per turn 1750.8
+739 EC/turn
19 SP
Hive 1 SP (The Weather Paradigm)

Score:
Populatopn +423
Commerce +50
Technology +55
Secret Projects +475
Abundant Life Forms +250
Total Score 1253

Title: Re: [Faction Ranking] Gaians - scenario 1
Post by: Mart on February 09, 2014, 08:15:13 PM

Transcendence in 2274

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Score:
Populatopn +1306
Commerce +536
Technology +85
Transcendent Thought +20
Secret Projects +925
0 Objectives Achieved +1598
Abundant Life Forms +1117
Total Score 5587

And maybe I add here some thoughts on grading scores.
I reloaded game some turns between 2250 and 2273, tried diplomatic victory. I got two much smaller scores. Transcendence was 523%, while diplomatic wins in 2259 was 277% and in 2270 was 378%.
Diplomatic victory do not have this "Objectives Achieved" component. Is turn of game end included there? Probably.
Having some objective way of comparing scores is not an easy issue. Any comments?