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

David, please don't quit. i havn't been able to upload the turn and i refuse any 'win' based on the other person quiting. in fact, if you insist on quiting, then i quit to. so i don't win.

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">'eh? This has been your problem for a week? I got the one message from you about it, but from the timing it looked like you happened to try uploading at a moment while I was rebooting the server. Are you saying you are still having this problem and have been for days?

I need more info. Noone else is reporting this.

Geoschmo

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

no, my reason for not uploading saturday is simple stupidity: i forgot. feel free to call me an idiot.

how did i forget? the same way i forgot to tell someone something for six months, when it was something i wanted to tell them. i just put 'playing pbw turns' as the first thing to do in the morning.

i put a reply in the pbw down thread: 'i'm not sure when it started, i think i had it with the P&N game to, but it dissapeared after a while. it dissapeared sometime Last night, because i just uploaded the koth turn(please come back, David) and it worked. i opened up 'gameupload', something i should have done sooner and got this 'Cannot execute player command: Filename uploaded was unexpected; expecting: kothnva_0001.plr', which is exactly what it was named.'

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

Narf, the game is over, I have already resigned. I understand you were having problems, and don't place all the blame on you. If you want to call this game 'Null & Void' that's fine. I think you need to play a few more PBW games to get the hang of it. once you are more accustomed to joining/playing PBW games we could try again, but not for the time being.

I'm not mad,. It was just very frustrating, (I'm sure it was for you too.) Perhaps we would be better matched against veterans in our first games so that they can help with the mechanics.

any way, I'll return to KotH in the future, but not just now.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ February 11, 2004, 19:31: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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

ok. thanks for not being mad at me.

or wait...is this your revenge? getting me mauled by a koth veteran? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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

David, KotH games are ALPU on default because normally there's no need to time limits since the games go so fast. If there is problems I switch to automatic turns if my message to other player doesn't change the situation. However, I can't do anything if I'm not informed about a delay in turns (I don't have time to check all KotH game whether there is problems). But, welcome back to the Hill whenever you want.

I've updated the KotH page. Unfortunately there isn't a new opponent to Narf yet. But I think one will come soon (fast down the Hill http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ).

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

Could someone please tell me what the general or default settings for KOTH games are? I've got a game that needs to get started between myself and another newcomer to KOTH, but we don't know what the "normal" settings are.

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

KOTH defaults:
-small spiral arm quadrant
-no A.I. or neutral players
-no ruins
-no events
-5000 units
-1000 ships
-everything else will be the default SEIV game settings

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

Welcome to the Hill Renegade, Always good with some fresh meat http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

What Asmala said is the defaults (remember 2000 points), and applies when the players don’t request something special (or can’t agree).

There are a few requests that are very common and you should discuss with your opponent before you start;
- Using a “Tesco” map (maps with preset starting positions) which gives better chances of a balanced game.
- 3 (or more) starting planets cuts about 10 turns of the early game and also minimises the penalty for a bad starting system(s)
- Also many games put a ban on Ancient trait and Intel.

You should also check out the clone thread before you make your empire.
Short Version: Take at least 20 % to attack, 20% to defence and the Berzerker trait or you are screwed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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

KOTH BBegemott vs Asmala 2404.1

The map is a big 117-system grid map with edges wrapping and it has changed the playing style a lot. No use for one enormous fleet, instead of that we both have many small fleets. I have currently six small fleets destroying and capturing BBegemott's planets, he has four I'm aware of.

As BBegemott said I got the better part of the galaxy. I have researched a second colony type and as far as I can tell BBegemott hasn't. That means I have not only better planets but more of them.

I have constructed a nice amount of dreadnoughts whereas BBegemott has only cruisers, but my ships use still DUC Vs which put me in a slight disadvantage in combats.

All in all, I think I would be winning this if BBegemott didn't have the talisman.