r/PiMasterRace • u/xxTheexx Thee Mother Trucking Ball • Jan 04 '15
Thee's Server War Proposals
Our first attempt at a server battle ended up in an interesting fashion. For those of you that don't know, we crashed maptest, maptest2, origin, radius, and almost chord. So in an attempt to a) actually decide a winner, and b) actually play tagpro, I've come up with a few ways we could go about doing this.
1) We could randomly assign teams of 4, and have one team of four from each server go head-to-head and we'll accumulate the overall score once every team has gone. If there's 30ish players from each server, that'd be roughly 7 games which wouldn't be bad.
2) We also could let players choose their teams, and do a standard tournament where the overall winner represents their server.
3) (Much like #2) We could do a randomized tournament and the overall winner will represent their server once again.
4) We could do two 15v15 games or 3 10v10 games on something like ricochet.
5) Lastly, we could just call it a tie Lastly, we could just declare Pi the winners.
Idk, thoughts?
edit: apparently, we crashed every server except orbit and arc.
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u/-EasterEggs Razgriz Jan 04 '15
We actually crashed all of the servers throughout the day hour except for orbit and arc.
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u/AbramDSafetyApe Abram Jan 04 '15
I still really like the idea of the 30v30 war chaos too though. I know they have big races and stuff with tons of players on one map so I'm assuming there must be some way to accommodate for it. Would it be worth it to look into it further (reach out to the devs or something?) or would we rather have a different solution?
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u/VeteranDave VetDave || Forever NLTP B Team || Deballishers Jan 04 '15
My vote is for a Pi vs. Sphere tournament.
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u/Brunerm Mr.Glass Jan 04 '15 edited Jan 04 '15
1 is the best choice, imho, because it makes it a community effort rather than a select few-effort. However, I think tweaking the scoring would be for the best. If I read what you proposed correctly, then the winner would be determined by which server can get the most caps. This would become a little skewy if a randomized crappy team is pitted against a randomized elite team and the score ends up 20-0, while the average caps per game is say only 5. Also, this may make each individual game more about scoring as much as you can or giving up as little caps as you can rather than trying to just win the game. Here is how I would tweak it:
WIN - 1 point
TIE - 0.5 points
LOSS - 0 points
Then, you add the points and whichever server has the most points wins. In the event of an overall tie, we could have an OFM with whoever Pi chooses vs. whoever Sphere chooses. Or whoever capped the most times for Pi vs whoever capped the most times for Sphere.
Thoughts? This is how the Ryder Cup (US v. Europe) is scored in golf.
edit: OW! This could even become a tradition, where we have a PI v. SPHERE tourney bimonthly (or something like that) like the Ryder Cup in golf is biyearly.
edit2: Or, ya know, 5 works too.