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The Test Server Rocks
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Sinth wrote
at 5:20 PM, Wednesday August 1, 2007 EDT
Hey guys,
I probably will not be playing the main servers this month. Why not? Well, I'm having entirely too much fun playing the test servers! The scoring is quite different, and some stuff is changed, but it's still very true to the spirit of kdice. Test server is here: http://test.gpokr.com:8081/kdice/ Things you should know: - Scoring is very different. Each turn you pay 2 points to continue playing the game. These points go into a common pot. Actually, 2 pots, one for placement and one for DOM. When you leave the game, you withdraw however many points you earned from each pot. If the number of points you put in was lower, you earn a positive score; if you put in more points than you take out, it's a negative score. - 1 share of DOM is earned for each land you own at the start of your turn - The first place player gets 6 shares of the placement pot. Second gets 5 shares, and so on. 7th gets zero shares. - Flagging has been changed to resigning. You can resign the game at any time after round 3. You instantly die, and all your lands turn grey (neutral) and stop accumulating dice. That means no flag whining, no dom raping, and no ninjas. - It's generally wise to resign when you are certain you cannot get a higher place by sitting in, because you are spending points every turn to remain in the game. Come join us! Sinth |
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cheesewiz wrote
at 1:09 PM, Sunday August 19, 2007 EDT Sigh. For some reason i cant get on the test server, how about you guys?-.-
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Eiskrem-Kaiser wrote
at 3:35 AM, Monday August 20, 2007 EDT Nope, it's down (check one post above your's)
Ryan is still on vacation tho, he said he'd be back on tuesday. |
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Wicked! wrote
at 11:03 AM, Monday August 20, 2007 EDT I talked to Ryan yesterday, and he said it'd be back Tuesday night.
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ferni wrote
at 8:36 PM, Monday August 20, 2007 EDT I prefer the test server to the normal one. I find it is played closer to what dicewars etc... was meant to be played.
Old system you just get as many areas as you can safely and build up 8 stacks and then there is a bunch of luck with 8v8 to find out who wins. Boring defensive game. New system encourages more attacking early on, and most of the time the game finishes with out 8 stacks filling every area - a good thing. Encourages a more aggressive, entertaining type of game. I like the idea suggested above that once you get say 5-6 people in, a counter starts say 5min if no one joins it starts with the last place or two starting as neutral. Ohh and fix the point sharing - cap the number of points you can gain per game to something high but reasonable, say 40? Pretty unlikely to get more than +40 legitimately. |
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adulation wrote
at 6:27 AM, Wednesday August 22, 2007 EDT Just for those who didn't notice: it's back up again :)
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Wo bitte ist hie wrote
at 7:11 AM, Wednesday August 22, 2007 EDT C'mon you can't change the game when I finally got to the 2k tables. It took me ages, well to be exactly till August. When I finally got 1900 points the 1900 points table were replaced with the 2k. Quite annyoing. Anyways I am gonna try this new Kdice (I have been waiting for a game to commence for about an hour now)
But what's the point with changing the gameplay towards Dicewar? Personally I liked the scoring system without domination points the most. |
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Wo bitte ist hie wrote
at 7:13 AM, Wednesday August 22, 2007 EDT Lol I posted with the non 2k account. Nevermind
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go_die_big_city wrote
at 7:57 AM, Wednesday August 22, 2007 EDT After finally playing it I have to admit I quite like it
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TimC wrote
at 8:22 PM, Thursday August 23, 2007 EDT Is there a way to provide feedback on the test server? I guess here is as good as anywhere.
I love it, and if it went live as is I'd be happy. My only suggestion is to reduce the "buy in" amount. Losing those 2 points per round gets painful, and makes flagging to attractive. The incentive to fight it out is greatly reduced. If you reduced the buy in, to maybe a point or even a half point, you still discourage folks from staying in hoping they'll get a lucky 3rd place, without making flagging the only option when there's still an outside chance to fight for a better place. |
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Sinth wrote
at 10:56 AM, Saturday August 25, 2007 EDT *bump* Server is going strong; Ryan's got a nice TODO list on the right hand side.
TimC: it's all relative. If you reduce the buy-in amount, it just means that you'd get fewer points for actually winning. Which would make points more valuable. Which would make you think the buy-in amount was too high.. ;) Sinth |
