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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Is there a way to prohibit training?

I try to keep my games to rated ones but I might enjoy a rematch.

By the way, chess uses the same pieces on the same board and the same settings. Why is KOTH such a clone?

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's all part of the mental game Slynk. You think ancient race is crucial. If I can get you to not use it then in your mind you are playing at a disadvantage. Even if I don't really think it's that big of an advantage having it, the important thing is how much it screws with your head not to have it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Leave it to you to go "mental" with me... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif .

Of course, I think, I play just as well without it...I mean within what it contricts me to...which is the same as it constricts the opponent. You DID whomp me in our KOTH game, though...I think having ancient in that game may have helped but who knows for sure.

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You could turn off advanced military tech and psychic tech. Or simply a gentleman's agreement.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hear hear. Even if everybody did use exactly the same empire setup there is still enough variety in game play style and the random element to keep me interested. SE4 IROC, so to speak. But beyond that, the "koth clone" isn't exactly a firmly defined set of characteristics. People mostly agree on the basics, but not all the specifics. There are many differences in degree.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">99% of opening chess moves P-KP4. how much more cloned can you get? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Please don't make me list the ways how all SE4 games are similar.

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">99% of opening chess moves P-KP4. how much more cloned can you get? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Please don't make me list the ways how all SE4 games are similar. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's P-K4 (which, by the way is the old way of notation). It's written that way to save time while on the clock. After all, only one pawn can get there.

But you display a strange attitude...chess has, for years, been considered the greated game of all. I'm sure there are "Go" enthusiasts among us (and I used to give a 3-stone handicap for anyone I played 'cause the chances of them being any good at "Japan's chess" were slight) who might disagree.

But, disregarding chess, SE4 offers the same thing (with the inclusion of some luck...which chess doesn't really have to deal with). You have a board layed out in front of you and though you might do some of the same things, you generally find you have to adapt to the map (board), and ships (pieces) and opponent in order to get a win.

But, that aside, don't throw chess into the same bucket as SE4. Until you have studied the game as much as I have, know as much as I do, understand it is a worldwide game, Don't assume it is a boring and redundant game. I forget the statistics but in the hundreds of thousands of games that have been recorded for history, there has been about .0001% occurance of a repeated game. And those were short.

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Yes, Geo, but by turning off Adv Mil Tech, you take away hyper optics. As to gentleman's agreement, I suspect most anyone would prefer something that is more "enforceable" and "verifiable". For my part...I could handle it with the appropriate honesty but the first time that a fleet of mine destroyed a fleet of the opponent, I wouldn't want to have to undergo the "accusation" of "you must have trained them!". God knows I hate spending time training ships/fleets anyway! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Anyway, back to the subject...there is no way to turn off JUST training.

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">True enough, but what of it? There are other components that can do the job of hyper optics. You can research gravatic sensors in about the same time you'd have hyper optics, and tachyeon sensors in just a few more turns then that. Or if you take the temporal race trait you could have temporal sensors in less time then any of them. There are psychic sensors as well, but I already suggested turning off psychic technology to eliminate the psychic training facility.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not without a mod, no. However, a mod to turn them off only would be a very simple one.

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if there is four perhaps a rule that another level gets added http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif So the four can fight it out and then the two winners fight it out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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

RexTorres, BBegemott, how the King match is going? Any estimations how much left? There is a nice queue and I'm thinking if I should do something to that.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not that I ever get to be a Contender http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif , but IMO there should never be more than one Contender. I would like to see levels added and deleted as conditons change.