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

[parabolize]

ugh, that doesn't sound good.

[Fyron]

Glyn said:
Alneyan, The KOTH link in your sig is pointing to the old KOTH page.

I found the new KOTH page at "http://koth.spaceempires.net/"


Old one is "http://www.spaceempires.net/koth/".

From the perspective of the server, that is impossible. koth.se.net is just a redirection to se.net/koth directory. Any problem would be browser cache related. Hittng ctrl + f5 (maybe 2 or 3 times) when viewing the site will clear up such issues.

[Alneyan]

Glyn: Slynky's other point was about manual placement alone, where someone (*Waves*) sets two starting points, relatively balanced and not close to each other. The standard KOTH map is rather small (though I don't pick the smallest small maps), so you should still expect contact early on, but you aren't going to come right on their homeworld on turn 2.

The Balance Mod is something else separate from manual placement, though all Balance games normally also involve manual placement. The mod itself is not required for play, as it is merely used when creating the map.

[Slynky]

And, it doesn't necessarily have to be Alneyan to do manual placement. I've created games and placed players as a favor plenty of times. No need to overwork the "KotH Keeper"

[Glyn]

If Renegade is agreeable, I would like to restart our game using manual placement, with the balance mod (see what its like), no Intel, and standard default for everything else.

In any case I would like to declare the previous game Glyn vs Renegade disqualified as counting for any KOTH. Call it a draw.


BTW in a game with only 21 systems the odds are 5-15% of starting in adjacent systems. Really about 5% per warp point in your home system.


Out of curiosity what do you look for when making manual placements?

[Alneyan]

I have gone ahead and uploaded a new game in your own game, using the same settings (except for placing). If Renegade doesn't wish to play it again, I will keep the previous results. I suppose you didn't get a mail about the new turn.

I put the starting spots in roughly equivalent situations in the galaxy (so I like maps that are somewhat geometrical), and with a fair distance between them, though it seldom is (and cannot be) the maximum.

[Glyn]

Alneyan said:
I have gone ahead and uploaded a new game in your own game, using the same settings (except for placing). If Renegade doesn't wish to play it again, I will keep the previous results. I suppose you didn't get a mail about the new turn.

I put the starting spots in roughly equivalent situations in the galaxy (so I like maps that are somewhat geometrical), and with a fair distance between them, though it seldom is (and cannot be) the maximum.

Cool, I did get the email with a new turn, but I hadn't realized it was a new game! Hadn't looked at it yet.

[Renegade 13]

So sorry for not responding to this for the past few days, my internet has been down for the past day and a half . It's ok with me to restart (of course it is, I lost! ), but there's really no need to do so, I lost fair and square! But since you're obviously willing to restart, I guess all I can say is thank you! Hopefully this game will be more based upon skill, less upon luck.

Good luck, and you'll probably beat me again

[Glyn]

Renegade 13 said:
So sorry for not responding to this for the past few days, my internet has been down for the past day and a half . It's ok with me to restart (of course it is, I lost! ), but there's really no need to do so, I lost fair and square! But since you're obviously willing to restart, I guess all I can say is thank you! Hopefully this game will be more based upon skill, less upon luck.

Good luck, and you'll probably beat me again

It’s not important whether you win or lose, it how much fun you have toying with your pray before they fall!!!

Good luck to you too and I’ll probably beat you if you don’t beat me first!

[Slynky]

Off to Ohio. Back on Saturday night.