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PBEM tournament, looking for players!
Hi All,
I am thinking about to organize a SMAC/SMACX PBEM tournament. The idea is to have as many players as interested, and get them play a lot of 3 player games in all sort of combination. the games would progress parallel as PBEM games are slow anyway. Each game would award certain number of points to its winner - maybe depending on the victory type (e.g. transcendence higher than conquer), but perhaps a time related scoring is better (faster victory earns more points). This is open to discussion.
The main point is to make the games as balanced as possible, but still use different factions.
For a 3 player game, the most balanced map I can imagine is the following setup. Three identical islands, placed at equal distance from each other along the equator. No landmark on them - although some jungle and some Uranium squares might be placed to give a little boost, the HQ is pregenerated with population 3 in the centre of the island. It would also have some basic infrastructure: recycling tank, children's creche, perimeter defense. Each player would start with 5 extra colony pods, 5 scouts and 5 terraformers and all level 1 techs known to everybody. I would also add 2 big land masses along the north and south edges of the map containing all the landmarks and an AI faction each (it could be the Caretakers and the Usurpers in SMACX - just for fun). The AI factions would be in a lot more advanced infrastructure, e.g. 10 well equipped bases each - but not too many units,
only a scout in each base and a terraformer.
The human player islands would be big enough to hold at least 10 bases in ICS pattern.
The whole map would be 'small' or similar custom size.
I would post a single player version of the map, which could be loaded into a scenario editor for study, so that each player can be familiar with the island. And of course, the 3 islands would be completely identical.
Every player can list a number of factions he/she would like to play, then we would setup several games to combine the players. E.g. 4 players can play 4 different games (every possible 3 out of 4), but if there is a lot of interested players, then it is not necessary to play all combinations as that could be too many games.
I would act as CMN (Creator, Moderator Narrator) for games where I am not participating. I'd like to ask other players to act as CMN in games where I am a player. The job of the CMN will be easy as all games are played on the same map, the CMN simply needs to place down the appropriate factions in the given game and assign the passwords.
I would like to get players, who are willing to play a turn each day. We might even introduce strict rules, e.g. if a player does not respond without prior notice in given time frame (24 or 48 hours), then it means he has given up that game. Of course, games can be postponed if someone notifies the players and CMN, that he/she can't play for a certain number of days (holiday, illness etc).
If there is enough interest, I'll create the map during the Xmass holidays and we could start up the tournament soon after.
Anybody who is interested, please post here or drop me an email at zsolt@simbiosys.ca
zsozso
I am thinking about to organize a SMAC/SMACX PBEM tournament. The idea is to have as many players as interested, and get them play a lot of 3 player games in all sort of combination. the games would progress parallel as PBEM games are slow anyway. Each game would award certain number of points to its winner - maybe depending on the victory type (e.g. transcendence higher than conquer), but perhaps a time related scoring is better (faster victory earns more points). This is open to discussion.
The main point is to make the games as balanced as possible, but still use different factions.
For a 3 player game, the most balanced map I can imagine is the following setup. Three identical islands, placed at equal distance from each other along the equator. No landmark on them - although some jungle and some Uranium squares might be placed to give a little boost, the HQ is pregenerated with population 3 in the centre of the island. It would also have some basic infrastructure: recycling tank, children's creche, perimeter defense. Each player would start with 5 extra colony pods, 5 scouts and 5 terraformers and all level 1 techs known to everybody. I would also add 2 big land masses along the north and south edges of the map containing all the landmarks and an AI faction each (it could be the Caretakers and the Usurpers in SMACX - just for fun). The AI factions would be in a lot more advanced infrastructure, e.g. 10 well equipped bases each - but not too many units,
only a scout in each base and a terraformer.
The human player islands would be big enough to hold at least 10 bases in ICS pattern.
The whole map would be 'small' or similar custom size.
I would post a single player version of the map, which could be loaded into a scenario editor for study, so that each player can be familiar with the island. And of course, the 3 islands would be completely identical.
Every player can list a number of factions he/she would like to play, then we would setup several games to combine the players. E.g. 4 players can play 4 different games (every possible 3 out of 4), but if there is a lot of interested players, then it is not necessary to play all combinations as that could be too many games.
I would act as CMN (Creator, Moderator Narrator) for games where I am not participating. I'd like to ask other players to act as CMN in games where I am a player. The job of the CMN will be easy as all games are played on the same map, the CMN simply needs to place down the appropriate factions in the given game and assign the passwords.
I would like to get players, who are willing to play a turn each day. We might even introduce strict rules, e.g. if a player does not respond without prior notice in given time frame (24 or 48 hours), then it means he has given up that game. Of course, games can be postponed if someone notifies the players and CMN, that he/she can't play for a certain number of days (holiday, illness etc).
If there is enough interest, I'll create the map during the Xmass holidays and we could start up the tournament soon after.
Anybody who is interested, please post here or drop me an email at zsolt@simbiosys.ca
zsozso
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