Welcome Comrades to the 85th edition of the Dispatch
Well the season is upon us yet again! Congratulations to all of you who successfully avoided all that 2012 threw at you this year - commiserations to those of you who couldn't. Another action packed issue provides: an interview with
El-Jefe ; strategy tips on
Forbidden Cities and
AoR 3 and a challenge to turn those into Official Guides - who's going to snap up the GCs on those?; a veritable smorgasbord of tips and infor in the Tournament section - too much to mention here; same for Foundry - do those guys never sleep?; and consideration of the new
Clan sitting rules . Something for everyone there!
But before you get stuck into that, consider this:
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - El-Jefe - One site administrator Two Turtle Doves - rdsrds2120 and king achilles - Two super mods Three French Hens - kentington , strike wolf and MeDeFe - Three Global mods Four Calling/Collie Birds - SoC, Strategy Forum, Foundry Notes and Newsletter - The Four Gospels of Strategy Five Golden Rings - Super Achievements, Game Achievements, Community Achievements, Contributions and Ratings - The bling we wear Six Geese-a-Laying - Community Interviews, Strategy, Tournaments, Foundry, Clan and Freestyle - the divisions in the Dispatch that bring you back time and again Seven Swans-a-Swimming - Seven gifts purchased from the gift shop - take your choice! Eight Maids-a-Milking - I'm sure there are more than eight female players on this site Nine Ladies Dancing - Ah, some more! Ten Lords-a-Leaping - Go you galant lads Eleven Pipers Piping - What are your favourite eleven maps? Twelve Drummers Drumming -Entertainment Team, Cartographers, Tournament Directors, Clan Directors, Academy Team, Discussions Team, Chatters, Suggestions Team, Multihunters/Cheating/Abuse Team, Tech Team, International and Global Moderators/Administrators - thank you for another year of distraction, diversion, creation and scintillation! Enjoy the fruits of our labouring fingers!
thehippo8 Chief Executive If you would like to apply to join the news team, please visit the thread below for more details!
Click here for Recruitment Details... Happy Holidays Freestylers. Apologies for the late issue,
El_Jefe was a bit busy with admin things. But he managed to find the time to talk about the direction he wants CC to go, his interests outside of CC, and his secret plans for world domination.
You Stay Classy, CC.
safariguy5 Freestyle Executive The Scum Insider by safariguy5 show
The Scum Insider Newbie Help Mafia Information , Mafia and You , and Rules and Terms of Mafia .What is "Mafia"? Mafia News pancakemix to the mod team to support the Mafia forum, the possibility of mafia awards has once again be brought up here . Hopefully, we'll be able to have some sort of fun recognition thread or contest to celebrate another year of mafia fun.Mafia Callouts Replacement Thread to see what games are in need of reserves/replacements.viewforum.php?f=213 Advanced Roles and Strategy by safariguy5 The Lightning Rod What is It? Example How to Play this Role
show: Interrogation of El_Jefe
Q. Q. I (smegal69) see you have Che Guevara as your profile pic....... so I'm not familiar with #2. Che was a damn smart military strategist and rocked a cigar and beret like no one else. Q. In the light of the recent banning of GLG, are there any others in the target sights for a life ban on CC? Nope. Everything evaluated on a case by case basis. Q. What is the single most important thing that needs to be done? Engage new players better. Q. When will we get 2 player team games and 12 player games? Soon I hope. Both are on the list but require quite a bit of technical work so they are a ways down on the list of priorities. Q. Is there any sort of mobile friendly version of the site in the works? Yes but it is a big project so it will be a while. Q. a/s/l? 33, male, Bali. Q. Are you retired or did you leave another job to do this one? No other jobs but some other fun projects in the works. Conquer Club is the focus Q. Do you read any of the public forums for fun, or stick to the admin forums (like bugs and suggs, and the private mod forums)? I have't spent enough time in public forums but I plan to. Q. How do you approach challenges that occur in your daily life? What I (AndyDufresne) mean is, are you the type of person who jumps right in and gets their hands dirty while trying to figure everything out? Or perhaps do you first study possible scenarios and outcomes and figure out what is the best approach to the problem at hand? Or some other approach entirely? Trial and error. Move fast, make mistakes. Q. Do you think it would be better to allow freemiums access to 1 speed game a day? Possibly. We are currently looking at the options to get new users more engaged and I think this (or some version of it) could be a key. Q. Do you also not think cc should have a drunken ranter page where people can let off steam and not have post reported and banned when they go to log on again? Excellent idea. Perhaps where the content is not permanently linked to their profile. Q. Whose decision was it for Andy not to continue with CC? Andy's. I would have loved for him to stay on. Q. Why RDS for community manager? He is passionate about the game and the community. He is fair and calm. He isn't on the 'no-fly' list. Q. Why King Achilles to continue? Was this your decision? Yes. I think King Achilles does a great job. Q. If you could create a full time paid position on CC, what is the most pressing area that needs a dedicated staff member? Developers and designers. Particularly to focus on mobile optimization. Q. Why piggyback onto an old/defunct account and pretend it's your own? What do you have to hide? I never expected to be in this position of authority at CC. I didn't want to scan 1000+ old games to see if I had written anything particularly unkind or embarrassing. Q. Do you have a set of improvements in mind for the site? Which ones do you plan on implementing first? The list is long. Small tasks involve minor tweaks and improvements. Medium term projects revolve around better engaging new users. Long term projects include a massive upgrade to the tournaments and clans functions. Q. Boxers or briefs? Boxers. No contest. Q. What kind of music do you enjoy? Eels, The National, Beirut, Bon Iver, The Middle East, Elliott Smith, City & Colour, Jeff Buckley, Glen Hansard. Usually gut wrenching sad songs or epic love songs. And I'm always up for a stellar dance party or any live music. Q. What kind of sports do you enjoy playing, and which do you enjoy watching? Tennis, Baseball, Surfing (poorly). I'll watch anything once the play-offs arrive. I generally root for the long shot underdog. Teams I care about: Q. Are you bothered by all the questions concerning your past on this site? Do the questions surprise you, or did you expect this? I didn't expect it or I would have given it much more thought in advance. I wasn't expecting it to be such a public role. I thought I would be mostly focused on improving the game play experience for current players and attracting and engaging more new players. That is the kind of stuff I am good at and I like to measure success by boring metrics (# active players, # premium players, # new players etc). I'm now trying to figure out the appropriate balance of focus on this stuff and public appearances. Q. What's the coolest thing you've done recently? (besides CC) Swam with whale sharks off the coast of Java. Q. When you made your user-name: Were you planning to take over the world or CC or both? Global domination has always been my goal. I'll be a benevolent dictator. I promise Q. How did you manage to become CC Admin? Did Lack propose you? Did you propose to Lack? Which past merits and achievements make you suitable for the role? I pitched the idea to Lack once upon a time. He brought it back up many months later when he was getting busy with other projects. Q. What's the best way to spend a Saturday afternoon? At the beach, watching an epic sunset. Q. What's your favourite beer? Lions Winter Ale (Granville Island, Vancouver). Q. Which is the best episode of Star Wars? Return of the Jedi. Don't trust anyone that tells you otherwise. Q. Can I (Dukasaur) get a raise? How about a 50% increase? Q. What's your favourite era in history? I'm pretty thrilled with the times right now. Pirate times look cool in movies but I have a feeling the real thing was disgusting and depressing. Q. Do you dress to the left or right? I just mimed putting on pants to try to figure out the answer to this question. Right I think. Ask again in the next interview. I'll figure it out for sure the next time I have my pants off. Q. As someone who, like myself (perchorin), lives in a less CC populated time zone, surely you can feel the need for a CC time clock! When can we expect this to happen? CC Time Clock! I need it as well. I thought I was the only one. Let's make this happen. Q. What will your animal persona be, and why was rds allowed to break rank and be a lame robot when he was supposed to pick a form of animal? I wasn't aware of this animal tradition. My bad. I just asked a close friend and they suggested a raccoon or a wombat. I'm not comfortable with either of those. I'll settle for lemur. Q. Do you plan to apply to join the Bullet-Proof Bandits? I will consider it if they aggressively recruit me. Treat me like you would a totally unbiased IOC official. Q. Where's the beef? Alberta. Q. lackattack mentioned a few more updates from him, anything near completion from either of you two? No pressure. Updates coming! I promise. Q. Will we keep up the SOS Africa sponsorship of Kelebogile? If so, then what can we expect this year for a fund-raising drive? If not, why not? Yes. Will keep it up but not sure what the plans will be just yet. I'd love to see more cool fundraising ideas. Q. Foundry, what is your opinion on the maps we have now? And