What are your thoughts on Civ Trivia?

Alex 14 · October 25, 2001, 01:54

Earthling7 · October 25, 2001, 01:58

It's interesting enough, but I got in too late and have no way of winning, so I stopped playing.

yin26 · October 25, 2001, 02:03

I only voted for the "Early Ironclad" one 'cause of special reasons.

However, it is a good indication of the kinds of work Dan and Firaxis are likely to be doing on the Net for future games, so it's certainly a great sign.

Good work, Dan.

Alex 14 · October 25, 2001, 02:06

Quote:

Originally posted by yin26
I only voted for the "Early Ironclad" one 'cause of special reasons.

The only reason i got that one right was because i remembered the black eagle Korean jets in Red Alert 2, so i thought they must be technologiclly advanced in those fields...

yin26 · October 25, 2001, 02:08

Yeah ... it was Admiral Yi Sun-shin's Turtle Boat. Helped soundly defeat a massive Japanese invasion in the 16th century. This was also used in Age of Kings.

And the fact that this trivia game brings up such topics is cool indeed.

Sarxis · October 25, 2001, 03:05

I thought the Civ Trivia was kewl; up until my original login stopped working.

Plus I had gotten a late start with it, so I just gave up going to Civ Trivia.

Deathwalker · October 25, 2001, 03:20

I started two late, so as I can't go back and answer the quetiosan I missed. I'll never be able to get on the leader board

yin26 · October 25, 2001, 03:26

Yes, I think a potential answer to that problem would have been:

Several 'mini' trivia games, one starting each Friday or at some set time instead this long version that most people missed the start of. You could also just put the 3-4 questions to the player at once and leave that set 'open' for a few days for people to show up and try them all (yes, the answers could leak ... but that happens now anyway).

As things stand now, if you missed the start or guessed wrong early, there's little reason to keep following if you are a 'would be nice to win' kind of person.

Skanky Burns · October 25, 2001, 05:37

Im 2 questions behind the leaders. But i still play. Dont know why.

Btw, thanks Yin for the answer to yesterdays question

Earthling7 · October 25, 2001, 05:43

Funny, nobody has admitted that the questions are hard...

Is there a prize to be won?

Sarxis · October 25, 2001, 06:22

Well, the truth is that if you wanted to get all the answers correct, all you have to do is start two seperate logins.

Just answer the question on one account- wether you are right or wrong, the game gives you the answer.

Then just go to your other login and put in the correct answer.

yin26 · October 25, 2001, 07:04

Ah, yes. Well the obvious answer, then, is this:

People can select their answers during the said period of time ... the script logs your answer ... BUT the correct answer is not displayed. Instead, it says:

"Thank you for your participation. Please look for the correct answer and updated scores at the end of the round on noon Friday!"

So when the time-limit is up, the script tallies it all and Dan posts the answer AFTER all the votes are already logged.

yin26 · October 25, 2001, 07:06

Then we could spent the rest of the time debating the correct answer. Now, of course, if you leave too long to vote, the correct answer eventually WILL surface and people will just try to wait before logging an answer. So perhaps a bunch of mini-rounds lasting no more than 2 days ... and the winner is the one who got the most total questions right over that time?

Sarxis · October 25, 2001, 07:19

Quote:

Originally posted by yin26
Ah, yes. Well the obvious answer, then, is this:

People can select their answers during the said period of time ... the script logs your answer ... BUT the correct answer is not displayed. Instead, it says:

"Thank you for your participation. Please look for the correct answer and updated scores at the end of the round on noon Friday!"

So when the time-limit is up, the script tallies it all and Dan posts the answer AFTER all the votes are already logged.

Strange- I had the answer given to me right away. Very strange indeed. Oh, I see now- you are talking about the hypothetical Civ Trivia. Sorry..

yin26 · October 25, 2001, 07:37

Right. The 'new and improved' version. LOL. To refine it further ... once again there should be a packet of questions (perhaps 3) so that if you only had 2 days, it might be hard to get all of them just by asking around. Thus:

* Double logins wouldn't be helpful since you won't see the answers until your points are already tallied...
* Having a packet of questions per round would help make it a more fair assessment across a given number of days (say 2 months). And if you miss one round, you still have a good chance to catch up.
* And delaying the answers those few days would give us a chance to debate the stuff.

Sarxis · October 25, 2001, 07:42

Yin- this would be a good way to handle a 'serious' online Trivia game.

I do doubt anyone will be getting any prizes for the current Civ Trivia though, since it is so easy to cheat.

Locutus · October 25, 2001, 07:43

I think the questions are way too easy, esp. considering the fact that everyone has enough time to look the answers up on search engines and stuff.

Today's question was simply hilarious, I actually laughed out loud when I saw the answers

Steve Clark · October 25, 2001, 10:11

Having gone on two vacations totalling 17 days in the past 6 weeks, it made it more of an entertaining thing to do as oppose to a contest. Plus, having it display the correct answer while you were thinking kinda took the challenge out of it. I'm all in favor of yin's idea of making it a weekly or renewable contest.

Gryphon · October 25, 2001, 11:40

i voted useless, besides the fact that you could use two seperate logins you can use several free information services on the net to find the answers, which i did on the questions i didnt know i would assume that a majority of the leader board did not know the answers to a majority of the questions i believe it was more a contest of craftiness rather than knowledge.

Boliao · October 25, 2001, 12:16

I play it everday without fail...I am the last guy with 500+ points ..."Runner" thats me !
Trying very hard to catch up with the second last guy.... I only knew about this site and Civ3.com early october...Damn!

BTW I got today's Trivia about the road thing correct...luckily (I was a civil engineering grad)....phew! so hard to catch up....

SerapisIV · October 25, 2001, 12:20

I'm on the board, think it's a fun feature, but also useless feature of the website, I'd rather have a screen of the day instead, or a flash video game where the Civ leaders go at it "Rock'em Sock'em" Bot style. Don't know if many people will get that reference but it's the old plastic game where two people boxed plastic toys until one toy's head popped off.

I readily admit using search sites to answer questions. Some of them like "diplomatic messages in clay balls" would be damn near impossible to answer correctly without it. Besides that, in searching for answers I've learned a good amount of other useless historical info. Any game that forces you to learn new things is a good game

Blaupanzer · October 25, 2001, 12:59

Got in late, don't get to it every day. Still, I think it's fun and enjoy playing. Score is in the low 600's, but who cares?

cyril25376 · October 25, 2001, 14:19

I like it.