Yes, you could host a team if you choose to.

I was poking fun at Cruncher with the PermaCorps comment
I’m trying to attract “the best damned players, (that know) the rules better” for this game.

What is the corp size, I saw in the last one the count was 6, but I noticed on a forum not to be mentioned by name there is talk of 5. We are within 3 weeks can we get a set number so we can get planning. I don't feel like scrambling at the last minute or have to ask someone to sit out. Can we get final rules/corp sizes and stick to them?

Doing my best.

Micro...I by no means consider myself an ELITE player...I want to play in this tournament...I played in yours ...I lost but had fun.... played HHT....I won and had fun.... I play 4 to 6 hours of TW a day...Some games on Beta and some on 1.03... I dont care about the bugs... I just play because its fun... If they wnat to use bugs or know about them so what... I will continue to play...Kinda like Cruncher not using scripts...as long as she has fun who cares... STOP worrying about who knows what bugs and might use them and just play your game and enjoy yourself... I know I will know matter who I play with or against in this tourney

I’m not sure why you quoted Cruncher and then addressed me. My only concern about bugs is that they get reported to JP so he can fix them. I am not the type of person that would even use an accepted "Advanced Tactic" if it gave me an unfair advantage. I am not a competitive player, and I don't have the time it would take to learn every aspect of this game. I intend to play, and have fun even if I know I can’t win.

Conversation with Kraaken member today.
Corp size = 5 man teams
Rules will be basicly be the same as 2010. I'll get it collected, approved, and posted here soon.

Thanks I will work on finding the rest of the team then.

I talked to Zoobar this afternoon. What he said was:



I don't have contact information for Mana Knight, so I don't know his opinion.

At this point I'm going to probably piss off everyone. Those who know me, know this is the normal state of affairs.

Battle of the Elite was meant as a server team based game. The reason it was designed that way is that it dates back to the MBBS days. The cost of first, an MBBS license, and then a High Velocity Software Trade Wars license, meant that there were damned few servers.

When JP came out with the TWGS version, the cost of operating a Trade Wars server plummeted. I know of a lot of people who bought licenses just so they could practice. Others like me ran servers, and I actually programmed a couple of add-on packages for TWGS before I dumped Microsoft Windows because it was a total piece of crap (and yes JP, you aren't seeing things, I have a server running - will email you later).

There are several issues:

1) The expansion on the number of available servers. I could see 300 teams signing up for the tournament.

2) Battle of the Elite has always run with the latest version of Tradewars 2002, originally on HVS, and later on TWGS. According to memory JP gave out copies of the latest Beta for use in tournaments, including BOTE. This was done to kill the bug use and it worked to a certain extent.

3) Battle of the Elite always used standard MBBS settings.

4) Standard MBBS settings meant teams of up to six.

Now you could play it differently, but that is the classic settings.

Wayne

In order to piss me off i would have to care about your opinion, no worries.

I may be way off base about this, but I take Battle of the Elite to mean that the winner of the tournament has proved to be elite among modern players, not that only the "elite" could participate. That would be Battle of the Exclusive. Today, it's obviously possible for anyone to plunk down $10 to get a TWGS license and join the game. So the "you need a license" rule is really outmoded today.

I think the way to go is for large public sites like Ice 9, Ultimatetw, etc, to sponsor teams, but for the tournament to be open to unaffiliated teams as well. Personally, I'd expect the teams from the big sites to be the "elite" teams, but that doesn't mean that some team nobody knows about couldn't come in and compete.

That's just my opinion.

On the question of bug use, obviously as a player, Orion, it's your choice to not care if others cheat in games you play. But I think everyone should be aware of the situation, because for many people it's just lame as h*ll to invest time and energy into a game where the eventual winner is the team with the least scruples.

You said that you know of bugs, Orion, but you don't use them. Have you reported them? If not, then why?

I piss people off daily around here, that's my "job"! LOL

I was around for the first one, and this was before Mega Rob bug was known, or widely known... so the rule of corp size was 6 and Mega corping was allowed as long as the red/blue corps had simular names, or registered as such. Back then on HVS alignment was not so easily manipulated.

http://tradewars.fament.com/original-bote/bote.html

Corp members set to 5, MBBS verified as still on
Current BOTE 2011 game settings can be seen here.

Very nice job! I love how this links to player list and daily logs!

Just one question though, Max Users: 30 <- Why so low?

OK another one, how many deaths? And is tournament death mode fixed in 1.03?

Game rules have been posted at the begining of the thread

Players set low to just eliminate having to sort through 200 empty player slots when you run a death count script. We will adjust to accommodate as many players as enter the game.
8 deaths, and it is clarified how the death mode (bug) will be handled in the rules posted.