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Great idea! I am in.

I almost never play online and I always play tiles.

Knowing the WebTiles does not support mouse, I've been doing my best to ween myself off the mouse. I can't recognize crap in ASCII Tiles.

I'd love to participate, but I'll need a little hand-holding for the set-up and whether WebTiles is something that guy Sequell recognizes.

XuaXua wrote:I almost never play online and I always play tiles.

Knowing the WebTiles does not support mouse, I've been doing my best to ween myself off the mouse. I can't recognize crap in ASCII Tiles.

I'd love to participate, but I'll need a little hand-holding for the set-up and whether WebTiles is something that guy Sequell recognizes.

I am not going to play console either. I have used mouse in crawl for 6+ months but then got tired of moving mouse to spell icons and switched to keyboard only. Surprisingly it was not that hard and I finally stopped clicking Revivification icon instead of Fire Storm one

Sandman25 wrote:
XuaXua wrote:I almost never play online and I always play tiles.

Knowing the WebTiles does not support mouse, I've been doing my best to ween myself off the mouse. I can't recognize crap in ASCII Tiles.

I'd love to participate, but I'll need a little hand-holding for the set-up and whether WebTiles is something that guy Sequell recognizes.

I am not going to play console either. I have used mouse in crawl for 6+ months but then got tired of moving mouse to spell icons and switched to keyboard only. Surprisingly it was not that hard and I finally stopped clicking Revivification icon instead of Fire Storm one

At the risk of de-rail, I use it for onscreen travel shortcuts, but lately I've noticed that when I play crawl, the mouse double-click sensitivity increases and it's almost impossible to single click. I've lost too many games now to this inadvertent double-click "bug" than anything else, and I feel if I report it on mantis, it'd probably get dismissed as a factor of my machine.

WalkerBoh wrote:I'm using an amalgam of # of wins, win rate, % of games with # of runes > 0, and avg # of runes per game. Oh and max streak length.

Where do you find this data?

crate: Good point! I hadn't thought of that.

XuaXua: You can play tiles, that's no problem. Just has to be online.

Magipi: In the crawl IRC channel (##crawl on freenode), you can access all sorts of statistics if you know how to format the query. Sequell is the name of the bot that handles these queries.

XuaXua wrote:I'd love to participate, but I'll need a little hand-holding for the set-up and whether WebTiles is something that guy Sequell recognizes.

Playing on webtiles is as simple as being able to click on a link and being able to play crawl without a mouse. Also, CSZO, CAO, and CLAN, all have webtiles and are recognized by Sequell.

crate wrote:If you were making this serious then having the same seed is not necessarily a benefit--a player could gain an advantage by simply waiting to view a competitor's ttyrec (to learn the dungeon) before playing.

Huh, or just playing a multi.

Yeah, unless someone is going to try and vet players and not publish ttyrecs until the following day, randomness is better than seeding. It works for spelunky because it's tied to your steam account (which is tied to actual money) which is not a thing here

Am in. Let's see how quickly I'll splat these slow non-spriggan races.

Quick update: Signups now close on 1/24 and the competition will start on 1/27. After consulting a calendar, I realized I put up the wrong dates originally.

anyone can partecipate right? i'd like to

Yep, anyone at all. Added you to the list.

Count me in.

I'm in; this sounds like a good motivator to actually start working on scores.

I'm not sure how much time I'll have to play, but what the heck sign me up as well. Thanks for organizing WalkerBoh!

I'm in

WalkerBoh wrote:
sanka wrote:I like trunk, the only think I would add is to remove experimental races. Particulary Lava Orc and Djinni seems to be so vague that they may undergoe big changes any time sombody has a good idea, so I would not like to play with them on a tournament (yet).

Yes, exactly. Any race (or class if a new one is added) that hasn't made it into a stable release will not be a candidate for the challenges.

Just thought of something. Should the new god (Dith) be barred as well?

No, I think allowing Dith is fine. Unlike the races/classes, you are not required to use Dith to complete the challenge, so it's up to each player if that's how they want to build their character. Also for drastic changes to trunk, I think part of that definition is that the change has to affect every player.

will this mode be playable at kr.dobrazupa.org? currently this server is the only available server for me due to internet problems
if it is i would like to join in

Unfortunately no, I don't think the Korean server is an official server. If the games you play don't show up on your profile (http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/playe ... b0803.html), it won't work.

