Guest posts by Kirchj33

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Quadruple-Machine Guns Redux

« on: September 23, 2011, 02:10:54 am »

Just to clarify, I tested Essence's Little Miss Fire at just over 7, not Hrmm's Quadruple Machine Gun.  This one looks much more stable than Essence's.  Can't wait to try it!

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PvP Tournaments / Re: Tournament Feedback

« on: September 22, 2011, 04:35:11 pm »

as per usual kirch you are one of the few people who get me

have you ever seen the movie "The Usual Suspects" ? ? ?

You mean you are actually Kaiser Soze irl?

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PvP Tournaments / Re: Tournament Feedback

« on: September 22, 2011, 04:22:11 pm »

Its a logical assumption to say that the highest populations of Elemints players comes from America and Europe.  A centrally located timezone in America (Central) and a centrally located country in Europe (Italy for example) are 7 hours apart.  This is only logical information presented and stated to note that a 12 hour gap is not optimal.  Optimal times would be ones where either both places could have a primetime tournament, or times where both locations could have access to tourneys during waking hours.

Also, you aren't fooling me with this non-biased peaceful act Matrim  8)

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Auction Archive / Re: Kakerlake (Gravy, Wadurr)

« on: September 22, 2011, 03:09:14 pm »

Team needs a good pony.

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PvP Tournaments / Re: Tournament Feedback

« on: September 22, 2011, 02:20:23 pm »

Its clear that the Western Tourney is having success in its scheduled timeslot.  Instead of drastic changes, I propose to change the name of Western to Eastern, and then unbind the 12 hour staggering.  Meaning, instead of 12 hours apart, they could be somewhere between 15-17 hours apart.  This would mean for the East Coasters, instead of 2, 3, or 4am, they would fall somewhere between 9pm-1am depending on whether they were staggered by 15, 16, or 17 hours.  West Coasters are -3 hours so it should work nicely for them as well.  This should help both those who like to stay up later, and give some opportunities to people who have a bedtime.  Then by flipping the names we have a simple solution.  I think this would better accommodate those crazy egotistical Murricans.  Everybody wins.

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PvP Tournaments / Re: Tournament Feedback

« on: September 22, 2011, 11:42:53 am »

This topic will soon be merged to Tournament Feedback topic. Discussion is fine, but we don't really need a poll because we already had one and we are aware of the activity peak hours.

Key thing to understand here is that no matter which times we choose, someone will have a problem with it. With 12 hours between tournaments, and the 3 hour window, I'd say we have it pretty well covered. Like Higurashi said, increasing the window more than that, would make organizing a nightmare because we would be often dependent on having that one organizer be online, or we would have no organizer at all. So unless we hire 20 TO's, or one TO that is online 24/7, there's not much we can do.

Those of us on the east coast are not asking that our needs are specifically catered to, we're asking that others' needs are not specifically catered to and that people in all time zones are given a fair and equal chance if there can be some movement to organize enough reliable TO staffing.  It wouldn't be a big deal, except when the prizes are something as rare and valuable as nymphs and marks.  There are so few opportunities for players who are active and love the game to earn such a thing, it is a shame to see the opportunity slanted towards a specific demographic.

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PvP Tournaments / Re: Tournament Feedback

« on: September 22, 2011, 02:44:55 am »

Want me to start this topic in the tourney section?

Sure, or we could have a mod move it there.  Can you do that?

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PvP Tournaments / Re: Tournament Feedback

« on: September 22, 2011, 02:39:58 am »

There has been enough interest in chat during "American" times to probe and see if an alternate schedule for tourney times is feasable.

Higurashi is the woman in charge here and she states that it isn't feasible to change from the 3 hour rotating schedule because:

• We simply don't have enough reliable TOs to accomodate a schedule change
• Tourney participation is at an all-time high
• A change in schedule would require a massive overhaul to its current structure

Arguments against this include:

• A rotating schedule would be more fair to all players in all parts of the world, so that you could make at least one tourney every 6th or so week
• TOs from other timezones have not been explored as an option

Current system:
Schedule rotates about a 3 hour window.

Proposed change:
A 12-hour rotating schedule that works something like the following -
Week A: 2400 GMT & 1200 GMT
Week B: 2300 GMT & 1100 GMT
Week C: 2200 GMT & 1000 GMT
Week D: 2100 GMT & 900 GMT
Week E: 2000 GMT & 800 GMT

And so on until a 12th week is reached.

If there is enough interest, we could explore the option of staffing with proper TOs.  Please vote!

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World of Elements / Re: Day 3 - Finishing Quests, Advisors, Elemental Quest

« on: September 21, 2011, 07:29:23 pm »

I submitted -
Move: 129
Capture: 129

within the hour of when day 2 was posted, yet I remain at the earth base.  Earth player #4.  Are these commands incorrect?

I remembered that earlier thing, but I don't remember any 4 to 129. It is very likely that something happened which made the action fail. There were many illegal submissions so maybe one of them was yours. You are 100% certain that you for example didn't put "Move 129" to target field, and not the number only?

It is of course possible that I missed it, so I will now fix it.

Yes, I am 100% certain I wrote only the number, however, I did not know that I could not capture a space I had intended to move to on that turn.  I am unsure if that interaction screwed things up altogether.

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World of Elements / Re: Day 3 - Finishing Quests, Advisors, Elemental Quest

« on: September 21, 2011, 06:46:55 pm »

Hmmm... I should have moved nonetheless.

You should have moved yes. This happened to me and Tiko aswell, talk to SG about this.

Thanks Japp!

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World of Elements / Re: Day 3 - Finishing Quests, Advisors, Elemental Quest

« on: September 21, 2011, 06:38:01 pm »

I submitted -
Move: 129
Capture: 129

within the hour of when day 2 was posted, yet I remain at the earth base.  Earth player #4.  Are these commands incorrect?

You cannot capture a hex you haven't moved to yet.
You can capture the hex you CURRENTLY occupy, not the hex you are about to move to.

The commands itself seem correct though, ask SG what happened cause something went wrong with both Tiko's as my own capture command aswel.

Hmmm... I should have moved nonetheless.

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World of Elements / Re: Day 3 - Finishing Quests, Advisors, Elemental Quest

« on: September 21, 2011, 06:32:22 pm »

I submitted -
Move: 129
Capture: 129

within the hour of when day 2 was posted, yet I remain at the earth base.  Earth player #4.  Are these commands incorrect?