do you ever look around the foundry at what is coming out soon? Something constructive about the maps we have now would be appreciated. Love the maps. Trying my best to discover new ones now and then. Recently found Poker Club and enjoyed that a lot. Also Hive but it takes forever. Generally I stick with the more simple game options and I agree with many suggestions that we need an easy tool to classify maps as simple/medium/complex (or some form of that). Q. Will you keep playing games now you are the boss? Absolutely. More than ever. Q. You mentioned a target in the announcement thread, how hopeful are you on reaching it or even beating it? Hmmmm... I don't remember the timeline I put on it and I'm afraid to look. Fingers crossed. Q. What is your stance on aliens? We are not alone in the universe. Q. If you had to pick one of these to best describe yourself, which one would it be? Q. Which one are you most attracted to? Cheerleader Q. Will there be more or less transparency with you than with the previous regime? Q. Is this going to be the longest newsletter interview of all time? You tell me. Q. Will clans ever get their own tab? Perhaps with a medal counter like tournaments? Yes. Definitely but not soon enough. It is a high priority item but requires a lot of work. Q. Is the (current) programmer on CC? Or has he never done CC before? He is new to CC. Q. Are you looking to maintain complete integrity on cc or are you likely to give in to the sexual advances from the many "CC groupies"? I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Q. Would you like to have received more interest from the community or do you prefer having missed the critical public eye? It seems like there has been plenty. I'd be happy to be very low profile and let site growth and improvements be the measure of my performance. Q. Now that you're working with mods, how many of them to you recognize/are familiar with when you were a regular user? None. I was a lurker only. I just loved the game but really had no idea what a big active community there was. Q. What is going to be the policy for placing maps into BETA going forward? Will there be a massive delay from time maps are OKed for BETA to when they will actually be uploaded for BETA play? We are trying to dramatically improve the turnaround times for new maps to be tested. Q. Are there any plans to update chipv's xml wizard for the foundry to make the tool more functional from suggestions? Yes but it is another big project so will take some time. Q. Do you intend to try to win back the mapmakers we lost to other sites? Going forward, how do you plan to work with our hardworking, valuable cartographers? We will make the process easier and faster for them to add maps. We will add more players so maps get user feedback more quickly. Q. Have you seen this map by Kabanellas? Will you make the necessary updates that will allow it to be made? Wow. It looks epic. I had not seen it before and will look into what it needs. Q. Will you allow members to buy smaller amounts of premium. Say 6 months for 15$ and 3 months for 10$? Yes. Q. Will you buy Cuba from the proceeds of CC? I'm already in negotiations with Fidel. Q. Will you allow supersize maps to be made again? This is the first I've heard of this. Sounds good to me. Q. Have you ever played Shogun/Samurai Swords? How about Axis & Allies? I had a run with Axis & Allies once upon a time. It was fun but a bit too involved for me. I prefer games where someone new can get into and be competitive without excessive explanation. Q. Besides playing Risk (duh), what other hobbies do you have? Monopoly. I was in the Canadian Monopoly Championships once. Q. What's your favorite drink? Pimm's Cup. Q. Can you explain dice randomness?!? Those damn dice. I've had runs that can't possibly be random. But I've also had runs like that when playing the live game. For some reason it is 1000x more infuriating online because I'm sure there is a conspiracy or flaw in the program. I've seen the stats and had programmers assure me it is random but I'm pretty sure there is a higher power messing with us. Q. If CC was a bar and they announced last call, would you buy us all a round of drinks? Absolutely. Though I am usually passed out in a corner before last call. Q. What are your plans for adding additional acronyms? I have the power to invent acronyms? ILTSOOT! Q. How did you decide which mod to promote to admin? Lots of advice from everyone involved (past and present). Q. If you were given the choice of taking or rejecting a one-way trip to populate a Mars Colony, would you accept and go or would you reject and stay here in on Earth? Reject. Too much fun still to be had here. Q. How much do you know about the real life man/woman/boy/girl/monkey behind AndyDufresne? I've never seen him and Karl Pilkington in a room together. Coincidence? I think not.
Welcome one and all to another helping of
Strategy .
This is the stuff that's important, so listen up!!
