Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"? - Page 91

geoschmo · #**901** May 10th, 2003, 07:47 PM

People take ancient race to know where the other players are. That has a LOT of value. Knowing where every little green star planet is, not so much. I guess it helps some, but not enough to make it worth the thousand points for ancient race. And not enough to make it worth goign through a hundred maps to figure out which one you are playing on. At least in my hunble opinion.

Geoschmo

geoschmo · #**902** May 10th, 2003, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Slynky:
What will be the rule if one player wants one of Tesco's maps and the other doesn't? Be it Ladder or KOTH.

That's up to Asmala I guess. He hasn't even said if he want's to use them.

As far as the greater issue of cheating. Pretty much it comes down to an issue of trust. There are ways to cheat. All you can do is make it as difficult as possible to do so, and trust the players in the games you are with are not going to extrodinary lengths to do so. You can't really prevent it.

Geoschmo

Asmala · #**903** May 10th, 2003, 11:12 PM

Personally I like the random maps. They are so unpredictable, your enemy can be your neighbor or in the other side of the quadrant, you can never know it. So if one player wants Tesco's map and the other doesn't the random map is used. But I have noticed that people here is pretty compliant, I have never settled a controversy about game settings.

The KOTH page is updated by DavidG's Finnish-date-format-compatible program. Many thanks (again

) to him.

Slynky · #**904** May 10th, 2003, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Asmala:
Personally I like the random maps. They are so unpredictable, your enemy can be your neighbor or in the other side of the quadrant, you can never know it. So if one player wants Tesco's map and the other doesn't the random map is used. But I have noticed that people here is pretty compliant, I have never settled a controversy about game settings.

The KOTH page is updated by DavidG's Finnish-date-format-compatible program. Many thanks (again ) to him.

DavidG is very nice to do stuff like that (the main reason I popped him with a 5 rating several weeks back

)

Grandpa Kim · #**905** May 10th, 2003, 11:36 PM

Grandpa Kim vs. Gozguy

Contact! About turn 22.

So far we are shuffling back and forth between first and second place. My only explanation is he using the same lame strategies I am in order to give me a chance.

Slynky · #**906** May 11th, 2003, 12:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Grandpa Kim:
Grandpa Kim vs. Gozguy

Contact! About turn 22.

So far we are shuffling back and forth between first and second place. My only explanation is he using the same lame strategies I am in order to give me a chance.

Probably has more to do with ships colonizing in different sequences than yours. I think ships add more points than colonies...but don't quote me...

Asmala · #**907** May 11th, 2003, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Slynky:
I think ships add more points than colonies...but don't quote me...

True. Pure colony doesn't add any points, only the resources the planet produce. The scores formula is like this IIRC: resource + research + intel production + (total unmothballed ships and bases in kT)*10 + very little from researched levels.

Cheeze · #**908** May 11th, 2003, 01:36 AM

Cheeze vs Asmala Update

We made first contact on turn 12. Space is so thick with Black Rider colonizers it's like trying to fly in a snowstorm....they're everywhere!!!!

Turn 20 and Asmala has drawn first blood. A group of his fighters has savaged a potted plant colony that had just set up a nice little home on a new planet. And it's just going to get worse from here....Yikes!!!

tesco samoa · #**909** May 11th, 2003, 03:18 AM

The maps would be a variation from stock. So both players would have to agree on it as a setting. Just like number of planets. etc...

tesco samoa · #**910** May 11th, 2003, 03:20 AM

I did notice on generation that GRID and Galatic EDGE made the best maps for distance and space