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[Psychout]

Welcome to the new Tournament planning/evaluation forum.

Over the years there have been a crapload of suggestions for tourneys, competitions and mini-games in HMW; Alt-hunts, Scavenger hunts, pick your poisons, elimination tournaments, warmap battles and story challenges are just a few. Some have been awesome, some havent worked and others never made it off the drawing board.

Some people are good with ideas and suggestions whilst some are better at organising and scoring. Here is the chance for you guys to get your heads together and come up with ideas, schemes and projects that will add a new dimension to HMW and make the game better for those who want something to enjoy.

We've created this place with these guidlines in mind.

1) Brainstorming ideas for new tournaments and how to implement them.
2) Organizing the promotion and execution of those tournaments.
3) Drafting tournament material
4) Tracking tournament data (wins/losses/kills, etc.)
5) Evaluating the shortcomings of past tournaments and troubleshooting the problems they evidenced.

If you have a suggestion for a tournament, an idea for a game or someting to bring a more friendly competiton to HMW:GD, or even just a comment on how the previous games have gone this is the place for you.

But just so you are know, this forum will be heavily moderated and non-topic posts will get shifted to GD without warning. Please keep it on topic, and everyone be sure thank AZ who's suggestion allowed this place to happen...

[Chaoslock]

I miss the old Scavenger-hunts, they were awesome.

Also, I think of "worlds collide" tournaments (Star Wars or Star Trek battles?) BTW, anybody knows if maximals have SW alts? I know bots have the Falcon, X-Wing, and the Medical Frigatte, we have the TIE In, the Hailfire, the LAAT/i, and the AT-AT and the preds have the TIE Defender and the TIE fighter. Anymore I missed?

[Caelus]

Krsi and I enjoyed the partnered scavenger hunt we played in quite a lot.

Also, I think of "worlds collide" tournaments (Star Wars or Star Trek battles?) BTW, anybody knows if maximals have SW alts?

Maximals have the A-Wing and the Y-Wing at least, they may have more.

Edit:

A couple of things the staff discussed but never came to fruition:

Zombie Apocalypse - Based on the Hate Plague or Angolmois Plague. I pitched an idea for this as an "official" tournament-like event (post lost to the hurricane), but the current game structure wasn't flexible enough for the necessary automation that would track who was and wasn't infected. I've never figured out a practical way to do that manually, but that doesn't mean someone else won't.

HMW: Shattered Glass - Not too much detail. Mkall had a wild and crazy idea, but it never happened. Might be a fun premise for some of the tournament writers to play with though. Might make for a fun special-edition of Burn's newsletter.


And an additional idea from me: Battle for the Allspark. One player starts with the Allspark. It passes to the first participating player that KOs them. They then lose it to the next player that KOs them. Bot in possession of Allspark must participate in 5 missions per 24hrs or it is automatically 'recovered' by the previous owner. The faction who holds the Allspark at the end of the Tournament wins.

[Loki God Of Mischief]

The only way Shattered Glass would work as a tournament is if the everyone was switched to the opposite faction. IE your natural enemy, for example I'm a Predacon so my faction symbol would turn into a green Predacon symbol. For added cool you could temporarily give the participates custom bios from someone who was skilled enough at writing to make a Shattered Glass version of the normal character.

For example Shattered Glass Waspinator (owned by Caelus) would be a talented tactician and brilliant pilot. As one of the most respected warriors in the Predacon army he's been promoted to the head of a team of heroic Predacons once mistaken for creatures of Earthen myth that he had rescued in Earths prehistory. Together he and this commando unit fight to liberate Prehistoric Earth from the nefarious schemes of Leo Convoy's mercenary squad while his former commander Megatron races to Cybertron in pursuit of the evil Optimus Primal and his crew of Maximal terrorists.

I hope I didn't go off on too much of a tangent there.

And the battle for the Allspark sounds fun, but it'd be way more awesome if you changed it around a bit. Make it the Hate Plague! You designate one team Patient Zero and anyone they KO becomes infected. But if you're not stasis locked in a mission by a plague carrier you avoided infection. Perhaps via Matrix energy or synthetic Matrix Energy. Can anyone light our darkest hour? Or will the Transformers descend into madness?

[Tammuz]

yeah we came up with Scalp tag which works similiar to your allspark game with the target being the guy who just killed the old target, and the winner being the one who killed the most targets.

REALLY hard to keep track of.


i also had the idea that your hate plague/cosmic rust game could have the addition that an over repair on a diseased character removes the disease,

[Hoistimus]

i also had the idea that your hate plague/cosmic rust game could have the addition that an over repair on a diseased character removes the disease,

Which would work if anyone uses repair.. since we're all at such low level, it's not a skill seen used on a regular basis, with a chance at over-repairing even more scarce. Maybe just having a TF stasis-locked removes the plague since it has to do a full CR cycle.. still, it would be a logistical nightmare following who is infected..

[Caelus]

Well, if we were going to keep to the true essence of Zombie horror, the sadistic sense of futility, then there shouldn't be any cure to the epidemic. Infected bots would just keep spreading the infection through Ram, Repair, and melee attacks.

Winners would be those remaining uninfected after one week who could prove that they'd played X missions/day.

If we could play with the game's programming (assignment of factions, CR entry, etc.) we could do some really interesting stuff, but for now, that is not an option.

Even keeping it simple it's still horrendously complicated.



Additionally, my wife says "I want a scavenger hunt."

[Burn]

Something important to retain in all of this is the calendar of events for the simple fact we don't end up with multiple tournaments/competitions running at the same time.

I mean it's not too much trouble for people to wait for anything running to finish before starting their own.

[Tammuz]

aye Burn, Aye!

[Psychout]

Thats a very good point.

If I put a sticky up that's locked so only the staff can update it and we try and use it for all tournaments once they are 'booked-in', will that help?