Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"? - Page 384

Rathar · #**3831** July 4th, 2006, 10:14 PM

Greetings!

After 5201.8 miles or approx 8k kilometers of traveling the breadth and width of Mexico I have returned home and am simply dying to play some more koth! Please to give to me an opponent!

Rathar

Dex_Solo · #**3832** July 5th, 2006, 02:24 PM

Dex Solo -vs- Slynky - this was Meganoob vs Perfect Veteran.

I had no chance, nice work Slynky. Letz go on I need a new opponent too.

Slynky · #**3833** July 5th, 2006, 07:37 PM

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Dex_Solo said:
Dex Solo -vs- Slynky - this was Meganoob vs Perfect Veteran.

I had no chance, nice work Slynky. Letz go on I need a new opponent too.

You're too kind with the praise, Dex. Truth is, you had a tough game to play successfuly. And a small map! At least you had only one "empty" system...LOL...I had SEVEN on my half.

Good luck in your next game!

Alneyan · #**3834** July 7th, 2006, 06:41 AM

KOTH has been updated yesterday, but it took a while for the Sub-Neutrino-Pulsing-Multiphased Antimatter-Quantic-Selenocommunication system to get back online (actually, just my ISP acting up).

Rathar · #**3835** July 7th, 2006, 06:47 AM

Nudge..! I have returned from a mighty journey and desire koth action!

Rathar

Asmala · #**3836** July 20th, 2006, 06:40 PM

K.O.T.H. Asmala vs Glyn, Turn 2410.6

I surrendered. Congratulations Glyn, you played a very good game. Even though my ships had a bit more advanced technology, your numbers overwhelmed me due to my poor resource income.

Had I started to research stellar manipulation earlier perhaps I would have get my warp point closer ship operational before your attack. Instead I researched other colonization techs before stellar manipulation and that was a mistake since I didn't had time to exploit enough the new planets.

Alneyan, please remove me from the Hill. I just don't have enough time to give decent turn times in summer.

Glyn · #**3837** July 21st, 2006, 10:59 AM

Asmala, It was a very good game. You did lead in technology for the whole game.

There were several points through out the game which I though you would win for sure. Like at the start, luckily we both had poor starting positions. The one system that had more planets and facility slots than probably the rest of my empire was on our border so I couldn�t develop it and you eventually took it away from me. You even captured one of my planets with population.

A few events that I recall is the first missile ship battle where we both forgot to set max range strategy. The time you captured a few of my ships including a cruiser that I�m sure you didn�t have the tech for yet, which I was able to sneak two ships in to destroy before you could get it back to a shipyard. There was also the time that I took the chance on attacking your fleet staging area hoping to kill a bunch of untrained half finished ships, unfortunately that was not the case your fleet wiped out mine without breaking a sweat.

It was a good game. Thanks!

Now for some gratuitous celebration.
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oing the happy dance while singing �I�m the king, I�m the king!::

Slynky · #**3838** July 21st, 2006, 03:45 PM

Congrats to Glyn! Looong game. I might add in here a pitch for one of Geo's Balanced Mods

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Glyn · #**3839** July 21st, 2006, 04:51 PM

The Balance mod takes away an aspect of the game that I find very challenging. Namely exploring and exploiting the unknown terrain.

The fact that there were so few habitable planets in most of the system on my side of the border worked out well when Asmala did invade with a fleet he traveled through two system before looping back into his space probably for fuel and more upgrades. The only thing he got was one medium dome world and two moons.

On the far side of the map there was a sequence of four systems, first one had only one planet colonizable by Asmala, Then next had no planets colonizable by him, Then next was a nebula, and the forth was an asteroid field. Asmala had managed to beat me to the first system (having passed through the other three) and colonize that one world, stopping my expansions into the first two systems for probably 30 turns. Once I did break through, I had to build tankers to supply my ships and build a colony past the dead space to keep my ships supplied. If Asmala had placed a ship with the proper sensor in the orange nebula in the third system, he could have killed my re-supply ships.

You just don�t get those type of challenges with the Balance mod.

Granted, you may get the occasional game were you have a lot to overcome and your opponent is sitting pretty.

In all I think it�s a case for not playing the balance mod.

PS. If someone really feels that they got a bad start, I am open to a restart within the first ten turns. The game is suppose to be a fun challenge for all the players.

Glyn · #**3840** July 21st, 2006, 05:09 PM

The previous game was long 107 turns. Mostly only on week days and then we only on line once at the same time. So, we averaged about 10 turns a week.

I think Parabolize is listed as the next challenger to the K.O.T.H.

To get the ball rolling what settings would you like Parabolize?

My preference would be:
No Intel
Three Good starting planets
Start with 100k resources.