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Post by mrgametheory on Nov 6, 2006 2:13:23 GMT -5
We should do round 2 of the tournament on Satuday 11/11/06 at 10 AM PST - Please Comment if you can make This time or if we need to set another time.
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Post by mrgametheory on Oct 24, 2006 15:23:37 GMT -5
Yes it did, but due to the length of the game we decided to finish the second half of the game at a later time. urrently all players have been defeated except "NotaGoodname, MissladyLuck, Pooky, and Myself"
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Post by mrgametheory on Oct 20, 2006 17:26:25 GMT -5
You may also use this thread to reserve a spot in the tournament. I will accept pros in the order in which they repost and remember that this will be a normal ladder game, but I am just throwing in the $50 to make players think a little harder and push a little farther.
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Post by mrgametheory on Oct 20, 2006 16:07:06 GMT -5
"No entrance fee". I am just going to be give this prize away to the Winner.
Everything Will be on except for Tec Trading.
The Map will be Pangea / Large / 6-12 Person / Random Civs
Experts Only - If you Are not Pro in my Book you will be booted ;D
Winner will be given $50 Via Pay Pal
Be there!!!!!!
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 31, 2006 20:10:38 GMT -5
I agree, as for right now, its going to be almost impossible to successfully host these tournaments without some kind of on line tournament system and I am not going to pursue future tournaments unless this one is successfully, but at the same time, I am not going to go about building a site for tournaments unless this is successful, this obviously leaves me in a complex situation and the the only chance that this thing even has a chance is if I could use the tournament system in place or someone helps me put a temporary one together.
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 25, 2006 11:35:31 GMT -5
Saying that the Ladder cant endorse a cash tournament is 1 thing, but saying that a cash tournament relating to Civ 4 cant be posted on the boards is another thing. It doesn't seem logical that a (CIV 4 related event) not run by the ladder be banned from spreading the word on your board. So your telling me that you are going to penalize the ladder league from getting the most up to date information on a non ladder league cash event. I guess that bans all ladder leaguers from ever hearing anything about Fraxis or some other party hosting a $100,000 Civ 4 game. Because I know that the second that happens, every gaming and Civ 4 related website on this planet will have posts about it everywhere.
All I ask is that you possibly consider this specific aspect a little more, its fine if ladder will not be involved, but dont penalize the entire Civ 4 ladder community for it. Besides this is a perfect opportunity to actually spread this ladder league by being the ones who's boards was the first to show the birth of such event and you may just be pushing it right out the door.
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 23, 2006 19:09:16 GMT -5
And just so you know, for this tournament I dont care if 1 team Signes up or 100000 teams sign up, the prizes will be released. But if no one shows up to this thing I wont do it again after this.
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 23, 2006 18:56:09 GMT -5
I wish you luck in getting this to work. If you gradually get that pot up to like $5,000 - $10,000 a tournament every month, I may have incentive to join back up again. To be completely honest, I have actually been greatly considering hosting a Civ 4 tournament for major cash. I was going to put up $200 - $2000 a tournament and host 1 every month. There would be 3 Events for the tournament and each event would go on simultaneously in order to make this a 1 day event and make it a team, not clan event. The entry fee would be $20-100 per Team and each team would be comprised of 4 players. Obviously I am expecting to lose loads of money for the first several months, but gradually some decent gamers would come to the game and it would be more incentive for players to get their game up. Plus I've been thinking of something worthless to throw some of my money at The 3 events would be 1v1 - 125 Turns - Mirror - Ancient - Pick - Standard Rules Cton - 250 Turns - Wheel - Ancient - Pick - Full Negotiation allowed, (Without Tec trading) - Other Standard Rules apply 2v2 - 125 Turns - Mirror - Ancient - Pick - Standard Rules Every single month the eras for each event will change so it would be Ancient for the 1v1 the first month and And for the 2v2 the 1st month and the second month it would be different eras for both events or one, etc. 1st place gets 5 points 2nd place gets 3 points 3rd place gets 1 point Whoever has the most points at the end of the tournament wins and will receive 75% of the Prize and 2nd place receives 25% of the prize. If there is a tie for 1st place at the end of this tournament than a 1v1 game would occur to settle everything. ----- In fact, as I write I said why the hell not and I am going to host this tournament September 16th. The time for this Event will be 8AM PST on Saturday September 16th. 1st place Prize is $150 and 2nd place Prize is $50. The entry fee is $1 per team. I will create a paypall account in the next 2 weeks. I will release all of the Detailed information for this event including all pay pall information. If possible I would like to get together with one of the main admins for ladder in order to make this some kind of major ladder event so that people who try to scam the tournament or cheat or blah blah blah, can be dealt with accordingly. I will stick to my guns on this and I will follow through with this. Just consider the money there. I highly suggest you start picking your teams right now. I am hosting the tournament like this in order to get people on pay pal, knowledgeable about the tournament and accepting a fee for it, and seeing if I can breath some life into a Game I had so much hope for. I will be making a Thread on this topic with specific detailed information about the tournament. I suggest that as many people as possible sign up for this tournament, even if you are going to be separating your clans for this tournament. If possible, evenly divide your clans up to make this tournament more fun so their is serious competition. I also suggest everyone advertise this to the ladder, Civ 4 Lobby, French League, and(Everyone). You have 3 and 1/2 weeks to get as many people as possible and if we get a Minimum of 30 teams to sign up for this tournament I will throw another tournament in 1 month and I will make the total prize for that Tournament $300 and I will exponentially raise the prize money after that. Good Luck to us all and this is your chance to actually make something out of this game. PS. I am not to worried about people trying to steal on paypall once the pot for this gets high. There are actually several ways to make sure that noone to take advantage of this system.
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Post by mrgametheory on Sept 6, 2006 16:39:43 GMT -5
Well, as much as I am trying to spread the word manually, it seems that the word is not getting out enough.
On top of the problem that very few people know about the tournament, it seems almost impossible to host this thing without some kind of website.
I just purchased MrGameTheory.com and I am going to find some people to put together a tournament system in it. I am going to postpone the tournament until the website is up.
I want this first tournament to be a big event so when I set this up I want it to be done right. I will keep the ladder posted on the ETA of the tournament.
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 30, 2006 1:31:47 GMT -5
I have figured out the Rules to the tournament and I have purchased a website domain name which will act as the base of operations for the tournament. I am willing to invest money into building a serious site, but not until I know that people are actually going to be participating in these tournaments.
I Need help in putting together a website to host this tournament, but I know absolutely nothing about website building and hosting. I expect the site to be extremely basic and just enough to make it so we can organize this tournament. If you can help me or know anyone who could help me I would greatly appreciate it. Please Email me at mrgametheory@hotmail.com if you could lend me some kind of support. I wanted this website to be up by the 4th and I don't expect it to take someone who knows what they are doing a whole lot of time.
I would even consider some kind of compensation for the help of someone who really knows what they are doing.
thanks
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 28, 2006 10:10:34 GMT -5
Thank you
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 25, 2006 11:42:31 GMT -5
Saying that the Ladder cant endorse a cash tournament is 1 thing, but saying that a cash tournament relating to Civ 4 cant be posted on the boards is another thing. It doesn't seem logical that a (CIV 4 related event) not run by the ladder be banned from spreading the word on your board. So your telling me that you are going to penalize the ladder league from getting the most up to date information on a non ladder league cash event. I guess that bans all ladder leaguers from ever hearing anything about Fraxis or some other party hosting a $100,000 Civ 4 game. Because I know that the second that happens, every gaming and Civ 4 related website on this planet will have posts about it everywhere.
All I ask is that you possibly consider this specific aspect a little more, its fine if ladder will not be involved, but dont penalize the entire Civ 4 ladder community for it. Besides this is a perfect opportunity to actually spread this ladder league by being the ones who's boards was the first to show the birth of such event and you may just be pushing it right out the door.
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 25, 2006 11:05:56 GMT -5
Ok, I have been mapping out several creative and exciting things to make this tournament / Tournaments work. The funding for the tournaments is not the problem, I have that covered. I understand I am losing money on these tournaments and nuts I may lose up wards to a few thousand dollars doing this, but I am actually getting excitement from this and I have been wanting to bring money into Civ 4 since my 10th post on these boards and considering I don't play civ anymore, this is a way for me to stay involved in the gaming world, but on another level. I do have 2 concerns. 1) I need a TD to help coordinate this tournament with me and If one from Ladder doesn't want to coordinate this with me, than I am accepting applications for 1-3 qualified Gamers who would be interested in running the first series of Cash tournaments for Civ 4. I don't expect these tournaments to make any money for a few billion years but Inevitably I would like to hope that they will pay for themselves and the ones who helped me make these tournaments successful, will receive their just reward. If no one helps me run these tournaments that is fine, I will try my best, but I will not promise anything special and due to my lack of time I can't say how committed I can be to something like this. 2) Obviously I'm worried that there will be a lack of people willing to participate in this tournament. Once again, the money is there, if 1 team signs up for this thing and thats it, I am going to hand them $200 and say Good job. If it does come down to there only being a few players for this tournament than I will probably not have another one. But I am making a guarantee to you all. If a minimum of 25 teams successfully Sign up for this Tournament than I will have another tournament within 30 days after this tournament and the Cash prize will be $300. We will continue to go from there. Pretty much, I am putting everything in your (All Civilization 4 Players) hands. I am giving the Civ 4 community the chance to become what other major games have become and if you want to just blow this off that is fine. To be honest, I have already accepted the fact that the turnout will not be so hot, but I still have hopes and it is better to give this a try. If you want to make this thing work than make it work, all I am doing is putting up the money for it. I highly suggest you all use this time to advertise this Ladder league website and send people here and get them to partake in this tournament. This is not just a Ladder League event, every Civ 4 player, ladder member or not, is allowed in this tournament, so I suggest you all spread the word to the best of your abilities. When this thing starts I am going to request that all teams that enter tell me who told them about this tournament and the people who actually helped put this thing together will get their just reward. The date is set and I will be putting up all the official information for this tournament in the next 5 Days. Up to this Point the Rules for the Tournament are as follows: All teams which enter will be set randomly to play each other in standard tournament fashion. There will be 3 events: 1v1 - 125 Turns - Mirror - Ancient - Pick - Standard Rules Cton - 250 Turns - Wheel - Ancient - Pick - Full Negotiation allowed, (Without Tec trading) - Other Standard Rules apply 2v2 - 125 Turns - Mirror - Ancient - Pick - Standard Rules 1st place gets 5 points 2nd place gets 3 points 3rd place gets 1 point Whoever has the most points at the end of the tournament wins and will receive 75% of the Prize and 2nd place receives 25% of the prize. 1st place Prize is $150 and 2nd place Prize is $50. If there is a tie for 1st place at the end of this tournament than a 1v1 game would occur to settle everything. The Time for the Event is 8AM PST on Saturday September 16th Each Team will be comprised on 5 Players - 4 Will actually participate in the tournament and 1 will be a sub which can take the place of any player in the tournament at any time, but this player can only be subbed in once and once that player is subbed in they can no longer be subbed in and the player who was subbed out can no longer partake in the tournament. (I suggest you strategically organize your team) The entry fee is ($1 per team). I have already created a PayPall Merchant account and normal account and payment for this tournament can go 2 ways. You can either pay for this tournament 100 Hours in advance and only pay $1 or pay for this tournament up to 45 Minutes before it starts and Pay $1.40. I am setting the entry fee up this way so that people can get on paypal and get accustomed to it and the structure of these tournaments. I will provide all of my paypal information in the next 5 Days. Each team is going to need to pick a team name (not a clan name), and name the specific 5 players on their team. All of the names of the members of each team must exactly match their Civ 4 lobby names. I will put up more information on this in the next 5 days. I am setting the tournament up like this so there is absolutely no room for people to scam this tournament in terms of money. There will also be judges and strict rules up for this tournament that I will need someone to help me with due to the fact that I don't have warlords ( I may get it) and I need to know the rule changes and and how best to host this thing. ( This is where I would appreciate the better players providing me with some insight so all you experts out there please feel free to lend me a hand and send me a draft of how you think he specific rules of this tournament should be and I will pick the one which is the best) You have around 22 days to get prepared for this tournament, pick your teams, and spread the word. My Aol Instant Messenger name is MrGameTheory and if you would like to speak with me about this just drop me a line. Good Luck to us all and this is your chance to actually make something out of this game.
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Post by mrgametheory on Oct 5, 2007 5:19:16 GMT -5
I agree, possibly even 2 gold
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 21, 2007 15:38:32 GMT -5
Let me give you newbs who are tuning in for the first time the run down of what is going on here.
Glatiator 2 Starring Mookienj and MrGameTheory
A man who became a newb A newb who became a general A general that became a slave A slave that remained a slave A slave that killed himself in protest. A slave who is enjoying the afterlife in a better world. A MGT who laughed at the slave for becoming a slave in hopes of changing an empire!
;D
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Post by mrgametheory on Aug 3, 2007 13:38:14 GMT -5
How many hammers per each era for settlers and workers, I'm kinda in mexico and don't have access to game.
Hasn't slaving, buying, chopping been the only logical way to make them for the most part.
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Post by mrgametheory on Jul 30, 2007 6:49:13 GMT -5
Is it possible to rush opponent with mass units with few workers in stack and everytime you move stack you build a fort in enemy culture so your units always have a bonus 25 percent defense as you approuch your city of choice?
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Post by mrgametheory on Jul 26, 2007 18:27:52 GMT -5
Incorrect, Anything that occurs on planet earth could support my opinion of fried Becides, even if you did remove Fried from that equation the rest remains accurate. "Updating a product worth purchasing" If the developers of civ were intelligent they could of updated civ and made an expansion which attracted the interests of fans while upgrading or atleast maintaining the respect it recieved from an MP community.
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Post by mrgametheory on Jul 26, 2007 7:32:06 GMT -5
I would like to enter the following statement into the record Mr President.
The fact remains that the designers of this game believe that a silent ping is better than an audable ping and this further complements my general opinion that fried and the rest of the mp thinkers are worthless and the designers over at firaxis really arnt intelligent enough and lack strategic insight when it comes to expanding on a product worth purchasing .
I reserve the balance of my time.
Sent via Blackberry
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Post by mrgametheory on Jul 21, 2007 4:14:38 GMT -5
Hello friends, it is time for another exciting chapter in your favorite TV Show, "MGT Making it Rain on BTS" In tonights episode I will go into detail on how to exploit BTS strategic loopholes in such a way that it makes certain aspects of this game worthless, most tec paths pointless, and most changes out retarted.. So a friend of mine flew in from Australia and brought me a copy of civ 4 BTS . After playing it for 25 minutes have just few things to say. 1) Cut off your enemies oil supply and bring in those cruise missiles from the sea and watch as you easily take 2 cities without losing a single unit ::::DDDD 2) Are you a Newb? Do you Suffer from playing too much OCC because your not good enough to play normal games? have no need to fear National Park is here and it has come to completely ruin OCCs by taking all your unhealthiness from population away. Build the national park in a city with 10 forests and improve each forest to special forests and you will magically have 10 specialists in city building insane great people points, plus the chances of forests spreading greatly increase so you can get 15+ free great people. Moral of the story, who ever starts with lots of forests in city has huge advantage over everyone else. ROFLROFLROFLROFL 3) Later Stage Siege weapons have huge bonus vs other siege weapons when attacking so make sure your locked and loaded to kill your enemy when hes dumb enough to enter your land. 4) Lets not even go into how badly Portugal will own in all epics with Water.... 5) Anyone notice woodman 3 little stronger than it should be? Hello MR Jaguar 6) Cristo Redentor is the Micro Managers Dream. Use your imagination. Buy nuts with slavery and universal suffrage, work land with serfdom, and end each turn with any gorgeous combo of choice 7) NO AUDIBLE PING? ? This a joke? ?? 8) Half the normal Ladder games are unplayable on random due to how unbalanced some resourceless starting units are. 9) India is more so than ever the "Only" choice past Industrial age, for 1 golden star, can anyone tell me what specific 2 changes were added to completely make all other leader choices when it comes to later era MP obsolete? 10) With an IQ over 100 and 1-3 money resources to start you insta win with spys in your enemies base 25 turns before they even have a chance to get writing. For a golden star what specific thing can quick writing with spy combo do to ruin 1v1 games on 95% of 1 big land maps?? ::::DDDD 11) Ill give you more detailed loopholes as time progresses, but consider this your soup and salad in a 5 course meal
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