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

Let me say, my biggest concern is not the time it takes to manage KOTH. That's an issue, but it's not overwhelming or anything. The biggest thing is I would like the league to be bigger, and the only way I see that happening is to make it more flexible. Again I don't want to get rid of 2 player games. And if anybody wants to only play 2 player games they would be more than welcome to in a ladder format. But players could also play larger games if they wanted. It would be up to them.

No, I would not need to officiate the games. Players could simply state at the begining that it will be a ladder game. Technically I suppose you could even have a ladder game where not everybody in it is a ladder member. In that case you'd only report losses to ladder players. If you had a 20 player game and only ten were ladder player for example, if you were the first person knocked out you'd only report nine losses, to the other ladder members in the game. This would have to be codified, I am just suggesting it as a posibility.

Geoschmo

[ March 13, 2003, 13:15: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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

Ragnarok, I think you played pretty well. You just shouldn't use colony ships to transport population in border systems. When I stole one of them I got your colonizing tech. The planet rebelled because I was testing Puppet Political Parties.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's great that KOTH is going to stay KOTH, especially because I have now the possibility to become to the King. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Though my game against Stone Mill hasn't started well, I have found only one medium and one small breathable planet.

I can do some programming if nobody else has offered. I can't do anything very complicated so if here is someone more experienced it would be nice.

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

DavidG and I are talking about a program to automate the updating of the koth page. At some point down the road I'll probably also get back to where I just tell you who you are playing and you guys either get an owner or one of you does it and then you tell me who won. But for right now no changes.

Geoschmo

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah I know I shouldn't have. But I had those ships on their way to colonize some planets spread around and then you hit me with the food contamination. It hit a couple key planets that I needed population on in order to support my empire. I didn't have a transport ship up there so I would've had to build one, and then send it up. It would've taken at least 7 turns to do all that. Which I didn't have time for. So I was forced to use my colony ships to keep population on them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif So if it wasn't for you and you're stupid intel I could've won. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif j/k

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I understand you being over-worked. (But I sure like the idea of not having to worry if my opponent knows the map or not)

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I understand you being over-worked. (But I sure like the idea of not having to worry if my opponent knows the map or not)</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's a valid concern.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I understand you being over-worked. (But I sure like the idea of not having to worry if my opponent knows the map or not)</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's a valid concern.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">To that end, we could have a nuetral party set up the game. I would be willing to act as a KOTH setup admin, but we would need more than one so I don't end up setting up my own games.

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

I could also setup games for other people.

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

I'm willing to host games as well.