alt.tourney idea
Just to throw stones about the combat-ladders.....
The problem is that this game is so diverse. A small map where # of provinces win could almost be decided by choice of race rather than player skills. Im thrilled that the-Battlefield is going to do a ladder. It will be great PR.
Hmmm brain-fart: a web site setup where games are always available. One for each nation and theme, playing against AI's (I know, bear with me). Hmmm maybe randomly generated maps also. Play to (40 turns?) and record the "score".
Maybe spit out the score.html and add up all the numbers for that nation (Pangaea wins with forts+gold+armies+gems+provinces) or some formula based on it (provinces*10,+gold+gems+armies).
Arcade-style ranking board of highest ten scorers for each nation. Once that is built up abit then offer a long game to the Last man standing between the highest rankers playing their best nations.
The problem I see is that this could be very popular as blitz games. I have a fairly powerful machine sitting in the garage but Im not sure I can convince the wife to take one of the house machines offline to give the game-ladder one of my 5 IPs
GParker
God of Mediation, Ally of All, Explorer of the "Weak" Tactic, the Lord of Randoms and Surprises
[ April 28, 2004, 13:51: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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