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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have been experimenting with the league page a litte today. I wanted to make it more pyramid shaped to follow the hill theme. I also am considering throwing out any sort of limits of how many players can be on each level.

Don't think of needing four games in one level to get two games in the next. It's not a regular tourney format like football playoffs or anything. As each game ends the winner moves up a level and playes against the next available person at the next level. Because of the variances in game speeds we could have levels with more players than the level below it.

By throwing out the max players on each level I elminate the potential roadblocks at the various levels. Of course there is still a possible blockage for the winners of the hill top games if the current KOTH and #1 contender are still competing. If that happens I am lining up the extras as #2, #3 contender, etc. If that happens a lot I'll add another level to the hill so those people aren't siting around doing nothing.

Geoschmo

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

it is cool the way it is now... Wait until there is a koth before you decide to tinker with it.... That way you can see if it works or not...

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

Send Preacherman to the middle of the hill and leave me down here with the bottom dwellers. I am soundly defeated again.

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

Preacherman now faces Phoenix-D. The winner gets to fight me in the first King of the Hill title match! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

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

I think Geo changed the KOTH structure because he was bored sitting up in that rarefied air, and he doesn't want to wait a loooong time before reaching the peak.

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

Guys, I didn't really change the structure. The hill is the same, I just modified the look of the league page a bit. I removed teh restrictions on the numebr of players allowed on each level, but that shold have little effect on the league I think in the long run, and it has zero effect on the league short term as we weren't up to the limits anyway.

The one actual change I was considering, which I have not done yet, was adding another level to the hill. But I won't do that unless we get a lot of people backing up at the top, which I don't expect.

To help prevent that I will stay after anyone actually involved in a King of the Hill title match and make sure they aren't taking to much time on their games. The lower level games can take as long as they want since they won't be holding anybody back but themselves.

Geoschmo

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

I was just kidding before....sort of. I bet you're itching to face your next opponent in the game. I wouldn't expect otherwise....who wants to wait for another game...we all want to play right now!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

And the wider structure allows for more flow up....and down...the hill, so much the better!! More people can start, the climbing can go more quickly, and ultimately will force the king to deal with challengers more often!!

[ December 19, 2002, 06:33: Message edited by: Cheeze ]

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

Geo,
Please bump me up one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Thanks for the game, Pablo. You are a lot of fun, not too shabby either! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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

Thanks Stone Mill http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif It's been a good game.
Geo, do I need to send you an e-mail everytime I want to get into a game or is it done automatically till I 'unSubscribe'?
Anyway - sign me in again http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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

Well, that's 2 games played and 2 games lost. There must be a major difference between mano-y-mano and any other game or I am an idiot when it comes to this game. Turn 60, after several interesting battles, I am building to replace my lost ships when he breaks through my ships with a fleet of 45, untouched by my defensive ships in battle. I have a defensive edge over his ships, yet he escapes unscathed. Either I don't understand how this game works or I just suck at it, I don't know. I will move on, and continue my victorious ways in other games, so it won't be long before I figure out this one-on-one format.

Gandalph The Defeated

Edit- Good game 1FSTCAT, I don't know how you outproduced, outresearched, me, but you did. Perhaps you would like to send me an email explaining your tactics? Nah, why give away a good thing!

[ December 20, 2002, 00:52: Message edited by: Gandalph ]