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The Great War

Postby Dukasaur on Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:59 pm

Welcome to the largest event in the history of Conquer Club. Welcome to the Event that made bigWham do a double-take. Welcome to an event so Great, it can only be called:
      THE GREAT WAR

This event will last from now until November 11, 2018.

We will try to recreate, using tournaments and sub-events, the entire history of World War I.

This event is dynamic! The rules now may not be the rules in 2018. New features will be added, unpopular features will be dropped.

The general flowchart is:
tokens -> auto-tournaments -> prizes and medals -> scoreboard -> bigger prizes

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Scoreboard
Preview Thread
Prizes
Autotournament Rules
List of New and Upcoming Tournaments
List of Ongoing Tournaments
Index to all past Tournaments (including both finished and ongoing)
A different Index to all Autotournaments in this series.
List of Token Criteria
Scoreboard Explanation
Creative Components
General FAQ
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Re: The Great War

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:59 pm

List of Prizes


Each of the tournaments offers their own prizes.
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Re: The Great War

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:01 pm

Autotournament Rules

Tokens are required to enter autotournaments. To find out more about tokens, check out:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=207817&p=4556455#p4556466



You can enter as many tournaments as you have tokens for, but each tournament can only be entered once.
This rule matters since once a tournament is filled, a new one of the same type will enter signups.
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List of Current and Upcoming Tournaments

Postby Dukasaur on Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:01 pm

List of Current and Upcoming Tournaments

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List of Previous Tournaments in this Quarter

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:04 pm

List of Previous Tournaments in this Quarter

Tournament Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13hp18u3nJb6WXDpsb8oVxktCoWwS0ow9fCK5jszWOpI/edit?usp=sharing

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Archives of Tournaments from previous Quarters

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Qualifying games for TOKENS

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:10 pm

Tokens

Tokens drop from a joining and/or winning public games on a specified list of maps:

Current list:
World 2.1
Classic Cities: London
Germany
World War I Gallipoli
Battle for Iraq!
Italy
Rail Europe
Poison Rome
Land and Sea
4 Star Meats

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EDIT:
In 1915, much is happening in the south, as campaigns in Africa and the Middle East heat up. The big operation of the year, however, is the Dardanelles-Gallipoli operation. It's time to update our token-dropping maps accordingly. On February 19th, on the 100th anniversary of the initial naval bombardment of the Gallipoli forts, we will add a new group of maps to the token-dropping list:
Gallipoli (beta) map
WWI Ottoman
Middle East
Europa
Dark Continent
Africa II
Australia
New Zealand

The current list, (Europe1914, Transsib1914, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Unification Germany, England, France1789, and Benelux) will remain active for now and continue dropping tokens for another month, until March 19th.


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Original (September 17) list: Europe1914, Austro-Hungarian Empire, King of the Mountains, and Balkan Peninsula
Second (November 17) list: Europe1914, Russia as represented by Transsib1914, Austria as represented by Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany represented by Unification Germany, Britain represented by England, France represented by France1789, Belgium represented by Benelux.
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Great War Scoreboard Explanation

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:11 pm

Scoreboard Explanation

See the scoreboard here

There are 4 types of tokens. Right now only one category is being issued. They don't have a "score", they are just used to enter into the autotournaments. The autotournaments award medals to the winners. Right now, the medals are given a score of 1. Highest score wins (in 4 years). There will most likely be an "after a year" prize.
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Re: The Great War

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Re: The Great War

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:11 pm

Quarterly Prizes

Going forward, we will give 1 Green and 1 Blue every quarter.

The Quarterly Green: Will be given to the player at the top of the scoreboard at the end of each quarter. However, the same player can only get it once per year. Thus, if the player on the top of the scoreboard already got one within the last four quarters, it will go to the 2nd place player. If that player already got one in the last four quarters, it will go to the third place player and so on.

The Quarterly Blue: Will be a "most-improved" star. We'll need a snapshot of the scoreboard at the end of each quarter. The player who moves up the most spaces on the scoreboard will win the Blue. If multiple players all jumped the same number of spaces, the one who began at the highest point in the previous quarter will get the star.

Both the Quarterly Green and the Quarterly Blue will come with a GA medal to commemorate the triumph.
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Re: The Great War

Postby DoomYoshi on Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:12 pm

General FAQ


Q: How do I join these autotournaments?


