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

Koth page updated.

Slynky, could you host my game against RexTorres? (If Rex has nothing against it)

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If Rex has nothing against it, as usual, I would be honored. I do my best to find an interesting map and place players in an even position. It's very important for me to do this for what I think is the most important game on PBW.

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Thanks a lot Slynky!

Rex, what kind of settings you want? I liked the settings I and Joachim had:
-One good starting planet
-No openers
-No talisman
-No ancient
-Geo's balance mod
-Other than that default KOTH

Comments?

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Asmala, please move me up a level. Fire has surrendered to me (turn 15!) and I have the victory.

For anyone who is curious it was an interesting game.
The settings were:
No Intel
No Ancient Race
No events
Large spiral arm
100,000 starting resources
Good home planet value
10 starting planets evenly spread
Low tech
5000 racial points.

We ended up meeting by turn 4 or so and so I started right away with building war ships. I built up before doing anything and we established a few borders and kept running into each other in different systems all over the place with our exploring colony ships. Eventually I build a fleet capable of sweeping 40 mines and so I took the adventure of going into one of his home systems to find less mines then that on his warp points and his small colonies. I didn't attack his homeworlds thinking he had more mines and more defenses then my fleet could handle but it turns out he did not. I had 2 fleets that were about to take action along with the first fleet in attacking Fire. In total I had over 75 war ships with the 3 fleets and Fire in turn hardly had any.

Fire had me worried has he had stealth armor before I could get scanners to see his ships but that advantage wasn't exploited enough to hurt me.

But all in all it was a good game.

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

Hello, can I join? I think it would help me to play better.

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Bumpity bump.... Rand...

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Yes you can, welcome! Is Sefter Aruna the nick you want to use and your PBW username?

Koth page updated.

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Rand has chosen stock KOTH. I have uploaded so please kick us off as soon as he uploads.

Rand, good luck and did you want to rate this game as per Slynky's rating system?

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He is playing in a game of my, so Yes his PBW-nick is Sefter Aruna. And please sign him up against me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The game is created.

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Game result.

After an interesting game, Gravey prevails over VadimBey.

Thanks for the game...

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Koth page updated <font color="red"> </font>

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Rand V Joachim

Rand Surrenders, turn 25. After being trapped into 6 systems with mines there really was no hope. Thanks for the Early surrender so as not to waste our time. Good Luck with your next battle.

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Koth page updated.

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Asmala,

I'm going to take a break from KOTH for a while and catch up some other things.

Regards,

Gravey

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OK, I removed you from the Hill.

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I have a small problem, there has been a few days that Rambie has not taken his turn. I just wanted to see if there is some problem that he is having or something. Also at the same time I want to say sorry for missing days myself, when I started this game I did not know all the edicut (misspelled) that you are suposed to use (I do now though).

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Re: Parabolize vs Electrum
The Electrum Surrenders. GREAT game. Probably the best KOTH game I've played. I could have gone either way. Have fun clinbing the hill.

Asmala,
Please leave me off the hill for a while.

Slynky,
I know your out there monitoring. Please update the Ratings to show Parabolize's win

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This game was _VERY_ fun. Turn 108 and my warp openers are just now coming out! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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The game is attached if you want to look. password for Black Lotus: 54h64h34h

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I'll get to the site in a few minutes.

Congrats to Parabolize. My initial thoughts on the game was that it would be a good (and even) match and at over 100 turns, it sounds like it.

Nice to see both enjoy a good game!

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Parabolize, my frequent opponent, looks like we are matched up for yet another game. How many has it been for us? Around 5, I'd guess.

You took my Last challenge (the full-tech one), so, I'll let you propose some wicked standards for our game if you like http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif.

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Asmala, I believe I will jump back into the little boat known as KOTH (throwing people overboard would be much more interesting than merely sending them back to the bottom of the hill). Could you please put me back on the hill?

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Welcome back! Nice to see someone coming back to the Hill instead of all the people leaving it.

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I haven't heard anything from Rex about me setting up the game or game settings. I hope you guys are not waiting on me because I am waiting to see if both players agree on settings and me doing the game setup.

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If I understand correctly, it will be the two of us Electrum. Any preference for settings?

Renegade, I will meddle once more in business not mine, but... Have you heard anything to explain the odd situation with your game?

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I've heard nothing from Mark. He did respond to the Messages I sent him, but then only played one turn about a month ago. After that, there's been nothing. I think I'm going to pester him a little bit more, and see what's going on here. Thanks for reminding me, I'd mostly forgotten about the game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif 1 turn within almost 2 months is a little bit slow, don't you think? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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You don't like mods right? If that be the case this looks good:
-One good starting planet
-No openers
-No talisman
-No ancient
-Geo's balance mod
-Other than that default KOTH

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Well, not very imaginitive (smile) but interesting enough. And a fair playing field. Now all we need is to hope is that the game doesn't put us right beside each other (like it does so many times).

Good luck, my friend!

