Ke5trel

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Beta 3 Tournament

The devs have brought up the idea of having a friendly tournament (as in competition, not metagame) in Beta 3. It might be to early but maybe we could talk about what that might look like? Brackets? Prizes? Game Options/settings? Allowable maps and DGs?

Personally:

I'd expect brackets for 1 v 1 all the way up to 5 v 5 (if the netcode can be made to work that high)

Good Prizes If they want to save money: Impulse Gift Certificates, Game Posters signed by devs, DG T shirts, Special Forum Status, Special Forum Signatures, Special Persistent Ingame Titles

Good prizes if they want to spend money: DG Gaming PC peripherals (still can't go wrong with an MX 518), Special Persistent Ingame Items, Frogboy's new PC.

Game Options: Grunts on "Strong," Death Penalty on "Draconic," Favor items "Off," Game Speed "Fast"

Maps: 1 v 1 Prison, 2 v 2 Cataract or Mine, 3 v 3 and 4 v 4 Leviathan, 5 v 5 Zikurat. Finals should be on a map we haven't seen yet.

All DGs should be allowable, but each team should be allowed only one of each type (no 5 Reg synch-sniping teams).

What do you think?

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I don't know about those game options, but otherwise it sounds great!

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iono about beta 3 because there will definetly still be bugs/imbalances that somebody will exploit. Maybe just a dev stomp minus the prizes . Or fun prizes like you said:

Good Prizes If they want to save money: Impulse Gift Certificates, Game Posters signed by devs, DG T shirts, Special Forum Status, Special Forum Signatures, Special Persistent Ingame Titles

Anyway it would be fun to be part of it.

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Sounds like fun.

Here is a cool bracket hosting website if it is needed: http://binarybeast.com/ They can handle double elimination brackets too.

I think the game options should just be the default. That is what everyone has been playing with mostly, right? The only exception is I would prefer favor items off in order to level the field.

Also, game posters signed by devs is a pretty cool prize.

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i think u can be whatever Dg u want dodnt limit.but besdies that ok.

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There should be some limits, but we should probably wait until Beta3 to decide that.

If everyone agrees on certain options (example being a multi Reg team if Reg multisnipe damage was a diminishing return or complete inability to multi-snipe altogether)

or Favor items (certain ones are useful all game whereas others are only useful at a particular point in the game , such as the health potion or the regen aura) which could be free for the duration of the tournament if someone somehow didn't manage to gain the <501 favor points required for any single item but knew how to play the game well enough to win the tournament

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sign me up. I'm down for crash testing the tournement feature.

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Here is a cool bracket hosting website if it is needed: http://binarybeast.com/ They can handle double elimination brackets too.

Ideally a tournament would be tracked by Impulse. My impression is that is part of why the devs were talking about it in the first place

If everyone agrees on certain...Favor items (certain ones are useful all game whereas others are only useful at a particular point in the game , such as the health potion or the regen aura) which could be free for the duration of the tournament if someone somehow didn't manage to gain the <501 favor points required for any single item but knew how to play the game well enough to win the tournament

I like the idea of 3-5 balanced favor items that everyone agrees on being free and available in tournament play.

yah I'm realizing that an all-bracket event would take a long time, considering this is still Beta. Would people be disappointed if it were one bracket only? If not, which bracket would be best?

I know we are jumping the gun a fair bit with this convo, but I just wanted to see what people were thinking ^^

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