PS3 Random Civ Tourney

[Techtree53]

I am setting up a tournament this weekend. I am looking for as many players as possible of any skill level for a bunch of friendly fun RANDOM ONLY games. This tournament will be like a round robin but slightly different. Assuming there are 8 players then there will be 2 round robin groups. Each group will play 3 ffa games. The top 2 from each group will meet then play 3 rounds. The top 2 from that group will play 3 heads up for the winner.

Points in the groups will be obtained based on the rank in each game. 1st = 4 points, 2nd = 3 points, 3rd = 2 points and 4th = 1 point. If there is a tie after 3 rounds with 2nd and 3rd whoever ranked higher on the last game of the rounds will move on.

So far I am planing on running it this Friday and Saturday at 8pm est. If you are interested in joining you can sign up 3 different ways. Either post here, send me a private message or message me via PS3 (PS3 ID = Techtree53).

[SVPM]

I have a party planned at my house this weekend, but if you do that again at an other time I'm in for sure.

[Techtree53]

Its all good if this becomes successful i may be running it weekly.

[pjman44]

I can definitely play Friday night but Sat is no good.

If you don't get enough then I'll play Fri for fun and if I win (prob not likely) just take the next highest seeded player.

BTW what happened to you last night in FFA? Rawjos ended up crushing Blitzkrieg & I (j44thor) in that game after you left.

[Techtree53]

Got dc'd unfortunately but i was behind anyways damn russians didnt work out.

Yeah if you can make friday thats good, we dont have to follow the schedual exactly anyways. Just looking to get 8+ players grouped up to have a little fun. Not a tourney to determine the best civ player ever... but to have some fun with random civs.

It would be pretty funny to have a single zulu player and 3 mongols.....lol

[dio3d]

Got dc'd unfortunately but i was behind anyways damn russians didnt work out.

Yeah if you can make friday thats good, we dont have to follow the schedual exactly anyways. Just looking to get 8+ players grouped up to have a little fun. Not a tourney to determine the best civ player ever... but to have some fun with random civs.

It would be pretty funny to have a single zulu player and 3 mongols.....lol

I'm in. I especially like the "random Civ" component to the matches. I wish I could be playing in the nightly games, but I've been otherwise disposed lately.

[pjman44]

Cool I'm in for Friday.

Is there a way to tell that everyone is using Random civ's?

The 3 Mongol, One Zulu scenario would be even better if Zulu started out on a small island.

[Techtree53]

No there would be no way to tell someone used a random civ choice but we will be using the honor system. I mean really wouldnt understand why anyone wouldnt make that selection and cheat. Its not like if you get first you win 1000$ or something....

[pjman44]

With how competitive some people are you never know.
I was just curious if there was any way to set it up as random or to tell ahead of time that someone selected random.
I'm fine with the honor system, I use a wide variety of civ's anyways.

[Techtree53]

With how competitive some people are you never know.

Yeah thats true but really i would not care that much if they picked Zulu and i ended up with mongols and lost. Its all in good fun i would just hope that everyone felt the same way.

[SVPM]

i would not care that much if they picked Zulu and i ended up with mongols and lost. Its all in good fun i would just hope that everyone felt the same way.

True but if they got Zulu three times or 2 and chinesse something's wrong for sure.

Maybe you should planned it for next week-end cause now is kind of short notice. And I can play next week-end!!!

[chiken678]

I'm up for a random civ game... um 8 pm friday sounds good, add me if your still interested in doing this my psn is chiken678

[Techtree53]

True but if they got Zulu three times or 2 and chinesse something's wrong for sure.

Or they could be lucky i wont throw out any accusations its all for fun anyways.

Maybe you should planned it for next week-end cause now is kind of short notice. And I can play next week-end!!!

Ive got 5 so far so only need a few more for 2 groups of 4 and ill probably be running it next week too.

[dio3d]

Or they could be lucky i wont throw out any accusations its all for fun anyways.



Ive got 5 so far so only need a few more for 2 groups of 4 and ill probably be running it next week too.

Since this is all for fun anyway, I'd even volunteer to play a civ that someone else mandates for me. It would definitely help me with my gameplay, even though my loss ratio would be on the high side for a little while.

[cody33rd]

I can play psn cod33rd
let me know if I'm in

[SeriousKastle]

If you just pull civ's out of a hat or something for people, it would stop any cheating. Also you could put just 1 type of each civ in the hat. Once 1 is picked it doesn't go back in till every civ has been played. This would give us games with each player having a different civ to anybody else in the match, which IMO is a fun way to play. Every civ will get a fair swing to be the best and we can also see if its really a huge handicap getting the lower tier civs cause alot of players will be tested with them.

I'll play PSN: redkastle

[Techtree53]

Great so far we have 7. If you post or send me a message your in for sure. Ill be making the groups friday night an hour or so before we start. Wouldn't mind having 3 groups just need 5 more.

As in for selecting the civs for ppl its really not that big of a deal. Just random up its all in good fun. Plus having 2-4 of the same civ wouldn't be a bad thing. Ill add you guys on ps3.

[danthechan]

i'm in. friday is usually good for me. when are we talking in relation to gmt for a start? danchan23

[danthechan]

i have another way to do the random. i've imbedded a list of the 16 civs with randon numbers assigned. it is on another board that i would provide the link to after we got our numbers. sombody would pick my number for me.

[Techtree53]

GMT -05:00 is EST.

So 8PM EST.

i have another way to do the random. i've imbedded a list of the 16 civs with randon numbers assigned. it is on another board that i would provide the link to after we got our numbers. sombody would pick my number for me.

That does seem like a fair viable way; problem is if you win you play about 9 games. So we all would need to send in 9 numbers? Its probably best to just random up to save the effort of determining everyones civ.

We have enough now for 2 groups of 4 now so it should be somewhat interesting. 24 more hours to pick up another group or so though.

[Techtree53]

So far i have 9 people including myself marked down for tonight. Invites will begin at 8pm est.

j44thor
dio3d
chiken678
cod33rd
redkastle
danchan23
techtree53
Blitzkrieg2000
LUFC_BIGAL

If you are not on this list and want to participate with us in this tourney please contact me with in the next 4 and half hours. I will be posting groups at that time. I also need a volunteer to host group 3.

[dio3d]

So far i have 9 people including myself marked down for tonight. Invites will begin at 8pm est.

j44thor
dio3d
chiken678
cod33rd
redkastle
danchan23
techtree53
Blitzkrieg2000
LUFC_BIGAL

If you are not on this list and want to participate with us in this tourney please contact me with in the next 4 and half hours. I will be posting groups at that time. I also need a volunteer to host group 3.

Tech,

Something just came up and I won't be able to get near the PS3 around 5pm PST. Can I still jump in on games later this evening, or join tomorrow's games?

[Techtree53]

Sure ill figure something out.

[IceCube]

Jesenko
Rawjos
add them

[Techtree53]

So far i have 11 people including myself marked down for tonight. Invites will begin at 8pm est.

j44thor
dio3d
chiken678
cod33rd
redkastle
danchan23
techtree53
Blitzkrieg2000
LUFC_BIGAL
Jesenko
Rawjos

If you are not on this list and want to participate with us in this tourney please contact me with in the next hour. I will be posting groups at that time. I still need a volunteer to host group 3!

[danthechan]

if its 3 groups how do you do the next round? just the 3 winners, or 3 plus longest surviving loser, or round robin?

[Techtree53]

Redkastle cannot make it tonight so we have 10 total. Dio3d will be late so he will sub into the group that has the least games. Rankings at the end will determine the points rewarded. 4 for 1st, 3 for 2nd, 2 for 3rd, and 1 for 4th (when dio3d joins a group). Top person from each group will move on and the 2nd place person that has the most points among the groups. We can also do a runners up finals with the rest of the people leaving out ppl that cannot make it or lowest points. Each group will play 3 rounds till we move on to the 2nd round. The honor system will be used for the civ selection....just random up!

Group 1
Techtree53(host)
cod33rd
danchan23

Group 2
Blitzkrieg2000(host)
j44thor
chiken678

Group 3
LUFC_BIGAL
Jesenko
Rawjos
***i need someone to host these and give me the scores/rank after each game***

Invites will go out in about 50 min.

[IceCube]

so when we start ?
right now im playing teamer random civs i got china
they losing badly .

[Techtree53]

8pm est so in about 45min now....

Also if the hosts could send me a message to indicate they have all their members before we start. If we only have 8 or less show up we will do 2 groups instead.

[IceCube]

chiken cant go in

[IceCube]

well we have connection issue here rawjos ,j44, lufc we connect easy but chiken got problem .dont know what is going on errors .

[chiken678]

It's weird it just didn't let me join, did this happen to anyone else?

[IceCube]

Players RAWJOS (Spain),LUFC_BIGAL (Japan)j44thor(Mongols)BlitzKrieg2000(France).
this is the best ffa game so far that ever seen .
japan tried early expansion 3 cities he made mistake and settle far away from capital. so mongols took adventage and took both his cities japan left with capital .
spanish got galleons early so he went for islands wich gave him huge lead in techs +atlantis .
Now me (france) i start the game on island 2 warriors got 3 huts land enough for 4-5 cities but i build 4 anyway on same island i got piramyds lol .
so i switch to republic fast expand ! then democracy and tech, was in fight with spain almost same reasrch sometimes he lead sometimes me i got good bonuses .japan 2 cities slow progress never met mongos till late in game it was fight btw me and spain over tech lead we were both powers so i decided to rush knights navigation and hit him hard where hurts lol. i went for island cities and i found only 1 but it was 1 tile city 6-7 pop. nice city .
1 pike vs 1 vet knight army +galleon 6v6 odds damn my knights died but i had 1 catapult was so lucky i got city . then i rush cruiser and got his capital and 1 more city near capital .i couldnt find other cities but my goal was achieved i stop his progress and slain his power so i thougt im safe now but not !another power has emerged The Mongols lol our borders get tight we finnaly met face to face lol and it was so close power/tech gold now all my focus is on mongols all my power is in that direction.
around 1700 AD game stall so lufc_bigal had to quit and game keep going i tried to get him back but errors .then 1870ad rawjos had to go sleep
j44 got freeze he had to reboot i tried to get him in but he couldnt join so game is 1880 ad we couldnt finish it cause of all freezes only me left in game .
1880 in 6 turns i will get icbm was ahead of j44 my aim was his golden city to stop him . before that i took 5 cities in 3-4 wars that we had lol game was tense he had bad defense i took the chance hehe .
1710 AD got tanks first and infantry + leonardo workshop all my units were upgraded good def good offense.1810 AD spain 32 techs mongols 32 techs me 35 small lead i was leading 3 techs over mongols . mongols got east indian i got trade fair wonder .was very close game too bad we couldnt finish it all the way damn freeze !
its funny that france and mongols bottom tiers were actually doing as top tiers lol.

[pjman44]

Yeah it was a close game before the damn freeze...
I had corp first so I was getting an extra 100G per turn plus electronics for extra trade. If Blitz took out my main prod city it prob would have been over for me although I was on the verge of taking out Japan cap with ninja tank army so you never know. Pretty sure they would have given me flight as well. If only Oxford U had given me Bombers instead of freaking networking it might have been different.

Mongols + Mountains + Iron Mine + Factory is pretty cool.
I had 99 hammers with a pop 10 city still in democracy.

[danthechan]

i got indians and egypt in the next game. both games i had aztecs as my next door neighbor. got rushed both times before i researched bw or got 100 gold.

[iOPTICz]

in my opinion i dont think any of the ps3 players skill level are near anyone in the top 20 on xbox 360

[iOPTICz]

if you use any other civ other than mongols and are still in a tight race against them then in my opinion you suck ass sorry to say but really you must suck and the spain player must be even worse to not be that much ahead of a french player in tech

[iOPTICz]

and if took to 1750 to get tanks lolz lolz lolz lolz lolz lolz lolz lolz lolz lolz lolz
usually get on average 500 ad tanks on good games 200-300 on my worse games 800-900 never later no matter how bad my game is
sorry but kids are bad

[IceCube]

opticz you dont even know what you talking about this guys are awesome players you dont just kill them with your horses lol.
also map position and other stuff that happened in game i was racing spain in tech and rushing knights to stop spain didnt even met mongols until industrial and mongols in industrial are deadly he had lots of golds too maybe around 20 mongolian cities he expanded more then i did i got room only for 4 cities .
i took out 3 island cities from mongols and 3 inland and i couldnt take any others cause he had infantry i had tanks but he had tanks too .
also in the start mongols captured 2 japanese cities right in start wich gave him huge lead over me .
one more thing we noticed how china is so great the best civ to play so its banned in our games azteck and zulu and arabs too .

[IceCube]

Yeah it was a close game before the damn freeze...
I had corp first so I was getting an extra 100G per turn plus electronics for extra trade. If Blitz took out my main prod city it prob would have been over for me although I was on the verge of taking out Japan cap with ninja tank army so you never know. Pretty sure they would have given me flight as well. If only Oxford U had given me Bombers instead of freaking networking it might have been different.

Mongols + Mountains + Iron Mine + Factory is pretty cool.
I had 99 hammers with a pop 10 city still in democracy.

you had many cities +communism +production in some of them i check your empire my cities are in much better position i dont like close cities .
the only thing that would make game more interesting is if you got bombers from wonder than i would have to rush flight and it will be awesome fight .