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Monthly Challenges:January 2014

Postby DoomYoshi on Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:50 pm

Official Monthly Challenge for January
Brought to you by DoomYoshi and the Community Team


Some of you might remember a series of Unofficial Challenges that I (DoomYoshi) organized in early 2013.
You may also have seen that we have a brand new Challenge Medal (click that link and scroll all the way to the bottom).
Those two facts are, believe it or not, related - I have been asked to run Official Monthly Challenges patterned on those unofficial challenges, and anyone who meets an Official Challenge will receive a Challenge Medal!

NO SIGN-UPS REQUIRED - Everyone is eligible!
All you need to do is play in at least one game started between January 1 and January 31 with the following settings:



Settings
Map: King of the Mountains
Players per game: 3-10 [3 or more; 10 or less]
Game Type: ANY TYPE
Initial Troops: Automatic OR Manual
Play Order: Sequential or Freestyle
Spoils: Escalating
Reinforcements: any reinforcement type
Special Gameplay: MUST HAVE TRENCH; Fog of War is
optional

Round Length: Casual or speed

Medal Criteria
To win a Challenge Medal, players must score 500 points in games with
the above criteria.

Terminator Games will be scored as follows:
30 Points for a kill
10 Point for being the last surviving player
10 Points per game played
Standard games are scored the same way, except all kills go to the
winning player

Assassin Games are:
10 for joining
25 points for each player defeated
7 extra points for winning
-50 points for eliminating the wrong player

4p dubs is 60 for winners; 10 for each player on the losing team
6p dubs is 90 for winners; 10 for each player on the losing team
8p dubs is 120 for winners; 10 for each player on the losing team
10p dubs is 150 for winners; 10 for each player on the losing team
A quads victory scores 65 for each winning player, 10 for each player on the losing team
6-player trips is 63 for each winner, 10 for each player on the losing team
9-player trips is 93 for each winner, 10 for each player on the losing team

Notes


No fancy story this time.

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The settings that must be present are King of the Mountains, Trench, Escalating, 3-10 Players
Please double check and make sure you have all these settings set. The other settings are open. Round Limits are not mandatory, but are recommended to make sure all games finish on time.

Games can finish up to one week after the end of the month.

You can use this code to make sure you get the right games:
CLICK HERE TO JOIN GAMES

January-Discussion
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:51 pm

Rulings, FAQ and Other Items

Rules
1. No sign-up necessary.
2. Tournament Games do not count
3. If a setting is not clarified, it can be any of the options.
4. Deadbeats do not qualify for entrance points.
5. Wins by Round limit are treated the same way scoring is (i.e. in terminator winning by round limit is the same as killing all the rest of the players.

FAQ
Leehar wrote:Why are quads scored the way they are?


The scoring for team games is such that the expected value when you join an 8p game is the same no matter what the settings are (except assassin which is worth less).

In 8p dubs you have a 25% chance of winning 120 points and a 75% chance of winning 10 points, for a total expected points of 37.5.
In 8p standard, you have a 12.5% chance of winning 230 points and a 87.5% chance of scoring 10 points for a total expected points of 37.5.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:January 2014

Postby DoomYoshi on Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:51 pm

Working Scoreboard for January Challenge
NOTE: All games have been counted.

Those who have a medal as of right now are sorted by points above. Below are those who didn't quite make it (yet) in alphabetical order.

The order doesn't actually matter, it's just for pride. If you notice a discrepancy in scoring, you can PM DoomYoshi but only if a) you are in the top 10, b) the scoring discrepancy would put you in the top 10, or c) the scoring discrepancy is the difference between a medal and not.

MEDAL WINNERS
b00060 2225
osman76 1311
White Buffalo 1217
JOHNNYROCKET24 1183
ooge 1169
hwhrhett 1086
osujacket 1019
Kyaljs 990
benga 885
evildoer 867
mint-murray 817
smegal69 817
Gamefreakguy 784
Hannibal 19 765
dakky21 755
lokisgal 755
lordlau1 738
cooldeals 711
alstergren 703
Crash_22 703
JCsolidrock 700
bahrain 683
Tviorr 668
betiko 623
umbrellaman 621
fenril 603
generalahole 594
Armandolas 570
simmons4 570
Swifte 556
celliottii 529
jaxdadio 524
larsin 510

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those without a medal (yet)
show: non-medal winners
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:52 pm

show: Dec13


Working Scoreboard for December Challenge
Those who have a medal are sorted by points above. Below are those who didn't quite make it (yet) in alphabetical order. I will do a quick write-up with some of the more interesting medal-winners after everything is finalized.
Every asterisk means a 14-point game. As games finish up, the scoreboard will shuffle. At the end, the order will be determined by points, tiebreakers will then go to most 14-pointers, then to least number of games, then to most games completed in December, then to fastest completed and finally fastest to 28.
The order doesn't actually matter, it's just for pride. If you notice a discrepancy in scoring, you can PM me after the 1st of February but only if a) you are in the top 10 b) the scoring discrepancy would put you in the top 10 c) the scoring discrepancy is the difference between a medal and not.

