Fame, Medals, Ranks, Ministries and Winning

One of the topics I see a lot of confused posts about in the CivWorld Forums is the variety of methods CivWorld uses to reward and measure individual players.

Fame

Fame is a purely individual score for each player in a game of CivWorld.  Your fame always stays with you and never decreases.  Fame is not used to determine your ranking within your own civilization - only who the "top players" are in the game overall.

You receive fame in a variety of ways.  The major ways you receive Fame include:

• Winning an era - the higher you are ranked in your civ, the more fame you'll get.
• Winning a contest
• Winning a medal (see below)

Medals

Medals are simple achievements, like "Reach population 10".  Medals are unique within your civ - once someone wins the Population 10 medal, you can no longer get it.

There are medals for:

• Reaching new levels of population (first to reach that population wins the medal)
• Researching specific technologies (the MVP of that technology wins the medal)
• Building wonders (a random contributor to the wonder wins the medal)
• Building Ginormous buildings (first to build that building wins the medal)
• Military wins (player contributing the most to the victory wins the medal)
• Reaching new levels of gold reserves (first to reach that much gold wins the medal)

You can see the list of medals remaining for your Civ by hitting the Friends button and then choosing the Medals and Stats tab at the top.

Ranks

Every time you win a medal, you will get a promotion within your Civilization.  If you're currently a peasant, you'll move up and become a Lord or Lady.  This pushes everyone below you down one notch, probably turning somebody else back into a peasant.

Likewise, winning a medal while a Lord will make you a Duke, winning one as a Duke will make you a Prince, and winning one as a Prince will make you the King or Queen of your civilization!

Note that your rank is never determined by your Fame!  You can have 200 Fame and be the lowliest peasant in your civilization (and you will be, if you switch civs during the game).

You get more Fame by being highly ranked when your civ wins an Era, and the various Ranks have privileges (like proposing Civics), but I'll save those for another post.

Ministries

If you are already a Duke or Duchess when you win a medal, you will get an additional benefit when you're promoted to Prince - you will also become a Minister in your civilization's government.  Each category of medal has a corresponding ministry, and each ministry has a bonus you provide as Minister.  For example, the Interior Minister gives a free Harvest to a random member of his civ each time he uses a Harvest.

More information about Ministries can be found on the CivWorld wiki.

Contests

One additional piece of info: Contests held at the Market (like Most Science Harvested or Highest Puzzle Swap Value) act a little like medals, granting you a promotion to a higher rank.  They also award you 1 Fame when you win them!