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

People take ancient race to know where the other players are. That has a LOT of value. Knowing where every little green star planet is, not so much. I guess it helps some, but not enough to make it worth the thousand points for ancient race. And not enough to make it worth goign through a hundred maps to figure out which one you are playing on. At least in my hunble opinion.

Geoschmo

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's up to Asmala I guess. He hasn't even said if he want's to use them.

As far as the greater issue of cheating. Pretty much it comes down to an issue of trust. There are ways to cheat. All you can do is make it as difficult as possible to do so, and trust the players in the games you are with are not going to extrodinary lengths to do so. You can't really prevent it.

Geoschmo

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Personally I like the random maps. They are so unpredictable, your enemy can be your neighbor or in the other side of the quadrant, you can never know it. So if one player wants Tesco's map and the other doesn't the random map is used. But I have noticed that people here is pretty compliant, I have never settled a controversy about game settings.

The KOTH page is updated by DavidG's Finnish-date-format-compatible program. Many thanks (again http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ) to him.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">DavidG is very nice to do stuff like that (the main reason I popped him with a 5 rating several weeks back http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

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

Grandpa Kim vs. Gozguy

Contact! About turn 22.

So far we are shuffling back and forth between first and second place. My only explanation is he using the same lame strategies I am in order to give me a chance. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Probably has more to do with ships colonizing in different sequences than yours. I think ships add more points than colonies...but don't quote me... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">True. Pure colony doesn't add any points, only the resources the planet produce. The scores formula is like this IIRC: resource + research + intel production + (total unmothballed ships and bases in kT)*10 + very little from researched levels.

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Cheeze vs Asmala Update

We made first contact on turn 12. Space is so thick with Black Rider colonizers it's like trying to fly in a snowstorm....they're everywhere!!!!

Turn 20 and Asmala has drawn first blood. A group of his fighters has savaged a potted plant colony that had just set up a nice little home on a new planet. And it's just going to get worse from here....Yikes!!!

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

The maps would be a variation from stock. So both players would have to agree on it as a setting. Just like number of planets. etc...

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I did notice on generation that GRID and Galatic EDGE made the best maps for distance and space