Screenshot of the week: Histograph

[Lemmy]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS


"being bigger late in the game" does not necessarily get you a higher score. Score is calculated as an average of your relative power throughout the entire game. Thus, if you were a small isolationist civ for the first half of the game, you can't just put on a good show for the last 50 turns and expect that will make up for it.

Dan

i wasn't exactly clear in my last post, what i meant with late in the game was from the time you enter the modern age till the end, i get the feeling that there are more turns you can play in the modern age then in any other age. So if you're powerful in the modern age, you get a better chance at winning.



and thanks for the list, i actually clicked on the arrow to try and open the drop-down menu force of habit i guess...

[Ozymandous]

Any chance the Hostograph can be rotated to read from left to right as opposed to top to bottom?

In AOE & AOK it's much easier to read from left to right as opposed to here.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
You can view the histo by score (an overall computed average, factoring in pretty much everything in the game), power (essentially military strength), or culture (self-explanatory).

Good enough for me. Come to think of it; I dont what else one could possibly want to view graphically.

Dan - while Im at it: Is it possible to save/reload Summary Replay's as standalone files? (still requiring Civ-3 installed, obviously). If NOT - thats not "the end of the world" - Im just curious if its possible, thats all.

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Ralf


Good enough for me. Come to think of it; I dont what else one could possibly want to view graphically.

Dan - while Im at it: Is it possible to save/reload Summary Replay's as standalone files? (still requiring Civ-3 installed, obviously). If NOT - thats not "the end of the world" - Im just curious if its possible, thats all.

Right now, that feature isn't in the game. I don't know if there are plans to make that happen or not. I have mentioned the idea to the team on a few occasions myself, so who knows.


Dan

[tniem]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
"being bigger late in the game" does not necessarily get you a higher score. Score is calculated as an average of your relative power throughout the entire game. Thus, if you were a small isolationist civ for the first half of the game, you can't just put on a good show for the last 50 turns and expect that will make up for it.

Want to explain how this works? I mean the numbers or equation that is used to determine how it works.

Thanks.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
Right now, that feature isn't in the game. I don't know if there are plans to make that happen or not. I have mentioned the idea to the team on a few occasions myself, so who knows.

Well, if not sooner - give the team yet another reminder then its time to work on that expected Civ-3 expansion-pack.

I think it would be nice to be able to download & replay other peoples replay-files, in order to compare oneself with others. Not all customers have the time/ the hardware/ the will to dabble with online MP.
Maybe also with an "After-action report" text area, that automatically displays whatever the replay-file providing player have commented in some added txt-file. A second best solution would be to make swithing back-and-forth to Windows easy and painless (I assume thats already possible in Civ-3).

[ixnay]

Want to explain how this works? I mean the numbers or equation that is used to determine how it works.

Well, in the shot at the lower right, it states "your overall score is the average of your score each turn" I assume that it adds up your scores for each turn and divides by the number of turns.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Ralf
That older screenshot wasnt the in-game Histograph - it was the after-game Summary Replay. I agree though that they are very closely related.

How about this one?

[connorkimbro]

"being bigger late in the game" does not necessarily get you a higher score. Score is calculated as an average of your relative power throughout the entire game. Thus, if you were a small isolationist civ for the first half of the game, you can't just put on a good show for the last 50 turns and expect that will make up for it.

Good news!!!

Right now, that feature isn't in the game.

Dammit!! That would be the most important part!! The end of game replay is a nice bit of fluff, and is good to have, but it's REAL functionality is to share game histories and replays with other people. Perhaps the casual gamer won't do this, but those of us really into strategy like to get into the details of the game, and we like to analyze other peoples games, etc. With civ2, we've been having to do that manually! Hopefully, a patch or something will add that?