Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by DavidG:
My appologies in advance to the non monty pyton fans but this thread always makes me think of this: (and is why I love to raze the king)

ARTHUR: I am your king!

WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

WOMAN: Well, how did you become king then?

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,...
[angels sing]
...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.

[singing stops]

That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Consider me razed... LOL! I LOVE Monty Python!

Or how about...

"I'm the King of the Britans!"
"Who?"

"How do we know he's the King?"
"He hasn't got sh*t all over him!"

Hee hee...

[ June 07, 2003, 20:56: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

[Stone Mill]

Congrats to Mark and Slinky for a riveting game... I really enjoy your accounts.

I'm also just darn impressed by the sportsmanship in this league.

As far as settings, I usually ask for:

3 starting planets (Good)
High starting bonus
Small Spiral map - usually works well, but I'm open to what anyone wishes

This gets the game moving pretty fast. As your current King, I know players at the top want a crack as fast as possible, so I try and accomodate that. But I'll consider most suggestions. Oh, but I do like mines in the game.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Congrats to Mark and Slinky for a riveting game... I really enjoy your accounts.

Tks, Stone. Not sure people care much about the bottom/base of the hill, but the game seemed a bit extroadinary. I suspect the game you had with Asmala was more of a nail-biter but I submit ours was the bloodiest (and for a standard start, very high tech).

Mark is now 2-0. Is he the new "surprise" upstart?

[Asmala]

Originally posted by BBegemott:
There is a little bug in KOTH site. When I press 'Back To Top' or 'League Rules', the page displays old standings. The same result if I check Pre-Gold League and return to Gold. Refreshing doesn't help.

Oh well, i can live with that. Only have to remember: don't press 'Back To Top'. And don't wonder if you accidently find yourself a level down.

It's fixed now. It was an uppercase/lowercase typo. I have index.htm and koth.htm in my server but when I updated the page I uploaded index.htm and KOTH.htm And yes, I'm not using Linux but Windows

[Stone Mill]

King Title Defense IV: Stone Mill vs. Rollo

::: In the antechamber of the command center Graceland, The King finishes up his comm call. "Thass right momma- next outfit needs to be let out a little around the waist. I popped off some sequins. Bye."

The colonel enters again.

"Sir, this is far worse than anything we've ever seen. I... I... can't..."

Elvis swings around with a stunning hip shake. "Shake it out Colonel!"

"Rollo has entered the quadrant, and has sent an ambassador."

"That's mighty-nice o' him!"

"King, he's dressed in skins and mail, has apparently never washed himself, flatulates constantly, and wreaks of grog! He urinated in your favorite plant, and carried off two waitresses from the kitchen staff!"

"Now juss hold on a minute, Colonel--- That's where I draw the line... That's high crime. We need to play Rollo a litte Jailhouse Rock! " :::

[ June 07, 2003, 22:16: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

[Slynky]

LOL @ Stone!

[DavidG]

I'm curious how many have chosen non standard game settings for their KOTH games and how the went?

Such as:

- a medium size map? (would this help avoid the starting adjacent problem)

- 10 planet starts

- banning certain tech?

I've played a couple now were we Banned mines. This makes for a faster paced game since there is no waiting around for those sweepers. I'd also like to try a game were all weapons except the special racial ones (like organic) are Banned. (edit Hmm seems the game wont let you do that so I guess it would have to be a gentlemans agreement) Just thought of another that might me fun. 1 planet no warp points (with either cheap tech or high tech)

[ June 07, 2003, 12:57: Message edited by: DavidG ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Asmala:
All games are shown as "default" for that simple reason it'll need too much work to remember and add all special game settings, it's not the fault of DavidG's program.

Yes, that was one of those "features" that I originally intended to keep up with and turned out to be way more work then it was worth.

Hey, David you cut out the best part of the scene!

Arthur: Be quiet!

Dennis: Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!

Arthur: SHUT UP!

Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Arthur: SHUT UP! WILL YOU SHUT UP! [Grabs Dennis]

Dennis: Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system!

Arthur: SHUT UP!

Dennis: Oh, come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Arthur: (muttering) Bloody peasant!

Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressin' me? You saw it, didn't you?

Hehehe, I never get tired of that movie.

Geoschmo

[Grandpa Kim]

Grandpakim/Gozguy

I think you guys are jivin' me. I don't know what the 'H' is going on in my game Either I will grind Goz down with my juggernaut or he's laid down the nastiest surprise of all time and will be handing me a "canowhoopass".

However, I have relieved him of the burden of managing the Bardron system. Now I must decide where to go next. Which of the two exit warps is least heavily defended? How shall I decide? Hmm...

Inty minty diggety fig...

[DavidG]

Originally posted by sparhawk:
Well that only holds true if you enemy isn't two systems away.
Asmala cann't you do something about this, its the second game in which I am two systems away from my opponent.

Kazark, as a gentlemen I have to ask you if you want a rematch and forget this game.

Sparhawk

No reason this game should not count. My loss here had more to do with my decission to build SY bases than my start position. Had I followed my usual tactic of pumping out colony ships I would have met you in time to get some defenses built up. Building even one attack ship in the first 10 turns would have been smart too.