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BoM Arcade Tournaments Now Open!

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Jul 20, 2008.

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  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    I hit restart in the beginning a few times on every attempt and it made no difference. Since you've got the ability to restart within this game, I guess it's impossible to have a fair tournament since everyone can just restart until they get a better score. I only restart so I get a board that remotely looks finishable, not later on.
     
    Taluntain, Sep 16, 2008
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    Couldn't you retry as often as you wanted in the gold miner tournament too ?
     
    kmonster, Sep 17, 2008
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    dmc Speak softly and carry a big briefcase Staff Member Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    I don't know, I never tried to do it. I think there should be a standing rule in tournaments that there are no retries, you get what you get and that's it.
     
    dmc, Sep 17, 2008
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  4. Fly2tHeSkY

    Fly2tHeSkY Southern Comfort Veteran

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    I feel like entering a tournament but I don't wanna create one... :o
     
    Fly2tHeSkY, Sep 17, 2008
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    I just created a pacman tournament. Since this game doesn't allow to reset or to retry endlessly and an attempt takes only about 10 minutes it will be fast and fun.
     
    kmonster, Sep 17, 2008
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  6. Montresor

    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    I joined that.

    BTW, how do you make a try take 10 minutes? I have trouble staying alive for half that time. :p :o
     
    Montresor, Sep 17, 2008
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    Just wait 9 minutes before clicking "start game". So you only have to survive for 1 minute. :D

    The "press direction key shortly and pacman will take this direction at the next corner" controls are a little bit unusual but once you get used to them you'll consider them far superior for this game compared to standard "only move while direction key is pressed" controls.
    It takes a little time to get used to them, but you should get the hold of it after a few games.

    I usually wait at the energy pills until a ghost gets very close and always try to eat all 4 of them for many bonus points. Use the energy pills wisely, if all of them are used and the screen is still filled with normal pills to eat, you're in serious trouble. I usually try to eat the pills on the bottom at the beginning, since you can get trapped quite easily there later.
     
    kmonster, Sep 17, 2008
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    THANK GOD kmonster is on the other side of the table in this tourney :D
     
    Fly2tHeSkY, Sep 17, 2008
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    Fly2tHeSkY Southern Comfort Veteran

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    Still waiting for TWO more people in the Pac-Man tourney guys...
     
    Fly2tHeSkY, Sep 21, 2008
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  10. Montresor

    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    Hey, you've a 50% chance of running into me in the first round, and I suck at Pac-Man. :D
     
    Montresor, Sep 30, 2008
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  11. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] I suggest creating 4-player tournaments instead of 8-player, since it takes too long to get 8 players in most cases.
     
    Taluntain, Oct 1, 2008
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