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

Koth page is updated.

Renegade 13, I already deleted the game. If you don't have the turn I can email it to you.

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

So, Renegade, looks like we're up next.

Is there anything you'd like to change from the standard KOTH settings?

Mark

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks Asmala, but I've already looked at the turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What do you think of No Intel, and one GOOD planet start? Are there any special settings you'd like for this game??

Renegade

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Happy with that. Generally I play as standard as possible, so no other changes from me.

Asmala? Oh, Asmaaaaaaaala.

Looks like we have our game settings decided. My empire will be up within half an hour.

Mark

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Oh, one more point. What do you think about the Ancient racial trait? I know that lots of people like to exclude it (I rarely use it, but sometimes...)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">...I'm not one of them, so feel free.

Mark

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Seeing that my homeworld is about to get glassed, or worse yet, converted, the Electrum surrenders to Grandpakim.
It was a good game that see-sawed back & forth, but, alas, the Electrum could not prevail.

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Asmala,
Please put me back at the bottom
Slynky,
Adjust the Ratings accordingly.
Thanks

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Gotcha, Electrum. Hold still, though, we might see each other if Gravey takes care of me soon http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

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Fascinating game Electrum. I thought I was toast about turn 25. I had diddly squat! Besides my home world, I had only one other breathable! (Not counting that one I lost in the far west)

So I bit the bullet and researched another colony tech very early. Never thought I'd get away with it, but I guess your economy was in nearly as bad a state as mine.

I managed to hold on with my redoubtable fighters till I could build and train a serious fleet and take the offensive.

Thanks for a fun game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Asmala, move me on up to the big time. Don't worry, I'll be back on the bottom shortly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Hey Slynky, sorry for the lack of turns the Last few days. Work and after-work has had me pretty tied up and now I will be out of town until Sunday. Normal service should resume Monday.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ahhh, life...what's one to do? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

NP...catch you when you have time.

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Zharktas vs Me.
Zharktas surrendered at the turn 49.
Hope you will have a good trip Jari, and wish you the best luck climbing the hill!

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Looks like its you and me, Master B.

I suggest: </font>

• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">small Tesco map</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">no intel</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">no ancient</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">one "good" starting planet</font>
• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">rated game</font>

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

Koth page is updated.

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In the bottom of the hill game Rand vs Fire rand surrendered to Fire.

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I'm ticked off. Another one lost. But I did something great. Something that makes me one of the dirtiest Se4 players. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Asmala set me up again. Don't forget I'm Hustler

[ August 02, 2004, 22:16: Message edited by: Iansidious ]

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I moved to different town on Sunday, and now I have a problem since my internet access doesn't work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif . Due to that I can't start new games or update Koth or play my own turns.

I really hope that I'll get the connection working soon.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No need to rush. Whenever you can do it. Thanks

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Welcome to the family of "Broadband is very nice and all, expect when it doesn't want to work" Asmala! Do not say "I hope it will work again soon", as it is a major summoning of the power of Murphy. Speaking of which, if anyone has the slightest clue about why a DSL connection would go from 1k/sec to 70k/sec without reason, feel free to tell me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Rex, Lord Chane surrendered to me a few days ago, so I should fall against you. My proposal for the game is as follow: we are kin; why would we want to fight? We should join our hands and do the dance of friendship, while sharing a drink as proper brothers, and... Granted, afterwards we will go for the crown as allies, and only then we will divide the kingdom between us.

If you do want to fight, my only suggestions are No Ancient and a somewhat bigger map where we do not start next to each other. What are your preferences for settings? But remember: we're not worthy to play with you!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">When Asmala can get it done, it looks like it will be us. Any thoughts on games specs?

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Well, actually this connection is a dial-up. I'm moving again quite soon (in two or three weeks) assuming I'll get an apartment near my university. If I'm able to get a student house there should be a fast broadband connection waiting http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I'm very satisfied to get this connection working, it took a lot of time. Finally I found that the problem was Winsock2 information which had been corrupted. A nice program found from the net fixed it. And before that I had removed and reinstalled twice all of my network related stuff http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Koth page finally updated.

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Hi VadimBey,

We have been assigned to a KOTH game. Here is a suggestion for our game. How about the standard KOTH settings with no intel. If you have any ideas for the game please let me know.

Later
Fire

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re: Electrum Vs Rand

Asmala,

We've discussed it. Please set the game to default settings plus no Intel.

Thanks for you support. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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KOTH - Slynky vs Gravey 2405.1

After looking at the whooping I took at the hands of 15 warships (losing 25-30 myself while killing 1), it's time to call it a game. This turn followed on the heels of me killing a fleet of his (about 10-12 warships) on the other side of my empire (while watching my fleet of about 30 warships get whittled to their knees). Needless to say, with Gravey having bigger ships, better ECM, better Sensors, and shielding, things won't get any better http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif .

Sorry I couldn't have given you a better game, Gravey, but starting on an outside system with your home system 2 away from me (to my inside...thus being able to block off my expansion fairly easily) was more than I could overcome. As if being pinned to a few outside systems wasn't bad enough, my homeworld was on the very bottom of the system screen (meaning it took me 3 turns just to get a ship out of my home system heading north...and that's with propulsion bonus!). Of course, you knew it was a tough spot and I thank you for offering to restart.