This issue
Jippd shares his wisdom on
Forbidden Cities - which frankly I was pleased about because it was a map I struggled with. As a one off, we have also received an article by
Ahava on
AoR - would be interesting to hear what others think about that. These articles get us close to
Official Guides and it would be interesting to see if anyone wanted to piggy-back on these good peoples' work to the extent of preparing guides for the
Strategy Forum . First in, first served - get your
GC medals now - just in time for Christmas! And for the rest of you, whether you too want to do a one off or you have aptitude to get more involved, sing out cause we need more
Strategy content!
Stay clever!
thehippo8 Temporary Strategy Executive Collected Wisdom: Jippd on Forbidden Cities by thehippo8 show
The other day I had the pleasure of playing Jippd (on NYC) and enjoyed a good lesson and a sound trouncing. As is my way, I had a quick look at his history and games and saw that he has a fondness for Forbidden Cities . Striking while the iron was hot, so to speak, I thought I'd be cheeky and send Jippd a quick PM with a few questions on the Forbidden Cities map, strategy and gameplay. To my astonishment, his response was quick, thorough and very enlightening. What's more, he's given me the authority to share this with all of you!Click image to enlarge. Jippd wrote: All of my comments regarding strategy will be limited to team games and 1 v 1 singles play.
Jippd wrote: I got into forbidden city playing team games with FOED. I used to play with
MNDuke and others from FOED on that map. I think what interested me early on was the level of difficulty in reading connections on that map. When I was in FOED I had no idea what BOB or greasemonkey was so believe it or not I learned this map without any add ons. It is possible!
Jippd wrote: The general strategy to follow for Forbidden city is to pay attention to the borders of the map first. The map can play similar to cricket in that the bonuses around the outside edge of the map are often the decider of the game.
Jippd wrote: Missionaries and Kuomingtang are the easiest bonuses to hold because they are 3 regions with 2 defense points. Then Boxers at 4 regions and 2 defense points followed by Li Rebels with 4 regions and 3 defense points.
Jippd wrote: These bonuses will generally come into play first in all games and they should be what you should focus on.
Jippd wrote: In doubles and single 1 v 1 games the tower bonuses and the 8 nation alliance bonuses may come into play. In single 1 v 1 games the priests bonus, gardens bonus and inner courts bonus may also come into play. Games are usually decided based on those left and right side borders.
Jippd wrote: You should start where you are strongest and hope that you get a bonus before the enemy does
. It is important to pay attention to connections and make sure that you are covering all attack possibilities. Too many times have I seen people miss an attack path or think an attack path existed that didn't and it has cost them the game.
Jippd wrote: It is also important to try to utilize the ability to fort troops from the center of the map through the emperors and empresses. This is often key to get troops from the useless center of the map to the outside of the map where most of the action occurs.
Jippd wrote: The key regions on this map on the left side are: KMT and Japan and on the right are USA and prince tuan. Japan and USA are key corners of the map that seal off access to the left/right side from the top. Prince Tuan and KMT are important because they can hit many regions on each side. If you hold this then your enemy has to maintain many defense positions along the right/left side of the map or risk leaving you easy 1s to hit.
Jippd wrote: If you are playing trips on this map the key is to drop your opponent to 11 regions before they drop your team to 11 regions. You need to find somewhere you can drop your opponents next player sub 12 and also drop near the action around the outside edges of the map. This is often the trickiest part for trips games.
Jippd wrote: Quads games mean everyone starts with 8 regions. This takes away the ability for the first team to drop the opposing teams deploy by 1 by only taking one region. That is why I prefer this map quads over trips. Quads is the perfect setting on this map.
Jippd wrote: For doubles each player starts with 19 regions which is not ideal for me. I personally feel that deploys of 5 or more give too much advantage to the team who goes first. General strategy still applies here.
Jippd wrote: Most 1 v 1 games on this map are decided by whoever got the first turn. With 25 starting regions each and a deploy of 8, first turn often gets to do too much damage and drop the deploy of their opponent. I would not recommend this map for 1 v 1.
Jippd wrote: FOW adds an interesting twist on this map but it definitely increases the difficulty level. I would get to know the map first then play it with FOW.
Jippd wrote: The towers are hard to hold but depending on the drop they may be a good possibility. Especially if the map is fog an opposing team may miss it if you grab the tower bonus. I would only consider going for this bonus if you dropped 3/4 of them or controlled a good portion of the surrounding regions. There are lots of territories that border these towers (8 regions) which make them easy to be broken.
