King of the Planet 12 - 28th March, 15:00 UTC

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by exodusesports, March 8, 2015.

  1. lapsedpacifist

    lapsedpacifist Post Master General

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    He's still nowhere near Matiz standards of throne camping is he?
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  2. Clopse

    Clopse Post Master General

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    I think neptunio is the only player at the minute to be able to do this. Cut above everyone playing.
  3. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    Don't forget @killerkiwijuice.... After his performance in evil twins I wouldn't rule him out.
  4. proeleert

    proeleert Post Master General

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    Well choosing all ranked maps didn't work out well for BattleBear, so who knows :)
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  5. Illmaren

    Illmaren Active Member

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    We will see who wins :)

    i hope it will be an epic battle
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  6. reptarking

    reptarking Post Master General

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    I could make an anti elodea map?
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  7. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    Do it :p
  8. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    All fine except the issue of 'each planet in multi-planet systems must use a different biome'.... That is really really limiting. I'm guessing exodus decided that to make casting easier? However what if you want to create a symmetrical system? what about an annhilasor race map? I think that is a bad decision imo.
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  9. jonasmod

    jonasmod Active Member

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    Replace it with "must have a simple name", so that casters actually can pronounce them :p
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  10. Quitch

    Quitch Post Master General

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    It's because all the top players only ever played on moons. We wished to force some diversification.

    You're really over-estimating the size of the kind of system you're going to see in King of the Planet if you think that's limiting.
  11. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    I was thinking the key to winning kotp would be to throw the king some real curve ball maps... Taking these guys on ladder or anything resembling ladder maps is foley... I have some ingenious, map related scenarios that could shake things up however.... Especially if there is no rule that requires prior disclosure Of the maps (no time to practice). I think that would give the map creator a significant advantage now that we have custom csg stuff...
  12. Clopse

    Clopse Post Master General

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    Yeah A curve ball could Involve a one metal spawn start position with a bit of a walk to a clump. And then you just nail an early opening build to put pressure on throughout the game. Easily done and hard to react. Well except now that I ruined that idea.
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  13. exodusesports

    exodusesports Well-Known Member

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    We're going to be using Hitbox for this event in place of Twitch, so make sure you're following us there.
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  14. towerbabbel

    towerbabbel Active Member

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    Why Hitbox?
  15. zihuatanejo

    zihuatanejo Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, why?
  16. Quitch

    Quitch Post Master General

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    Hitbox reached out to us and is willing to give us frontpage visibility and a little pimpage. We're trialling it to see whether it exposes PA to a wider audience. King of the Planet is a nice event to trial Hitbox with since it's one of the simpler events to run.
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  17. towerbabbel

    towerbabbel Active Member

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    Sounds cool, I suppose. God knows Twitch could use some serious competition.
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  18. cdrkf

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    I have quite a few ideas actually :)

    The key point is that *the king* doesn't get to see the map first. Challenging a top 1 v 1 player on ladder maps is a pretty futile plan *unless your that confident*. Having some challenging (and critically *never seen before*) maps on hand could swing it though. None of the challengers have been creative enough imo.

    I mean even simply making the map feature multi planet spawns could throw someone off if they're not expecting it (especially if as the map designer you have a solid plan in mind). There are plenty of players with *good enough* basics that with the advantage of prior knowledge or a more elaborate map setup, it becomes about macro and planning.

    Your example, whilst a viable approach, does still revolve around taking your opponent on in a pretty comfortable setting.
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  19. Alpha2546

    Alpha2546 Post Master General

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    Cool stuff Quitch. Twitch is pretty lazy and has some issues ( the random buffering as an example). Wouldn't be surprised if hitbox will be smoother. Can't wait!
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  20. killerkiwijuice

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    I kinda feel like there won't be nearly as many viewers compared to a twitch stream. But that's alright because front page is good anywhere.

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