As mentioned last night in the Creators Hour, we were planning to repeat events from last World Cup and have our own free one.
One issue is how many teams are going to play - if we only have 5 teams competiting, it might not be worth having.
However, assuming we have enough teams to play, we're hoping to have some format similar to the following:
No ingame alliances
private 10 man galaxies
1 minute ticks over 24 hours, nonstop.
Depending on the number of teams, we'll have regional qualifiers (broken down into something like 1-2 UK ones, US, Europe or sections of Europe, rest of world).
This is based on the breakdown of current accounts:
UK ~ 950, US ~ 520, NO ~ 300, NL ~ 250, CA ~ 110, AU ~ 100, DE ~ 100
Then we have Finland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Portugal and Denmark with between 75 and 35 accounts.
Teams of people from the larger groups will obviously be country specific, but some of the smaller European regions will be welcome to join up
However, as mentioned in CH we only have 1 prize. As it's going to be hard to share 1 prize between 10 players, and would be a bit unfair to single out one person in a team game, we're planning a separate, single person event.
This will be an endurance race, and may well include removal of the lower players at several points (or continuiously).
Everyone will be in their own galaxy, and again no alliances. The length will be similar to a world cup round, and the top ranking player at the end will be the winner.
The next question is the setup of experience points, score formula and game stats. This is obviously going to be quite essential, especially to the second event, and we'd welcome community input on what stats they'd like to see. Remember if we have no XP, Zik will be quite overpowered, especially long term.
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