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[Duuvian]

I came in third place in the first ever official tournament in Illyriad, named 'Armok's Blood Bowl' as it was organized by a Bay12 forum goer. I managed to preserve my army with careful plotting, while killing off enough of my own army to be able to afford to pay the rest before the whole army deserted, and also gained a rather massive amount of the hardest to obtain resource, unit commander experience. I also received some small 3rd place winnings in the form of the majority of resources necessary to replace my losses.

From: http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/behold-a-tourney-has-completed_topic1230.html page 23

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Originally posted by Noryasha Grunk

GM Stormcrow
Can you confirm Amorphias won, and let us know who occupied the square the second and third longest?
I'm guessing Gods and Smoking or Duuvian?


Hi all,

I can confirm that Amorphias has won the Tournament, being in continuous possession of the flag location from 2010-11-14 13:24:18.320 to 2010-11-16 17:49:31.217 (when his forces were recalled by messenger).

Many congratulations to Amorphias

A history of the square's occupation is as follows:

duuvian        2010-11-09 15:43:00.000 to 2010-11-10 16:09:52.773
Amorphias    2010-11-10 16:14:03.080 to 2010-11-10 20:41:26.007
G0DsDestroyer     2010-11-10 20:41:25.993 to 2010-11-12 13:30:02.927
duuvian    2010-11-12 16:20:16.397 to 2010-11-12 18:30:16.397
hypocritical    2010-11-13 00:14:36.077 to 2010-11-13 05:36:10.350
G0DsDestroyer    2010-11-13 05:36:10.350 to 2010-11-13 05:46:33.457
Smoking GNU     2010-11-13 05:46:33.457 to 2010-11-13 13:51:20.927
duuvian        2010-11-13 13:51:20.927 to 2010-11-13 23:51:02.920
Amorphias    2010-11-14 13:24:18.320 to 2010-11-16 17:49:31.217 (recalled)

Ranking players in terms of the longest uninterrupted occupation, the results are as follows:

1. Amorphias: 48hrs
2. G0DsDestroyer: 40hrs, 48m
3. duuvian: 24hrs, 26m
4. Smoking Gnu: 8hrs, 4m
5. hypocritical: 5hrs, 21m

Thanks to all the participants, and especially to Noryasha for organising this first tournament - hopefully the first of many player-run events!

Regards,

SC


Edited by GM Stormcrow - 17 Nov 2010 at 11:58

EDIT: Also, Amorphias was quite a bit larger than all the rest of the contestants, so I'm very pleased with my performance, as I was tied for last place in the forum vote of who was most likely to win, most likely due to my relatively small size.

EDIT2: Also, as far as I know, I had the most kills also.

Basically, what happened was that a few players sent their armies at the start to occupy. Those ground each other down. Then someone launched an attack to occupy the square with their full force, and I timed my armies to arrive a few hours before they reached the 48 hour mark. They had been being whittled down by sporadic attacks in the intervening 40hrs or so. I broke that occupation in time, set my armies to occupy, then recalled them to my city once I realized I wouldn't have enough troops remaining to hold out as I expected at least one more strong player to try and break my now weakened army. It's a good thing I did recall as Amorphias sent a massive winning army that landed eight hours or so after mine abandoned the square. It was a very fun tournament, as it required trying to anticipate your competitor's move when they take two days to have an effect due to the travel time of the armies on their way to the square.

[kilakan]

hey, could I maybe be reinvited to the alliance, I've started playing again.

[Akura]

IGN still Kilakan?

[kilakan]

actually nvm, I don't really have the time.

[Akura]

Oi, where the bloody hell is everyone? Alliance chat is almost empty most of the time, and many of our main people seem to have gone inactive or something.

[GlyphGryph]

die2nite, mostly.

I'm actually really just waiting for the UI overhaul. Managing my cities has become too burdensome, and HM's script doesn't work for me.

I am still in the middle of a bloody siege, though.

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Pretty much in the middle of exam period, ill try to get more active during the christmas period

[Akura]

Raging because almost the entire alliance has mysteriously vanished. Despite a roster of 24 members, only 5 or 6 are even somewhat active.

There goes the dream of conquering the world . Hell, we've got an entire island continent to ourselves.

[GlyphGryph]

bluh bluh

I'm waiting for UI overhaul.

HM's greasemonkey script doesn't work for me and a I don't have two hours a day to dedicate to queuing up production.

Also, we all went to play die2nite.

[Akura]

UI overhaul is coming very soon, according to the devs. The list of new features for it looks pretty sweet, too. Here's the forum post about it.

[Duuvian]

There is a new alliance Tournament being sponsored by King Sigurd! Feel free to log in if you've gone inactive, we don't have enough to compete really unless people do.
http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/30dec10-the-kings-first-tournament_topic1402.html

Also, everyone received 50 prestige points for Christmas.

