Galaxy Midgaard Championship

From: tommyl@cd.chalmers.se (Tommy Lindqvist)

Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
Subject: First GalaxyNG open Tournament
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Hi folks.

I will shortly hold the first ever open elimination tournament in galaxyNG.

As soon as I get 32 people signed up, the series will start.

The tournament will be a double elimination series, with two players
per game.
Each player will have one additional homeworld. Galaxy will be a square
with sides of 50 LY's.

In order to sign up, you will send an email to lindqt@space.se
telling me that you would love to spend a big chunk of your life
competing for the title of Midgaard open Champion, as well as bragging rights.

Technical info:
Automated demand updates: ( All people telling me done = update immiediately )
No scheduled updates:
Nagger : ( A robot making sure there is at least one update every 72 hours. )

Extensive info:
	THIS IS THE RULES FOR THE GALAXY TOURNAMENT

WINNING
Winner of the tournament will be the last person alive.

ELIMINATION
You may lose one game without getting eliminated. When you have lost two
games, you are eliminated from the tournament.

ROUNDS
The winner of a round is the person who after a month of play has the highest
effective industry, as determined by the galaxyng spy utility.
A winner may be unanimously declared before that time.
   ( If all players in a game tells me a particular player is the winner, then
     that player gets his point. )
In the case of a tie, no player gets any points.

OPPONENTS
In each round, opponents is selected according to the following criteria:
   You may never play the same person twice except when there are no
   players you have not played before.
   Your opponent will be chosen randomly from the valid players.

SCHEDULE
Tournament will start as soon as I get enough people interested in playing.
Rounds will last one month, after which time a winner is declared.
Between rounds will be approximatley two days for me to arrange the next
round of games.
This means that sometimes during the summer a winner will be declared.

FEATURES OF TOMMY'S GALAXY TOURNAMENT SERVER

This tournament is managed by an unusual server kit. The most useful
feature is DEMAND UPDATES.
By sending in special email messages, players can themselves control
when the updates should happen. There is also a nagger server running,
controlling that players not take to much time between updates.

DEMAND UPDATES
You can send in a special email to the galaxy server, with the subject:

Turn <turnnumber> DONE Request for <Gamename>

Where <turnnumber> and <Gamename> is replaced by the valid variables.
The body should contain the following

#Donerequest <Gamename> <Racename> <Password>
#End

You can have no lines between #Donerequest, and #End. The server will ignore
lines after #End.

If all players have submitted their orders, and all players have submitted
Donerequests, an update will happen.

For example: My empire testA in game GMTest with password apa wants
to tell the server that I need an update for turn 5.
I will send the following:
==================
Subject: Turn 5 DONE Request for GMTest

#Donerequest GMTest testA apa
#End

==================

Please note that Subject: in the above should be filled in as the subject line,
and NOT in the body.

NAGGER
There will run a process every once in a while, checking when the
last update was run. If there is deemed to have been enough time since
the last update, an update will happen, just like your regularly scheduled
update.
Note that for this kind of update, I will ignore if some player has not
submitted any orders.
Note also that there will never be any update, if NO players have submitted
any orders.

Email Commands
Sending email with subject
Request Galaxy Tournament
  Will send you the Tournament rules
Request Galaxy Server features
  Will send you this document
Request Galaxy Docs
  Will send you the rules for Galaxy version 3.50
Request Galaxy Changes
  Will send a brief document explaining th edifferences between
  GalaxyNG and standard Galaxy.
Turn <turnnumber> Orders for <Galaxygamename>
  Tells the server that you are submitting turn orders
Turn <turnnumber> DONE Request for <Galaxygamename>
  Tells the server that you are done submitting orders for that turn.

Gamemaster
Gamemaster can be reached at lindqt@outer.space.se or lindqt@space.se