Jippd wrote: I have barely ever seen the dynasties bonus come into play. Usually there are easier, more important, bonuses to fight over than killing the neutrals on the dynasties. Half of the dynasties always start out as neutral 3. The most important function the dynasties serve is to allow those troops to get forted along that yellow line to the bottom right/left corners.
Jippd wrote: The strategy doesn't change much on this map depending on spoils. I would say general spoil strategy exists on this map.
No spoils: Drop troops where you can take a bonus. Break the enemy bonuses before taking your own bonuses. Drop troops where they can't be trimmed by the enemy. Always try to get first strike over your opponents. Try to maximizing attacking ones and defending with 2s. Escalating: Same as above but you need to make sure you allow a card spot for each player by the area where the bonus fight is occurring. Taking a spoil your turn is just as important as preventing the next player on the opposing team from spoiling and helping the next player on your team ensure an easy spoil. Three parts for every turn. The key is to not get greedy and over assault, leaving little leftover troops for another attack. Also try to not leave easy 1s for your opponents to take cards. Flat Rate: Same as escalating but you also need to hope to get those lucky 8 and 10 sets. Nuclear: I play nuclear the same as no spoils. It is not NECESSARY to card. If you are carding or holding cards pay attention to what you hold. Make sure you don't take territories you can nuke and try to trap your opponent on those territories so you can take their troop count down with nukes instead of attacks. There are times where it may be advantageous not to card. If you hold many bold nuclear spoils, you may want to try not to card so you won't have to nuke yourself. It depends how much damage those nukes will do. Forbidden Cities , but you tell us how to play the game FULL STOP! Thank you for your selfless generosity!!Official Strategy quide for Forbidden Cities
Age of Realms 3: Mayhem - the Basics by Ahava show
Age of Realms 3: Mayhem (often abbreviated to AoR 3) is a conquest-style map. It's the third map in DiM 's Age of Realms map series. The great thing about this series is that you can clearly see how all of the maps are related, but each one has its own individual game-play. For AoR 3, you begin with 1 or 2 Castles (dependent on the number of players), from which you expand across the board picking up bonuses. Each of the castle's areas (with the exception of Sanctuary) has four bonuses - 2 runes, and 2 villages. These bonuses add up quickly, so getting them is often more important than getting cards. For simplicity's sake, everything here will be how a normal 1v1 game on AoR 3 is played, so you will start with 2 Castles.Click image to enlarge. Sanctuary Aoria that easy to get an early bonus! Life Rune 1 always starts a neutral 6, making it somewhat difficult to get if your dice decide to take a vacation. Borun Ghyr rdsrds2120 when I first started playing the AoR maps, Ghyr is another exception to the general statement I made about the castle's areas having 2 runes and 2 villages each. He also explained to me that Ghyr is a great starting point because of it has access to that one extra village. Ghyr has easy access to 3 villages, rather than just 2. And Ghyr is similar to Borun in that you get an extra bonus for holding terits within its borders and all non-important terits lose 1 troop per turn. For every 5 terits in Ghyr's area, you get a +1 bonus, so you can easily get more bonuses in Ghyr than you can in any of the other castles.Mua Figye Xi
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments!
The
TPA3 Cup Design Contest is now over. Congratulations to all the winners! I would announce who they are, but I don't want to take the spotlight off of Dave's
TPA Wrap . Scroll down and check it out!
In this issue you will find another one of my little
retrospectives , this time featuring the tourneys of 2006. You will find another installment of Dave's Tournament Tips, as well as the longest-running continuing series in the Dispatch,
Join This? Or Not! by WC4 James.
But first, turn your attention to an article by
generalhead . This very productive writer is officially a Foundry reporter, but he has twice now produced a wonderful article for us here in War Games, and is working on his third!
Dukasaur Tournament Executive The difference: regular games versus tournaments by general head show
generalhead .
