C3C PBEM Tournament

[Rommel2D]

I'd suggest a 48 hour 'play clock'. If we can provide reliable refs for all games, they would play and send the turn on. Otherwise, it would be a disqualification, and a replacement would be drawn from the pool of players waiting for the next tournement, or it could be a second chance for someone already eliminated.

If we make all games 4 players on tiny, there's no need to debate land size, just wait for enough participants to join and fill all available slots (16?). Having one outright winner and a second, point based qualifier, we would have a 3 round tourney of 4 player games. Winners could be 'seeded' higher and be given preference of Civ choice over point qulaifiers.

I'm not sure I understand your point about barbarians either Sir Ralph. Are you talking about different advantages between Civs (ie, free slaves for Mayans, no goodies for expansionist)?

[CerberusIV]

This is getting complicated. Would someone (anyone) like to make a simple proposal we can all understand and go with?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I agree with Sir Ralph. I think the Barbarian level should be the same for all games not random. It can have a far bigger effect on score than the other factors.

[smellymummy]

why not random everything on a small map, 6 players, and whoever wins is the champion of the PBEM tournament?

we could start it right now.

[alva]

Should we include 'locked alliances' ??

[smellymummy]

aren't locked alliances for AI stuff? there's going to be no AIs i thought

[E_T]

I think I'll take a stab at this.

I vote for Raging Barbs and standard Map all across the board. Should this Map be Set up and approved by Whomever the judges turn out to be??

/me thinks a Tournament requires judges...

Also, NO EXPLOITS!!!

E_T

[rogerurb]

hmmmm

so how much players still missing?
i think we should get past the rules phase more fast.....

[alva]

Also, NO EXPLOITS!!!

Define exploit ?!

[Adagio]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
I agree with Sir Ralph. I think the Barbarian level should be the same for all games not random. It can have a far bigger effect on score than the other factors.

Yes, barbs can have a great effect on scores, but how can this hurt in the games between?

If one games players gets these scores:
1048
776
518
175

And in another game they get lower scores because of low barb activity they get:
423
185
111
100

But how can this hurt the tournament?
The winner from each game goes into the finals, not worrying about how much score the other players in the other games got...




Btw, I've got a huge problem... since I reinstalled WinXP yesterday, I can't get Conquest working... could someone please take a look at my thread in the help section? Otherwise I have to get out of the tournament
Here's the thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=2583516&t=1638#post2583516

[Rommel2D]

why not random everything on a small map, 6 players, and whoever wins is the champion of the PBEM tournament?

We have more than 6 players who want in.

Would someone (anyone) like to make a simple proposal we can all understand and go with?

The simplest, fairest tournement structure would be four 4-player 'qualifiers', a single winner from each one competing in the championship 4-player final. Why mess around with points at all?

ADG
alva
GhengisFarb
Sir Ralph
notyoueither
smellymummy
Paddy the Scot
Rommel2D
rogerurb
Tarquinius
CerberusIV

E_T

Is everyone still interested? Can we drum up 4 more players? How about refs/judges?

Is there anything we can agree on yet? :-/

[Adagio]

Let's start with the first vote: Tournament or not?

Should we have it this way:
4 games, 4 players each game (# of players to be discussed)
The winner of each game will go to the final (The winner is the first player to get a victory of some sort, based on Civ-types of Victory). The final is played by 4 players... the winner of this game is the ultimate C3C PBEM player

Vote now: Yes/No


My vote for Yes

[smellymummy]

yes

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Yes/No

[CerberusIV]

Yes (I think)