Maybe try posting a thread in the Technical Support forum to see if there's any way you can play on another, allowed server. I don't know what Internet issues you're having but that's a better place to get help.

I will participate with the account "TedronaiSDC" (which I will use exclusively for playing these challenge characters).

WalkerBoh wrote:Unfortunately no, I don't think the Korean server is an official server. If the games you play don't show up on your profile (http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/playe ... b0803.html), it won't work.

Maybe try posting a thread in the Technical Support forum to see if there's any way you can play on another, allowed server. I don't know what Internet issues you're having but that's a better place to get help.

so I live in asia and this really hinders my gameplay experience in any of the official servers. are there any alternatives i might not know?

headcrab0803 wrote:
WalkerBoh wrote:Unfortunately no, I don't think the Korean server is an official server. If the games you play don't show up on your profile (http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/playe ... b0803.html), it won't work.

Maybe try posting a thread in the Technical Support forum to see if there's any way you can play on another, allowed server. I don't know what Internet issues you're having but that's a better place to get help.

so I live in asia and this really hinders my gameplay experience in any of the official servers. are there any alternatives i might not know?

Have you tried playing console on the alternative CSZO server (dobrazupa.org)? In my experience (I live in mainland China) I could actually play here with less lag than on kr.dobrazupa.org.

oh well, i tried to play in cszo and it actually worked fine unlike the last time i tried it. so i would like to join this competition too.

WalkerBoh wrote:Unfortunately no, I don't think the Korean server is an official server. If the games you play don't show up on your profile (http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/playe ... b0803.html), it won't work.

Maybe try posting a thread in the Technical Support forum to see if there's any way you can play on another, allowed server. I don't know what Internet issues you're having but that's a better place to get help.

I'm pretty sure that the Korean server is official, in that Sequell at least knows about it and tracks games/milestones, and has links to logs:

Code:: <MarvinPA> !lg * src=ckr -log <Sequell> 9295. dredsub, XL4 MiFi, T:1808: http://kr.dobrazupa.org/morgue/0.13/dredsub/morgue-dredsub-20140122-092428.txt

Not sure where that CAO page gets games from, I'll ask around in -dev.

I'm in!!!

.... but why do we have to "register?" Can't this operate like the other tournies where you just "play" and some cron job scrapes a databases and updates static webpages with the latest state of the competition?

@Moose: First, and most importantly, I don't know how to set that up. This competition is purely limited to the extent of my knowledge until someone else who knows more volunteers something better. Plus, all you have to do is play anyways - I'll take care of recording your scores after you play. It won't be as instant as an automated script, but at least once per day.

Also for now, I'd like to keep the scope purely to players who are interested, and not drag everyone into it. This isn't an official event like a tournament, after all. If this season goes really well and there is interest in making it something more official, then I can see transitioning to what you're suggesting. Until then, I'd like to keep it limited as it is now.

WalkerBoh wrote:I'd like to keep the scope purely to players who are interested

I'd like to try this but I'm not sure that I fall into that category: I will probably forfeit all Deep Dwarf characters and maybe others that get boring. If you have no problem with that, sign me up.

Yep, you can play as few or as many of the characters as you want. Though if you think you might only play 1 or 2 out of the 10, then I'd suggest not joining and just playing them on the side for fun.

I'm in!

Okay, just a few quick updates:

First, a reminder that signups end tomorrow at midnight (7pm EST). I will release the divisions hopefully by Saturday morning, and the competition will begin with the selection of the first combo/bonus on Sunday at midnight (7pm EST on Sunday).

Second, with regards to divisions, unless we get a flood of new signups in the next 24 hours here is approximately how I will be grouping the divisions:

Spoiler: show

Third, I have put a lot of time (way more than I anticipated) into creating a nice, mostly-automated scoring sheet for the challenges. I'll put that up when I release the divisions, but here are the stats I'm currently displaying right now:

Spoiler: show

Fourth, I added a learndb entry for the challenges. It can be found at ??csdc, and i'll try to keep it updated with relevant information. You can also use '!nick csdc' to see a list of all players currently in the competition. I'll add another learndb entry ??csdc_info later, which will have a list of the start dates for each challenge, and a list of each challenge char. Finally, I'll also create ??csdc_bonus, which will have a list of the optional bonuses for each week.