A: Here is our critically-acclaimed Seven Step program.

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5. The description in the autotourney box is a short description, because of space limitations. For more details, you can visit the List of Current and Upcoming Tournaments post, which will usually have a more thorough discussion of the tourney. For older tourneys, you can look for the appropriate archive in the List of Previous Tournaments

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Q: I came in 17th in a tournament that gives helmets for placing 18th or better. Why didn't I get a helmet?

A: You're reading the tournament description wrong. When the tournament description says that a helmet is given for 18th place or whatever, it only means 18th place. It does NOT mean all places up to and including 18th. This is a quasi-random participation bonus.
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Re: The Great War

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Re: The Great War

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Re: The Great War

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Re: The Great War

Postby rmjw10 on Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:35 pm

how do i enter a specific tournament?

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Re: The Great War

Postby Bruceswar on Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:31 pm

holy crap... good luck! What an undertaking!
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Re: The Great War

Postby Silly Knig-it on Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:49 pm

This sounds like fun.

But if I understand this correctly, the current games can only be played by speeders who happened to catch the tokens.

Would love to play some of these but I don't do speed games.
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Re: The Great War

Postby Frito Bandito on Thu Sep 18, 2014 1:05 am

same
Silly Knig-it wrote:This sounds like fun.

But if I understand this correctly, the current games can only be played by speeders who happened to catch the tokens.

Would love to play some of these but I don't do speed games.
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Re: The Great War

Postby mathonwy on Thu Sep 18, 2014 1:39 am

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Re: The Great War

Postby -1-1-3- on Thu Sep 18, 2014 3:17 am

DoomYoshi wrote:Tokens

To get a Tank token, one has to play a game on Austro-Hungarian Empire,Balkan Peninsula,King Of The Mountains,Europe 1914 and hope it drops. The higher the # of players there is, the better drop rate you get!
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Before you ask, they were briefly awarded for speed games on all maps.


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Re: The Great War

Postby iAmCaffeine on Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:09 am

Time for more 2000+ games.
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Re: The Great War

Postby ooge on Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:10 am

And the winner 4 years from now is a player no longer on the website.
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Re: The Great War

Postby DoomYoshi on Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:22 am

rmjw10 wrote:how do i enter a specific tournament?

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You can access them from the Great War banner on your My Games page, or from the tournament tab at the top.

Silly Knig-it wrote:This sounds like fun.

But if I understand this correctly, the current games can only be played by speeders who happened to catch the tokens.

Would love to play some of these but I don't do speed games.


No, it's all games on the 4 maps listed. It is not speed games right now.

mathonwy wrote:This sounds hella fun but maybe a little too ambitious for the tools that are currently available?

4 years is a very long time and without an automated way to keep track of everything, it'll be near impossible to maintain everyone's interest that long (and that's includes the game coordinator's as well).

Think about it, you are telling a 4 year story using a forum and text and nothing else. I don't know about you but my attention span won't last that long and I don't care enough to keep on top of it which is what your ultimate goal should be if you're doing something like this.

If you're doing something this long,
- you need an easy way of tracking what has gone on, what's is currently going on and what is coming up and a forum is not the way to do it as it's just too much typing and reading. You need a static page for players to go to that contains the schedule and record so far etc etc and you need this to make the players care about what's actually going.
- you want a consistent group of players that goes from game 1 to game end. Just like a 4 year AD&D game, you want consistency. You want the same GM and the same core group of players. You want players to start knowing who each other are and you want players to be engaged into what's going on. If you don't, the game coordinator is going to find himself quickly losing interest FAST.

It just seems a little rushed and unplanned right now?

-Math


We have automated token, and tournament systems. I'm not sure what else I could use.

I don't think we want a consistent group or even if we could expect it. This is somewhat of a marathon, not a series of sprints. I doubt the community team will even be the same in 4 years ;)

ooge wrote:And the winner 4 years from now is a player no longer on the website.


We will have scoreboard prizes semi-frequently until then.
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Re: The Great War

Postby Tviorr on Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:23 am

Just a stupid question about tokens. - Do you have to win one of the listed games to get a drop chance?

If you just have to play then can we get an idea of what the drop chance is. - I have 14 newly started games of the current types and so far no tokens. - So if its neccessary to play a hundred games to get 3 tokens, Im thinking that the tournaments will only be joined by the very lucky or the insanely active?

Am I missing something here?
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