[Duuvian]

Chat log of current Illyriad doings:
[07:27] <System>** This is Alliance Chat for Slaves to Armok [StA]**

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[07:42] <duuvian>at the least that way you get some exp if you do a suicide run
[12:53] <Demonic Spoon>Thanks for the advice
[05:46] <daisy2>I take that back. It looks like H? is on the square with about 10k troops
[05:47] <daisy2>so I recommend forgetting about it as being the best option (unless we wanted to destroy H? for some reason)
[05:48] <daisy2>that would probably be a suicide mission unless the majority of large alliances side with us, which probably won't happen since H? was always pretty reasonable
[14:41] <Akura>Hmm, someone spied or scouted me.
[14:39] <daisy2>ARR has been having diplomat trouble as well
[14:39] <daisy2>mostly thieves from Elves
[14:40] <daisy2>pI advised them to put up seeking runes and it seemed to sto[
[14:54] <Stormlord>Hi Akura
[14:57] <Akura>We l
[14:58] <Stormlord>I've been playing a bunch of games a buddy hooked me up with, and to a lesser extent DDO
[15:01] <Stormlord>Also, I'm queuing up level 18 buildings to 19 in preperation for blowing all my prestige so I may notbe logging in every day since most of the towns have 3+ days to build, at least
[15:01] <Akura>When is the new interface supposed to arrive?
[15:01] <Stormlord>No clue
[15:01] <Akura>Around Christmas they said "very soon". I figured that meant a week or two tops.
[15:02] <Stormlord>Might just need polsih is my guess
[15:03] <Akura>Dang it, my internet is going really slow, <10-15kbs.
[15:05] <Akura>Then again, last night it wasn't working at all.
[16:02] <Laendis>3 People in chat? pokes around a bit
[16:06] <Laendis>ups sorry afk. undecorating the xmas tree.
[16:09] <Laendis>But a question: What do Blacksmith do with all that food? Burn it in the forge?
[16:45] <Akura>Well, blacksmithing is a very physical labor.
[19:10] <Stormlord>Maybe they have a horse driven bellows
[19:13] <Stormlord>I think the first major Steel production site in the US was powered that way
[19:14] <Stormlord>maybe it was a different industry I'm remembering though
[18:05] <daisy2>Hello again
[18:06] <daisy2>I'm inching closer to the point where I blow the 80 free prestige I've banked up
[18:34] <daisy2>Hello Akura
[18:38] <duuvian>could use a stockpile town infested with thieves so my belongings are safe
[18:40] <duuvian>also, I queued up book production for the next 280 days in one of naivuud's towns hehe
[21:23] <Laendis>Hiya
[21:35] <Laendis>Oh, so thats why the ressource balance is so skewed, thanks Daisy
[05:36] <duuvian>I'm trying to inflate food prices a bit
[05:38] <duuvian>Also, TRR is participating in the tournament at -500 -500. I figure we could give it a shot if I can convince them to try organizing. Liberty sent a message to everyone saying roughly: there is a tournament. send troops to -500 -500
[05:38] <duuvian>I suggested it would be best if we could organize a bit better, but I think they are suspicious of being used as cannon fodder so I volunteered to go first
[05:39] <duuvian>however, everyone in TRR apparently got 5 unique troops just for participating (I didn't send any and I got logged in today an noticed the uniques)
[05:40] <duuvian>so I think I'll send a suicide army for us and see if it gets us all the 5 units
[05:40] <duuvian>I wonder if the inactives will get them; hope o
[05:40] <duuvian>er so
[05:55] <duuvian>My tourist army, in a division called the Flagmirers, under the command of the honorable Flagdmiral Jenkins, are now on the way to the flag to hopefully get us all some new recruits.
[07:22] <duuvian>Hopefully it won't matter that H? already has won the square with 111% of the required time holding it
[07:29] <duuvian>Release date for the new UI is Jan. 28 http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/16jan11-ui-v2-release-date_topic1455&SID=c73411d1afzdef7fz7f9f3zd3c1778d3.html
[08:03] <duuvian>Also, I remember that we were having thieving problems, so here is a really good post on thieves if you haven't seen it yet: http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/questions-about-thieves_topic1462.html
[10:06] <Laendis>Hi duuv
[10:13] <duuvian>Hello
[10:16] <duuvian>actually, I realized I meant to put that thing about the thieving in the TRR alliance chat
[10:16] <Laendis>Doesn't do any harm here
[10:16] <duuvian>but it's just as good here
[10:17] <duuvian>that was strange
[10:18] <Laendis>Is your screen messed uo as well?
[10:18] <duuvian>literally the exact same second
[10:18] <duuvian>nah
[10:20] <duuvian>need any resources?
[10:20] <duuvian>or want?
[10:20] <duuvian>how's ypur screen messed up? tried refreshing?
[10:21] <Laendis>Yea and logging in and out a couple of times...
[10:22] <duuvian>if you can printscreen it and post it to an image host I could help possibly
[10:23] <duuvian>most likely though I won't know what the problem is though
[10:24] <duuvian>I might be able to tell you what's causing it maybe
[10:32] <Laendis>http://img714.imageshack.us/i/illbug.png/
[10:33] <duuvian>it looks like the browser doesn't complete loading
[10:34] <Laendis>Hang on it fixed itself now...
[10:35] <Laendis>Maybe i just need to wait a bit before refreshing.
[10:35] <Laendis>Or fiddle around with other stuff...
[10:35] <duuvian>yeah, you might have not had enough bandwidth
[10:36] <duuvian>and firefox stopped the process at some point
[10:37] <duuvian>not the computer process but the process it uses to load the page I mean
[10:37] <Laendis>Uni network...
[10:38] <duuvian>hehe I see
[10:39] <duuvian>I don't think it's escapable, the companies are sucking up the money governments are desperately throwing at them so this kind of stuff won't happen; they spend it on bikini babes instead of infrastructure or omething
[10:39] <duuvian>or at least the services I pay for seem to have that problem
[10:41] <Laendis>Anyway Drungstad and Baruk Khazad have plenty of space for extra ressorces if you are overflaowing.
[10:41] <duuvian>well, rather, my dad pays for, since I live with him
[10:41] <Laendis>Well i don't pay at all for the uni network so i can't realy complain,
[10:42] <duuvian>hehe, I understand, tough times but we will persevere and all that
[10:42] <duuvian>K, I'll look around and send some stuff
[10:48] <duuvian>on the earlier discussion, on my end my cell phone is the biggest hassle. they give you no service until you try to make a call, then roughly fifteen seconds later there miraculously is a 70% increase in signal for about a minute; they have some goofy software to regulate their bandwidth
[10:49] <duuvian>I wonder if I should raise a fuss on the dwarf forums about it, someone is bound to read it and do likewise
[10:53] <duuvian>it could just be the phone I guess, it is kinda weird, the voicemail randomly decides to call me when I'm on the phone and switch the line to itself, very annoying
[10:53] <duuvian>I blame the terrorists
[10:58] <duuvian>so between having no service to the point you can't make an outgoing call for 30 seconds until the phone or satelites or whatever catch up, and having a robot woman randomly interrupting my phone calls to notify me I have one unheard message, my phone is somewhat amusing to use
[10:59] <duuvian>oh well, at least I have one, unlike a great many of my friends
[11:00] <duuvian>hmm, that sounds uppity of me, I meant that in a thankful way rather than a spiteful way
[14:39] <duuvian>about my friends I mean, not the companies
[14:39] <duuvian>stupid alliance chat and it's uneditableness
[01:24] <Stormlord>Hello again
[05:48] <daisy2>I had a funny idea
[05:48] <daisy2>You know how there are funny groups of people at war on thei nternet?
[05:48] <daisy2>like Warhammer 40k vs Furries?
[05:49] <daisy2>wouldn't it be funny to organize an actual war in Illyriad between the two sides?
[05:51] <daisy2>it would be like a tournament where they get the idea and start signing up and building illyriad cities and then consume them in war
[05:51] <daisy2>would be epic I bet
[05:52] <daisy2>also hilarious
[07:28] <daisy2>the two sides would be absolutely heartless