I haven't checked all the players inscribed but I'm thinking division 1 and 2 (and eventually 3) should be merged: while probably there are some skill gaps between who got 30+ wins and who 10 (at least, I improved a lot since my first victories), the numbers don't seems to allow such strict division.
For example, for now only you, me and yermak have 30+ wins and 3 competitors seems quite a low number for a tournament

nly you, me and yermak have 30+ wins

I did count 7. MrPlanck, MorganLeah, ackack and me included.

Then nevermind, I was on my phone and I probably missed some post reading back the topic :roll:

Yep, 7 players. No division will have less than 6.

Sounds fun. Sign me up.

Can I still join? If so sign me up. I am terrible at this game so put me in the Terrible Division tyvm.

Haha damn you, I just finalized the divisions! I'll throw you in though, no worries.

Updated first post: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10503&p=144963#p144963.

I added an updated set of rules, a list of the division assignments, and a (to be announced) list of the challenges and bonuses. And most importantly, there is a big link to the scoring sheet that will be tracking all of the results, stats, and standings for the competition.

A couple notes:

- Update to the rules: each optional bonus will be split into two tiers. Tier I challenges are easer than Tier II but worth less points - hopefully this helps give less experienced/successful players a chance to aim for completing bonuses, too.

- If you are really unhappy with your division assignment, please send me a PM and I'll see if anything can be worked out. Keep in mind that I tried to assign the divisions as fairly as possible with the (certainly limited) stats I had at my disposal, and they will not be perfect. But if I made a big mistake regarding your placement, whether too high or too low, please send me a message.

- I posted a few relevant/interesting statistics on the score sheet on the "Weekly Results" tab. If there is anything else you're interested in tracking, let me know. If I like it (and it's not too much work), I'll add it on there. I also have a couple tabs hidden - they display the tables I used for calculating rankings, both overall and divisions. If people are interested in seeing those, I can unhide them - but they are not really well organized/displayed at the moment.

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Reminder, the Week 1 challenge will be announced on Sunday at 7pm EST. I'm really pleasantly surprised to receive so much interest in the inaugural CSDC season (46 players, wow!), and I hope it will be as fun for all of you as it will be for me. Good luck!

Could you still put me in? Sorry to be late.

I have just realized that maybe Dithmengos should not be allowed. He is the best god for getting a rune before XL 12 because of 50% damage decrease and extra attacks for all characters so I suspect too many players will use him in every game because getting early rune (and then losing) brings the same 3 points as winning a game with 3 runes does. What do you think?

@Sandman: I can see some sense in banning Dith. I haven't personally played with him yet, so I can't speak to how easy it would be to grab early runes with him. I can also see banning him falling in the same category as the new races (Dj, LO, Fo, and VS if that gets in soon), although less so because of reasons I outlined earlier.

For now in the interest of preventing issues ahead of time, let's go ahead and ban Dith. Maybe later in the season we can lift the ban.

I am also going to add two new latecomers: Implojin and glosham.

And one more rule update: instead of the {score-gold} <= 50 for the redo criterion, I am changing it to XL < 4. It effectively amounts to the same thing and is clearer for players. So once you reach XL4 with a character, you cannot redo the challenge.

What if you complete the challenge before XL4? Can you do it again for double points?

If by "complete the challenge" you mean "win the game", then in that case you win everything and have nothing else to live for.

If you're still adding latecomers, I'm interested. One humiliatingly bad game a week sounds like my kind of competition.

Either way, good luck to the challengers!

Sorry amilir, it's a little too late now. But you can always play the challenges on your own!

I figured as much. It's not like I was in any danger of doing well, so playing on my own should be just about as fun.

Quick rule clarification: With regards to bonuses, you only get points for either Tier I OR Tier II bonuses - you do not get extra points for doing both.

For example, for week 1, you get 1 pt for killing Geryon and 3 pts if you also kill Antaeus. You do not get 4 pts for both.

WalkerBoh wrote:Quick rule clarification: With regards to bonuses, you only get points for either Tier I OR Tier II bonuses - you do not get extra points for doing both.

For example, for week 1, you get 1 pt for killing Geryon and 3 pts if you also kill Antaeus. You do not get 4 pts for both.

Does it mean you get 3 points if you did Tier II but not Tier I?

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