The Energon Pub

I have recently been accused of being selfish and unsportsmanlike. So, in order to put such rumors to rest, I am going to give 1,000,000 in energon away to my fellow Autobots.

But...

To foster interest in the game, I am going to create a competition. The prizes will be:

1st place: 200,000
2nd place: 150,000
3rd place: 100,000
4th place: 50,000

The remaining 500,000 will be divided equally between all who register with and participate in the competition.

What is the competition? GOOD QUESTION!

I have no idea.

So, I am opening this thread up for suggestions. Ideally, the competition should be:

* structured so that lower level bots have an equal chance at winning as the higher level bots

* easy to calculate the score. I don't have a lot of extra time on my hands. My business is moving into a new office and my wife and I are expecting a baby sometime very soon.


So, let the suggestions begin!


-RoS

How about something involving the missions? Lately I really don't see that many bots (or cons for that matter) joining them recently.

It could be whomever has participated in the most missions with Autobot victories over the course of 5 days. Then have the participants maintain their own scorecard recording all the missions they have entered with their selected Transfromer. Then at the end of the competition they must submit their average score of their victorious missions vs. the total missions participated in. And the winners are selected based on their final scores. Basically set it up similarly to the SPL but only using missions this time. I guess we could have a minimum mission requirement too or something.

That way not only do we get more Autobot activity outside of the arena, but because were counting victorious missions the lower level commanders just have to participate in a winning match and can get points even if their bot finishes in stasis lock.

Most killshots using a slingshot in a week

Commanders can post their mission logs showing killshots using a slingshot

Slingshot is a level 0 weapon anyone participating can easily pick up to play around with for a week

Also I feel it would be demoralizing to decepticons to die to a slingshot

Firebird wrote:How about something involving the missions? Lately I really don't see that many bots (or cons for that matter) joining them recently.

It could be whomever has participated in the most missions with Autobot victories over the course of 5 days. Then have the participants maintain their own scorecard recording all the missions they have entered with their selected Transfromer. Then at the end of the competition they must submit their average score of their victorious missions vs. the total missions participated in. And the winners are selected based on their final scores. Basically set it up similarly to the SPL but only using missions this time. I guess we could have a minimum mission requirement too or something.

That way not only do we get more Autobot activity outside of the arena, but because were counting victorious missions the lower level commanders just have to participate in a winning match and can get points even if their bot finishes in stasis lock.

Yes, I was thinking it should involve missions. That is a good idea. The only potential problem I see with it is that it provides the incentive to enter missions with little to no Pred or Con opponents.

Since I don't have time to tally up a bunch of scores, I think the bot with the highest single mission score, according to the criteria we have yet to establish, wins. Maybe it is the number of kills a bot makes, but there will be point offsets depending on your level. If you are L0, then you maybe get some extra points somehow, whereas if you are L4, there is no extra point bonus.

Something like, for each kill:

1) + 5 points
2) subtract your level
3) add the level of your opponent.


If I am L0 and I kill an L2, then the points would be:

1) + 5 points
2) - 0 points
3) + 2 points
Total: 7 points

If I am L4 and I kill an L2, then the points would be:

1) + 5 points
2) - 4 points
3) + 2 points
Total: 3 points

It should not mater if you are stasis locked or not, but I think your faction should win the bout in order to qualify. This would encourage people to enter missions with a lot of enemy resistance. I will need to give it some thought to determine if this is balanced or not.

Thoughts?

Deephaze wrote:Most killshots using a slingshot in a week

Commanders can post their mission logs showing killshots using a slingshot

Slingshot is a level 0 weapon anyone participating can easily pick up to play around with for a week

Also I feel it would be demoralizing to decepticons to die to a slingshot

Hahah cool. Although, by using a slingshot, the higher level bots would be put at a disadvantage (compared with their normal weapons) and, as a result, would not do as well in missions. This may result in more con or pred victories overall, and we can't allow that!

If a bunch of people vote for your idea, then I will submit to the will of the majority.

-RoS

The addition of a point system is a good idea Ros. I agree that one of problems we are going to have is missions without enemy resistance. I wonder if there is a way for the other factions to be involved with this somehow?

Do any of the other Autobot Commanders have any ideas?

And I loled at the idea of the entire Autobot faction equipping themselves with slingshots. Great idea Deephaze!

I'm all for giving every one of my bots a slingshot, even my level 8 guy from the SPL. sounds like fun to me, just goofy enough to be ridiculous.

Firebird wrote:I wonder if there is a way for the other factions to be involved with this somehow?

My thought was to create a competition that would promote the Autobot cause. I am willing to open it up to other factions if you guys think it is a good idea. I would prefer to give my engergon to Autobots.

vaporretarder wrote:I'm all for giving every one of my bots a slingshot, even my level 8 guy from the SPL. sounds like fun to me, just goofy enough to be ridiculous.

OK, so the slingshot idea obviously has some momentum. So, I propose an idea which is an amalgam of what has been discussed.

1) Point system:
Although a point system can be a pain in the ass to calculate, I think it is necessary in order to establish criteria that gives bots of all levels the opportunity to compete and win.

2) Single mission performance:
The winner will be determined based on the best single mission performed by a player, rather than taking the aggregate of missions over time. I don't have time to compute a bunch of scores. The point system will simply take too long for the individual players to calculate for each and every mission. Since only the best mission will be counted, if your bot does not score many kills for a given mission, you don't have to calculate the points for it. If your bot scores several kills, then you probably want to go ahead and calculate the points for it.

