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

[Alneyan]

Respect costs extra, Slynky. Besides, you know, Asmala is the king, the previous KOTH admin, and so on, so I feel obliged to show deference and... Okay, so I gotta suck up to him too.

I'm interested in your setting up the game in the next hour or so... or later than that, for that matter.

The settings seem to be:
- No intel
- No Stellar Manipulation
- 3 good homeworlds
- Manual placement
- The following system types are out (listed in the order they show up in SystemTypes.txt): Storm, Black hole, Comet, Stellar Core Fragment, Green Giant, Nebulae, Nova, Organic Infestation, Red Giant, Spatial Rupture, Star Forming. Hmm, that's plenty of empty systems.

[Slynky]

Well, I can handle all the regular settings but someone will have to tell me how to NOT generate crappy systems. I'll check the map, of course, to make sure none were generated.

[Alneyan]

Renegade, you may wish to chime in regarding the actual list: I had forgotten some system types, and you might wish to have some of the more interesting ones (nebulae come to mind) in the game.

Slynky, you'll have to use a mod, or do some file swapping. If you want to use a mod, copy all data files in a new folder (named, say, "Alneyan_is_a_nuisance", and edit your path.txt file to say the mod is "Alneyan_is_a_nuisance"). Replace the SystemTypes.txt in your new folder with the one attached to this post.

Swapping files should go faster, though. Rename your current Data/SystemTypes.txt and put the one attached to this post in its place. I have removed all the system types listed below. Hopefully, I didn't leave a dreaded double blank line in there.

[Slynky]

File-swapping is easy.

Time is running out (I need to go somewhere soon) and I hesitate to create a game since Geo might be the next best chance and have heard nothing form Renegade 13.

[geoschmo]

I'm sorry were you guys needing me to set something up here?

[geoschmo]

Ok, it didn't look like Slynky had setup a game on PBW yet so I created one and joined you both to it. If this has already been taken care of just ignore my game and I'll delete it.

Are you guys wanting the balance mod or something, or just a random map minus the system types you've listed below.

Also, do you want random placement or assigned starting positions?

[Slynky]

No, Geo, you're spot on.

I was around this afternoon and offered to set up the game because I had seen messages from both peeps and thought they might be around and waiting. But I had limited time, so I didn't actually create the game on PBW till I had a "go" from both players. When it got too late (had to go do something), I mentioned I hadn't even created the game.

So, when they are ready, have at it!

[Renegade 13]

Sorry for not being around to respond Slynky, was chasing cattle around for a few hours.

Alneyan, I leave whether or not to leave Nebulae and other interesting system types in the game to your esteemed judgement. I am neutral. Besides that, the settings you mentioned all sound good.

[Phoenix-D]

Phoenix-D v Fuzzie: Fuzzie surrenders on Turn 86, just before my battle fleet incinerates his homeworld.

It was a bit of an odd game, thanks to my racial setup: massive construction rate, -25% to defense. I went for Stealth armor early, letting me get a nasty sneak atttack in, but I think it was really numbers and tech that won the day.

[Rathar]

Rathar surrenders to the empire of Dex Solo.

Watch out for this fellow folks. Their first koth game and while they were missing lots of things in the bag of tricks he still managed to hand me my ***! Got to 100 turns, could have fought on longer but the end was apparent.

Quite demoralizing as I thought I was at least an ok player!

I'd say put me back on the bottom but I am already there!

Rathar