Motherships Tournament ##Judging in Progress##

DarkenShroud · Post by **DarkenShroud** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:32 pm

Yeah that would be cool, set a deadline. It's not really over confidence, just some mind games to make the other teams rethink there approah. I really don't see a problem with gamma having multiple ships per person. And I like the fact your wanting the ball to rolll Daxx. So yeah sounds good, lets see a pic of this all mighty team Alpha mothership. So we may plan on its destruction.

antisocialmunky · Post by **antisocialmunky** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:34 pm

I'm going to make a better version of it this week to fight mtheminja's one.

DarkenShroud · Post by **DarkenShroud** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:02 am

I'm going to make a better version of it this week to fight mtheminja's one.

See the mind games begin to work already. Best use all your skills available anti, you'll need em once you see ours lol.

elecboy · Post by **elecboy** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:30 am

DarkenShroud wrote:
I'm going to make a better version of it this week to fight mtheminja's one.

See the mind games begin to work already. Best use all your skills available anti, you'll need em once you see ours lol.

looks like you have something good i suppose. We can't wait to smash it to bits.

DarkenShroud · Post by **DarkenShroud** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:38 am

With our teams combined ideas, and few select peoples building skills. I don't think your gonna be able to even plan against what we have, when you see the pic lol. On the other hand, once we see your pic.......the rest goes without saying lol. First deadline here we come lol :twisted:

mtheminja · Post by **mtheminja** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:29 am

As a compromise to those who don't want to completely reveal their mothership, why doesn't Daxx let us put scaffolding on it (maybe a max of 12 pieces), we send our pictures to him, he applies the exact same (relatively mild?) static effect to them, and then we get to see each other's mothership. That's always been part of the fun in mothership tournaments.

antisocialmunky · Post by **antisocialmunky** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:22 am

That'd be fun. Our team really need to get some motherships going. Mastermind's fun and all but we need to come out with better versions of it or better strategies.(I doubt we can abuse anything else as bad though)

Daxx · Post by **Daxx** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:43 pm

You get a picture which may or may not be distorted, I've not decided yet. No scaffolding.

Krakow Sam · Post by **Krakow Sam** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:03 pm

On Daxx's request I'm signing up for team Gamma.

Prepare to be faced by a ton of stupid questions, as I don't have much experience with BSF beyond tinkering and occasionally turning my hand to making a 100 point ship.

elecboy · Post by **elecboy** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:14 am

antisocialmunky wrote:That'd be fun. Our team really need to get some motherships going. Mastermind's fun and all but we need to come out with better versions of it or better strategies.(I doubt we can abuse anything else as bad though)

Here i stand, unnoticed in the corner

i guess i do need to get a bit better though

Daxx · Post by **Daxx** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:30 pm

Good to see you, KS.

Right, now that Gamma have four members, I'm setting a deadline for the Motherships. You have two weeks. People can still join up until that point, but Gamma will have to prepare 8 escorts amongst themselves.

Now, questions:

How big is the arena going to be? What specifically are the rules on formations? Is it just going to be you have to have your ship centered on your side of the arena?

Standard (i.e. default) sandbox size arena.

Formation rules: the mothership is deployed front and centre, slightly ahead of the escorts. The escorts can be deployed in any formation behind the mothership.

Mr_Wizard · Post by **Mr_Wizard** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:55 pm

2048x2048? Holding 18 ships?

Master Chief · Post by **Master Chief** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:06 pm

Mr_Wizard wrote:2048x2048? Holding 18 ships?

That's gonna be a tad too small. Gives advantage to big lumbering battleships which then can trap flankers against a wall. Maybe around 4096x4096 would be better.

Daxx · Post by **Daxx** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:01 pm

My testing shows that with a large sandbox it's too easy for tiny aegised flankers with AI range 1000 to be the only ships left, leading to draws.

If people are completely against it, I'll change, but I'm trying to avoid people being cheesy and making eighteen range-1000 lancet whoring railgun snipers which can't hit each other.

Frigates are still an option, but you'll have to rely on more than merely speed to protect yourself from the melee.

Master Chief · Post by **Master Chief** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:39 pm

Daxx wrote:If people are completely against it, I'll change, but I'm trying to avoid people being cheesy and making eighteen range-1000 lancet whoring railgun snipers which can't hit each other.

Actually, unless your ships are drastically slow, railguns aren't even effective at that range. Neither are any of the other projectile weapons at the maximum limits of range. And lancets...they just simply become ineffective against targets which are fast-moving and deflectored, only being useful in detoothing the motherships. Whatever the case, I don't think railgun snipers will come up anyway, due to the greater effectiveness of...other weapons.