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(Message started by: K`Hare totlh on Feb 7^th, 2005, 5:52pm)

Title: What to do before each match
Post by K`Hare totlh on Feb 7^th, 2005, 5:52pm

Every PC should check their bio entry and update it. Your password is the one you entered when you filled out the application. If you have trouble editing your bio, or if you need me to change something on the manifest page, PM me.

When you edit your bio you will see a pair of form elements about your combat. One drop down lets you select your opponent and the other selects your honor stance. Klingons expect everyone to fight with honor and will notice if you don't. But fighting honorably will make it harder to win.

These two values are not to let you pick your opponent. Before each match you should check the brackets and see who you are fighting and select that person on the dropdown. You should also pick whether you will fight with honor or fight dirty. The drop down to select your opponent is simply to verify to me that you updated your honor stance for that match.

Try setting it now for your first match to verify that you can do it. You don't want to wait to the last minute and then discover a problem.

The night before your first match I will check the values of your honor setting and it will be used to modify your chances to win the match. Then the judges will roll the dice and the winner will be determined.

The winner and loser of each match will be notified by email so that you can post your match. After 24 hours or so, the results of every match, simply who won will be posted by updating the brackets.

Anyone who doesn't respond to PMs, doesn't set their honor stance, or disappears and can't be located risks automatic forfeiture of their match.

Check your PMs on this forum often. If I have trouble getting your settings or need to contact you, I will try there first.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by Ta`pez HoD on Feb 7^th, 2005, 6:41pm

any chance of us actually getting a confirmation of what we set - i wouldnt want to select fighting dirty on accident

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by Falco_Tauvits on Feb 7^th, 2005, 7:20pm

Ta`pez HoD wrote:

any chance of us actually getting a confirmation of what we set - i wouldnt want to select fighting dirty on accident

*opens mouth* ....... nah, too easy. ;)

(not that my record really makes me immune to such gibes)

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by K`Hare totlh on Feb 7^th, 2005, 8:07pm

Yes. Edit your bio. Set your honor and opponent. Then save by entering your password and the bottom and clicking save.

Then edit yourself again. It should remember your setting.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by TalVur on Feb 7^th, 2005, 8:29pm

Running like a Swiss Watch, K'Hare. Job well done, once again.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by K`Hare totlh on Feb 9^th, 2005, 1:46pm

This is an update of the text from last year.

As a reminder, for each match you will decide how you fight. You can fight with
great honor (-2), honor (-1), neutral (0), dirty (+1), or very dirty (+2).

Fighting with honor will lower your combat skill by 1 point for that match.

Fighting very dirty will raise it by 2 but the crowd may not like it.

Note that I added a catagory "Fight same as opponent". I did this because last year, it was a popular thing for people to choose. If you choose it and your opponent fights dirty, you will fight dirty too. If you both choose this, it will be treated as if you both choose neutral.

You choices for each match will be accumulated if you continue win. The way you fight only effects your score for one match but the sum of your choices will be your accumulated honor for the tournament. The competitor who accumulates the most honor during the competition will get a special award.

So, before each match you choose your honor level for that match only. The only lasting effect is your honor is summed up for all matches.

When we are ready to determine the winner for each match, the judges add your honor level to your actual skill score (what is displayed on the bios is the skill rounded to a whole number) and then a d6 is added to each person.

So, Kahless has a skill of 6 and Molor has a skill of 5. Kahless fights with great honor (6 - 2 = 4) and Molor fights very dirty (5 + 2 = 7). A d6 is rolled and Kahless gets a 5 and Molor gets a 2.

Kahless: 6 - 2 (great honor) + 5 (d6) = 9

Molor: 5 + 2 (very dirty) + 2 (d6) = 9

So its a tie. If Molor had gotten a 3 on the d6 he would win, if Kahless got a 3, he would have lost.

That's the basic system. So what about ties. Ties actually can't happen (i.e. are very unlikely) because your skill on the bio is displayed as 6 or 5, but is actually calculated as 6.245172 and 5.4938586. In other words, we are only showing your skill rounded to the nearest integer, but actually, its a float and having two competitors with exactly the same skill is very unlikely. In this case, if it happens, we'd just roll and add a second or third die until someone wins.

So, this year you use the bio form to set your honor level and we will inform each pair of fighters who won their match. For the first PC combat round we will give you a little extra time but later, we expect the posts to be ready quicker.

The first PC match will be friday or saturday I think but before that, your freebie match against an NPC... so I hope people are getting those ready.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by Ing The Puny on Feb 9^th, 2005, 3:11pm

In what universe does Kahless have a skill of 6????

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by TalVur on Feb 9^th, 2005, 3:12pm

I think that was just an example.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by K`Hare totlh on Feb 9^th, 2005, 3:19pm

One where Ing is the supreme champion of honorable combat. (:}

Yes, just an example. Originally, I used K'Hare and Ta'pez but figured that was confusing.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by TalVur on Feb 9^th, 2005, 3:24pm

And of course in that example you dominated Ta'pez, no doubt.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by Ta`pez HoD on Feb 9^th, 2005, 5:05pm

TalVur wrote:

And of course in that example you dominated Ta'pez, no doubt.

its his story

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by TalVur on Feb 9^th, 2005, 5:31pm

And of course, history is written by the victors...so I think we'll be trusting K'hare's account.

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by Ta`pez HoD on Feb 9^th, 2005, 5:41pm

TalVur wrote:

And of course, history is written by the victors...so I think we'll be trusting K'hare's account.

wrong

Title: Re: What to do before each match
Post by Andrew_Jones_II on Feb 10^th, 2005, 12:20am

i do have problems with my pasword for the bio could you plase send me a new one to the mail listed below?

Rhxs in advance.

Another thing remember that Andrew has a twin brother that is a Captain and commands the MTRF, Uss Bsnaventure and TG Daystrom in TF93, so if you want you can get confused with Andrew and the fact he is in a marine uniform