Congratulations Agnaar, great achievement to win Europa renovation game. But this vpoint-rankingsystem doesn't work. +1497 v-points is a joke.

I also think that player's ranking should slightly decrease if he doesn't play ranked games like cypeg.

Congratulations Agnaar! A very impressive achievement.

Congratulations! I think the precedent here is to accept your ludicrously high score and never play a ranked game again.

He is now #1 in V-points ever according to the hall of fame

I'm impressed to see someone get a solo on this map so quickly. Divided States still hasn't had a solo and WWIV 6.2 took several years to get one. I guess this proves that a high province to SC ratio does allow for a solo victory without major NMRs even on very large maps. That was one concept I wanted to test out with this design, especially after my near-miss on soloing Divided States. Congrats to Agnaar for a well-played game!

I'd wager that the fact that it was gunboat contributed significantly to the solo as well. Coordinating to stop a solo is significantly more difficult in gunboat than in full press.

Congratulations Agnaar.
Agnaar went up from 1612 vPoints to 3109 vPoints. Fun fact about vPoints: If he started out with MORE than 1612 vPoints, he would now have FEWER than 3109 vPoints.

Technostar, why would it be a surprise that, all other things being equal, low SC density should make soloing easier?

Use squares to diminish points in variants with more than seven players. Currently, A victory in a 37 player game instead of counts as defeating 36players what's the same as six classic solos - all at once. With squared points, such victory would count as something between two and three classic solos, what's more reasonable.

Drano019 - Yes indeed, the no messaging rule was a huge factor in the solo.

I'm enjoying the recriminations between the "surviving" parties.

Well done, Agnaar.

As such, should gunboat games be worth fewer vPoints than regular games?

That is magnificent.

@Sky_Hopper I believe that it should, yes. Gunboats are far easier to lose AND win. That's the reason that there are so many draws on the site, when there is the diplomacy factor. The coordination between players can get to insane levels and forcing the draw on outnumbering them foe, but that is almost impossible in a gunboat game. gameID=38953 - an example of a personal game, that was drawn while being outnumbered 28:51 (2 alliances not wanting to betray internally).

@Agnaar, congratulations, mate! It requires a lot of dedication for a win like this, especially with the setting of a 1 phase a day. Gunboat, or no, it's impressive!

Thanks for your comment johnyD, you re spot on : dedication; at least one hour per turn when 50+ units. Was tempted to click the "draw" button a few times.

Regarding that matter I have a suggestion to improve that variant if someone who is able to do it read this : you can get an uncommon large amount of units on this variant and it s very time consuming to find them in the orders page; would be a nice improvement if they were sorted by alphabetical order or even better by proximity.

To all who think the reward is way too high, it s true that it feels strange that I get more points in one game than in 15 BUT...it s nearly impossible to achieve it. I got extremely lucky : opponents giving up or missing a turn, neighboors persuing personnal vendetta instead of logical moves, ally too passive, allied opponents hesitating, lucky with few guesses...Every opponent left missed at least one opportunity to stop me. And even with all this I reached the exact required number of Scs not knowing if I could get another one.
Future will tell but i m quite confident that you won t see a solo victory on that variant for a long time; so somehow the huge reward makes sense.

A reward system promoting solo victories is better anyway: I see too many games where good players build alliances to take on the weak links and then rush to draw to lock down a few points.

You can sort out unit list! Twelve forms: (alphabetically/build order/east to west/north to south)*(armies first/fleets first/mixed). Go to Account --> Settings --> Features ... and voilà!

haha, what an idiot! Two months searching units one by one and it was right there...As I said : extremely lucky that I won solo that one. :)
Thanks CCR.

Hang on... Are you telling us you used dropdown orders for 50+ units and DIDN'T use the interactive map?!?!?!?

A true legend.

Or a true maniac!

Kaner -

That seems to be exactly what happened! I'm not sure whether Ciyan or Macca is right on this one! Maybe both?!

Regarding reward Agnaar:

I think you actually put out a pretty good argument as to why such a high reward is somewhat uncalled for. While I completely agree that games rush into draws way too fast a lot of the time, you yourself said that your victory was due to missing turns, people giving up, and people missing chances to stop you. All the other things are part of the game (hesitation, passivity, personal vendettas) but this victory, by your own admission, came from things "outside the game" so to speak: people missing turns and giving up (CDing?).

Despite that you would not have soloed except for these "outside the game" factors by your own admission, you're now technically the "best" player on the site per the rankings. I dare say not even you would argue though that just because you soloed one game that that makes you the best player on the site.

And this isn't the first time we've seen a large map solo vault someone to the top spot. It's the second, or maybe even the third time, I can't quite remember. Do you and those other players deserve kudos for a hard fought victory? Absolutely! But any ranking where one single victory almost automatically makes someone the "best" player is kinda silly IMO.

Congrats to Agnaar!

I don't think it's possible to have a points system that can differentiate a "truly deserved" solo from somewhat a "less deserved" solo. You will have to reward them the same.

I always use the interactive

I don't understand how the interactive map works.

The things you can select are highlighted. Click the unit you want to give orders, the possible orders appear in boxes. You click terrirtories in the same order for drop downs (this mostly applies to just support moves; click where it's going, then the unit going there). For convoys, click the army that will move then the convoy box. Then select the fleets it will travel across then the land it will finish at, they will light up. This works for enemy fleets and armies too.

Hope this helps!