Well there are different setups and ways to win from DL to ToA, also because of map size, but if you don´t care about score at all then it´s just a matter of a few minutes.

And then you want to go for better score - it takes quite a bit longer. Nevertheless, it´s a great fun to milk them out to the very last (and lie awake in bed all night long wondering how it still could be pushed a bit....)

So if you wanna try it out some day you may find this thread helpful; I also found it the most funny and interesting of all my reads here, it´ll give you foremostly all the info you need, as well as we have KP around who is *the* true master of the fast+highscoring ZYW's, who initially did let "the cat out of the bag"

Congrats on the amazing score Maiden!     You are just behind Motti now, and maybe you will surpass his score in the near future.

Thanks for the compliments, but I was not the originator of the ZYWs.  the first person to actually do it was Kryo, way way back.  Later, it was Wyndstar who brougt the strategy to light during a round of the Metaverse League.  From there, me, Magnumaniac, Neilo, DethAdder, MottiKhan, and others worked both competitively and cooperatively to enhance and refine the strategy over time.  The one major thing I can take credit for is discovering the scoring potential of the gigantic-ZYWs, rather accidentally in fact.   I realized that Precursor libraries werent showing up in tiny maps, so I started trying different sizes.  The scaling effect for technology scoring vs map size was indeed a juicy discovery.

Sentient species taste better...

Actually that was a pretty funny thing, really sad I missed these times. Way back this thread was really competetive, and not only for ZYWs, but what you discovered seemed to hand the MV players a new + efficient way to storm the rankings up. Well, let´s not underestimate that, the Giga ZYW have the highest score potential *plus* they can be played faster & safer than the tiny's. In some way these are really efficient in terms of time * score. And (judging from your MV characters) it is my opinion you are #1 on these games. You break 120k now thoroughly, constantly - I struggle at 90k, that´s a big difference.

Well, don´t know how to express what I really wanna say, maybe I try the other way 'round:

just as an example, that above 45k score took me half of the day to play-out. That´s fine with me if I intend to break some score - but to shoot my character into Top25 such an approach is virtually useless. It would take me months.... I am better off to stay with the mediocre 90k giga's, which can be played many multiple times each day. To my eyes, that´s the main significance of ZYW's.

Well done, KP!  

It's good to see you give it a run the hard way.  That 200k barrier might be starting to give way.  

I seriously don't understand how you manage to win these gigantic maps within 1 year. It's amazing, truely.

lawl, kk i see. it's all about the research. getting weapons before everyone else. i've been dumping all my states on economy and Hit points, I exploit research from other races. thank you, i'll give it a try next game.

Nice!   Congrats Maiden! 

Sentient species taste better...

Awesome....totally blew past the previous record!!  Looking forward to reading your report! 

Sentient species taste better...

That's from the ARC. Actually I didn't choose an alignement, although I planned to get the "diplomatic bonus when dealing with other good civs" - but there never was any opportunity.

   I would like to know if thread is up to date if so I would like third place , please.

   If not, what will we do, should someone make a new club and called it Zero Win Club 2010. Let us vote on it. I think KP would be good for this so he would get my vote.   What do you think?

This screen shot was taken on March 1st. In this game, I discorvied 2,250 bc in Cash Anomalies. This is my very best game so far.

Oh I see, that is the moral of the planet but I set on yellow 57% over all so I get the votes in my way. Anything less than 57% you lose the vote on your party or on when you want to attack Lord Kona.

Well still, it is a good score for me, even I don't take third. Maybe 5th   , oh someone has that too. So what place am I then?

Idea: the Top Ten for  ZYW Gigantic and ZYW Tiny   

And all little people fron the locker city yells "All Hail KP duty, All Hail KP duty "

Kp are you going to start with 2010 scores only and keep this linked as the Hall of Fame scores? Kinda like dedicated this thread to the people that started it all, our forefathers, like you.   It is just idea. The only reason I like you to use 2010 scores is to show activy for the the active ones. That means we would have post 2010 scores in the new post and that means no old scores because those old scores belong here in the Hall of Fame. What do you all think?