#openttdcoop head-to-head championship – 2nd try
Sadly the competition run yesterday had to be aborted due to technical difficulties which should hopefully be fixed now, new binaries will be provided. A fresh new start will take place Friday night at 20h CEST. Given the discussion yesterday which accompanied the tournament we decided to limit the time for the competition to one evening only. My proposal is 2.5 hours (ten game years), but the actual length is open to negotiation up to immediately prior to the start of the game. Again 15 company-slots will be available 🙂 Unlike the last time, the server will be located in a different IRC channel: #coopetition.
One change in the rules applies of course: it is not and never was our policy to select members via a competition 🙂 – showing reasonably good building skills is only one criterion among others. 🙂 Holding a competition in order to grant the winner membership was the April fools day part of the posting.
I hope you’ll join this competition despite as it’s IMO a nice competitive way which allows to compare different solutions 🙂 So let’s set out and enjoy this new way to play tomorrow!
So there we were last night to play a new Head 2 Head game. Several of us joined (up to 6), but we didn’t have any luck. The game frequently asserted and we were un able to give this new feature a good try. So keep posted for a new game to test the Head 2 Head game style via the IRC channel.
We ended up to do a regular coopetition game with three teams of 2. Chris Booth + Seandasheep (blue) vs Ammler + tneo (orange) vs Razaekel + De_Ghost (pink). The was supposed to last for 2 hours, but do to some game irregularities it took us 4 hours to complete. Narc had a tough job as a referee and had to pinpoint out cheating by pink and blue.
Soon we we’re away building and hooking up all industries. Orange took advantage of the efforts of the other teams and kindly took away their steal and goods. It took some time for pink and blue to notice, but once they did orange was soon the underlying team in the stats.
Blue took the lead from the start to never give it away again, they won this round of coopetition, though in the end it was a pretty close call.
the final screen: http://img.narc.ro/openttd/coopetition-2v2v2.png