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Tournament of Losers! - Running June 6th to July 15th!

Tournament of Losers! - Running June 6th to July 15th!

Tournament of Losers!

From June 6 (starting tomorrow) until July 15th, I'm running an unofficial tournament. All players who own Dread Lords or Dark Avatar are welcome and encouraged to participate.

The Scene


Wyndstar recently ran a Battle Royale Tournament (I have wholeheartedly stolen the format, some of the text and the rules of his original OP for this post! I don't think he will mind. And I would certainly like to thank him!) Three races came out at the bottom as clear losers, nicely balanced across alignments. But which one is really the worst to play?

All three races have timidly retreated to their corners of the galaxy, showing their true cowardice, lack of ability and lack of skill. The Iconians have joined them...Just because they are a loser race too! Which one will be forced even deeper into its corner? Which one truly deserves to be extinct?

The Rules

Who Wins: The Race which scores the highest when the raw scores of all the submissions are added up at the end of the tournament will win.

Who Loses: The Race which scores the least number of points by the end of the tournament. This race will be crowned the Grand Galactic Loser. Help keep your favorite loser race from being the king of the losers!

Tournament Length: This Tournament runs from June 6th to July 15th. On July 15th, I will post the results of the tournament. I will try to do regular interim updates.

Submissions: Every skirmish matters! To submit your score to the tournament, simply post to this message with a screenshot from your metaverse profile.


Only games with a date in the lower right hand corner that were submitted between June 6th and July 15th will be accepted. No cheat flagged games will be accepted. If there is a question about the validity of any score, it will be resolved by referring to that players official metaverse profile by me. For this tournament, games played by the races listed below will be counted. Players are free to submit as many games as they choose as long as they are legal metaverse submissions within the appropriate date range.

If you have problems taking a screenshot, please post the date, score, race and character profile where the metaverse game you wish to submit can be found.

Feel free to include a blurb about your experience playing your chosen loser race!

So who will lose? Which race is really the worst? Was I right to unilaterally include the Iconians? Your games will decide the answers!

Good luck to all!

Final Scores:

1. Drengin: 598585
2. Altarian: 370825
3. Iconians: 324800
4. Arcean: 226500

Let me be the first to denounce the Arceans as the Grand Galactic Losers. Yes, they are the race so inept that they can't even successfully pilot a starship into a sun to end their own existence and so cowardly that they can't manage to end their own existence through any other way. The good races think they are to pathetic to bother with, the other neutrals fail to notice them, the Drengin will not enslave and the Korath will not spore them, because they are looking to enslave and spore intelligent races. They must forever wander the galaxy begging other races to put them out of their misery and end their pitiful existence.

All may now dis and disdain the Arceans, the Grand Galactic Losers.
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Reply #51 Top
From the darkness we strike taking our empire back! The Republic will rise anew through Resistance. All evil will soon feel the pain of our mighty Du-Lak Attack Frigates and the very flame of Old Altaria. We fight not in numbers but in heart, defeating our enemies through our superior skill and might and... towels, yes the towels!!

This message has been brought to you by the Altarian Propoganda Center in conjungtion with Buy A Towel Inc.

K well I cant figure out how to use the print screen key. So I am posting a game in text format.

Game.
Race: Altarians
Score: 20,230
Years: 6
Map Size: Large
Victory Type: Political
Date Submited: 6/8/07
v 1.50 DA

Heres the back story:

Reply #52 Top
Did someone say DISCO??? Disco is the official music of the Evil Altarians.

Here I am,
Prayin for this torture to last,
Livin on the screaming so fine,
Borne on the wind,
Makin it mine...




The in-and-out tech victory was interesting, but it's kind of like taking a tour of an ancient Belgian brewery and running through as fast as you can. And missing the free samples.   

Reply #53 Top
This message has been brought to you by the Altarian Propoganda Center in conjungtion with Buy A Towel Inc.




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Reply #54 Top
Updated:

1. Iconians: 109200
2. Arcean: 102950
3. Altarian: 102105
4. Drengin: 0

The Iconians continue to rest on their collective laurels not realizing just how close the others have come to their lead. The Altarians continue their stealthy plink approach of lots of scores scattered all over the place and the Drengin continue their impression of a dead possum...Or is it not an impression?!?
Reply #55 Top
The calm before the storm my friends.....The Drengin are here, don't worry
Reply #56 Top
[quote]The calm before the storm my friends.....The Drengin are here, don't worry
OOOOOOO The Drengin are a coming  
Reply #57 Top
A win for the Arceans.

If you don't mind taking it from my profile again, it's dated 6/16/2007 10:34:06 AM, 51450 points.

