Hodadian Awards - 2000

[WarVoid]

I have taken over presenting the Hodadian Awards and would like to finalise the winners for 2000 before we set about with the 2001 awards.

I need nominees for the following categories.

• Best Scenario
• Best Historical Scenario
• Most Challenging Scenario
• Most Innovative Scenario
• Best Map
• Most Accurate Map
• Most Innovative Map
• Best Modpack
• Best Historical Modpack
• Most Innovative Modpack
• Best Original Sound
• Best Website
• Most Informative Website
• Most User Friendly Site
• Most Innovative Site
• Best Webring
• Civ'er of the Year
• Best Scenario Designer
• Best Map Designer
• Best Modpack Designer
• Best Webmaster

Now these are only applicable to Civ2 and you can nominate anyone you want and it will be considered.

I am also accepting positions for those that wish to judge nominations with me. ICQ is a must have please, so if you want to judge please download it or if you already have it you can reach me at UIN 73438757.

When nominating please take into consideration this os for 2000 only, so stuff created in 2001 will NOT be accepted.

I'm pretty sure Captain Nemo is gonna win a lot of these positions but let's try and cover more than one person and site for these awards.

So get a'goin and nominate some ppl already!

[Jay Bee]

WarVoid,

A bunch of disordered thoughts:

I doubt enough people may be interested on this after so much time.

Many of those cathegories do not make much sense, especially if we abide to the rule that 1999 winners can't be nominated again.

What is according to you the difference between modpack and scenario?

Why is there a best historical scen and not a best fictional scen

What's the difference between best scen and best historical scen?

Why not a best utility award

Etc, etc...

This said, if you need help from a guy who won a couple of these awards once, just let me know

[William Keenan]

Civ'er of the Year: Techumseh.

Best Website: The Spanish Civilization II Site

Best Map Designer: Jorrit Vermeiren (Mercator). He single-handedly ended the dark ages of map making when he released MapEdit.

Though there are too many categories already, there is one glaring omission that must be added; Best Utility Program.

[Giant Squid]

I nominate Imperium Romanum for best historical scenario and best scenario. And Red Front for the one it doesn't get. Oh, and Tim Smith for modpack designer, since Hi-Res was great and there haven't been all that many modpacks lately.
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[WarVoid]

Jay, I agree, too many categories IMO. But reismark simply handed the job to me so I intend to do it. However, I still think you're right, so i'll reduce the categories and adjust them a bit.

• Scenario of the Year
• 2nd Best Scenario
• 3rd Best Scenario
• Mapmaker of the Year
• Most Accurate Map
• Modpack of the Year
• Best Original Sound
• Website of the Year
• Most Informative Website
• Most User Friendly Site
• Most Innovative Site
• Civ'er of the Year
• Webmaster of the Year
• Best Utility Program

Please nominate according to this list now. Thanks.
[This message has been edited by WarVoid (edited February 24, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by WarVoid (edited February 24, 2001).]

[WarVoid]

I'm also nominating the following people.

• Scenario of the Year - Red Front
• 2nd Best Scenario - Imperium Romanum
• 3rd Best Scenario - Shaibani
• Mapmaker of the Year - Mercator
• Most Accurate Map - Aegean Sea
• Modpack of the Year - Hi-Res Pack
• Best Original Sound - Red Front
• Website of the Year - CivGaming Network
• Most Informative Website - CivGaming Network
• Most User Friendly Site - CivGaming Network
• Most Innovative Site - CivFanatics
• Civ'er of the Year - Techumseh
• Webmaster of the Year - Thunderfall (CivFanatics)

And i'm removing the rule of not being able to nominate a winner from last year. But please look to other sites and writers as new winners.

[Jay Bee]

Ahem... Imperium Romanum is a 2001 scenario

[PolarisGL]

I can't nominate people/things. Too many good things! I'd list about 10 things per category.

[BeBMan]

quote: Ahem... Imperium Romanum is a 2001 scenario

Yes.

Best Utility: Mercator´s MapEdit

Suggestion: if you have a "Best Sound" section, you could add a "Best Graphics" section also

And what do you have to do to become Civer of the Year?

[Chris 62]

quote: Originally posted by BeBro on 02-25-2001 03:56 AM And what do you have to do to become Civer of the Year?

Field dumb-@$$ questions about your work from us!


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[reismark]

quote: What is according to you the difference between modpack and scenario?

*sigh*

For the record: A scenario contains a SCN file. It may or may not contain modification files (Cities, Rules, and the like). A modpack is made up of modification files, or other files that can be used to modify regular CivII modification files. It does NOT contain a SCN file.

Clear?

quote: I can't nominate people/things. Too many good things! I'd list about 10 things per category.

Write 'em all down! The more things we can choose nominees from, the merrier.

quote: And what do you have to do to become Civer of the Year?

This award goes to the individual who has made the most valuable contributions to the Civilization community over the course of the past year. These contributions do not necessarily need to be in the form of add-on development. For example, MarkG was Civer of the Year for 1999.

My own brief list of nominees:
[*]Scenario of the Year: Sword of Shannara[*]Website of the Year: Civilization Gaming Network[*]Civer of the Year: Chris Wilkinson



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[Allard HS]

quote: A scenario contains a SCN file. It may or may not contain modification files (Cities, Rules, and the like). A modpack is made up of modification files, or other files that can be used to modify regular CivII modification files. It does NOT contain a SCN file.

All very nice and very clear, but as ZERO modpacks have recently been released, it still seems a bit a nonsense thing to me.

[Jay Bee]

quote: For the record: A scenario contains a SCN file. It may or may not contain modification files (Cities, Rules, and the like). A modpack is made up of modification files, or other files that can be used to modify regular CivII modification files. It does NOT contain a SCN file. Clear?

Well, that is also my opinion. However, (i) this criterium was not used for the 1999 HAC awards; (ii) go tell this story to the Apolyton DB manager & administrative staff; (iii) according to your definition, Allard is definitely right. Aside from HiRes, what other modpacks have been released in the last two years?

PS. Who is Chris Wilkinson?

[Kull]

One final suggestion: If you are serious about this, keep it as far away from the off-topic forum as possible.

[Chris 62]

Kull makes some excellent points. A list on nominees should be put together. How is vote to be held? Who can vote? The catagories should be more clearly defined. Scenarios from 2001 have been nominated here as well as on other sites. Keeping it out of the OTs should be obvious. The more 'colorful' people there don't usally bother with the league. Maybe you could accept nominations from all, then have a 'blue ribbon panel' of designers vote on the nominations.

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