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29 Jul 2007, 15:18
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For Crowly <3
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Luton, England
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Round 23
There's been a few questions about when Round 23 is timetabled to start. If we look at history then....
End of r22 - 10th August
Havoc - 11th August -> 18th August
Testing / Speedgames - 19th August -> 2nd September
Sign ups - 4th September -> 13th September
Tick 1 - 13th September
note: these are estimates
What interests me the most (personally) is the gap between end of Havoc and signups. Any chance of a SG tournie? Either spread over a few weekends or a week long one?
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29 Jul 2007, 16:40
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Fightin-irish for life
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Re: Round 23
as long as the current rd ends before my holidays and the next rd doesnt start untill after im back im happy
but if im around a speedgame would interest me aswell
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29 Jul 2007, 18:23
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Mastermind
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Re: Round 23
according to Appoco Round 23 starts already August 24th..a "bit" earlier than most expected, or has it been changed again? I would personally vote for a Roundstart in September to give people actually a break from pa
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29 Jul 2007, 20:11
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Domestic Diva
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Round 23
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Originally Posted by Antigone
according to Appoco Round 23 starts already August 24th..a "bit" earlier than most expected, or has it been changed again? I would personally vote for a Roundstart in September to give people actually a break from pa ![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
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24th of august?!? this simply cant be, the day before my birthday! I vote for september too
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29 Jul 2007, 20:32
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Jazz Man
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Re: Round 23
I vote in favour of a speed game should such a vote arise.
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30 Jul 2007, 13:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Noruega
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Re: Round 23
Over a month between round has got to be more than necessary. Id say round start on the 30th of August. One also has to remember that there is supposed to be room for one more round after next round before christmas.
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30 Jul 2007, 21:32
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General (Adjective Army)
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Yorkshire, England.
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Re: Round 23
I'd like to see a bit more time between the end of the round and the allocation of Havoc resources.
Some (sad) people (such as me) like to save their positions at the end of the round (you know - overview screen, galaxy screen, that sort of thing) or even to see what their final rank was. It's getting so that you have to be online at the end of the round or you're going to miss it.
Please guys - give us a chance to see the results of our last two months of labour before you wipe it off our screens.
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Hard of Hearing (2:7:1) R103 | The Lateness of Your Application (1:6:6) R104 | Kinnison of Tellus (5:1:2) R105
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30 Jul 2007, 21:51
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The PropaGhandi
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Round 23
Cut out havoc, and speed up the time between rounds start.
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30 Jul 2007, 21:59
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: Round 23
I agree with ArcChas. I don't like spending 50 days playing this game, only to end up not knowing how well I did.
There are a few other solutions for this problem, such as publishing the entire eor rankings, or putting your rank (value, score, xp, etc, the lot of it) on overview or mailing it to you. The possibilities are endless!
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30 Jul 2007, 22:10
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PA Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Round 23
A few comments on the thread:
With regards to the original comment, the plan is as follows:
When ticks stop, there are (I just recounted to make sure) 19 complete weeks until christmas. We're aiming to break this down into:
2x7 week rounds
2x1 weeks of havoc
2x1 weeks of signup
1 week "spare"
This means that we have 1 week of havoc and then one week of signup, a 7 week round, 1 week of havoc, 1 week break, 1 week of signup, a 7 week round, 4 days off or so where we'll be having havoc etc, then Christmas Day.
This is due to the fact that we believe the majority of our players are going to be spending time around Christmas Day being busy. I know some European cultures do it before Christmas Eve/Day, but this way at least we finish for a fair few people. We can then have a break with havoc and more informal speedgames.
With regards the other matter about saving rankings, I'm willing to copy the bot dumps when the game ends and also, if possible, mass mail everyone their (score) rank, value, score and roids after the final tick has completed, as well as perhaps their galaxy rank and their alliance rank. I'll see what I have the time for.
For this, some sort of pointed reminder the day before, 5 hours before, 1 hour before, and just before (and after) the EoRC would be appreciated, as then I might remember to do it.
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31 Jul 2007, 09:08
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This Space for Rent
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Re: Round 23
can you take all my end of round screenshots for me too Appoco?
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31 Jul 2007, 10:02
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Banned
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Round 23
You wrote a lot of drivel there appoco without confirming when next round starts
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31 Jul 2007, 12:47
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PA Team
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Re: Round 23
oh.
24th August (hopefully). If things go dreadfully wrong over havoc, we might reschedule to the 31st
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31 Jul 2007, 12:49
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Banned
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Re: Round 23
I go on holidays on the 24th of august
Seriously though two weeks is a fairly short period of time. Most people like to take a bit of a break for a while anyways especially if they've been fighting up at the top intensively for the whole round.
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31 Jul 2007, 13:04
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PA Team
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Re: Round 23
see the timetable
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31 Jul 2007, 13:33
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The PropaGhandi
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Re: Round 23
Why you worry JBG, not like you fight for the topspots!
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31 Jul 2007, 13:41
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Good Son
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Round 23
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
oh.
24th August (hopefully). If things go dreadfully wrong over havoc, we might reschedule to the 31st ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
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Things often go dreadfully wrong at some point.
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31 Jul 2007, 14:29
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Banned
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Round 23
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Originally Posted by Allfather
Why you worry JBG, not like you fight for the topspots!
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6 Aug 2007, 01:19
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Texan
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Re: Round 23
fantastic!
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6 Aug 2007, 08:11
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[TGV] Wots It
Join Date: May 2005
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Re: Round 23
Quote:
Originally Posted by Appocomaster
oh.
24th August (hopefully). If things go dreadfully wrong over havoc, we might reschedule to the 31st ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
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Is it wrong to hope things go dreadfully wrong over havoc...
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6 Aug 2007, 13:39
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Re: Round 23
well the start of the round are still boring as hell with 7 9 or 10 week rounds, speed up the reserch times a bit if you gonna have 7 week rounds
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9 Aug 2007, 19:43
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The $$60,000,000,000 man
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Re: Round 23
dude, learn math 10 pluss 7 pluss 7 pluss 7 is 31 not 24 >.<
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9 Aug 2007, 20:03
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Retard0r
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Norway
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Re: Round 23
I support robban on this one. I'd like to see either longer rounds or faster research. I prefer longer rounds tho. The game just recently started getting really interesting and we're 1 day from tickstop :|
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9 Aug 2007, 20:23
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: Round 23
Research times are utterly irrelevant. The round is not going to be more interesting just because we all have au scans.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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9 Aug 2007, 21:25
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Retard0r
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Norway
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Re: Round 23
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
Research times are utterly irrelevant. The round is not going to be more interesting just because we all have au scans.
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Faster HCT-research opts for faster growth in the early stages thus evolving planets faster. Theese days most people have more roids than they can mine for 2/3 of the round. It feels too restricted, and i want to be free ![Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif) But like i said; I prefer longer rounds.
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9 Aug 2007, 21:31
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: Round 23
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Originally Posted by DrunkenViking
Faster HCT-research opts for faster growth in the early stages thus evolving planets faster. Theese days most people have more roids than they can mine for 2/3 of the round. It feels too restricted, and i want to be free ![Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif) But like i said; I prefer longer rounds. ![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Granted, there will always be a few (top) planets that have HCT issues, but I highly doubt "most people" have them during a large part of the round. Then again, I have no statistics to back up my claim, so no way of telling which of us is right.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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