1 vs 1 Tournament

Hi all,

This is all very interesting. 

We're very keen for this to be - as far as possible - a player-run enterprise, although we might extend some of the concepts out to encompass (eg) Factions and Faction-run tournaments, potentially with special prizes.

If you guys can collectively come up with a simple, fun and rewarding Tournament system that people want to participate in, with a full rule set etc, then we're happy to find some space in the dev schedule to code in any specific things that might be required to make it function.

One of the key requirements from our perspective is that people cannot use the Tournament feature exploitatively.  For example, if you say "During a tournament, players are invulnerable to attack from anyone except their Tournament adversary" then we're unlikely to enforce this through the code, as it will be exploited unfairly by players.

I suggest that compliance with the rules (no assistance from third parties etc) should not be enforced by the code, but enforced through reportage - ie the Combat API Key system, although I accept we will probably need Diplomatic & Trade Report API key system in place as well for completeness of information, so everyone can see if a player was within the spirit of the rules or not.

If we can genuinely make this a player run system relying on API Key reportage for enforcement of whether players abide by the rules - then different players / alliances can run multiple tournaments of different types with different prizes and rules (eg a One City Siege Tournament, a Capture the Flag tournament, a Kill the most Arakvar tournament, whatever...) that the player/alliance running the tournament can enforce.

Keep thinking about it, keep the ideas coming - and when you've got to a point where there's a workable system, let us know if there are any specific dev/code changes that need to be in place to make it happen, and we'll try and slip them in.

Regards,

SC




Edited by GM Stormcrow - 28 Oct 2010 at 15:30

Feints are useless in this situation as players do not see incoming on an occupied square.  For reference.

As an expansion of HM's suggestion...

Rather than one square, have several. NOW you're getting into stuff thats a little bit more interesting.

Have each place choose two squares within a previously selected region. Each day, players get points equal to "Number of squares held * Number of units holding squares". This lasts for, say, four days. NOW you have to start making some tough decisions, relying on feints and strategic recalls of troops to try and draw you're enemy out... It would be a bit more difficult to organize, but it would be pretty fun, I think.

Noryasha Grunk wrote: Vot are dese civilians hyu speak of, KarL? Also, hI am opposed to da vall tournament. Mostly because despite heffink survived several vars, hI've never built vone. And hyu can't get cities out of it. Beink able to capture da cities of da losers is MORE dan enough of a reason to participate in da tournament in da OP

Iduna wrote: One more thing......if this idea will be seriously looked at.......this should also be added as a new rank summary, such as quests.