[Akura]

It should be noted that some of those lines at the top are at least a week old.

And no, the new interface has not been released yet.

[Duuvian]

Yeah. There is a new marketplace interface though. All transactions are for gold now. This seemed like a pain at first compared to the old system of trading one resource for another, but with the new marketplace it's much better in my opinion since it is very easy to see trends and how much gold one unit of a resource is and the best offers are ranked this way. For example, if someone is speculating a basic resource, wood, to be 2 gold for 1 wood, I can see that's the best offer and put up an offer of 100,000 wood for 150,000 gold very easily.

In addition, it makes giving people resources much, much easier, and the following ARR chat log hould explain why:

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[00:20] <naivuud>I sent gold to people, since it's easier then me asking who needs what resource
[00:22] <naivuud>to exchange that into resources, just put up 1-1 offers in the marketplace (open up marketplace, go to the tab labeled 'New' and set offers to Buy r amount for a type of resource for x amount gold
[00:23] <naivuud>I recommend 1-1 offers for resources, but if you'd like to buy advanced or input a better deal, you would be well advised to check the 'Available' tab first and input an offer that beats the current ones
[00:23] <naivuud>this should mean a pretty quick deal, especially if people are speculating
[00:25] <naivuud>for buying resources, it doesn't matter what size your caravans are, only how many you have and how fast they go, since one caravan can carry any amount of gold
[00:25] <naivuud>how much a caravan can carry only matters for selling resources

The reason my 2nd account is in ARR is as an Ambassador. (TRR [The Rough Riders] is the alliance who moved into territory the StA [Slaves to Armok; our] alliance claimed, and was asked to change to ARR (Armok's Rough Rider's) or face war. This was settled peaceably and everyone is benefiting, ARR gets our knowledge and support and StA gets a strong ally we are making even stronger.)

In summary though, Illyriad's trading aspect is an excellent one if you enjoy that type of game. It should be even more interesting once NPC factions are added and they start consuming resources and can be traded with to improve relations.

[Zangi]

I still keep tags every now and then on Zangi.

Waiting for things to change some more so I could screw around some more.