The Arcean super ability was pretty powerful in the endgame, but not much help during the rest of the game.
Reply #58 Top
The calm before the storm my friends.....The Drengin are here, don't worry


Quaking in fear of the imminent Drengin threat, the Iconians respond with a pre-emptive strike. A desperate bid for self preservation in the face of certain defeat.



(This one from my "Motti Khan" character).

Reply #59 Top
My own contribution to the cause:



In honor of the tournament of losers, I played an all losers game plus the Drath. I was actually able to use the Altarian super ablity! Surprise of surprises. It was a fun game!
Reply #60 Top
Updated:

1. Iconians: 211450
2. Arcean: 154400
3. Altarian: 144705
4. Drengin: 0

No changes in the ranks. The Drengin remain deader than a two day dead rat left out in the hot sun!
Reply #61 Top
A dead rat, Pulled a bushy tailed one out of my pool this morning(squirrel) anyhow heres a score.

Race: Arceans
Score: 33600
Years: 14
Map size: Gigantic
Victory Type: Military conquest
Alignment: Pond Scum
Date: 6/17/07
Volume: 1.5 DA
Reply #62 Top
Race: Altarians
Score: 21000
Years: 8
Map size: Medium
Victory type: Military conquest
Alignment: Very good
Difficulty: Macochistic
Date: 6/17/07
Volume: 1.5 DA
Reply #63 Top
Updated:

1. Iconians: 211450
2. Arcean: 188000
3. Altarian: 165705
4. Drengin: 0

It's true the Drengin are pathetic...But this is ridiculous.
Reply #64 Top
I started a Drengin game the other day (I play very slow, comes with old age that I think I may actually win eventually, so hopefully we'll get a score up for them.

It's my first game at painful, and it's been a real trial. First of all, the Drengin bonuses are not that useful for early game development (colony rush), and their Super Ability is pretty much worthless

What I'm finding at the higher difficulty levels, is that you have to leave new colonies undeveloped for quite a while. If you start developing all the new colonies you get in the colony rush phase, you soon find yourself WAY in the hole economically, and it's very hard to get out of that. So this game, I'm developing the colonies very slowly, and letting my population build up first so that I have more income to finance the building. At the lower difficulty levels, it seems I was able to develop the colonies right away after I got them. Of course, Thalans and Torians have other benefits that help with this.

The hardest part I see is that there's no way to "pump up" your income. If I need more research, I can rush buy labs, or factories if I need ships and buildings. But even if I build markets on my new colonies, +5-8% of 4bc is nothing. And if I crank up the tax rate, then the pop doesn't grow. So painful (with Drengin, at least) is like a whole different game!

Crushbone

Oh yeah, this is also the first game where I'm managing fleets more closely, to try and not lose any units. By rotating units and repairing, I've now got some ships that are as high as level 28! That's fun The other thing I noticed is, it seems the AI's really stick with building small hull ships for way too long. They may have lots more ships than I do, but it's just more grass for the lawnmower.
Reply #65 Top
HaHa grass for the lawnmower. thats a good one.  
Reply #67 Top
The sleeping giant will soon be woken.....




Reply #68 Top
yay! one for the Drengin.

Race: Drengin
Score: 15400
Size: Medium
Alignment: Pond Scum
Difficulty: Masochistic
Date: 6/20/07
Version: 1.5 DA

That was tough very lucky to win  
Reply #69 Top
Updated:

1. Iconians: 211450
2. Arcean: 188000
3. Altarian: 165705
4. Drengin: 15400

I guess I'll have to put away my poking stick for a while (for those of you who have never lived in a rural area, you grab a stick and poke things that look dead to see if they move...If they move, they are still alive. Commonly referred to as a "poking stick"). It appears that if you poke hard enough the Drengin will move...
Reply #70 Top
poking stick


*Disclaimer: Not for use with skunk. Leave skunk testing and removal to buzzards.



Reply #71 Top
poking stick


*Disclaimer: Not for use with skunk. Leave skunk testing and removal to buzzards.





Grizzlies also fall into the no poking with any object rule as well  
Reply #73 Top
I'm gonna get in on this, as much as I suck .


Well it is the tournement of losers.  
Reply #75 Top
My Drengin game is coming slowly. I am basically in cleanup phase, just because I have space superiority with a single ship. 96 Beam attack, against the closest opponent having 10 Beam attack. I am doing an Evil Drengin all-tech and stock market game. I have 8 minors and it appears to be 7 major opponents. All of which are still alive. The Minors are actually making good ships, sadly they only make 2 or 3 of them and then are swarmed by my psionic beam Huge hull'd ships. It is next to impossible for them to be destroyed right now. I have also just created a transport ship that can move 9 Billion troops at once, called the Uber Transport! (not very imaginative) But it works!

Well, off am I to finish that game!
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