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

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Originally posted by spoon:
The Evil Bad King would be inclined to lolligag if he sees someone he doesn't like at the Top of the Hill. He could, theoretically and unscrupulously, drag his feet until somebody eliminates the dangerous contender for him.

He who eliminates the dangerous contender is obviously even more dangerous, so perhaps it's not so wise for King to dawdle. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Similarly, if you are at the Crest of the Hill, with one opponent at the Top of the Hill, and if you are unscrupulous and evil and bad, then your best bet would be to dawdle until the Top of the Hill location is clear, and hope for a quick King Battle.

If you're on the Crest of the Hill and you try to dawdle till the Top of the Hill is empty and there no contenders, I dare to say you have to dawdle a long time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Of course there is always possibility to dawdle, but it's difficult to have a good timing since games are finished in quick pace.

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

The account where KOTH site is currently is expiring. Spaceempire.net kindly promised to host KOTH (thanks Fyron http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif ).

The new address is http://www.spaceempires.net/koth so please update your links. Also Fyron said http://koth.spaceempires.net should work, but I can't get it work for me. Anybody else has problems with it?

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

Expire? I thought it ran off the PBW server.

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

Well, I am glad that the crest is back and like the rule about advancing to #1 contender if there is noone else on the top. Actually I was about to suggest that myself. Grandpa Kim beat me to it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

One thing I don't understand, though, is that the current contenders #2 - #4 are not moved down to the top of the hill, because the new level doesn't solve the problem of the long queue of contenders. In fact I find it somewhat unfair to all the people who fought their way up through the extra levels.

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Actually the way it is now is the way it's been for most of the long and storied history of the Hill. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif For a short time Asmala added another level cause things were getting backed up, like they are now I guess. But it was a fairly temporary situation and he took it back off a while back because things had thinned out significantly. At that point we had like one person on each level and it looked like it was going to be a while before that changed.

I think you are mistaken here, Geo. The extra level has been in effect for a long time since May Last year. Also ever since the extra level had been added and DavidG and myself lost our contender spots, all the Kings and contenders had to go through the extra level. That is also true for the current #1 contender, BBegemott.

So moving the current #2 - #4 contenders to the top would not only solve the problem with the long wait queue. It would also mean consistancy for the hill, since no #1 contender has (yet) slipped under the radar of having fewer levels for a period of time.

Don't get me wrong here. I don't suggest this out of spite, but out of fairness.

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

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Expire? I thought it ran off the PBW server.

Nope. If you look at the address you'll notice it has nothing to do with PBW. First it was there but when I started to manage KOTH it moved to koti.mbnet.fi.

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

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Originally posted by Rollo:
One thing I don't understand, though, is that the current contenders #2 - #4 are not moved down to the top of the hill, because the new level doesn't solve the problem of the long queue of contenders. In fact I find it somewhat unfair to all the people who fought their way up through the extra levels.

Obviously you haven't noticed that Master Belisarius is the only contender who hasn't gone through the extra level. If I drop Geo to the Top he would need 6 wins in succession to became the King! That I would call unfair. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

However your post made me think there is some unfairness currently. Unfortunately to Master Belisarius, the best solution is drop to him to the Top of the Hill. That will mean every contender since the addition of the extra level has gone through it. I hope you have no hard feelings Master Belisarius.

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

Yes, I had already made it to the top level when we removed the extra level. Slynky actully got bumped up a level at the time, but I beat him in our match.

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

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yes, I had already made it to the top level when we removed the extra level. Slynky actully got bumped up a level at the time, but I beat him in our match.

Yep, that's right, one day I woke up, found myself in a match and then a day or two later recovered from the beating.

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

I may have caused the confusion with my post listing my recent victories. I inadvertantly neglected to mention the first victory against Alneyan. My appologies to Alneyan for fogetting him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Nice job of reaching a logical, fair decision there Asmala. Now you see why I didn't want to run this puppy any longer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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

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Originally posted by Asmala:
Obviously you haven't noticed that Master Belisarius is the only contender who hasn't gone through the extra level. If I drop Geo to the Top he would need 6 wins in succession to became the King! That I would call unfair. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

yes, you are correct. I missed the fact that both Geo and yourself had 4 consecutive wins to earn the contender spot. My apologies.

Good and fair decision.

Also I hope no hard feelings, MB. Best of luck and success in your upcoming matches.

[ January 06, 2004, 21:30: Message edited by: Rollo ]