grifftron wrote:A scoreboard for guested players that should never be allowed to see themselves on the scoreboard anyways... sounds like a waste of time.
-griff
Respect for history is the basis of tradition, and tradition is the basis of community. It's definitely not a waste of time to look back at some of the greats in the past.
As far as whether they were nice guys or not: do you think the people celebrated in real life are good people? Alexander the Great was "the Great" because he murdered more opponents than anyone who had come before. In fact, I can't think of anyone called "the Great" who didn't murder at least 100,000 or so innocent souls. Christopher Columbus, one of the most celebrated names in the Western Hemisphere, was a vicious, sociopathic extortionist and slaver who ordered savage tortures and mutilations on captives who couldn't afford to pay their ransom, and who pimped girls as young as 9 years old to his troops. I could go on and on, but I'll leave you with just those two examples, because this is after all Suggs and not Off Topics.
The point being that one doesn't get into the history books by being a nice guy, whether in R/L or in games. Sure, GLG was someone most of us would like to beat to death with a truncheon, but he is part of CC history, just as much as Ghenghis Khan is part of R/L history, and ignoring him just because we don't like him is like burning our R/L history books just because there's no one in them we would like to see in our own living rooms.
Qwert wrote:JamesKer1 wrote:t was going to be limited anyways to a couple hundred at most. How about, based on High Scores, those who have a conqueror medal OR have had point totals above 4000? A comparison between their current score and retired status could be made as well.
Gibbom was conqueror and he only play 320 games
yosevuk play 564 games
mc05025 play 762
mhennigan 452
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and right now in active scoreboard you have player with 180 games who are Brigadier, and player who are with 131 games Colonel
Exactly. Thousands of games shouldn't be the yardstick. Anyone who passed one of severar possible tests should be included.
Conqueror and one-time score over 4000 has already been mentioned. I would say anyone who successfully retired a Brig should be included, and possibly anyone over 80 medals.