Topic: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

Basically a galaxy where ticks are short, maybe 5min a tick? It has to be a small galaxy with only a few players playing. The point is to play a round within 3 hours time. (I think 3 hours is the absolute max for a sitting, 2 hours or less would be good but I don't think there will be enough ticks unless more resources are given at the start of the round).

It needs to be small so it is manageable to do stuff within 5 minutes a tick. Not too many players per fam, not too many fams, and not too big of a map, not too many systems/planets. I suppose it would be best if it is just something along the lines of 2 fams of 5 players each? (Something like that)

IC is a long game, days, weeks, months to play a round. Don't know how it would be like if people can just choose to pit themselves against some of their friends etc like a game of DOTA or just a regular RTS or something smile. Just play whenever you can make time for it and play for 2-3 hours.



Possible problems
1) Website might blow up tongue?
2) Is 3 hours enough? Would 5 minutes a tick be too short?
3) Timezone problems may make it difficult to play for 2-3hours for some people?

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

You could solve the last problem by making like a UK gal and amercian gal that kinda thing....

And 3 hours is enough but id rather put it up two 10mins a tick

Frenzy
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Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

On second thought, it seems difficult, 3 hours = 180minutes. So that is only 36 ticks with 5 min a tick :S don't know how far people can go with that tongue.

Not quite sure how to solve having enough ticks + finish in 1 sitting combo.

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

make it RTS then you have a game.

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

Im guessing this isnt happening then sad

Frenzy
My President is black, infact hes half white so even in a racist mind hes half right wink

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

there was a time where we could create our own game and rules....
bring it back...

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Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

this idea is old, and it always get the same answer: u'd need another server to have different time tics so it is not doable unless we buy another server for Stefan, so, forget about it, i'd love to see it happening, but thats how it goes sad

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

Lol, overrated noobs.

You're all used to have over 200 planets, such a game should not inflict more than 25 planets a person.

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

"It has to be a small galaxy with only a few players playing"

I think 5min a tick should be enough, if you really want hardcore, get your fam members all on vent and talk things out directly tongue, sort of like DOTA.

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DOTA sucks though...

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Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

"this idea is old, and it always get the same answer: u'd need another server to have different time tics so it is not doable unless we buy another server for Stefan"

:S.

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Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

or we buy another stefan

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

1) 3mnths(90 days) = 2160 ticks
2) 2160/60 = 36hrs of 10minute ticks...


so i go as far as making it 5minute ticks and having 18hr rounds... or have a really high amount of starting res and say 10 exo's.... also having maybe more start infra on the home planet aswell....




"this idea is old, and it always get the same answer: u'd need another server to have different time tics so it is not doable unless we buy another server for Stefan"

SKOE: im sure there is an IC die hard out there with the internet speed to easily run a server 24/7, if it was open source i know a couple friends of mine who could have it up and running in about 30mins MAX..... BUT its open source...

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

3 ticks per every 5 minutes

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Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

well if some1 wants to contact me(mod prefferably tongue)


ive got a friend who is more then willing to run this server, hell agree to terms were he will not distribute or profit from it at all... this would meerly be for the joy of ic players that would want to play a quicker round.... hed be willing to do it now, but hes on holiday atm... so thats out of the question... but in 2weeks hed be more than happy to do it... hell even give admin to yous... so yous can set it up what not...... another thing the server would be running out of a dorm at Virginia Tech (US), which has a fast connection


p.s this is no BS im dead serious about this offer.... contact me... my msn: [email protected]

p.s.s wed probly need a test round or so to get things running smoothly but im sure yous would work it out quick....

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

*bump*

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

maybe 5 day rounds big_smile with 5minute ticks

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Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

another server wtf are you giys on? bushtarion does private worlds and the main world all from the same one and the different worlds have anything from 5 min to 2 hour ticks

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Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

well the round lenghts would depend on what players would want, i only suggested this as others said it would need to be done on a different server.... so instead of getting stefan another server this could be an option(refer to my post above)



otherwise im more than happy for it to be done on this server.... big_smile
problem is when would it be done? i dont think it owuld be that hard to set up on this server, just chagne one galaxy SD for example.... surely the ticks can be changed for 1 galaxy... and just up the start ressie and expo count SOR.... 3-5man fams aswell....

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

Cmon mods

Can you not take a look at this?

Frenzy
My President is black, infact hes half white so even in a racist mind hes half right wink

Re: Hey everyone, let's play a game of IC tonight!

Mod's arent the ones who can make this happen.. It's stefan, and i doubt he would ever do this hmm

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I think the server wont hold it yikes so many calculations (i.e. pop growth)