Asmala, lock it in when you are ready.

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Now I checked the game I saw Rambie has uploaded his turn file. So everything should be OK.

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Welcome back. Electrum withdrew from Koth for a while so you have to wait for an enemy.

Koth page is updated.

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No we're not waiting for you. Actually I sent a message to him about the King game only today. I've had exams in school and I decided to go through them before contacting Rex.

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I think I may like to try my hand at being ruthless. Can we specify particular settings for a game like no intel?

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Any settings can be overridden if both players agree; otherwise, the default settings apply (Small Spiral Arm, no ruins, and everything else as default if memory serves). Many players would agree to no intel, as I do not believe there are strong feelings on this particular setting (intelligence has the annoying tendency of simply helping the stronger economy, and nothing else).

If you do want to join KOTH now, feel free to make a proposal for settings; you would happen to play with myself for your first game, unless a game has just ended today (which seems dubious).

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Sure, I'll play against you but I can't start until Wednesday due to scholary pursuits. My only stipulation is no intel! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

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No worries about starting on Wednesday. My own wishes for settings are as follow:

- No Ancient trait (knowing the whole map and how many colonies the other player has isn't so fun)
- No Stellar Manipulation, or at least no Warp Opener/Closer.
- A Tesco map with set start points, or a handmade map if a mapmaker is available.

I think this is all for basic settings, but as usual, I remain open to wacky settings (*Knowing smirk at Slynky*). Hmm, a random setting generator might be an idea. Or perhaps not.

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Oh, now I see how you're going to be buttwipe! I make a few winning maps for you with Lord Chane and I get cast aside like a used prostitute...sniff...sniff.

I don't do mods, as you know, but I do the Balanced map and I do spend time setting starting positions.

IF you'd like, I'd like to repay Kwok for his patience with me during his management of the great tourney.

So....???

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I wasn't sure if you were available for map-making purposes Slynky, and didn't want to presume you would be willing to make yet another map for my games. Since it seems to be the case, I would certainly like one of your handmade maps; not having to worry about "oops, it is turn 4 and I just ran into my opponent. More exactly, I have glassed his homeworld" situations is definitively preferable.

As usual, I have no specific preference regarding the actual map (quadrant type, size and the like), so I will leave that into your hands Kwok. The same goes for the Balance mod (where all systems are the same in planet sizes and atmospheres). If you have particular wishes, do as you will. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Ok Alneyan.

All your settings are fine with me. We could make it that you have to pick 2 racial traits using only 2000 points!

A random galaxy should be just fine.

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By racial traits, do you mean the 1,500 point traits (Religious and the like), or any advanced trait, such as Advanced Storage or, let's be crazy, Emotionless?

If it is the former, I would like to remove the Talisman from the picture (though not the rest of the Religious trait), as it would be a fairly obvious choice otherwise.

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My mistake, it's suppose to be two racial traits (i.e. temporal + crystalline etc) with 0 racial points to start. Anyway, we could just make an agreement to not use the talisman.

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Interesting. So we would have the following:

- 0 Racial point
- Two racial traits mandatory
- No Talisman
- No Warp Opener/Closer (or no Stellar Manipulation to begin with)
- No Ancient (though that one could be lifted. I see nothing wrong with paying 1,000 points for it when you are begging for points)

Two Last questions I had forgotten:
- Do you prefer an average planet, or a good planet to begin with? I tend to prefer a good planet start myself, if only to save headaches on construction rates for these colonizers.
- Do you intend to join the Ratings system? If so, would you like to make this game rated?

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Welcome to Koth Captain Kwok! Do you want to use the same nick on the Hill and is it also your PBW username?

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Of course. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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A good one planet start at mid-tech is fine. I suppose this can be a rated game as well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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Good. I've created the game.

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Well, I've uploaded my empire. Looking forward to being pasted, err, pasting Alneyan. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

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I have forgotten something in the game settings: no intelligence (well, not that kind of intelligence, but simply the whole spying part), as requested by Kwok.

My Empire has just been sent. And do not fret Kwok; while my name shares some characteristics with Asmala (A's are nice, aren't they?), I am not nearly as ruthless as he is. I promise.

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Gozguy vs. Gandalph
Stardate 2408.2

Gozguy has finally surrendered after I finally glassed his Homeworld with 1 of my original fleets. I found his Homeworld through Crew Insurrection when I stole a ship that was over his Homeworld. By that time, I felt that I had the game in hand and sent both my original fleets directly towards his Homeworld. I also had 3 other fleets doing damage on other fronts.

Gozguy played a good game, and I thank you for that, but I was ready for his fighters and swarmed in as quickly as I could with trained fleets. I have been beaten by fighters before when my opponents fighter tech became too much for me too handle. I went for fast trained ships and intel here, and it worked this time.

Thanks for a good game Gozguy and move me up the hill.

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Well then, let's hope there's a turn to play tomorrow morning for me so I can start building my occupation forces. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif