Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"? - Page 318

Joachim · #**3171** January 8th, 2005, 09:02 PM

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Alneyan said:
*Slaps self repeatedly* The mistake was fully mine. Instead of setting one starting point for player 1, and another for player 2, I made two starting points for one of you (Joachim), and none for you Slynky. The correct map was used, but the problem was in the map itself.

Full apologises are in order then. Feel free to let me know if you want a restart with myself as host, and I will set it up as soon as I get your word. Otherwise, please let me known once the new game has started so that I can update KOTH.

No problem - at least we now know why Slynky only had the one breathable.
Please restart us with all the same settings (standard Koth, geo balance map, manual place)
Cheers.

Slynky · #**3172** January 8th, 2005, 09:07 PM

BTW, when I set up a manual start map, I never specify a particular player to a particular system. I just make 2 systems specified as "any".

Alneyan · #**3173** January 8th, 2005, 09:22 PM

I didn't know about that feature Slynky (the "common starting point" made me think of something else altogether). That is good to know, and I will now use "Any" systems instead of specific systems, if only to avoid that kind of mistake on my part.

The new turn has been uploaded to the game.

Slynky · #**3174** January 8th, 2005, 09:56 PM

Thanks! My home system looks MUCH better now.

Renegade 13 · #**3175** January 8th, 2005, 11:02 PM

KOTH: Warlord Ragnarok vs. Renegade 13:

2400.9: We meet. He's beating me in stats, but I think we're pretty close. My starting position sucks (it seems), but maybe his does too. About 1/3 of the systems I've explored have been useless to me (a couple asteroid only systems, a couple nebulae systems, and a black hole). All in all, it's not looking too good for the Tyrellian Imperium.

But there's still time.

Asmala · #**3176** January 10th, 2005, 04:43 AM

KOTH - King of the Hill Game Asmala vs RexTorres

2406.2: I have surrendered to RexTorres. To put it bluntly he was much better in all areas. Especially the early boarding of my colony ship was a nice move, but I think he would have won even without that. Rex really deserves the Crown.

Alneyan, please remove me from the Hill. (Well, I suppose you would have done that automatically

)

I'm not sure if I've said this but thanks Alneyan for taking the administration of the Koth league.

Slynky · #**3177** January 10th, 2005, 09:29 AM

All hail KING Rex! What will the new kingdom look like now? Can't wait to read the new chapter from Geo.

Congrats to the RexMeister!

Slynky · #**3178** January 10th, 2005, 07:37 PM

Concerning the 2nd restart of the game between Joachim and myself...well, looks like the game map got created with ruins on planets. Joachim just settled one and informed me he got one that is too good for a KOTH game. I didn't even know there WERE ruins till he told me this morning.

So, that leaves us with the following choices (my preference obviously a big effect):

(1) Start a 3rd game with the same settings. I don't know about Joachim, but playing the first 10-15 turns of a single medium-homeworld KOTH game isn't much more exciting than sticking my head in our icebox and watching my breath condense. So, since I've already done 2 games of that, I'd rather not do it again.

(2) Start another game with new settings (and empire files). Something more exciting than waiting 12 turns to get mines

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(3) Or, assuming I know the KOTH rules well enough, I'll sit off the Hill a bit till I feel like trudging through 10-15 turns of another standard KOTH start game. This, of course, assumes I will re-enter the Hill where I left off.

So, this message is mostly to Joachim, I guess.

Nodachi · #**3179** January 10th, 2005, 07:55 PM

Slynky, you just can't win with premade maps here lately.

Could it be the same problem I was having with not selecting 'no ruins' on both map and game creation?

Slynky · #**3180** January 10th, 2005, 07:59 PM

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Nodachi said:
Slynky, you just can't win with premade maps here lately.

Could it be the same problem I was having with not selecting 'no ruins' on both map and game creation?

One must skip down to the page and turn "Ruins" off before generating any map if you don't want ruins on it. The ruins, I gather, are generated (or not generated) depending on that setting WHEN you click "Generate Map". Finding a map you like and THEN turning ruins off and saving the map does no good. And, of course, NEVER turning off ruins will result in the same thing...ruins

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Yes, Nodachi, having my problems lately

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