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

[Slynky]

Alneyan -vs- Slynky

Fulltech:

Map type: Small grid
Homeworlds: 3 Good
Manual placement if we can get someone to set up the game
KotH settings where not specified

No intel (S)
No APB (A)
No ship/base size above 600 Kt (S)
No racial points (A)
No more than 10 vessels per sector (mines exempt) (S)
No Advanced Military tech (A)
No openers or closers (S)
No mines (A)

I realize there may be times when an accident occurs and more than 10 vessels occupy a sector, like when sending 3 fleets through a hole in sequence and the first fleet has combat that knocks it to a movement of zero, for instance. If that happens, the "overpacked" sector needs to be "un-overpacked" on the next turn.

[Alneyan]

3,500 ! And I got there well in advance of you browncoats.

Having balanced planets but weird systems is straightforward, actually (I wouldn't ask for that if it took hours). I don't have the mod files right in front of me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it would be a straight matter of cut-and-paste. All you have to do is specify which systems should be put back in Balance (all of them, including slimy blackholes, or just asteroids and nebulaes?).

I haven't seen any other setting proposal, except for the map, where I'm basically Neutral. As in, I really don't have any preference for quadrant type and the like. So long as the map itself is pretty much funky, I'm fine. Same goes for the homeworlds (well, up to three homeworlds, anyway, as ten just doesn't sound so good).

Some nasty English words have a spelling fairly similar to the one found in French, but not quite. These words cause no small amount of confusion and can still bit me if I'm not watching. Let's take a few examples of this pattern:

English -> Broken French \ Proper French :
- Appearance -> Apparance \ Apparence
- Conflict -> Conflict \ Conflit
- Independence -> Indépendence \ Indépendance.
- Reasonable -> Raisonable \ Raisonnable


Oh, and you should remove that line about "mines exempt". There ain't be no mines in our universe.

[Slynky]

Alneyan said:
3,500 ! And I got there well in advance of you browncoats.

Ahhh, I hadn't even looked. There must be some sort of award for that, I'm sure

[Slynky]

Alneyan said:Having balanced planets but weird systems is straightforward, actually (I wouldn't ask for that if it took hours). I don't have the mod files right in front of me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it would be a straight matter of cut-and-paste. All you have to do is specify which systems should be put back in Balance (all of them, including slimy blackholes, or just asteroids and nebulaes?).

I haven't seen any other setting proposal, except for the map, where I'm basically Neutral. As in, I really don't have any preference for quadrant type and the like. So long as the map itself is pretty much funky, I'm fine. Same goes for the homeworlds (well, up to three homeworlds, anyway, as ten just doesn't sound so good).

Oh, and you should remove that line about "mines exempt". There ain't be no mines in our universe.

If you can manage a mod to the mod, then go for it. Might be just changing a 0% to 10% somewhere...I know hardly anything about mods.

[Slynky]

Alneyan said:
Some nasty English words have a spelling fairly similar to the one found in French, but not quite. These words cause no small amount of confusion and can still bit me if I'm not watching. Let's take a few examples of this pattern:

English -> Broken French \ Proper French :
- Appearance -> Apparance \ Apparence
- Conflict -> Conflict \ Conflit
- Independence -> Indépendence \ Indépendance.
- Reasonable -> Raisonable \ Raisonnable

Confusing as that example might be, it doesn't hold a candle to the confusion I have with nouns being male/female and needing the appropriate article to go with it. As difficult as English is, there's at least one worry I don't have to worry about.

[Alneyan]

Nah, I didn't get promoted at 3,500. I'm still a lowly General Fault. You hear that, Colonel Panic?

In the examples above, I guess both languages broke backwards-compatibility, yeah. That aside, it's funny how the English version of French is still very close to French French. I can't say I miss all the silly personal pronouns of French in English (informal "you" vs polite "you"), or our convulated conjugations. And who needs gender for items anyway? I'm not sure a lot of meaning is conveyed by the masculinity of the word "lipstick".

Still, gender is even more confusing in English, though for different reasons. Say, that silly word "fiancé" sometimes has a feminine form in English too, "fiancée", but not everybody uses it. So how are you to interpret "fiancé" when a male writer uses the word?

Of course, we are still looking for a Guinea pig... erh, a volunteer, to set up our game. The earlier someone signs up, the faster we'll stop comparing Webster to Larousse.

[Gozra]

I Gozra have been defeated by pair of bowl eyes. When do we start a chapter of KOTH anaoymous(sic)?

[Alneyan]

I must be denser than usual, but I can't parse your message, Gozra. If it is directly related to KOTH administration, could you please clarify? Thanks. (Must be a side effect of gaining one year)

My guess would be that your game with Parabolize ended with him being the winner, but I'd rather not break KOTH until things are clearer. By the way, KOTH is now using a Parabolize-powered style sheet. So, don't blame me for that one.

[se5a]

Para - bol - ize
pair(of)- bowl - eyes
ahahaha I get it!

[parabolize]

Gozra surrendered after he lost all his planets.