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eowan the short
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Posted: 14 Apr 2018 at 03:52 |
Hey All,
So, a recent post by King Sigerius on my alliance cost thread gave me an idea for creating a tournament league for small alliances. The idea of this would be to give something for small alliances to do early on. My current thinking is to make it open to any alliance ranked below 50 on the alliance leaderboard by land (which is also currently any alliance with less than 1k land). Obviously, membership/ entrance fees would have to be implemented to fund prizes. Tournaments would be every 3 months with a mix of trade, growth, and military style ones. Depending on the popularity of this, there could be more than one at a time. So, what are your thoughts on this? Would you be interested, what styles would you like, and what sort of prizes should there be? -Eowan
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Ten Kulch
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What would a trade tournament look like? I have wondered over the years.
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Check out my blog, Warmongering in Illyriad for self-defense techniques, military city construction, and PvP strategies.
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eowan the short
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In the past when I've done/ seen trade tournaments, it has revolved around trade score growth. This isn't a perfect way of measuring trading... perhaps APIs could be used to ensure trading with an alt wasn't being used to boost scores.
I've also seen tournaments where the aim was to make the biggest single trade and also to acquire as many types of anatomies/herbs/minerals as possible.
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Mr. Ubiquitous Feral
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This is a great idea. Come up with a simple tourney for the new smaller players and I will help with some prizes. Will it be like your previous PvP? Or the largest NPC kill with the best kill ratio? Maybe an ongoing PvP with winners advancing.
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eowan the short
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A suggestion has been made for a discovery based tournament as well.
"I was in a "discovery" tournament where I entered my newest town (no discoveries) and tried to get as many as I could in a set amount of time eg one month. This worked as even noobs could join in and learn a new aspect of the game. Tournaments like "discoveries" are great teaching tools. " To me, this seems like a pretty cool idea. What do you all think?
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Mr. Ubiquitous Feral
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Do it. What do you need to start?
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I am a Machine.
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DArtagnan
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Sounds intriguing, there are lots of smaller players that this would be great for. I/we will help where we can.
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Ten Kulch
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In my experience, the biggest challenge is marketing. Many little players don't read the forums, don't watch GC. So how do you effectively get the message out to them?
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eowan the short
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I've IGMed every single alliance leader it applies to, Ten. All 160 or so of them (some alliances only contained abandoned accounts). Marketing isn't an issue with copy, paste, and a mouse with a back button :D . I'll then IGM those who have responded whilst also posting on the forums again to announce new tournaments.
Thanks Dart, I'll put you in my list of interested alliances :) As for what I need to start, I need to have a stable account which I won't have until after May 31st, Ubi. |
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eowan the short
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So, currently, my ideas for types of tournament are as follows: 1) Military Tournaments
2) Growth Tournaments: These are fairly self explanatory- see how much an alliance could grow by various metrics. I'd probably award prizes here based on 3 categories, greatest absolute growth, greatest % growth and a middle category that combined the scores from absolute and % growth 3) Trade Tournaments:
4) Discovery Tournament: Each participating player starts with a town with no discoveries and sees how many they can get in a set period of time. I'm also open to any other suggestions you might have, in fact, the idea for the player hunting tournament and the discovery tournaments both came from people I IGMed about this. All of the non-team tournaments would have 3 broad categories of score- an absolute, a size scaled and an inbetween value that combines the two. The idea of this is that larger alliances will do best with the absolute value, small ones will do better with size scaled and the inbetween value will give middle sized alliances an opportunity. Depending on how many alliances get involved and if I can find a large alliance to participate, there could be the potential for an all v 1 format where a single large alliance competes against as many of the small alliances as are interested in a tournament. |
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