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  • #1

    Score Percentages

    I did a search of the forum and was unable to find an answer, so I might as well ask here.

    I just got a high score in single player (516%, don't recall the point value) with Gaians and I was wondering what the percentages means anyway. What would 100% mean?

    Thanks
    It's really Synthetic God... I guess I didn't notice my own typo.
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  • #2
    Well I can only assume that the designers figured that 100% would be a perfect game. Little did they know how far we psycho gamers would push their masterpiece.

    Thankfully they had the forsight to allow for higher scores than what they had imagined
    "They’re lazy troublemakers, and they all carry weapons." - SMAC Manual, Page 59 Regarding Drones
    "Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
    "If fascism came to America it would be on a program of Americanism." -- Huey Long
    "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering

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    • #3
      I would feel bad if my score was only 100%.

      even in civ2 you could exceed 100%, so I'm not sure they intended that as a benchmark of a perfect game.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Dissident
        I would feel bad if my score was only 100%.

        even in civ2 you could exceed 100%, so I'm not sure they intended that as a benchmark of a perfect game.

        There's just no way they thought 100% is a perfect game. heck you can easily surpass that doing a one city transcend win !!

        I never knew what the score really meant and only played for score once. I aborted the attempt as too mind-numbingly boring around transcendent thought thirty or so ( techs were coming 3 or 4 to a turn).

        Personally I don't find score all that relevant a measure of skill
        You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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        • #5
          The same thing happens in the Heroes of Might and Magic games I think...
          I once was a slave to the Alderbaran 2 project!
          Now I shall work towards cIV:AC!... Oh Wait, that's dead too...
          It's Nword like 'lord' and 'sword'

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          • #6
            I still kinda sorta play for score. But I don't unecessarily drag out the ascent to transcendence. I almost always rush it when I can. But I do do things like max out my population as much as I can, and build all the sp's I can.

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            • #7
              The rating, I think is a made of number in the game that is completely irrevelant. You see, when you play bad, the game makes a really high number to make you think you did well...

              It's another government conspiracy...even on Chiron...

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              • #8
                The %ages compare scores across difficulty levels. You may have noticed that 2000 points on Talent is worth a lower % than 2000 points on Transcend. I doubt the comparison is remotely useful, but that may have been its intent.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Flubber
                  There's just no way they thought 100% is a perfect game.
                  In absence of any other interpretation, there is no other choice but to assume this is the case. If you have a better theory I'd love to hear it.


                  Originally posted by Flubber
                  heck you can easily surpass that doing a one city transcend win !!
                  In transcend yes, but transcend was meant to be a superlevel, not the norm. Run the same game in Thinker or Talent and your score will be something like 1/2 to 1/4 as much

                  Originally posted by Flubber
                  I never knew what the score really meant and only played for score once. I aborted the attempt as too mind-numbingly boring around transcendent thought thirty or so ( techs were coming 3 or 4 to a turn).
                  I keep sitting down to try to get the highest score possible for myself, but as soon as I dominate militarily, I get bored and quit.

                  Originally posted by Flubber
                  Personally I don't find score all that relevant a measure of skill
                  Clearly MP provides a better idea of competitive ability. But for those of us that don't play MP need some measure of our performance too.
                  "They’re lazy troublemakers, and they all carry weapons." - SMAC Manual, Page 59 Regarding Drones
                  "Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
                  "If fascism came to America it would be on a program of Americanism." -- Huey Long
                  "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering

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                  • #10
                    Yeah, like not using crawlers and still winning, that's always a little challenge, but even then...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by livid imp


                      In absence of any other interpretation, there is no other choice but to assume this is the case. If you have a better theory I'd love to hear it.
                      No better theory but the mere fact that scores above 100% are possible and are measure leads me to believe that 100% was not "perfect"

                      Originally posted by livid imp

                      In transcend yes, but transcend was meant to be a superlevel, not the norm. Run the same game in Thinker or Talent and your score will be something like 1/2 to 1/4 as much
                      there are other levels ?? . . I never play them and I would likely not take advantage of things like fewer drones-- I would end up quelling drones that would not have even existed

                      Originally posted by livid imp
                      I keep sitting down to try to get the highest score possible for myself, but as soon as I dominate militarily, I get bored and quit.
                      Ditto-- I see no fun in keeping one hostile AI around the map while I try to build a bigger and bigger energy park orlet multiple bases get to size 100 etc etc.

                      Originally posted by livid imp
                      Clearly MP provides a better idea of competitive ability. But for those of us that don't play MP need some measure of our performance too.
                      MP is the best IMHO but I think there are a number of challenges out there that can be fun

                      1. switching sides-- a favorite of mine-- I have now done 2 switches a number of times -- Its fun because you KNOW there will be two enemies with good tech, infrastructure and pop.

                      2. many of Darsnan's and googlies challenges-- you literally never know what will show up in these things. Among things I have seen are

                      a)AI's with satellites from day one
                      b)Native life with the cloaking ability
                      c)native life that can capture ships
                      d) AIs with crawlers from day one
                      e) Ai's set permanently as your atrocity victim
                      f) multiple landmarks of similar types
                      g) interesting maps with chokepoints and channels
                      h) AI's given Ogre 2's or 3's or even some custom ogre.

                      and on and on. Its always fun as someone has taken the time to make it interesting plus you have several perople trying the same challenge so there are points of comparison
                      You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Flubber

                        No better theory but the mere fact that scores above 100% are possible and are measure leads me to believe that 100% was not "perfect"
                        The fact that scores can go above 100% only reveal two things

                        1. A scoring cap was never implemented

                        2. It was not easy enough to quantitate a perfect game as a specific set of cirumstances, so they left it as an open ended and just picked an arbitrary score.

                        Originally posted by Flubber there are other levels ??
                        Not only are there other levels, some people actually play them. Hell I still use "thinker" level in some cases.


                        Originally posted by Flubber
                        Ditto-- I see no fun in keeping one hostile AI around
                        Hostile? hahah no, I keep NO hostile factions. You are my b!tch or you are my fertilizer.
                        I turn off conquest and co-op victories.
                        "They’re lazy troublemakers, and they all carry weapons." - SMAC Manual, Page 59 Regarding Drones
                        "Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
                        "If fascism came to America it would be on a program of Americanism." -- Huey Long
                        "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering

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                        • #13
                          just wondering, has anyone ever toped 100% on the easiest level
                          What type of idiot quotes himself
                          -paramir

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by paramir
                            just wondering, has anyone ever toped 100% on the easiest level
                            seems like it would be easy. Now I have something to try.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Dissident


                              seems like it would be easy. Now I have something to try.
                              It should be easy. Even if scores are one tenth what you get on transcend . . . I would just think it would be tedious-- You are playing with research growth and production ADVANTAGES versus the AI-- You should quickly get so far ahead that it would be just silly
                              You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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