Games Left
show: active games


MEDAL WINNERS

idusmars 160***
denominator 158*
Seamus Corrigan 134***
curiousone1 123*****
JOHNNYROCKET24 123*
InnyaFacce 121
papageek 119****
VicFontaine 105****
chapcrap 104*
hwhrhett 92*
redspyder 91**
rcfritz 90*****
benga 84*
tankgirl99 79*
smegal69 77**
spartacus65 76***
betiko 76*
G0rgatr0n 73**
retreat54 67**
Osman76 65
Gamefreakguy 61*
Count Belisle 61
White Buffalo 60*
puppydog85 60
mjc7890 57*
ckyrias 57*
dazza2008 56*
Dukasaur 56
pindary 53
jaxdadio 50*
jigger1986 47
GioDuce 46
Lord_Bremen 42
Sirius Kase 42
MGSteve 42
Flow520 41*
MadStuthe1st 41*
Gilligan 40*
shoop76 39*
sandman175 37*
JoJo123 36**
Danram 36*
mcshanester29 36
BoreasBoreas 35**
Quirk 32
Frito Bandito 32*
cooldeals 30
generalhead 28


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those without a medal (yet)
show: non-medal winners

*means a perfect game

Games in which the winner only got one kill:
Hilarious Game 13688325
Game 13725065
Game 13725068
Game 13795279
Game 13669370
Game 13766952
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby Gilligan on Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:16 pm

Hopefully a round limit is necessary? :)
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:58 pm

Gilligan wrote:Hopefully a round limit is necessary? :)


Not necessary. Any spoils are allowed though. If the game doesn't finish then the points for joining and for any kills are awarded.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby Gilligan on Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:00 pm

DoomYoshi wrote:
Gilligan wrote:Hopefully a round limit is necessary? :)


Not necessary. Any spoils are allowed though. If the game doesn't finish then the points for joining and for any kills are awarded.


Well, would everyone else's medals be held up if a game finishes in June?
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:14 pm

Gilligan wrote:
DoomYoshi wrote:
Gilligan wrote:Hopefully a round limit is necessary? :)


Not necessary. Any spoils are allowed though. If the game doesn't finish then the points for joining and for any kills are awarded.


Well, would everyone else's medals be held up if a game finishes in June?


EDIT: The best way to do this is being considered. It will probably be technical, but the idea is that the majority of games started in one month will be considered.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby agentcom on Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:22 pm

Is this supposed to be an announcement? It's kind of buried down here as a regular topic
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby sempaispellcheck on Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:48 pm

DoomYoshi wrote:Only joins, kills and wins that occur in December count. If the game isn't finished in December, there are no points for finishing the game.

Similarly, if the game isn't started in December (but finishes in December), no points are awarded for starting the game.

OP has been edited to clarify this.
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agentcom wrote:Is this supposed to be an announcement? It's kind of buried down here as a regular topic

Fixed.

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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby denominator on Sat Nov 30, 2013 9:30 pm

So anyone that joins 28 games with those settings automatically gets the medal?

How is it calculated who gets the medal? Do we have to post here or is this done behind the scenes?
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby agentcom on Sat Nov 30, 2013 11:18 pm

Suggestion: put a link in the OP to a search for all qualifying games that are waiting for players.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Sat Nov 30, 2013 11:52 pm

agentcom wrote:Suggestion: put a link in the OP to a search for all qualifying games that are waiting for players.


can you show me the [code][/code] way to do that? The URL i get isn't accepted I think.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby agentcom on Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:05 am

Yeah, if there's brackets in the URL, you have to post the &code for open and close bracket instead. I'll look for those and update this post when I find them. Also, you can remove any settings that aren't set from the URL.

Edit: okay, this used to work, but they've really screwed around with the gamefinder URL unfortunately. I know you used to be able to use the &codes for stuff when you were replacing a bracket in a setting. Unfortunately, the settings themselves now appear to have brackets attached to them for no apparent reason.

So formerly, this would come up in tournament names for example when you'd need to replace a tourney name like "[2013] Tournament" with "[2013] Tournament". Unfortunately, I can't get this to work any more. I have a feeling it's because instead of being a restriction (i.e. on the right side of an "=") the brackets now appear in the setting abbreviation themselves (i.e. on the left side of the "="). The alternative explanation is that I'm using the wrong &code.


Edit 2: Use %codes. Replace [ with %5b and ] with %5d and the URL should parse correctly, letting you place a working URL in a URL tag:

I.e.

Code: Select all
[url=www.site.com/find[]=Y&otherstuff]Descriptive Text[/url]


Should be entered as

Code: Select all
[url=www.site.com/find%5b%5d=Y&otherstuff]Descriptive Text[/url]


Edit 3: I took the liberty of making the URL for you. Notice that I removed any unset variables and also removed the userid variable, as I'm assuming that's used to not show games that you are in. If you leave that in there, I suspect that any game that you join may be removed from the search results. I think the new URLs are too clever by half. Not sure why they changed it up.

