PBW RACE TO SEV TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by primitive:
A big barbarian whacks at the stone with a sledgehammer

High tech cost, 1 planet start and a lot of players will make most of these games veeery long. Minimum 100 turns, but my guess is more like 150.

Fun settings, but SE V will probably be at the second patch before this tournament is over

Hate to admit it, but I agree with the big P. But if the settings are set in stone, so be it. I'll throw in my hat anyway and see how it goes. (if we wind up beside each other, P, then we'll just have to work together!)

Send me some info, Tesco, on how to get a check for entry.

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Hang on a sec. If tech costs are high, and everyone will on average have access to five systems, how are they going to afford to research mines without risking being rolled over by someone who researched, say, DUC V? And if they can't, then the mid-game is not going to lock up the way it normally does, is it? So we could be seeing eliminations and a resolution pretty quickly.

Bringing tech costs down to medium might bring mines within reach, and actually slow the game down.

And a low-tech "cavemen in space" brawl might be sort of fun

Or if people really resent High tech cost, why not ban mines altogether?

Mark

[ June 25, 2004, 08:42: Message edited by: Mark the Merciful ]

[Alneyan]

Same here as Renegade, I don't think I will be able to play either (and, as you can see, I shouldn't start yet another game when I am currently lagging behind).

If I can however give my two cents, mines are actually very cheap to research even with High tech cost, since it only affects later technology levels while the first one costs the same. So Mines will cost 100,000 research points to get as usual with Construction, which is certainly not too difficult to get.

And if you can get a lot of trade treaties, you may very well have so many research points it isn't even funny (basically, gaining 200,000 research points isn't so uncommon in most games). I guess, however, that the early game will see the destruction of a few Empires and hopes, but it should go back to a normal game later on (ten systems are enough with treaties and good planets, if you can get the said treaties obviously).

[primitive]

Alneyan is right. Researching mines is still very cheap with high tech cost. Sweepers however, become very expensive in such a game as both high level sweeping and large shipsizes won’t be able until much later in the game. The 15 destroyers with level one sweepers needed to sweep 100 mines will be a serious strain on the small economies and make offensive actions virtually impossible for a while.

[Alneyan]

*Hint* Light Carrier *Hint* Even Light Carriers are expensive to maintain with a weak economy, and you would need ten of them to sweep 100 mines. Though it might work if you are using the Light Carriers are beachers.

[tesco samoa]

Rule change is agreed upon.

Rules have been updated

3 planets
med tech.

[trooper]

Cannot pay via Paypal !

Bouhouhou !

[primitive]

The stone now more to his liking, the big barbarian throws away the sledgehammer and goes to the cantina for a beer.

Thanks to Tesco and the team