Re: It\'s time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've always encouraged people to join regardless of how good they are. I think over time that everyone gets better and besides getting better and winning more games, there's nothing like seeing your rating rise as proof.

May I suggest contacting a guy who joined recently named Fire. He isn't an extroaordinary player...seems like you 2 would have a good game.

Re: It\'s time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I
 

Yes, go ahead Nodachi, you will always find players willing to play with you no matter what your rating is. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

I am in the same situation Geoschmo, a defeat, a win, a win, a defeat, a win and very likely a defeat now. *Grumbles* And with my next KOTH match against Grazic, I should be ready to add another defeat to my record. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: It\'s time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">LOL. You are not the only one in that rut. I seem to be in a boom and bust cycle too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Gecko

Re: It\'s time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I
 

Alneyan vs Joachim: Year 2403.5 or so.

It hurts. Joachim managed to repel my attempts to invade his systems while retaliating and disabling my excuse for a fleet. (Seeker ship vs seeker ship, heads or tails?) Of course, lagging behind in research and not having mines does hurt. A lot.

However, while my Empire was on its knees and very near surrender, Joachim didn't deal the coup-de-grâce. How merciful he is. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Happiness was decreasing everywhere, and my radioactives storages were a mere two digits. Winning a few other battles would have probably spelled massive riots, and as such, destruction of the Arcadia League. Still, my Empire is in a very poor shape, with slightly more than half the galaxy under its greedy hands. (But the worst half as far as I know) But as long as there is hope, we shall not surrender and we will stand to the mighty frigates of our oppressor in our finest hour and... I digress.

Joachim played well, unlike me as I am playing one of my worst games, on par with my slaughter against Geoschmo. (As know as, why putting ECM, Combat Sensors and training the ships isn't optional, unless winning is also optional for you) Researching Destroyer rather than Mines being quite a big mistake, as these little shiny devices would have been able to keep Joachim at bay so much more efficiently than these so unreliable missile ships. (Is a missile ship ever working properly when in the hands of the non-entity known as an AI? Nodachi had problems with these as well in our game.)

Re: It\'s time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If I had a fleet we might have delivered the coup de grace.... The "ships" that hit your planets were panic builds when I saw your ships through the warp hole just before I mined it. I was very surprised that they managed to paste as many colonies as they did!

Re: It\'s time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yep, I had them working successfully in my Last KOTH game. I had lone missile Escorts blockading a number of worlds and they danced around the missiles on the weapon platforms perfectly. The odd one got smashed, but on the whole, they won the game for me.
Just make sure that before you build them, you have already changed their strat to 'Max range'.
If you don't believe me I'll show you in our game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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hey http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

about loser sub-brackets - with current rules (first come first serve) when asmala-tesco game finishes there will be a big lag in all other games :-)

georgi

Re: It\'s time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I
 

I believe his meaning is that once a game with two skilled opponents ends, the other players might be encouraged to delay the end of their games so that they will not meet a very tough opponent on next turn. However, I don't believe this would actually happen.

Joachim, I don't know how many more battles were needed to destroy my happiness levels, but I do think it was pretty close. If you were very mean you might have sent this ship of yours to blockade my tiny rock planet in the Last system you invaded, as stalemates hurt morale if memory serves right. Or even a war declaration might have been enough. But still, I now see why you should built these mines before going on the offensive, especially when all your ships are only here to try to hold an additional, much needed system. So I believe you will definitively win, but I shall try my best to remain alive for a while. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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How you're going to delay the end if the enemy is crushing you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif And the crusher has no reason to delay the game.

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Ah, yes that is probably what he meant. I can see how that might be possible. The crushee could slow the game by simply not playing their turns. Although I hope noone would do such a thing. I doubt it will happen, but if it does I'll deal with it.