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Thoughts about a new game - Testers needed!
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 21-11-2012 16:19
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Jesleyh wrote:
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no team HQ please
Why not? We can at least include 1 or 2 post per team in the main topic, just to get a good overview of the teams...
I agree. I think the solution from Jakstars CL is good with a collection of team HQ's in the start of the thread. For a league with more posts like this one, where everyone is reporting from every stage it would make sense to have a thread for Race-report and start-lists and another thread for HQ's and rider/manager reports
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 21-11-2012 16:21
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Jesleyh wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
no team HQ please
Why not? We can at least include 1 or 2 post per team in the main topic, just to get a good overview of the teams...
I don't like making them (the ones I had too make are pretty standard)
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 21-11-2012 16:56
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Atlantius wrote:
Jesleyh wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
no team HQ please
Why not? We can at least include 1 or 2 post per team in the main topic, just to get a good overview of the teams...
I agree. I think the solution from Jakstars CL is good with a collection of team HQ's in the start of the thread. For a league with more posts like this one, where everyone is reporting from every stage it would make sense to have a thread for Race-report and start-lists and another thread for HQ's and rider/manager reports
This is pretty much it, one thread would end in total chaos.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 22-11-2012 08:14
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Well at the moment we have to wait until a final decision has been made if games can continue on the site or not. I'm not up for hosting an external forum.
It also seems some people are interested in ending/restarting their own games, if some of this stuff seems interesting, contact me so we can maybe share some thoughts.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 03-12-2012 09:37
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Well, we have what we wanted, so this game is back "in progress" 
For the question about the team rankings, it will be based upon your 2 custom riders and you highest other rider. So like the UCI does it, but with 3 riders instead of 5. This should give a good mix between the two.
For the next days/weeks I'll be helping TMM with starting up his exciting new project, once that cools off, this game is hopefully going to kick off as well.
What I need for this to work is one database expert to set up all the teams and one or several race runners to help me out. No need to apply yet, as we're not gonna start yet, but just letting you know these positions will need filling and you can express interest already.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 13-09-2013 10:37
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With the occasional slowing of the UCPCL and other storygames and general boredom on my part, I'm thinking of reviving this idea, though with quite some changes based on your feedback. Would people be interested in joining, helping with the database and/or reporting?
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 13-09-2013 11:15
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To be honerst at the moment I think I will focus on helping as much as possible to keep UCPCL running. If you get it running I'll probably join, but don't expect me to help with much apart from managing my own team...
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 13-09-2013 13:21
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@Ollfardh
Why not put that bit more effort into getting the UCPCL fully functional again. We had 2-3 months of great running before a few people dropped out leaving us without many reporters. When we get through season 1 i will bring in some changes to simplify the system and make it more enjoyable and easy to run.
That said, if you do go to start something new i will happily offer some advice and guideance
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 13-09-2013 13:29
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TheManxMissile wrote:
@Ollfardh
Why not put that bit more effort into getting the UCPCL fully functional again. We had 2-3 months of great running before a few people dropped out leaving us without many reporters. When we get through season 1 i will bring in some changes to simplify the system and make it more enjoyable and easy to run.
That said, if you do go to start something new i will happily offer some advice and guideance
I will definitely remain active in the UCPCL, no worries about that 
But the inactivity and occasional slow pace has become a bit annoying. As you may have noticed, I did try to help with guiding the reporters which races should be run next, while you were on holiday in the summer. So yeah, I definitely want UCPCL to continue and I don't want to steal people or anything. But I think you mostly need reporters, and I don't have any real experience or ambition to do so.
Now the summer is over, I find I have some more spare time myself to try and start up something. I heard the new daily database is going to come out soon, so I thought to set something up by then. But as mentioned above, I'm just not good with the technical part, so I would need 1 person to handle the database and a few race reporters. I know you'll be to busy to do any of that, but it would be nice to have you in as a player 
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 13-09-2013 13:35
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Ollfardh wrote:
But as mentioned above, I'm just not good with the technical part, so I would need 1 person to handle the database and a few race reporters. I know you'll be to busy to do any of that, but it would be nice to have you in as a player
Well that's exactly the problem we have in UCPCL at the moment: We lack motivated reporters. Wouldn't needing reporters for two games just increase that problem for both?
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 13-09-2013 13:40
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Yes and no. I'm hoping to get some people into my game who are not/no longer participating in UCPCL. If I look at the 2013 story section, there seem to be a lot of potential participants.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 13-09-2013 13:57
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There are a lot of newcomers to the site who may be convinced to join the game |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 13-09-2013 17:18
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Which is why i hate that the Story Games section doesn't appear on the home page updates 
If you were to start a game up i would keep it as simple as possible. Something along the lines of the TCS, TCS2.0, JCS and MFS is usually pretty good. Simple calendars, simple teams with minimal editing, transfers. The MFS expanded that slightly to two divisions, which allows more people to participate, and adds extra incentive with promotion/relegation.
Reporting without playing any part of the stage is hard. It can be boring as hell! I have found a way round this with the WSC, where i have an underpowered control team who i remove from any scoring system. With these teams i will still be able to race, keeping me interested more, and reduce the randomness of the AI by being able to chase certain groups etc.
But reporters are a problem. Its much easier to motivate for a story than a game. I reckon you would have to do at least half of the races yourself (assuming the UCPCL does get itself started up again). You could make it a condition of participating that any managers have to do a certain number of races as a report?
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 14-09-2013 21:16
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And the section being the PCM 12: Story Section instead of PCM 13 makes it worse, since new people would rather check the newer parts of the forum, I think.
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 14-09-2013 21:46
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Jesleyh wrote:
And the section being the PCM 12: Story Section instead of PCM 13 makes it worse, since new people would rather check the newer parts of the forum, I think.
what a bullshit excuse
since when are people that lazy to just scroll down 
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 14-09-2013 22:05
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I have to agree it would help, which admin should I contact for this?
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 14-09-2013 23:19
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Ollfardh wrote:
I have to agree it would help, which admin should I contact for this?
I did mention it to CT back when this was created, and i have briefly mentioned setting up a PCM13 Story Game section.
So if you want to ask, then it's CT, but with out a clear plan already in place he will most likely turn it down. Although with the WSC as well it is not out of the question.
And depending on the number of threads there is no reason why it cannot go in the normal Story section. The only reason we ended up down here is because of the number of games, and that several of them had Team HQ's.
... The fact i always talk about the Story Games section as "down here", "down below", "the basement" etc says quite a lot...
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-09-2013 14:10
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OK, I sent him a PM, let's wait for his decision
I've also changed a lot of stuff in my game, the older rider is out. Not everyone has to make a team HQ and the randomness of stat increase is gone. Now I just need a database guy and reporters
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 16-09-2013 14:29
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F*uck, we moved!
@Ollfardh
Good luck finding reporters, they don't exist in numbers. You will have to separate a weak one from its pack and take it down in a swift blow with a tranquilizer before tying him up and forcing him to play the game
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 16-09-2013 14:49
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Oh, we moved
Too bad we didn't get the front page mention though
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