SMACX Single Player League - preparing

[sisko]

.. If you start a game, enable scenario editor and save .sav file, you can later rename it to scenario .sc file. Game will pick it up as scenario file. interludes and monuments will work.

This is definitely easier to use.

[Flux]

This looks really interesting. Now you can see how bad I am at SMAC!
Seriously though, I suck at it. In AARs I see people doing things I didn't know existed.

[Mart]

This looks really interesting. Now you can see how bad I am at SMAC!
Seriously though, I suck at it. In AARs I see people doing things I didn't know existed.

New strategies and tricks can surprise after many years of playing - this is SMAC.
That makes it more interesting to play subsequent games and watch one's score.

The first game is already posted and I added the link in the first message of this thread at the end. The SPL-01 is in the Command Nexus thread.

[Mart]

And some new stuff, that should be mentiond/discussed in this thread:

And here, something I haven't set in the rules - submissions actually should be hidden and shown for others after deadline.
When I posted my score in 2266, I already gave others some aim to do better than this, thus taking better place in the ranking.

This could be in subsequent games, if we want to have such stricter competition.

And then maybe this:
- I will setup a gmail account, that will serve as collection of game submissions.
- Players would sent their save files, compressed as zip, with indication of their AC2 nick/login
- In addition, players would post here in specific SPL thread, that they just have done so, in order to keep record of the submission, in case the email gets lost. It happens sometimes, even if for typing address with an error... These posts would be without details, so giving no vital information to other players, what MY, what score, what victory type, etc.
- Saves will be accessed by a person making ranking summary, gmail account would be accessible only to selected persons. And such persons would access them only after they completed the game themselves (if playing). SPL staff.

All of this above would make competing the same difficulty, regardless of order of submitting saves. Otherwise, players submitting later would have advantage.

And another thing:
Ranking types should be described more. We have presently 4 of them, and I think, if we should make some additions/changes.

[Earthmichael]

Is this still ongoing?  Where does one get maps to play?

[Mart]

Yes, the deadline for the first game is extended, as there was no submissions really.
But now Kirov is playing the first game.
Soon I will release the second one, but it can wait a bit too.
I added this info also to the first post:

Games Links:
SPL-01 Game
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SPL-training

The SPL-01 is actual ranking game, while the training is for fun/getting used to this kind of play, like <SPACE> being the password, etc.