TG contest question

[Drake]

Good point, Alasyr. I guess there's nothing stopping you from creating your own valid map. I just assumed that you had to generate it during game creation. Boy, that would have saved me so much time! Imagine how long it took to get a small galaxy with 39 systems and no black holes or nebulae. ARGH!

-Drake

[Seawolf]

I would join if I could find it on the web page. Do you have to join first to have access the the SE IV tourny? Let me know

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Seawolf on the prowl

[geoschmo]

Ok, I just sent my game files for what I thought was going to be my Last entry in the contest. (Ringworlds! )

Couple of questions for others entering the contest.

Are you all posting your score as well as sending in your files? I would have thought there would be some higher scores on there by now, verified or not.

Did anyone have trouble sending a single zip file for their game? My Last entry I had to split into two zip files to get it sent. Just wondering if that was my problem or twingalaxies.

Geo


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[Drake]

I just assumed that a loarge number of ppl were not posting their scores so they didn't give a target for others to shoot at. I heard the tournament wasn't getting a lot of hits though, so maybe that isn't the case...

Well, I'll post my score in a little bit, I'm closing in on turn 100. There's much less for me to do now that I've built ringworlds everywhere, and have everything colonized, so I ought to be done soon. Now I just have to make sure I get my max pop bonus on every planet.

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[Drake]

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Originally posted by Seawolf:
I would join if I could find it on the web page. Do you have to join first to have access the the SE IV tourny? Let me know

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You can look at stuff without joining, you just can't submit a score. Click on the Space Empires IV banner in the middle of the main webpage, and on the right hand side of the next page you'll see a link to register.

-Drake

[Nyx]

If anyone has questions about the TG contest, I'm the liason, you can e-mail me directly at johnz@twingalaxies.com.

We've had four or five scores come in as whole files and two of you sent in scores broken into two files. I've e-mailed from an outside source to the company with multi-meg attachments and had it work just fine so normally I wouldn't think the problem is on our end. Then again, two different people having the same problem makes me wonder.

Seawolf, as far as joining, here's a direct link to the contest page. http://www.twingalaxies.com/cgi-perl...hampionship.pl Notice the instructions in the right-hand column that say "steps to join the contest?" Follow those in order. We are accepting scores on medium and large galaxies too, but only the top scores for small galaxies will get cash. You can post unverified scores for small, med, and large maps and they'll stay up for all time. Also, you can enter any number of scores and we'll keep updating your personal record to reflect your best performance, this isn't a one try deal.

Also, the contest ending doesn't mean that the top score is set in stone, it just means that's the guy who gets the cash. We recently had a 15-year-old record broken (Jr. Pac-Man). The contest is just to generate a score for the game so we have something to print in the second edition of our book of video game world records.

Note that we've got four cash prizes and only three players who seem to be in the 50-million+ score range. Competition for 4th is not very fierce just yet.

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Compete in the Space Empires IV World Championship at www.twingalaxies.com.

[This message has been edited by Nyx (edited 08 February 2001).]

[geoschmo]

Nyx,

We can't post any scores higher than 9,999,999. Any plans on changing that?

Geo