New Tournament starting, Join the 2003 PBW Open tournament

[Ruatha]

Can you sign me up?
I can't acess PBW from work and I won't be home until another 16 hours.

[geoschmo]

Ok Ruatha, you are in game 4. As long as people want in though I will keep adding games. I haven't put a time limit or a limit on the number of contestants. Although I'd like to keep the games all of five, at least for the first round. So maybe some people will not get in if we end up with only one or two extras. Unless we throw them in and make a couple games of six. Although that might be hard to do cause I have been starting the games as soon as they fill up so far.

Geoschmo

[Ruatha]

Good.
Will start thinking about empire creation and strategy instead of work now then

[PsychoTechFreak]

Alliances and tech trading are premitted in game

Is it possible somehow to disable every political/trading interaction? I guess ship/resources/somesuch trading is not intended also, right?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:

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Alliances and tech trading are premitted in game

Is it possible somehow to disable every political/trading interaction? I guess ship/resources/somesuch trading is not intended also, right?

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Not intended? Are you mis-reading the game description? Hmmm, actually I said "premitted", but that was a typo. It's supposed to say "permitted". Is premitted actually a word that means "not permitted"?

Hypothetically speaking it's possible to restrict gifts and tributes of any kind, and it's possible to restrict technology gifts or trades. It's not possible to restrict trades involving ships, planets, or anything other than tech. But the question is moot for the purposes of this game because I am not restricting anything. Just keep in mind every game is Last man standing, no alliance victories. So anything you trade can and will be used against you.

Geoschmo

[PsychoTechFreak]

No, I just meant the other-than-tech-trades because it is still thinkable to abuse the trade system to an advantage: 2 players are trading with the premise not to fight against each other until the other 3 players are gone, or similar scenarios.

I like the lonely-wolf-character of the setup.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
No, I just meant the other-than-tech-trades because it is still thinkable to abuse the trade system to an advantage: 2 players are trading with the premise not to fight against each other until the other 3 players are gone, or similar scenarios.

I like the lonely-wolf-character of the setup.

Right, and I agree with you, but not everybody does. I think being 5 player games and Last man standing will help to regulate that some.

If you trade everything to your ally, then he will be able to use it against you at the end of the game. But knowing that if you still want to do it, you can.

Just so we are clear, you understand that all tech trading is allowed? I'm probably misunderstanding, but from your comments I couldn't tell if you got that.

Geoschmo

[ March 06, 2003, 15:25: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Just so we are clear, you understand that all tech trading is allowed? I'm probably misunderstanding, but from your comments I couldn't tell if you got that.

Ahem, obviously my babel fish just has misunderstood the word "permission to...", but now it is clarified. This happens if I read too fast over game setups, which normally is set to "trade not permitted".

[geoschmo]

Ok, we now have four games of five, twenty contestastants vying for the Open title. I have created a fifth game. If we can get 25 I would be pleased. If we can't get five more though I'll cancel that game at some point and we'll stick with the four games we have now.

If you haven't joined yet and you want to, you might want to try and get some of your friends or regular playing buddies to join too. Signups have kind of slowed to a tickle and I am not sure we'll get five more otherwise.

Geoschmo

[Radhil]

Don't button it up just yet. I'm up for the fifth game, and I should have two more potentials rounded up by the end of the day. Hopefully there'll be just a couple more stragglers...