Rated Game Proposal
 

Well, Geo can do it, so why can't I http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ?

I was thinking about the popularity of the Draft Football league played in bars and thought up a similar idea:

Game: Team
Players: 4 x 4 (or 5 x 5 if enough interest)
Turn Times: 48 hours till turn 15 (then 72 hours)
Map: Large (to be set up fairly by an approved non-player dividing teams across the map)
Type: To be decided
Racial restrictions: 2,000 points; 1 good starting planet; Low tech cost; No trait will be lowered to show "non-existant"; No Religious
Game restrictions: No mines; No intel; All players on a team must take the same colony type but a DIFFERENT atmosphere; surrender/gifts/trades/(etc.) allowed

NOW, here is the "kicker":

There are 2 admirals at the beginning for each team (that are the highest rated players). Proposed at this writing: Primitive and Asmala (everyone knows my rating is a bit inflated http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ). Each admiral "drafts" his choice of players to fill out "his" team. First draft goes to the lowest rated player (and after that, team total).

So, a running total is kept of the team total and until a team total is higher than that of the opposing team, he continues to keep choosing. Example:

Asmala chooses first. He chooses a player with 500 points (I know...not a wise choice). Now, that team has (roughly) 1600 points. Now, Primitive is the lowest team total. He chooses next and chooses a player with 1000 points. Now, his team has (roughly) 2100 points. Asmala's team is lowest again and he chooses a player with 400 points (gee, has anyone talked to him about his choices?!). Now, Asmala's team has (roughly) 2000 points. So he gets to choose again.

Of course, that is a wild example to make the point.

So, when we get two agreeable admirals, the "drafting" begins. It must be posted here in this thread and should look like this (kind of):

Primitive humbly (as if http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ) requests the fleets of (fill in the blank) to join him in galactic slaughter. The requested person can decline (based on schedule or anything else...after all, he might not want to play a game of this type) or accept. If he declines, he is removed from the draft list. If accepts, team points are totaled and the lowest team total gets the next choice.

This game, just so you know, will result in a large amount of points gained and lost. Remember, it is also "Last man standing" so you will either have to fight it out with your teammates or come to an agreement on who was most instrumental in getting the victory for the team and assign winning positions that way.

Finally, if there are any dropouts (for good reasons), a substitute player may be assigned as a fill-in with the following conditions: He must be rated lower than the person he is replacing and the position will not be rated for either the replaced player or the replacement player (in other words, he is joining to play to the best of his ability and help out a team who had a player drop for good reasons).

Suggestions? Comments? Interest?

Re: Rated Game Proposal
 

Interest, Yes! I would not like the Last Man Standing threat to break up the teams, but could accept it.

suggest - View Allied scores.

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Great Idea Slynky, but Primitive must humbly request to be left out of this http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

RL is is closing in from all sides and I can't commit to any new games (except from KOTH of course) for the next few months.

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Sounds like a fine idea! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I am interested. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I would be interested, if you do not mind rather long delays for the turns once we get in the core of the game. Slynky will be able to vouch for my carefulness when these main battles occur, or when you do need to set up a strategic battle plan. (Electrum and Parabolize will unfortunately be able to confirm this as well)

Re: Rated Game Proposal
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I know it would be an important game with (time permitting) a participation of a lot of the top-rated players so I fully intended people to treat this game as a game to be played carefully and make full use of the turnaround time.

So far, we have no admirals stepping forward (Asmala is on Easter vacation till Tuesday and Primitive has declined). I would step in myself and stand as an admiral but as I started this idea, it feels a bit weird to do so (and those who have played with me know my ability as reflected in points is a bit inflated) and BBegemott has been quite silent of late...therefore, I call upon RexTorres to act as an admiral.

Update (proposal) to game settings:

Game restrictions: No mines; No intel; All players on a team must take the same colony type but a DIFFERENT atmosphere; No openers or closers; Surrender/gifts/trades/(etc.) allowed

Removed from draft consideration: Primitive

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Great idea Slynky. To get all top rated players in one cage. And see who survives.

However I am trying to cut down my number of games. Even dropped out of KOTH. It's a pity, but i am going to omit this one.

Re: Rated Game Proposal
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I thought I remembered you saying you needed a rest after your "killer" KOTH run http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif . It's also one of the reasons I skipped you on the list and went straight to Rex. No hard feelings I hope http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

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I would be willing to give it a go, so count me in.