Vilgan

So, I've been busy for a while and hadn't had a chance yet to play Twilight of the Arnor. It looks fun and I am looking forward to getting into it. I remember really looking forward to some sort of economy tweak. The slider + building thing didn't really seem to make a lot of sense in the original, and I was looking forward to losing the sliders or something to fix that strange coexistence. The all factories or all labs approach always seemed a bit TOO effective given the way the syst

[quote] ...Also the end date should be specified in the OP as well. ... [/quote] I second this request. Please put the end date of this round in the OP for round 4. Thanks! Vilgan

I'd like to volunteer myself for substitution should any other players join the league (since the teams look equally sized atm). I have little to no free time atm, and just don't have the energy/time to get excited about the league atm. If nobody takes my spot, I'll do a quick game of some sort towards the end just to keep the team good. But I would prefer to not be involved until my schedule cools down and I have the time to be excited about GC again. Vilgan

yes on mumble as the rule keeper. As for the scoring... I am rather tired of the drama etc from FB. It is a bit of a tedious job but not a hard one. Imo the results should have been done in the following manner WITHOUT drama: Post 1, its closed, I am tabulating results. Post 2, here are the initial results and how I calculated them. Preferably with a summary at the bottom showing fastest/highest scoring 3 games and the exact time/score for them. A big * beside the 4 ne

Well... got crazy swamped, so wasn't really able to play a game how I wanted. Essentially hit end turn a bunch for a tech victory. Oh well, midterm time + lots of other things makes it hard. Hopefully I'll be able to do more next round. Sooooo for the tech victory for team B I am submitting my most recent metaverse game. Score: 5750 (Thank god for no lowest score penalty!) Time: 2 years Difficulty: Challenging Race: Altarian (wanted to get them out of the way for my

As soon as I took over 1 race, the remaining 2 declare war on me. And that while I have the same alignment as at least 1 of them. Moving up the difficulty levels myself. One thing for this particular problem is it can be a good idea to not take their final planet (right away) anyways for this reason. Just reduce them to one planet.. and park a garrison nearby to kill the occasional ship they manage to produce. I thi

edit: removed old post, issue already addressed. Really nice update. Looking forward to playing it! Vilgan

How about reducing the BPs to 1 if we are going to implement this. Ties also recieve 1. Do excuse me if this has already been suggested. I haven't read the entire thread. Will do it later. RL looming. I don't think its been suggested or considered anywhere for this round that individual BP would be anything other than 1. Its that way in the OP for the round as well... Vilgan

Edit: saw FB's reply and it seems to agree with my understanding of the situation. Vilgan

My apologies. Star density is loose clusters and Meag events are on. Sorry guys...so very tired. Hrmm, pretty sure I had it on loose as its the only one I hadn't seen yet and I was curious what it would look like. Is there any way to see the stats to be 100% sure? Vilgan

I disagree with bonus points going to top scores in each category. That would be too many bonus points to be handing out, Halloween isnt till next month. Its 8 overall instead of 6 overall. Doesn't seem that crazy... <img src="http://images.stardoc

I concur. I was thinking about this a bit ago, and it seems like only the military ones have a chance of "highest" score. Would definitely make it more interesting to do it by category (imo). Vilgan

TGE checked in on one of the other threads after someone chased him down on IRC. He had a game done for last round, just forgot to post it as his submission on the thread. I saw the changes in assignments... should be interesting Vilgan

I agree that this is just bad luck but if so it should be bad luck whether you're on a 4 man team or a 5 man team. Basically for base score we take the 4 scores from a 4 man team and 4 scores from a 5 man team and make the 5 man team drop one score. Fine. The simple solution to the inequity between being on a 4 man team and a 5 man team is to not allow the non-submittal to be the score that's dropped. It's both simple and fair. What's wrong wi

I'm fairly new to the game, so I might be a slightly different voice than others.. I dunno. I would definitely buy expansion packs up to a point (probably 5 is the most that is reasonable), and would especially like to see the following things improved: Economy: ?!? I really dislike the current sliders approach. Maybe make each slider individually say how well it will be funded (all 3 being 100% as an option), but feeling like I am hurting myself by not doing an all factory or all labs

I think TGEs game should be allowed to be submitted in the round. Thanks. As the penalty for lowest scoring (mine) was removed, I'm not sure that submission or non-submission of TGE's game would affect the scoring at all for this round. We were a 5 man team, so TGE's score was dropped. I scored merely the 2 points for winning under the right conditions. Had TGE's score been included, he would have instead scored

Round 3? I thought this started on the 15th.... Really eager to get this rolling, have a few hours of freedom left then a ton of stuff to do for the next 2 weeks Vilgan

I think advanced notice should occur before (or the day of) a round starts Sounds logical. Now - gimme the rules - I want to get started before the sun sets! I agree, am bouncing up and down waiting for the specs for this round. My weekend with the most free time is this one.. and its a wastin! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Mad.gif" border=0 align="

... I also want to point out Vilgan's 3 year 16K point game that just missed being in time for this round. Clearly Vilgan will be a player to reckon with in future rounds... That 16k game was a under different "for fun" rules that were a lot easier (imo) to get a decent score in a short time. Small galaxy, abundant all with tight clusters. I am getting a bit better at this, but I am not experienced enough yet to get a gam

I like Mumble's post. Whatever the choice though, lets get the new teams and the requirements for round 3 out there! I'm eager to start playing Vilgan

If the penalty is not dropped, it seems like the teams with 5 members have a significant advantage. I don't quite follow this logic. I suppose that a 5 player team only loses 1/5th of it's scoring potential versus a 4 man team losing 1/4th of it's scoring potential. However on the other hand assuming that the chance of any one player not submitting a game is equal the 5 man team has a higher chance of having a n

I agree with dropping it for this round (even though I just showed up for the end). If the penalty is not dropped, it seems like the teams with 5 members have a significant advantage. Regardless of this, I think the new round should start tomorrow. Lets keep this rolling! Vilgan

I vote yes. Sounds like a good enough working model for me. In response to some of the other things: I prefer the averaging method. A team of 5 should consider add all 5 times/scores and divide by 5. A team of 4 should do the same for 4. Admittedly, the team of 4 might have a slight advantage in that there is a lower chance that someone will not submit and screw the team, but I think it is the most fair method overall. One thing that was not mentioned in the repost was start ti

I'm a latecomer to the league, but did play a game following the requirements listed so figured I would post it. From what I understand, since we are a 5 man team.. if my score is the lowest it will be dropped. Since I'm new at this whole thing, I don't have much of a score to show but I did beat the silly thing. Score (not sure how to link it, but its fairly easy to find on my profile since I've finished all of 2 games): Points: 5250 Game Length: 4 years Alignment: ver

Hrmm, guess I get to vote. Temporarily vote no, agree with Mumblefratz's concerns. With more and more people joining, I think at least the 3 fastest/biggest individual games should get a bonus. I also think the teams should be done on an average, so that the size 4 and size 5 teams are more equal. Team size: no need to really define this imo with averages. This round we can stay with 4 teams, if more people join we can increase it to 5. I do like the idea of there being a tie b