Anyway it used to be that the GalCiv2 site had an independent forum ranking system along with forum stats associated with the metaverse. Other sites, most notably WinCustomize, also had a forum ranking system in place although I don't believe that they had a similar forum stats function. On WinCustomize the forum rank was used to determine whether folks could directly submit skins or whether they needed to have them "approved" before they could be downloaded by others. I'm not totally sure of the exact details but at least on WC the individual forum ranks had a functional meaning and use.

On the GalCiv2 site they used to have ranks that were quasi game related. There really wasn't all that much that forum ranks allowed you to do other than at the rank of Diplomat and above you had access to a special area. This area is still in existence today although it hasn't been used in a long time. You can actually see remnants of it yourself by going to https://www.galciv2.com/Council/Forums.aspx.

Anyway the GalCiv2 forum ranks used to be Citizen, Veteran, Diplomat, Ambassador, Governor, Avatar although there may be another rank or two between Governor and Avatar. These ranks may also have to do with the early system of users being moderators. Kryo came up through this system until he simply became a SD employee and he could certainly add more detail to all of this. I used to be an Ambassador which correlates to the Journeyman (4) rank.

As far as how one received rank I think it was essentially assigned from above, possibly from folks like Brad and Cari or more likely from Kryo with perhaps Brad/Cari/Zoomba's approval. I got most of my rank from the days of the Metaverse Council, however these days a new unified system is in place that is common to all sites although interestingly enough your forum rank (like karma) does not translate from one site to the next. Basically they still use forum rank for it's original purpose on WC but elsewhere it hardly makes any sense. They only difference that I can tell is that when I give karma it defaults to giving 4 points although I can change that from 1 point up to my forum rank of 4. Prior to the forum upgrades Neilo had been promoted to veteran which translates to Apprentice (2) and he can give 2 points of karma.

Other than giving karma there seems to be no funtional use for forum ranks anymore.

I created another thread in Ot for this discussion to migrate to so as not to take over this thread.

Member rank and Stardockian banners.

Hmm ... slipping backwards should be impossible at least as far as I understand scoring.

I could see it happening if the victory condition is different in each case so that the score multiplier is different but as far as I know the two games should have identical scores up to the point where one ended and the other didn't. For the score to actually decline it would require that the additional time was actually worth negative points which would require that one or all of the 4 components of score (income, pop, military and tech spending) would have to go below zero and that's not possible unless there is some kind of overflow condition where a sufficiently positive value is somehow taken as a negative.

So to answer your question I've never experienced this nor have I ever heard of it occuring, perhaps this is unique to the version of the game that you're playing? With such a small difference in scores perhaps it's just that you're at the point where you get very few points for that extra year and you ended the longer game just a little bit differently (in what way I'm not sure) that resulted in fewer points on the turn that you actually won. This would result in the score apparently declining.

It should be, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is.  There is at least one explanation of scoring that would account for it, but it's still odd.

I'll have a look at it-if you don't beat me to it. 

How about a 1MZYW?

Btw, What IS the current "maximum" reached by anyone within a year?

I'll risk a wild guess - Neilo owns it.

Please be very judicious on who you send saved games to.  I'd say the two you were offering it to would be ok, but understand that your saved metaverse game contains some of your login information such as your login name, character being played and most importantly, your game's serial number.

Wow..thanks for the consideration. I actually have the #3 spot for ZYW's.

Multiplied by your currently owned 103 Karma Points, that puts it in a precious "Mini-Doubled-Millionaire" list of its own.

It's not the quantity, it's the quality. Right?

I will be trying to get at least 1mil points on my game tonight.

Go get 'em Seth!! Geckodons may be green and scaly, and not taste so good, but you are fearsome warriors!

Hmmm....shall I be the first to say that getting 1M in just 2 yrs. is impossible, or would someone else like to mention it first?

On a more serious note, don't worry 'bout it Seth. You'll snag a million pts. one of these days. You've stayed dedicated to the MV and your empire, so it's in the cards. I'll take a look around for Liv's thread, but he was before my time, so anyone else is free to drop a link for Seth before I get it.