What was the "Dan Quayle" screen?

[fluxcapacitor]

One of the ask the civ team q and a's mentioned that. WHat info does it provide?

[Sabre2th]

It just compares you to great world leaders. Danny was the lowest possible rank.

[SteveJH]

From what I've heard it compares you to great/bad leaders of the real world in the past.

[Chuckles]

When you retire it calculates your score, then the percentage based on difficulty, then ranked you against world leaders. I tried looking for some old saved games, but I do not seem to have any of my most glorious civs saved. The best saved game I had left only covers about 2/3 of the list, starting from the bottom:

Sire, your Civilisation Rating of 60% exceeds even Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill
Cleopatra
Charles De Gaulle
Vladimir Lenin
Simon Bolivor
Otto von Bismark
Eric the Red
Kaiser Wilhelm
Louis the XVI
Neville Chamberlain
Ferdinand Marcos
Emperor Nero
Dan Quayle


If anyone else can supply the rest of the list... I remember Queen Victoria or someone high up on the list.

[Nemo]

this is back in civ3, right?

[Kurgan]

I remember that one of the highest was king Solomon

[fanatic civver]

The "dan quayle" screen was in civ 1. It comes up when you have finished the game or retired. It is the same as the ranking screen at the end of the game in civ 2 which said "xxx the weak, xxx the tough" etc etc. The only difference is that civ 2's list was really boring while civ 1's list you could compare yourself to the greatest leaders in the history of the world. As a newbie it was fun to try to get higher each game until you finally revealed the entire list of people.

Solomon the Wise was on top.

It is coming back to civ 3.

[Fidel]

hehehe, dan was simply excellent
do you think they had to remove dubbya from the list before going gold or is the list only for ex-occupants of the white house?

[Fidel]

Originally posted by Kurgan
I remember that one of the highest was king Solomon

yet another example of zionist conspiracy

[Doctor Bob]

The highest was Charlemagne.

[Ozymandous]

Originally posted by LaRusso
hehehe, dan was simply excellent
do you think they had to remove dubbya from the list before going gold or is the list only for ex-occupants of the white house?

George Bush was never on the list. Since they seemed to only have VP's, I guess the lowest, non office holding VP would be Gore, although they could make an exception to Clinton. Maybe a "you're as trusted as" in population approval and start with Clinton at the bottom topped by Reagan and Roosevelt at the top..

Since there seems to be a way to piss your population off through forced labour and mis-dealings both at home and abroad, why not have an approval ranking?

[Fidel]

ehhehe, good idea!
well i thought that those east coast bleeding liberal firaxians might have thought of including dubbya down there with quayle before 9/11....i am sure he is not on the list now
approval rating would be great! wait a sec...i think it WAS in civ 2...or was it civ1.... no, i reckon it was civ2! it was, IIRC in some statistics screen.....

[Orlando]

Kurgan is correct. In Civ 1 the greatest ruler to be compared to (it required a Civilzation Rating of 125% or higher) was Solomon the Wise.

[Faboba]

Aaaaaaaah I DID wonder...... ( what the **** people were talking about Dan Quale to do with Civ for )

Yet another example of Civ being non-isolationist. They involved great leaders from all over the world and all through history instead of just American presidents ( Sid probably avoided the Presidents in order to not piss anone off, but I think he went overboard to give Churchill 60%, the guy was more than a few trees short of a forest. Lenin and CdG were much better imho.

I wonder if they'll do seperated lists for different things

The risk taking list goes from - "You have balls like Clepatora's chief eunuch" to "You have balls like that really ****ed up squirrel picture - you know the one"

You fight like "a lil' sissy girl" to "you're in a boxing match with a hunger for ears."

Seriously though - I hope they still manage to get some humour into it beyond the monacle they're giving whis-'is-name

[Grumbold]

Churchill was a great war leader, but he should have led and left the military planning to his expert advisors.

Hopefully the list will be editable so you can put your own favourite football managers, movie stars or whatever takes your fancy in their place.