A Few Firsts by Dukasaur show
Every now and then I wander the archives and find some interesting trivia. Here's some things I saw among the first tournaments back in 2006, when they were still an unofficial activity with no special status:Issue 77 of the Dispatch. Have another look at that for some impressions from that first tourney.)tournament with a premium giveaway was hosted by wacicha during May and June of 2006. This tournament showed wacicha's dedication and class. Originally, only one player was supposed to win a premium prize. However, when a player dropped out of the final, wacicha jumped in to replace him, and subsequently won the game. He then decided to buy premium for all four of the remaining players, rather than let them leave with a feeling that they got burned!xiGAMES Doubles Tourney , and the first tournament with an enhanced graphic in Post 1 was Highborn's Doubles Tourny , which launched on June 24th of that year. In case you're not actually following all these links, I just want to show you the graphic:Canada Day Tournament Ironically, Pilate's tournament was the first to benefit from the possibility to create tournament games separate from regular games. This new feature was apparently introduced around August 11, 2006, around the same time that Highborn was made the first-ever Tournament Director.Guerillas Double Elim was launched on August 14th of 2006. It was the first Double Elim, and the first to use the forum poll feature to query the players about what direction to go next with something.WORLD CUP CONQUER CLUB 2006 , and our own leader Gilligan with The Tournament of all Tournaments (which also happens to be the first megalomaniacally-named tournament! The NFL Tournament created by someone with the wonderful moniker P Gizzle .
Tournament Tips by DaveH show: TPA2 Coding to Modify the Results Spreadsheet
In newsletter #80 I detailed the results spreadsheet for TPA2 scores and coding to update it with an individual tournament results. This does not, however cope with the change that was introduced after TPA1 to select the best scores from a number of scores. For instance there are only 8 Premier tournament scores allowed from the 13 actual premier tournaments and only 16 from the 28 Standard tournaments.Check each player in turn; Check the number of Premier and Standard tournaments completed against the allowed number; If the number is exceeded then get all the tournament scores of that particular type; Sort them into order; Take away the sum of all the lowest scores above the maximum number allowed from the total. Code: Select all Sub CheckNumber()Code: Select all 'clear tableCode: Select all 'Sort High to lowArchive and check out number 10 in my series (Newsletter #66).
TPA Wrap by DaveH show
TPA 1: State of Play TPA 1 Standings TPA Season 2: State of Play TPA 2 Standings TPA Season 3 Yes - TPA3 now has a new cup! ndrs for his winning entry! Ndrs will gain 6 months' Premium courtesy of the Tournament Department.ISN2 with his entry:ManBungalow with his Cup:Premier peanutman - Peanut's 3X Double Elimination - Doubles Premier merch313 - Natural Born Killers 8 Player TerminatorPremier - Dukasaur - DK's 2nd Annual Christmas Quads with WC4J . Get your team together now in readiness for the hectic gameplay that will begin as soon as the Christmas map is available - playing all other teams at once! I doubt I'll even have time to open my presents!http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=175675 http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=177868
Join This? Or Not! by WorldCup4James show
The holidays and the new year are around the corner. There's many high-quality tournaments out there to get excited about, and why not start 2013 right--with another tournament victory!BluU's Hold the Capitals-Kiev/Vilnius BluU 's unique 8-player Terminator competitions. Players gain the majority of points for holding Kiev and Vilnius at the end of Round 6, while also earning points for winning the games. The featured maps are Napoleonic Europe, Rail Europe, and WWII Eastern Front. There's room for sixteen players and a guaranteed three games for everyone, so don't miss out as the "Hold the Capitals" series continues!Prime Time II PaRKoN , wins correlate to increases in percent viewership, while losses represent losses in viewership. Players choose their favorite map and settings and compete in 2v2 play. After three "days" (rounds), only one show can survive as the most popular Prime Time show on television! Arama86n's WWI Experience Arama86n 's Great War tournament. From the infamous amphibious fiasco of Gallipoli to the entrenched, frigid stalemates of the West, the challenges of war are simulated as players take on 6-player Nuclear-spoils Terminator games with increasingly difficult settings. Round 1 will see games with no "special gameplay" settings, but as rounds progress players will have to face Fog, Trench Warfare, and Adjacent! The last man standing survives the insanity.FHS: Garmisch-Partenkirchen PereiroSaus welcomes players to the mountain-nestled, historic towns of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in southern Bavaria. Players select their favorite map and settings and face off in 1v1, single-elimination play, fighting for points that carry over across all four tournaments. Earn the most points and you can deem yourself worthy of skiing down the iconic Zugspitze of the Bavarian Alps! Up to 64 ambitious skiers are welcome! Create/Join a Tournament or Tournaments Tab and take a look at the many others waiting to be filled.Requests for Immediate Players section of the tournament forum. You can be playing very quickly after signing up as a reserve.
