News: SGOTM 03 - Sign Up Thread

[da_Vinci]

Teams are complex creatures. A good team can do better any of the players could achieve alone. A bad one will do worse than any player could achieve alone.

An interesting observation ... Seems like success requires good communication, and pehaps a bit of ego control all around ...

dV

 

[IL2T]

In any case, since the colors are assigned in alphabetical order, adding the color name to your two team names could reverse their order. You could end up with CFR-Yellow having a green line, and CFR-Green having a Yellow line.

Oops... resort alphabetical order...
Then we may try fixed current order.
CFR-1 -> CFR-Orange
CFR-2 -> CFR-Yellow.

 

[AlanH]

@da_Vinci: A LOT of ego control

@IL2T: It's your choice, but if a new team name is created that comes before CFR in the alphabet, CFR-orange will have a yellow line and CFR-yellow will have a green line

 

[Witan]

1. Vanilla or Warlords
2. Emperor-Immortal
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. CFR

 

[Lobsterboy]

Sign me up.

1.Currently only have access to Vanilla
2.Competent on Monarch
3.Yes
4.Yes
5. Chokonuts

 

[Dynamic]

I think CFR-1 and CFR-2 or CFR-V (Vanilla) and CFR-W (Warlords) will be enough.

 

[akots]

AlanH, please name them exactly like Dynamic said:

CFR-V
Bair
Balbes (not registered yet)
Cat Behemoth
Dynamic
JCricket
Unikum
Witan

CFR-W:
Akots
IL2T
Iohar
Liar
Lexad
Obormot

 

[slaze]

I'd like to join

1. 2.08/Warlords
2. Monarch
3. played, never submitted
4. No
5. No

 

[Methos]

@slaze: Welcome to CFC and especially welcome to the SGOTM game.

I see your very first post is in one of the best games (SGOTM, in my opinion) here at CFC.

Again, welcome!

 

[AlanH]

AlanH, please name them exactly like Dynamic said:

You are now CFR-V and CFR-W

 

[da_Vinci]

@ AlanH: Is there a minimum and a maximum on team size? (Did I miss something hiding in plain sight?)

What mechanism/algorithm/philosophy do you use to place the unassigned into teams? Do the teams "draft" players? If the powers that be build teams, do you aim for skill matching or skill diversity?

dV

 

[Conquistador 63]

@ da Vinci: don't know the mechanism, but if an invitation works, we Gipsy Kings would like to have you on our side

 

[AlanH]

@ AlanH: Is there a minimum and a maximum on team size? (Did I miss something hiding in plain sight?)

I hope to start teams with a minimum of six players, which I consider a good number. It gives everyone a reasonable rate of play, and allows for the possibility that RL might strike one or two before the game ends. If there's a significant number of players that are new to SGs/SGOTM I aim for seven or eight, assuming there could be a drop-out rate for other than RL issues.

What mechanism/algorithm/philosophy do you use to place the unassigned into teams? Do the teams "draft" players? If the powers that be build teams, do you aim for skill matching or skill diversity?

Not a lot of science goes into it, frankly. It's a lot of gut feel, guessing and hoping, and it's not something I claim any expertise at doing. But heck! Someone's got to do it .

I've seen teams entirely made up of newbies weld together and perform superbly. And I've seen individual players who claimed emperor expertise fail totally to comprehend the skills necessary to work with others in a team at that level. In other words, team-working capability probably counts more than pure (claimed) skill level, but you can't assess those factors without a degree in psychology and a one hour interview for each candidate. Ain't gonna happen!

 

[AlanH]

@Conquistador: That mechanism works as well as any, and probably better than most. And from my viewpoint, at least you can only blame yourselves if it goes pear-shaped

 

[leif erikson]

@ da Vinci: don't know the mechanism, but if an invitation works, we Gipsy Kings would like to have you on our side

Sorry, we have first dibs. The XTeam is named after MAC OS X after all.

EDIT - OOops, sorry, thought you were inviting AlanH.

 

[AlanH]

@leif: If you knew how few *turns* --- not games --- of Civ4 I've played you wouldn't be so keen to try to recruit me.

 

[leif erikson]

Well, has that ever mattered that much?

In C-III SGOTM 01, how much more lost could we have been?

Its all in the company one keeps...

 

[da_Vinci]

Sorry, we have first dibs.

Ooooh ... for a moment there, I thought I was going to get a big fat contract courtesy of free agency! Then I woke up from that dream.

Negotiating with Conquistador_63 via PM (and my agent )

dV

 

[leif erikson]

Ooooh ... for a moment there, I thought I was going to get a big fat contract courtesy of free agency! Then I woke up from that dream.

Negotiating with Conquistador63 via PM (and my agent )

dV

If you'd like, we're always willing to negotiate. But then you'd have to put up with us...

Good luck wherever you may end up. I think you'll do just fine. Its all in the attitude!

 

[Mad Professor]

The six names by Memphis Blues in AlanH's table in the third post look right. We'll be playing this one vanilla. Since there are six names in the list too, it looks like Memphis Blues is just about set to go?