3) Kill-shot points:
Points are only accrued for kill-shots. Only kill-shots count. Even if you damaged a con down to %1 of life, if you do not score the kill-shot, it does not count.

4) Slingshot bonus:
If you score a kill with a slingshot, then you will receive a slingshot bonus. This will help the lower level bots even more, since they don't have access to powerful weapons anyway. The slingshot bonus DOES NOT COUNT if you score a kill using a tactic. Strafe and ramming kill-shots will not receive the slingshot bonus even if your bot happens to be armed with a slingshot. This will make things fair between strafers and rammers.



The points per kill-shot will be calculated as follows:

1) add 5 points
2) subtract your level
3) add the level of your opponent
4) add 5 points if slingshot was used to score the kill (excluding tactics)

Examples:

L0 kills an L2 WITH slingshot:

1) + 5 points
2) - 0 points
3) + 2 points
4) + 5 points
Total: 12 points


L4 kills an L2 WITHOUT slingshot:

1) + 5 points
2) - 4 points
3) + 2 points
4) + 0 points
Total: 3 points


I think this should level the playing field between higher and lower level bots.

What do you think? I think we should give everyone a week to sign up. If you sign up, then you will qualify to receive an equal portion of the 500,000 energon prize just for playing. In order to receive your prize, you only have to submit your score for one mission. If you do not submit a mission score, then you will not receive any energon. That energon will be divided among the other players.

-RoS

I know i'm late, but how about adding a two point bonus if the character has a G1 alt?

revengeofstarscream wrote:

Firebird wrote:I wonder if there is a way for the other factions to be involved with this somehow?

My thought was to create a competition that would promote the Autobot cause. I am willing to open it up to other factions if you guys think it is a good idea. I would prefer to give my engergon to Autobots.

Don't worry. I don't want you giving any Cons any energon. I thought maybe if Someone like Galvatron Supreme or even Burn would set up a similar competition for the Decepticons. That way we can possibly have more Decepticons in the missions when our faction is there.

The point system looks good too. And I like the idea of submitting a best mission score. It will make figuring the winner out alot easier.

Should we make a separate thread for the signups?

Neo Crusader wrote:I know i'm late, but how about adding a two point bonus if the character has a G1 alt?

I donno. I am a HUGE G1 fan. I am old enough to where I bought G1 toys back when G1 was new (damn, I am so glad I held onto Jetfire! His plastic did not yellow, but his shoulder is kinda broken.).

But...

I don't think the alt mode should matter. Otherwise, people might change alt modes just for this competition...

-RoS

Firebird wrote:Don't worry. I don't want you giving any Cons any energon. I thought maybe if Someone like Galvatron Supreme or even Burn would set up a similar competition for the Decepticons. That way we can possibly have more Decepticons in the missions when our faction is there.

The point system looks good too. And I like the idea of submitting a best mission score. It will make figuring the winner out alot easier.

Should we make a separate thread for the signups?

Burn doesn't have much energon. GS has a lot, but he hasn't played in a while. He has already given away something like 1.8 mil. I may be the only player to be in the position to give away this much energon at this point in time.

I like the idea of the Con's setting up something similar. I will post on the main forum and give them a week to respond. Signups can start now and end in two weeks. That sounds like a lot of time, but I think the cons will need at least a week to come up with something themselves, and then a week for signups.

Oh, since Maximals have moved to IACON then this should be open to them as well. When I say "bot" I mean Autobots and Maximals.

I will start a signup thread.

It is official.

As the moderator, I obviously do not qualify for the prize. I may submit a score, but even if I have the best score I will not be counted as the winner.

-RoS

Just a heads up on two things.

1 - Don't worry about a competition for the 'Cons, we hold them on a regular basis.

2 - This thread - Basically we want to get things like this running and promote more activity in the faction forums. I know where you're coming from regarding the potential for lack of opposition, that's where you have to become creative with your challenges.

The most recent 'Con challenge was to try to complete the alphabet. ie, stasis lock Alpha Trion, you bagged yourself the letter A. stasis lock Optimus Prime, you bagged yourself the letter O. Person with the most number of letters after a week or so was declared the winner.

It doesn't always have to be about energon or most kills. That tends to get boring and repetative after a while.

Oh and expect to have hiccups. Every time you try to run a different style of contest you'll never get the specifics ironed out in the first go.

Good luck guys, hopefully we'll be seeing more faction specific contests from you lot.

revengeofstarscream wrote:I have recently been accused of being selfish and unsportsmanlike.

ahh dude were was this, jus out of interest?

btw hi guys, totally forgot about this forum, still put guys in missions once in a while

VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Electron wrote:ahh dude were was this, jus out of interest?

Someone had issues with how I was playing the game. He claimed I was being unsportsmanlike for not putting my bots in more missions to allow the cons a chance to generate more XP.

The life lesson here is that those who are successful will always be accused of inappropriate behavior or misconduct. Galvatron Supreme dominated this game until he went into retirement. He was constantly accused of cheating. After talking with him for a while, I came to the conclusion that he simply suffers from OCD (like me). Hence, he played almost 24/7 and all of his cons occupied the top spots.


Don't forget to register for this competition on the signup thread!!!!!

-RoS

There are only two more days to register for the 1,000,000 Energon giveaway tournament!! Only two people have signed up!