Foundry dispatch is a little light this issue, but with good reason. Everyone is off getting blotto and ready for the holidays. But we have the usual run down of maps in development, another competition for you, generalhead gives us his opinion on the Christmas map and a few stocking fillers. Lastly, and this is a late addition, but with the cairnswk interview coming in the next edition, I bring to you our own one. generalhead wanted to speak to him as he is one of the best. Might give you all some follow on questions for the main one next issue. The competition has got some new rules, so make sure you read them. Lets leave now in a chorus of Santa' favourite song. VIDEO But set your alarm clocks for next issue. A massive foundry dispatch section is being prepared with lots of goodies for all the good girls and boys.
koontz1973 -- Foundry ExecutiveMaps in Development. by koontz1973 show
Drafting Room Where maps start life. But like all new babies, this is where they need the most attention. Milky Way Ziggurat Main Foundry The main block of work is done here. Gameplay section. Race to Promontory Summit Ring of Fire Fields of Gettysberg Massacre à Paris Defend America Miami Graphics section. 4 Star Meats France 2.0 Spanish Amarda Paris Metro Philadelphia Tribal War Israel Vertex Austrum Research & Conquer
Cairnswk interview by generalhead show
To end the year of 2012 we though we would conduct an interview on the map foundries most prolific map maker. Cairnswk has over thirty completed maps that are in play and he continues to work on more. CC Dispatch Issue 81 The butterfly represents the Cairns Birdwing Butterfly which is native to this region of North Queensland. The drink is Midori and Green Chartruese Highball, one measure each of Midori and Green Chartreuse over ice, squirt of lemon or lime topped with Lemonade. The Cairns Coral Coast map was my first map. I was prompted to have my home region represented on CC. Getting the creative ideas together for a new map. the remainder going through the foundry is the hard part. Explained above. Getting graphics finished is easier for me, because gameplay allows graphics development and progress. Fireworks, because the tools are so easy to use, unlike PS. Having said that Fireworks does not have the same finishing capabilities that Illustrator or Coreldraw (to some extent) has. On most I do! It is a welcome break from graphics. I also like doing the xml early in the development so i can see how the map will look and whether the 888s test will be OK. Then when graphics stamp comes, xml can be easily and quickly completed and put forward for checking. I depends on how you want to represent the scenario. Usually there is at least 2 weeks research looking at different aspects of a battle and configuring that plan going forward. That i can't tell you because it is something i don't keep track of. I don't pride myself on having any shortest development time for maps since a map for me is a creative process and it has it's time in development like a painting does. With that, you can over-develop the creative process and one must determine when it is time to end the process. I would have to say Poison Rome because it is one of the most unique concept maps that CC has. Treasures Of Galapagos is my favourite graphics map. I think Tisha would have to be awarded that honour simply because of the graphics quality of her artwork in the Americas Series. None really, i play them when i have a penchant for them, or when they come out of BETA. None, i like them all - they're all mine by degree of skill, design, craftsmanship, concept and ego I believe samuelc812 did a great job of it. But for me it takes too long to play. I like the editing process. I like other make mistakes and usually people love telling you when mistakes are made or when a map doesn't suite their conditions - including when they get bad drops or dice seeming that the map is unbalanced. There are several things i would change about the foundry, but i don't believe this is the appropriate place to air them. Have good novel ideas, work hard, give most people want they want for a map, but keep something (at least 5%) for yourself. Well, there are several projects on the back burner - Rail South America, Ethiopia, Perth, Mirror Mirror, Three Blind Mice - but getting the current projects - Spanish Armada, Gallipoli, Moscow, and the big one Massacre à Paris - completed are the priorities. Finally, i want to say this - I am a bit of old rough unpolished diamond at times, and that can comes through by some of the replies i fire back at folk. But please don't think i am not interested in your ideas. I may not always like what you suggest, but that shouldn't stop you from suggesting it and justifying it. I also want to thank everyone who has ever been part of games or map commenting in the last nearly 6 years.
