The rules are simple,

 

1. Exodus a city to the desert

2. Be the last man standing

 

If you lose your city, you are out. If you exodus your city out of the desert, you are out. I will be working with various alliances to ensure there isnt anything shipped in from the outside as all cities will be blockaded. This is a PvP challenge to see who is the best tactition in a relatively even and fair fight. Who amoungst you is brave enough to face a challenge such as this? Who amoungst you is the superior military strategist.

 

The contest will start towards the end of the month(June), I will mail all contestants with an exact date to arrive in the "Arena"

post your intentions to fight here, or igm me

 

Nows your chance all you warrior poets to put up or shut up

Cheers,

Zork2012

 

 

 

 

But i believe blockades cannot stop army and diplo reinforcements? So more direct help could come. You could expect thousands of spies, scouts and assassins reinforcing along with armies.

I am just curious, what will qualify a combatant's city as being in the desert?

There are already many cities bordering deserts.  None that I have seen are actually "on" a desert tile.

Cheers

 

Rule #4. all contestant city and sov must be on a desrt tile or youre out

 

I was thinking of having a 1 mil gold registration fee and a 75% 25% split with the final 2 combatants, but I am open to a winner take all. the registration fe should limit the contestants but if a noob wants to actually move thier city with tendrils spell - idiotic idea imho - oh well

You cannot teleport to those 0 food 'desert' tiles as such, you could teleport to oasis/wadi tiles in desert biome though. Such areas are plenty 

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maybe you could designate an area and assign the oasis tiles to contestants, thus also avoiding multiple cities targeting the same tile to exodus.

I think this is an interesting challenge.  Will be fun to watch what people do with it, although I don't have a city to spare to participate.  Maybe I can bamboozle Ryelle into doing it.

Since there's a 5-day "freeze" on armies and diplos after Exodus, it seems like people would need to time their arrivals as close to the designated starting time as possible in order to avoid being sitting ducks.

Lots of intriguing options.

edit: with cheese

A suggestion therefore is to see if the devs could allow the original square to be re-settled again after the contest, even if the city itself is razed during the contest.... 

I have to disagree buddy.  I think a hands off approach from the devs would be commendable, and am sure they would be happiest of all the see their players taking initiative to create some sort of entertainment.  A herald article would be kinda cool though detailing who the contestants are and their coords etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Battle Royale was way better.  Although not the kinda movie you would bring children to.

Count me in, but drop me if you are over-subscribed: I'll happily stand aside to let others compete, but I'll line my city up for destruction if you're short on players ;-)

Did I miss any note on what dates this would run?

 

If you want to do this, at least make the squares fair.

 

Apart from that- GAME ON.

 

PS: the participants need to disable their diplomatic relations between each other.

1) Noki - I'm not sure it's that unfair. I looked at that and thought "OK, so if a move a cavalry specialist city down there, I should be able to keep the squares clear of sieges... but my troops will be completely wrong for purposes of besieging anyone else - which is required to win..." If a whole alliance is involved then being surrounded by plains is a massive boon to alliance-mates who are trying to defend you... but in this case...? I'm not so sure.

2) 7 people? Seriously?! All the whining on the forum about how Illyriad is too peaceful and wars would be fun blah blah blah, and only 7 people are up for this!

a) Does anyone want clearer proof that Illyriad's players don't want wars?

b) Maybe it would be worth postponing this a couple of weeks to try to rustle up more players? (I mean, a 1/7 chance of surviving sounds better than 1/20... but 1/20 sounds more like a Battle Royale!)

By the time winter rolls around I suspect this will just be finishing.  Hopefully by then it will grab the acclaim of an audience and will the precursor for the Winter Battle Royale in the arctic?

Oi, hands off my Arctic!  

-901/-295 is ready for you. Best of luck to you.

 

M6

easy to say. only way i can win will probably be when all of you can't log in for 2 months. i'm just in cause evrybody wants to siege me and i just want to give them all a fair chance.

 

Thank You Sirs for you generosity. 

Me too :D

You see, The Duke admits he will receive the 2 nd place prize post haste!

I want a long parade for my 1 st place prize

Good luck to all and hope it goes well, I would really like there to be another!

7 days away

..........But whos counting right? 

Had someone arrived 5 days early...?

Just had a sudden panic... obviously we cannot send stuff to our towns from our other settlements, understood... but, just wanted to check... can we trade on the market? I have been trading from my arena city - is that OK...?

Those I know to be participating are not.  The only inbound/outbound vans should be from harvesting.  

Argh! Sorry.

Right, trading will cease.

Zork - some sort of referees' decision on whether / how I need to be penalised for this?

I bought some basic res so I could kick-start my production. I could have a couple of days off building to cancel the benefit? (I'd just rather pick the days if that's OK - else I become a thief-magnet as my stores max out!) Or some other penalty?

The Duke wrote: Enjoyin it so far  but Im also feeling a bit by Kur and Binky's Mages lol

Hey, you started it with your evil Blighting Mages! My bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs can claim provocation. I only regret that the combat reports did not mention my troops ransacking your Mages Tower and doing gruesome things to your Blight-casters. Still, on the menu tonight at my palace will be "Mage de Duc, roast over an open fire on a spit made from his own staff." 

And very nicely dodged earlier, by the way 

 

i brought the gold to trade with

. we can blockade each other

That's clear - thanks.

Also Id like to say, this has really helped my PvP, as I was a little rusty, and had forgot a few things

So far the swamp lord and the Crow murderer are as far as I can tell in the lead. 

Congrats also to Binky, for reasons I cant announce here 

Nah, it means I am unable to make a good deal in the market.  The single person acting honorably in this competition will not accept it.

I think it is pretty obvious once kurdruk announced buying from the market the legitimacy of this contest failed.  

This is a learning experience though.  I will most likely look toward joining in the next contest when the rules are twice as clear and lack of honor can be more regulated.

Ill be withdrawing from this tourney for reasons Id like to keep out of the forums, please seige my city asap, or I will have it killed by someone outside the tourney

exodus your city out of the desert , no need to have it destroyed

That's a real shame - sorry to see you go. You killed quite a lot of my Orcs 

I'll leave your city in peace - when it has hit Warehouse 20 no doubt it will head away on its own accord.

Only two left?! Hmm. I need a strategy other than "dig in, 'cos lots of people might be having a go..."

Lousy Orc? Lousy? My hairy bits contain a whole range of insectoid (and other) life forms - I feel that mentioning only the lice is unfair to the other creatures in my crevasses.

Anyway, I think what you meant, when you said "That lousy orc killed my armies", is "the cunning greenskins outwitted my lumbering forces, thus proving the military superiority of the Orc race" ;-)

I never had any doubts that orc will win! Congratulations Lord of the swamp 

Assassins?

Happy to hear the roar of applause from a fellow Orc.

But the foe isn't beaten yet. Down but not out, as they say.

It's true. My commanders, completely heedless of danger, rarely bother armouring their backs. They'd be easy prey for assassins (again!)

 Binky the Barbarian

 Stinky Binky and

 Twinky Binky.

* Ander - I believe you own Noki some money? How could you bet against me! I'm hurt, I tell you! ;-)

Binky put up one heck of a fight, and certainly used diplos far better than I did. Big, big round of applause to Binky.

And I will take my bow, and return that city to building mode.

Thanks to all involved for this.