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www.conquerclub.com/player.php?gs%5b%5d=W&np%5b%5d=5&po%5b%5d=S&ft%5b%5d=O&wf%5b%5d=Y&tw%5b%5d=Y&sg%5b%5d=N&pt%5b%5d=N&submit=Search


Here's a working version of that URL:

Link to Games
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:46 am

denominator wrote:So anyone that joins 28 games with those settings automatically gets the medal?

How is it calculated who gets the medal? Do we have to post here or is this done behind the scenes?


It is done behind the scenes. You will automatically get one, although I am thinking we need a No Deadbeat clause.

One advantage of posting game numbers here is that I can check and make sure the settings are good. Your games are, and the link goes to a page where people can join the games you created.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby denominator on Sun Dec 01, 2013 2:28 am

DoomYoshi wrote:
denominator wrote:So anyone that joins 28 games with those settings automatically gets the medal?

How is it calculated who gets the medal? Do we have to post here or is this done behind the scenes?


It is done behind the scenes. You will automatically get one, although I am thinking we need a No Deadbeat clause.

One advantage of posting game numbers here is that I can check and make sure the settings are good. Your games are, and the link goes to a page where people can join the games you created.


Awesome, thanks!

You could just hand out -1 points for every turn missed (or -5 for a deadbeat game) if you want to avoid spammed games for the medal that aren't played.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby Gilligan on Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:23 am

agentcom wrote:Yeah, if there's brackets in the URL, you have to post the &code for open and close bracket instead. I'll look for those and update this post when I find them. Also, you can remove any settings that aren't set from the URL.

Edit: okay, this used to work, but they've really screwed around with the gamefinder URL unfortunately. I know you used to be able to use the &codes for stuff when you were replacing a bracket in a setting. Unfortunately, the settings themselves now appear to have brackets attached to them for no apparent reason.

So formerly, this would come up in tournament names for example when you'd need to replace a tourney name like "[2013] Tournament" with "[2013] Tournament". Unfortunately, I can't get this to work any more. I have a feeling it's because instead of being a restriction (i.e. on the right side of an "=") the brackets now appear in the setting abbreviation themselves (i.e. on the left side of the "="). The alternative explanation is that I'm using the wrong &code.


Edit 2: Use %codes. Replace [ with %5b and ] with %5d and the URL should parse correctly, letting you place a working URL in a URL tag:

I.e.

Code: Select all
[url=www.site.com/find[]=Y&otherstuff]Descriptive Text[/url]


Should be entered as

Code: Select all
[url=www.site.com/find%5b%5d=Y&otherstuff]Descriptive Text[/url]


Edit 3: I took the liberty of making the URL for you. Notice that I removed any unset variables and also removed the userid variable, as I'm assuming that's used to not show games that you are in. If you leave that in there, I suspect that any game that you join may be removed from the search results. I think the new URLs are too clever by half. Not sure why they changed it up.

Code: Select all
www.conquerclub.com/player.php?gs%5b%5d=W&np%5b%5d=5&po%5b%5d=S&ft%5b%5d=O&wf%5b%5d=Y&tw%5b%5d=Y&sg%5b%5d=N&pt%5b%5d=N&submit=Search


Here's a working version of that URL:

Link to Games


This appears to be for all games, not just Scotland
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:28 am

the link in the OP works; the code mp is for map i think.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby sempaispellcheck on Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:22 pm

DoomYoshi wrote:the link in the OP works; the code mp is for map i think.

I made sure of that.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby Count Belisle on Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:15 am

Doom here are some games. I posted I don't know exactly how to do the url link.

so I will just post them here.

Game 13678335

13678341

also so I will make a post of the challenge in My clans/ training forums (Mythology and The Underworld)
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby agentcom on Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:50 am

Gilligan wrote:[

This appears to be for all games, not just Scotland


Sorry about that. I did so many attempts that I must've not selected the map in the last one. Oops. Sounds like DY got it handled though.
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby GioDuce on Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:04 am

I also make a go for this challenge.

If you have games in search for players.... you can Always give me an invite and i'll be happy to accept.

I also made some games with different settings open to join :
http://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?gn=&np%5B%5D=5&ty%5B%5D=C&mp%5B%5D=95&to=&lb=&p1=gioduce&p2=&p3=&p4=&submit=Search&uid=546364&mode=find
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby Frito Bandito on Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:00 pm

well,... giddy up!
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby Dukasaur on Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:39 am

Frito Bandito wrote:well,... giddy up!

:lol:
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Re: Monthly Challenges:December 2013

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:09 pm

Is there any way to get this into announcement feed? Right now I am bumping it, as I don't want to lose top billing to the home-page. Oddly enough, I am trying to get onto the home page.
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