my next Tournament plans

After thinking about it, I like the idea of shorter and more frequent tourney's with different rules than few big ones with the same rules each time. While I think setting the teams ahead of time is the fairest, I do think that tourneys with the alliance snapshot at the end could be fun as well.

This is what I think :)

Disappointed in the lack of support for boosting smaller alliances in future tournaments. Surely even the big alliances would enjoy better competition, if all the alliances were all competing for top spots.  So why not divide occupation time by number of alliance members to get your tourney score. Come on folks it would bring every single alliance into the tourney. Would be genuinely interesting. How  many  players dont bother because their alliance has no chance.  Me for one.

Jim wrote: Disappointed in the lack of support for boosting smaller alliances in future tournaments. Surely even the big alliances would enjoy better competition, if all the alliances were all competing for top spots.  So why not divide occupation time by number of alliance members to get your tourney score. Come on folks it would bring every single alliance into the tourney. Would be genuinely interesting. How  many  players dont bother because their alliance has no chance.  Me for one.

While it could lead to interesting shuffles between the larger established players (Mano making a single player alliance vs others grouping up in smaller alliances :D) it could also very effectively sideline every small player in the game.

Since people from small alliances can temporarily join other alliances, I much prefer to include smaller players over smaller alliances. (And I say that as a player from a small alliance that joined the pirates for last tournament. Thanks guys!)

Now, if we were to divide by nr of cities, in stead of nr of members... :P (I don't actually think that will go anywhere, this is not a serious suggestion!)


Edited by Benedetti - 15 Oct 2016 at 00:36

7) So other then a king of the hill Tournament what other types of Tournament would you guys want?
Hard for me to answer this, as Im not entirely sure what is available to players who write tournament codes.

Something like a treasure hunt around the map would be interesting (sending the correct unit to the correct map tile sends the player an IGM with the next clue, similar to the fortune teller or allembine quests). This could allow players of almost any size to participate. Probably would need an Elgea version and a BL version to minimize travel times.

A timing tournament might be able to work - each couple days have a new set of tiles with target times for alliances to attempt to hit exactly at XX:XX:XX time, with points awarded for accuracy. Personally, I wouldnt enjoy this type of event so much, but i feel like others might.

This one would take some assistance from the devs, but perhaps a "(evil) magic bears hunting tournament" - for a limited duration, have the devs add a new NPC to the game and either keep track of which alliance kills the most of said unit, or the total amount of collected animal parts dropped by said unit.


In terms of king of the hill, im also in favor of separate tournaments for Elgea and BL. I know one wouldnt really be able to stop Elgea players from sending to BL tiles, and vice versa, but even with that I like the idea.


Lastly, also regarding king of the hill style, I think it would add to the event if:
    (a) as many players have already said, the target tiles changed with each tournament, and if
    (b) DURING the tournament, target tiles changed without notice. Meaning, at any given time during the event an announcement could be made with new target tiles, and players would have to recall their forces from the old one and send them to the new target.