Christmas Time by generalhead show
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Stocking Fillers by koontz1973 show
The Christmas skin for the Knights map should be up and running any day now.Draft status Game play Graphics XML Beta VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO here or here ? Their are some very useful guides on how to play maps. Kings Court 2 , an interesting discussion is going on now between a few players and the map maker on how certain territs come into play. nolefan5311 thinks the planes in 1982 makes for the best way to win that map. Is he right or not? No one knows until a strategy guide is written.
Beta and Quenched Maps by koontz1973 show
1 new map to play on today. thebastard started this map a long time ago, left and stopped it. thenobodies who had put in a lot of time to help him finished it of. This one took a lot of time to get finished. Well done nobodies.Click image to enlarge. Flapcake for getting two quenched.Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. TheBisonKing Click image to enlarge. chaos32679 Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge.
Foundry Competition NEW RULES by koontz1973 show
New Rules for this one. Please read them. Swifte . 5 Now onto the rules. Do not post any information into the dispatch thread. You all have 72 hours to find the 5 differences. Send me the answer via PM (koontz1973 ). First five to do so will be entered into a draw to determine the winner. I will announce the winner at the end of the 72 hour period. Anyone who posts the answers in the thread cannot win, even if they did. Original Messed up map clear precise description circle in red
Happy gaming everyone, whatever map takes your fancy.
It's been another fortnight of action as we welcome in the festive season with tonights Platoon Report. The highlight of late has been the unveiling of the Clan Sitting Rules by the Clan Directors. Account-sitting has been a contentious issue for a goodly while yet, with Clan members being involved in some significant cases, so the CD's thought it sound to outline the Guidelines for what is and isn't permissible with regards to Sitting when within the purview of Clans. The rules have generated a spate of discussion, with already over 22 pages of replies at the time of going to press, so our itinerant reporter Swifte is here to give us a run-down of the Rules, and the main points from the community reaction.
In other Developments, I present the latest from the 1v1 Challenge, and wax philosophical on Conquerors Cup 3!
If there are any wars or related events that you'd like to bring to the attention of the newsletter, I urge you to send me a snippet of what you'd like covered to spotlight you clan, or indeed compose an article for the Dispatch yourself!
Leehar Clan Executive Clan Sitting Rules by Swifte show
The hottest topic in the clan world since the last dispatch has certainly been the announcement of the new Clan Sitting rules. The new rules were posted by Clan Director Nicky15 on Thursday, December 6th, and came into effect on Monday, December 10th. Since that time, the post has generated nearly 350 responses and 5330 views, which at roughly 1,000 active clan players means enough views for everyone to have read it 5 times – so we’re all perfectly clear now, right? No? Well, here they are again for those that missed them, or need a 6th reading (I have put each in my own words, but I have done my best to capture the essence of each rule- the official Clan Sitting Rules are available here ): It is mandatory that an account sitter announce in chat when he has taken a turn. In case of an emergency (aka, not a pre-announced vacation), a turn can only be covered if the player has less than one hour remaining to take the turn, and only if reasonable efforts have been made to contact the player in danger of missing the turn. If someone is covering for you due to a pre-announced vacation, the sitter may discuss in chat and take turns when it is convenient for them, as usual. The player who is on vacation must not take turns themselves or add to the gamechat during the period of the pre-announced vacation. Players must not enter in to clan games if they know in advance that they will not be able to take the vast majority of their own turns in the game, or would otherwise be unavailable to take your turns on a regular basis. You must not be in another players account for any reason, other than to cover turns while the person is on vacation. Using another players account to add chat to games you yourself are not in, for example, is not allowed. Players must not give others permission to wander in and out of their account at will. CD and friends ’ (one can only assume this refers to cassette tapes, eight-tracks, vinyl records, and of perhaps the laser disc
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2nd Annual 1 vs 1 Clan Challenge [Semi Finals] 13 vs. 10 2 vs. 2 [CC3] - 3rd Annual Conqueror's Cup! Prediction contest as the bottom half of the bracket has brought a plethora of upsets. Emmdizzle leads the competition with a substantial 7 point lead over 2nd place Chuuuuck, with swimmerdude99 lurking behind in 3rd. However, even Emmdizzle only got 2 of the top 4 clans correct! Indeed, none of the top 10 have predicted all of our current semifinalists and so one hazards that it's unlikely any of the other 100+ predictions got it right to this point. So all it needs is for someone to have guessed correctly at the winner and the Competition is theirs!
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