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Re: Tournament: All Round Player Competition Sat, 06 March 2004 22:24 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hmmm, seems I woke some people up in the gallery...

Leit wrote:

It's unlikely that the better players will join this game, it's just too big,


Hmmmm, size?
Spars! is huge but with a minimal number of stars.
Core! is medium but with a large number of stars.
GLD is just a plain medium size universe.

Or, time?
Well, that is understandable, but how can you test a player's skills in one game? You cannot!

Leit wrote:

and the random races part could be just too random and painful


I don't believe you can call yourself an expert if you cannot take any race and make it shine. Setting up a race which you have mapped out and know by rote is not ingenious... once its done then you just replay again and again with slight variations. Starting with raw material, where you need to map out everything anew. And, even better, identify the weaknesses and turn them into advantages???

Probably the GLD Round will be the serious telling of the competition. In both other rounds you can hone the race, and assuming the other players are on a similar skill level to you, all will perform at a similar level. In this round you are handed a set of races, and then you have to choose which is the lesser of the evils, or take a default and lose a ranking... some serious decisions have to be made, with very serious implications.

Ptolemy wrote:

Part of this series seems a little too easy - namely using any race allowed. In that case I'd simply use a maximum resource tri immune HE or a TT CA and by the 80 year mark I should have around 150-200k of resources and be pretty much untouchable.

Then you can assume that everyone else would do something similar, and I cannot believe that you would believe you are untouchable. The eighty years was needed to fit the three games into the space of one year, but all players are going to know that the eighty year mark is the end... and play accordingly. Dueling
Ptolemy wrote:

I'd also have a very numerous fleet specifically designed to hit the capitol ship value with minimal expenditure. Using only 80 years, the risk of being seriously damaged by war is minimal.

Hmmm, I wonder...
Ptolemy wrote:

As to the 'random' selection - it's not 'random'. The obvious solution is to simply look at all the races provided (including the 'standard' game races) and select the highest potential rsource generater. Again, 80 years and it's over means that there is little serious threat from war.

You are still playing with a hand of 21 cards out of a deck of millions of cards, and if you choose some cards, then you reap a penalty right off the bat.
Ptolemy wrote:

I do agree that the 'experts' of Stars! are very likely to stay away - it is a long commitment with no real reward for winning and no major intellectual challenge.

What do YOU want? A single game? One game proves nothing... A reward??? Well, there is the recognition... Ron has said that I can design an icon that the winner will hold for the year. {and I will and it will be good Wink } Monetary??? err, I ain't got none Smile

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