PBEM Tournament announcements and discussion

[Tau Ceti]

It looks like not many people care enough to post their opinion; so, you have 24 hours to come with counterarguments, otherwise operation "Ostrich" becomes official.

Flo, what is the definition of an "old school" CMN?

In other and totally unrelated news, I have decided to extend the seasons to five months. The score-stealing system requires that a certain amount of games be played each season if it is to work as intended, and the games are not progressing too fast - only five games have been completed so far, IIRC. So the end point of season one is now July 31st.

[Tau Ceti]

Oh, and there are now so many games going on that I cannot keep track of them all on the forums, so I would appreciate it if the players notified me by email when a game has been stalled for an extended period of time. Thank you.

[Meister Flo]

CMNs who live at ACOL
(historically, ACOL was born solely as a discussion forum for CMNs. All the good stuff like random chat and the games- service was added a few months later iirc)

[Viriato]

Allowing the use of SE in the build queue would be the simplest thing to do because of the impossibility to check if a player is using it. But I agree that it is a pain in the ass.
So if we all can trust each other I vote for operation 'Ostrich'.

One question: what will we do when someone is caught cheating?

[Tau Ceti]

Issue a warning to first-time offenders; repeated abuse will lead to disqualification. (Whew. Two months to reply to that.)

In other, not very well-publicized news, season 1 of the tournament ended at midnight, July 31. Check out the results in this thread, and add your comments here. Congratulations to Pagan[CyC], season 1 champion!

[Tau Ceti]

In reply to joer's now edited out question in the Rules and Results thread about how to do the scores when players take over somewhat late in the game:

I understand that the situation can be tough in these cases, and am willing to simply not count those games for the takeover players, ie. they will not lose a point or count as defeated if they lose, or gain two points and defeat others if they win. If a takeover player wants this particular course of action, please let me know; the decision should be made as early as possible and a decision to not be counted made two turns before you are conquered by the Spartan hordes will not be accepted.

The most likely candidates (that I remember at a moment's notice) are joer and Misotu in ACT017, Spekter in ACT006, Googlie in AXT007 and Misotu in ACT025; if any of you want these games to not count (for you), let me know as soon as possible.

[Misotu]

Nah, that's OK. The position I inherited in ACT017 is nothing to complain about. And despite the fact that joer has a very unfair advantage regarding territory, bases, research rate and pod popping in ACT025, the Peacekeepers are going to rise to the challenge without whining at all

[Tau Ceti]

As you wish. I should also mention that season 2 ends with the millennium; on December 31, 2400 EST.

[joer]

Sheesh. Very unfair advantage. I earned it all by playing, just like the rest of you.

Seriously...yes, I would like to not count ACT017. Now, this is not just because I lose the VW as UoP (ugh) to the not-whining lady above, but because I did realize from the start that the game is not for me to win...

I deleted the question, because I only read afterwards (and after Mis pointed it out to me) that I was not supposed to post there. Thank you for answering it anyways.

-joer.

[TigToad]

Lets be honest Joer..you just don't like the 15 or so rovers I have on the now completed land bridge on the way to your island in act17. Grin

In all fairness I have a huge ammount of thanks to offer both Misotu and Joer for picking up the dead spots in that game as it was one of the few I'm in where I liked my position. (Go Believers, go...)

[Misotu]

I'm not surprised. I'm scared to death watching it, and they're not even heading my way yet (grin)

(sudden inspiration)

Um, Tau, if I ask for ACT017 not to be counted *three* turns before I am crushed by the Believer hordes, would that be OK?