"Survivor 2" Round 11 is about to start - Page 14

Rollo · #**131** February 20th, 2003, 04:41 PM

Geo, when will the next round start?
I will be away from Feb 21 to March 2. Should I make arrangements that somebody else runs my first turns?

Rollo

geoschmo · #**132** February 20th, 2003, 04:47 PM

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Originally posted by Rollo:
Geo, when will the next round start?
I will be away from Feb 21 to March 2. Should I make arrangements that somebody else runs my first turns?

Rollo

The games will start as soon as everyone has joined an uploaded their empires, or as late as the evening of February 25th. If anyone has not joined or uploaded their empires by that point they get bumped according to the rules of the tourney.

I'd say chances are very good that the first turn will fall during your absence. You should have someone available unless you trust the AI to handle it.

Geoschmo

tbontob · #**133** February 20th, 2003, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by sparhawk:
True Geoschmo, but game 2 now has 12 player: only two people have to leave????

sparhawk

That is correct. Because Askan has chosen not to continue, that reduces the number of available players and reduces the number needed to eliminate to get to 20 after this round. There are still five more eligible players that have not joined their round 4 game. It's still entirely possible one or mroe of these players will choose not to continue, further reducing the number of players. If more then 2 of the 5 do so I will have to kick one of the players from game 2 and have them join game 1. But I won't know that for a few days.

Geoschmo

My thoughts.....

It would appear that the number of players now left are 25. By locking out Game2 at 12 players, you are potentially forcing all 5 remaining players into Game1 and forcing Game1 to have 13 players.

I would think a better way would be to leave Game1 and Game2 open till the 13 player limit is reached. If the difference between the two games is 2 or greater, then the Last players are shifted from the game with the larger number of players to the lesser untill the difference is 0 or 1.

Of course, the above assumes all remaining 5 players will join. If not, there isn't a problem.

Just my 2 cents worth.

geoschmo · #**134** February 20th, 2003, 06:35 PM

The reason I locked game 2 was to reduce the posibility of having to bump someone from a game. If all 25 remaining players join a game that gives us one game of 13 and one of 12 and it doesn't matter which is which and so leaving them both open makes as much sense as not. However since I don't know yet if all the rest of the players are going to sign up we could have ended up with 13 in one and needing to bump someone to even things up. This way we only need to bump someone if more than two of the remaining four eligible players don't sign up. Which I think is unlikely.

Geoschmo

Rollo · #**135** February 20th, 2003, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

quote:
Originally posted by Rollo:
Geo, when will the next round start?
I will be away from Feb 21 to March 2. Should I make arrangements that somebody else runs my first turns?

Rollo

The games will start as soon as everyone has joined an uploaded their empires, or as late as the evening of February 25th. If anyone has not joined or uploaded their empires by that point they get bumped according to the rules of the tourney.

I'd say chances are very good that the first turn will fall during your absence. You should have someone available unless you trust the AI to handle it.

Geoschmo

okie dokie

tbontob · #**136** February 20th, 2003, 07:40 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
The reason I locked game 2 was to reduce the posibility of having to bump someone from a game. If all 25 remaining players join a game that gives us one game of 13 and one of 12 and it doesn't matter which is which and so leaving them both open makes as much sense as not. However since I don't know yet if all the rest of the players are going to sign up we could have ended up with 13 in one and needing to bump someone to even things up. This way we only need to bump someone if more than two of the remaining four eligible players don't sign up. Which I think is unlikely.

Geoschmo

Yes, that is what I thought was the reason for this particular modus operandi.

However, for some reason there seems to be a preference for game2.

If all players join, would you be prepared to allow a player to move from Game1 to Game2?

Otherwise you are forcing all remaining players to join Game1.

Just so you do know that I have no personal stake in this, I have no desire to move to Game2.

Asmala · #**137** February 20th, 2003, 08:32 PM

This tournament sounds very nice. Too bad when it started I didn't know anyting about it because I didn't played SE4 at the time. I guess it will take very long before Survivor 3 start (if there is going to be such) but how long? I'd like to know how long I have to wait, few months or over year?

geoschmo · #**138** February 20th, 2003, 08:42 PM

Well, Survivor 1 ran for more than a year. Survivor 2 started in August. It's hard to say how long it will Last but chances are it will be months.

There isn't a reason really we couldn't have separate tournaments running at the same time. I'd call it something else to avoid confusion. Would probably make it a different format too.

Taking suggestions for possible new tournament here.

Geoschmo

[ February 20, 2003, 19:07: Message edited by: geoschmo ]