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ROID WAR 4!!

Jun 17, 2006 tumblemonster link
ANNOUNCING TUMBLEMONSTER CHARITIES SPONSORED ROID WAR 4!!

Date and Time: Saturday June 24, 2006 at 20:30 GMT (3:30pm Central)

Where: Odia M14 Crystal Roid Cluster

Following the massive success of the first three Roid Wars we're having another! Join us for all out war! Roid War is an all out, free for all battle! The pilot with the most kills wins! Obsidian has a new Guide Command that will temporarilly tank everyones home nation standing, so it can truly be an all out war!

Entry Fee: None. However, this is a charity event, so donations are welcome!

The Rules:

1. NO seeker missles (rockets are allowed, but see rule 3 for caveat)
2. NO Lightning Mines
3. Reloads and repairs are prohibited. Once you're in the combat area, you're there until you die
4. /exploding and leaving the combat area will result in instant disqualification
5. Leaving the sector is also an instant disqualification. Be sure to rehome.
5. Anything else goes!
6. Roid War is 60 minutes long. Combat takes place at the crystal roid cluster in Odia M14. If you die, get another ship and come back! The pilots with the most kills at the end of 60 minutes win!

Prizes:

1st place: 3 Million Credits!
2nd place: 1 Million Credits!
3rd place: 250,000 Credits!

Arrive 30 minutes early and register with tumblemonster! Can't wait to see you there!
Jun 17, 2006 moldyman link
I'm in
Jun 17, 2006 slime73 link
Yup. :)
Jun 18, 2006 jexkerome link
Two bashin' events on the same day, rock on! \m/
Jun 18, 2006 kunil link
i will try to make it

Random name / Blue Max
Jun 19, 2006 Ghost link
A little food for thought: What if instead of going by most kills, we were to subtract deaths from kills and judge the winner by that?
Jun 19, 2006 leapfrog link
/me *waves* vigorously at Tumblys... you are one fun guy... I'm going to work on my schedule, starting now - because I'd like to make one of your events... hehe...
Jun 19, 2006 tumblemonster link
Ghost: That's an interesting idea. The bad thing I see happening is people being too careful avoiding death, and ending up seeing a lot of running away and less good combat.

What does everyone think?
Jun 20, 2006 jexkerome link
I say Ghost's smoking whatever it is that Morentin smokes. Leave well enough alone; we want a massive gankfest, not a massive runfest.
Jun 20, 2006 Ghost link
/me brushes the flea jexkerome aside

What I'm saying is, anyone can come in and nuke someone with flares and then die. If deaths were subtracted from kills, killing one person before dying yourself would leave you at 0 still. It's actually the standard form for a lot of FPS games and would reward those who were able to kill more than one person before dying. As for it turning into a massive runfest, well, running doesn't get you kills. And as tumble stated in the rules, repairing and reloading aren't allowed anyways. So running really doesn't help. However, this would make the event rely more on the honor system to count your own deaths (unless you want to tally up each person's specific kills) and judging how there might be people like jex there, trusting people to do anything by the honor system might not be a good idea.

Anyhow, it's a cool event either way. To avoid cheating (or a lot of work to prevent people from cheating) I suppose it might be better off to do it your original way, tumble. Just thought I'd throw some food for thought out there.
Jun 20, 2006 jexkerome link
/me will keep taunting Ghost as long as he keeps flinching!
Jun 20, 2006 softy2 link
Your standards are dropping jex! You can do better. That was a C-. Bah.

On topic : can't kill if you keep running. You can always have a consolation "prize" for best kill-death score too.
Jun 20, 2006 tumblemonster link
Oo, yeah, that's what we'll do. Best kill to death ratio wins 150k. Done.
Jun 20, 2006 softy2 link
Ratio is not a good meter, tumble. I can get an infinity by killing someone and then running to infinity.

Also, a 2-0 ratio and 10-0 is essentially a tie...

You should go for kill-death difference.
Jun 20, 2006 tumblemonster link
First, it's unlikely anyone will escape with no deaths(no one ever has), so a X:0 ratio is unlikely. Second, if you run to infinity or in fact leave the combat area at all, you're disqualified. That said, someone who gets 2 kills and 1 death vs someone who gets 10 kills and 5 deaths, yeah, problem. Instead, how about we go with kills minus deaths for the side prize?

Jun 21, 2006 lucifex link
how bout, instead of K/D

you just go with K-D
Jun 23, 2006 tumblemonster link
One day away! Guides, any news on whether one of you will be able to help out?
Jun 23, 2006 zamzx zik link
hey tumble, unless I'm still banned from your events (sorry <.<) I'll be seeing you there!

Nothin' better then a rough-and-tumble, not to mention one with a reward for the winner.
Jun 23, 2006 tumblemonster link
No one is banned from my events.
Jun 24, 2006 mr_spuck link
mr_spuck will give every participant the amount of kills from all players added together times 1000 in credits. :D

1. disqualified players neither get any money nor are their kills counted to the credits
2. players must at least contribute 1% to the kills to get moneys
(no sitting in the station till the end)
3. players must at least contribute 1% to the kills to be counted to the score.

Percentages are always rounded up.
100 kills means 1 kill for you and 101 kills 2 for you. and so on.