Good luck up the Hill http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

Asmala, when you get a chance to set me up with another opponent, I'm the one in the mud puddle at the bottom of the hill http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

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Koth page updated.

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Hey Slynky,

I think you certainly made me sweat, from a very difficult position too.

Thaks for making the best of it.

Gravey.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">OF course, the sweating stopped the moment you saw how easy it was for your ships to clobber me...LOL.

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

Hello, Rodan here I am new to this forum and PBW have been playing SEIV for a while though. I think that this looks like fun, How can I sign up?

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Look for Asmala and simply say you are up for some fast and furious fun! He'll add you to the roster.

Welcome to the madness http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Welcome Rodan, and good luck to you! You might want to read one of the articles about the "usual" Empires used on PBW, but I don't have a link to such summaries at hand.

Besides this, cross your fingers! There is nobody waiting for you, so you can either start with playing against another beginner, or a former King. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif If only I had a sword of kingslaying...

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I would vary much like to chalenge someone, while I am not used to SEIV Online I think that I might be o.k.

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Also, do any of you know where I could get a pic of a rodan from star wars? I would like it for my avitar.

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As to the King of the Hill, you will be paired with a person at the bottom of the hill.

If you want a challenge in general, just post a message in the forum...there are always people looking for "fresh meat" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I tried a quick search for images on Google with: "rodan" and "Star Wars". Results, 5 hits. Not good.

So, I'm at a loss. BTW, what's a "rodan"?

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Perhaps there are some "rodan" avatar in David's avatar emporium. He has a ton of them there.

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Maybe he means a "rodian" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Edit: I checked Davids Avatar emporium and his thread and couldn't find a "Rodian" avatar, might have missed it as they are a lot of them. Give him a Private Message

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Hello, yes I did mean a rodian http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

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I allways thought that Rodan the rodian would be a cool name for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Hi Rodan and welcome to KOTH league. I've put you at the bottom of the Hill. All I need to know is your PBW nick.

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Rodan. Just curious but do you play a "Rodian Empire" in SEIV? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

If so do you find that in combat that a omnipotent force always makes you shoot second? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

(Reference for those who didn't get it: Han Shoots First http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif)

Welcome to the Forums http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

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Re: Electrum vs Rand
Asmala,
Thanks for the game set-up
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I might have one of Greedo in the emporium, but I'm too lazy to look through all 1000+ avatars to find it.. So here you go, a brand spanking new avatar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
http://69.56.133.54:81/threads/uploa...116-Rodain.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Asmala, please move me up to the next level. Rambie surrendered to me this past turn due to lack of resources and my large fleet heading for his home planet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Rambie, great game! When I started looking through the systems you had when you surrendered I can see why you ran out of resources. You hardly had any planets at all! I controled 2/3 of the map and I was still going through and finding empty systems the closer I got to your home. I was very suprised by this because we met in some systems away from yours so I figured you had the other system colonized from there on in.

But I feel that if you had expanded better then you did you would have won this game. Your ships were on par if not slightly better then mine as far as technology level is concerned and at times I was very worried about that fact. But I just keep my economy going and new with as much map as I started to control I would eventually run you out of resources because of you trying to build a large fleet to combat mine. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Thanks for the great game and perhaps we'll meet again!

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Koth page is updated.

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Hail to Asmala. He is still the King.
The Primitive one truly lived up to his name in this game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

After Asmals stole my pop early I took a crazy chance and went for the early second colonizing tech while waiting with ECM and Sensors. With the ballance mod and the difficulties to train ships I figured I would have time enough to upgrade the sensors later. Guess I was wrong, when Asmala came I still needed 3 more turns + repair time to have my ships ready to face him.

Could still made a fight for it though, if it wasn't for the fact I just tried to colonize 25 planets with my new ICE class colonizers. Unfortunately they had the Rock colonizer module. Damned upgrade button [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif
Wouldn't have mattered much if they had the right tech though, Asmala would have won this one anyway.

I need a rest Asmala. Take me off the hill for a while

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I decided to go as straight as possible to default LC design (ECM 3, sensors 3 etc.) and ship/fleet training. I hoped I would catch Primitive off-guard that way, and it looks like I succeed.

Primitive, I haven't seen your main fleet yet, so I'd like to know how many LCs you had. I had total of 79 LCs (plus support ships). Half of those were still travelling to the meeting point or being upgraded to the most recent technology.

Thanks for the nice game Primitive.

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Koth page updated.

It's me and Joachim next. First we need somebody to set up the game. Slynky, could you do the honors?

Joachim, any preferences for settings? Here are the settings Primitive and I used, and I liked them:

-One good starting planet
-No openers
-No talisman
-No ancient
-Geo's balance mod
-Other than that default KOTH

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68 LC's. About 45 of them in training next door to Gergan. In 4 turns they would have been formidable http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

+ 38 useless colonizers http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

What was your score BTW. I was a bit supprised not to be in front when the colonizers popped up. I had 715 K points, 176 K resources, 134 K Research and 110 Ships + 2 Bases.