Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Consider me razed... LOL! I LOVE Monty Python!

Or how about...

"I'm the King of the Britans!"
"Who?"

"How do we know he's the King?"
"He hasn't got sh*t all over him!"

Hee hee...

[ June 07, 2003, 20:56: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Congrats to Mark and Slinky for a riveting game... I really enjoy your accounts.

I'm also just darn impressed by the sportsmanship in this league. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

As far as settings, I usually ask for:

3 starting planets (Good)
High starting bonus
Small Spiral map - usually works well, but I'm open to what anyone wishes

This gets the game moving pretty fast. As your current King, I know players at the top want a crack as fast as possible, so I try and accomodate that. But I'll consider most suggestions. Oh, but I do like mines in the game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tks, Stone. Not sure people care much about the bottom/base of the hill, but the game seemed a bit extroadinary. I suspect the game you had with Asmala was more of a nail-biter but I submit ours was the bloodiest (and for a standard start, very high tech).

Mark is now 2-0. Is he the new "surprise" upstart?

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's fixed now. It was an uppercase/lowercase typo. I have index.htm and koth.htm in my server but when I updated the page I uploaded index.htm and KOTH.htm http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif And yes, I'm not using Linux but Windows http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

King Title Defense IV: Stone Mill vs. Rollo

::: In the antechamber of the command center Graceland, The King finishes up his comm call. "Thass right momma- next outfit needs to be let out a little around the waist. I popped off some sequins. Bye."

The colonel enters again.

"Sir, this is far worse than anything we've ever seen. I... I... can't..." http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Elvis swings around with a stunning hip shake. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif "Shake it out Colonel!"

"Rollo has entered the quadrant, and has sent an ambassador."

"That's mighty-nice o' him!"

"King, he's dressed in skins and mail, has apparently never washed himself, flatulates constantly, and wreaks of grog! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/blush.gif He urinated in your favorite plant, and carried off two waitresses from the kitchen staff!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

"Now juss hold on a minute, Colonel--- That's where I draw the line... That's high crime. We need to play Rollo a litte Jailhouse Rock! " ::: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[ June 07, 2003, 22:16: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

LOL @ Stone!

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

I'm curious how many have chosen non standard game settings for their KOTH games and how the went?

Such as:

- a medium size map? (would this help avoid the starting adjacent problem)

- 10 planet starts

- banning certain tech?

I've played a couple now were we Banned mines. This makes for a faster paced game since there is no waiting around for those sweepers. I'd also like to try a game were all weapons except the special racial ones (like organic) are Banned. (edit Hmm seems the game wont let you do that so I guess it would have to be a gentlemans agreement) Just thought of another that might me fun. 1 planet no warp points (with either cheap tech or high tech)

[ June 07, 2003, 12:57: Message edited by: DavidG ]

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, that was one of those "features" that I originally intended to keep up with and turned out to be way more work then it was worth. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Hey, David you cut out the best part of the scene!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hehehe, I never get tired of that movie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Geoschmo

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Grandpakim/Gozguy

I think you guys are jivin' me. I don't know what the 'H' is going on in my game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif Either I will grind Goz down with my juggernaut or he's laid down the nastiest surprise of all time and will be handing me a "canowhoopass".

However, I have relieved him of the burden of managing the Bardron system. Now I must decide where to go next. Which of the two exit warps is least heavily defended? How shall I decide? Hmm...

Inty minty diggety fig... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No reason this game should not count. My loss here had more to do with my decission to build SY bases than my start position. Had I followed my usual tactic of pumping out colony ships I would have met you in time to get some defenses built up. Building even one attack ship in the first 10 turns would have been smart too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif