1st Masochistic challenge - who's best?

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I think we need a masochistic challenge. I want to know who is the best player for now in GalCiv.

Perhaps Fastest Win competition is best one. (I'll take part in second part of the competition - slowest lose).

Suggested starting condidtions:
Large or Huge (IMHO Large)
Scattered
Habitable planets: Abudant (?)
5 Incredible AI, standart alignments
Starting picks: +2 speed is too good, maybe +1 speed?

Also, maybe AI Tech win must be counted as a lose to a player?

Well at least it's better than a Metaverse. And more fun of course.

P.S. Please post here if you'll participate in a competition.

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I would participate. I haven't done masochist on anything bigger than tiny but on tiny, I have found war party plus +50 hitpoints to be a nice combo. You won't outproduce the AI no matter what until late so you might as well make your smaller numbers of ships count. You won't outtech them either so your dread better be able to take on a couple of theirs.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Good idea, I will certainly run if it's small or tiny, but not sure if I can find time for Large/Huge.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Well suggestions? I'm starting competition in friday 30.05.2003. Competition ends in 9.06.2003.

Perhaps Medium instead of Large.

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Unlimited population and (almost) Free techs should be banned.

So perhaps we need to save every ~6 turns - like in Heroes3 tournaments (there some players saving every turn).

~SDC~
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
hey Ellestar,

when are the first gotm scores gonna be tabulated? i really want to share my aar and read how other people did :)
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
(This is about GOTM, not about 1st Masochistic challenge) Well it's supposed to be a month challenge. But i see no activity here. And patch 1.04 already out (competition was under 1.03). So i think it's time to end competition. I have some free time in saturday/sunday, so wait for results.

~SDC~
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Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
What do you mean unlimited population and free techs
should be banned?

If its a turn to finish game, then population is
irrelevant and how do you get free techs?
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Now i see 94 players who won on Crippling/Masochistic in 1.03/1.04. Noone interested?

~SDC~
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
By the way... Account ยน1 - Frogboy. Won on Tiny/Masochistic. I suspect that Tiny/Masochistic rush will be primary target in next path.

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To Staffa:
Well i don't want to post it here (But i sent it to Draginol acc. on Apolyton).

~SDC~
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Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, 4k for me for 2 hours of fun are a bit too much. Gigantic is supposed to garner 3x points but it usually takes me about 20 hours to complete a gigantic. So if points are the concern, Tiny gives the best points to time ratio. I'm in of course, Ellestar. But you may want to give Galcivers a chance to practice a bit on the new maso before launching your challenge.
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Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
'Noone interested?'

Sure, of course i'll try it. Without much hope of beating the AI though :notsure: .
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
To RayChua
But you may want to give Galcivers a chance to practice a bit on the new maso before launching your challenge.
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I suggest that most participants will play their games in 7-8 June. So they'll have a week to practice. Also, we can start another one, perhaps on Intelligent, after this one.

To Snuis
Sure, of course i'll try it. Without much hope of beating the AI though
End of quote


I too :) But still it will be FUN! So it's worth to try it (after some practice and tests of course).

~SDC~
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
When Frogboy suspected me of cheating, I sent him a
masochistic tiny win. He submitted it, dunno why, but
he hasnt beaten masochistic :)
Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top
Well now he has a chance. Or maybe he's just chicken? ;p (Back to the Future I-III)

By the way, "Have Fun! That's an order." and "Everyone fights..." is from Starship Troopers.

~SDC~
Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top
new maso is much tougher in my opinion, I'm having to rebuild my confidence dropping to all genius winning then adding one incredible at a time. Am up to 2 of 5 incredible now. I'm planning on playing the challenge but it will likely be next weekend after I get some practice in.

How can it be that Frogboy has never won on maso? I guess that means it is a well designed game. If it was my game, it would probably have some obvious flaw that I would know about and exploit.

~SDC~