So I know we can't get 30 guys, but we can definitely get half as much, and there's been a sincere interest from the community members willing to squad with us if we go ahead and make a team.

Hehe kind of funny though. I didn't expect to need basic input validation.

Goff.. you *know* you wanna be a part of it!

hey , just thought id drop by and see if you all could use another player for the event.

lol have you seen our roster ^+^

every single person on our roster is a NC King.

our only competion will be 1cmm/FR or KOTOR/Overlords

We won;t fight NC vs NC to my knowledge.

I’m sending this email to everyone that signed up for the Outfit Wars as I have come up with a dilemma that I would like your feedback on.

For each server, there are too many teams to schedule weekly matches. Here’s what I’m referring to:

Based on these facts:

·     Event taking roughly 3 hours to complete

·                   2 teams play against each other which means we would have 2 teams per day for 7 days … equaling 14 teams playing per week.

o        It would take us 2 weeks to get everyone in to play and I’d really like to see everyone play weekly instead of every two weeks

So my question to you is what would you like to do?

OPTIONS

1. We cut it off the entries to the first 14 teams that signed up. Remember, you don’t know when you signed up so you could be on the chopping block
2. We play all teams knowing you will possibly play only every 2 weeks.
3. We could shorten the Match time to possibly 45 minutes per side and schedule a match at 5:30 to 6pm and one at 8:30 or 9pm?
4. We go with the original idea and have a three way match on Old Oshur. Everyone plays approximately 3 matches where there may be disadvantages on the starting location on the zone. However, you would not start a match in the same location and everyone has the same scenario.

I’m open to any other suggestions with the exception that it would take us a while to put up another instance of Old Oshur.

Thom Terrazas

Sony Online Entertainment

Latest Update:

We’re working on creative scheduling to run 2 events simultaneous on Old Oshur. Creative meaning that if 2 of the same empires are playing at the same time, they can not get any “linked” benefits.

Thanks for all the feedback.

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Hello all!

I hoped to have the rules and schedule ready for you today but the issue of scheduling has taken up most of my time this week.

Here is the solution we will be going with in a brief description as I will follow up with more rules this week.

Changes to gameplay

We are scrapping the previous Offense versus Defense plan due to time constraints and available places to play. Instead, each team will start off at the two closest Tech Plants, Dahaka (home) and Izha (away). It’s going to be two teams squaring off to see who can capture the other person’s base for the win. Plain and simple. To rule out any arguments of who had the better starting location, no towers nor bases will be captured for either team nor will they be permissible to capture. You can go into the neutral bases and towers, perhaps to hack the terminals or lockers but you cannot hack it to capture it without penalties.

In the case of a tie at the end of the battle. The Outfit Leader will choose his Warriors, providing a list of 5 players to duel the other Outfit 1 on 1. This will be similar to Soccer when there is a tie at the end of a match. There will be 5 rounds to determine the winner of the event. In the case of a tie at the end of 5 rounds, additional Warriors will be used until a winner is determined. The caveat will be that the dueling players will only be able to use common pool weapons and cannot be in anything larger than Rexo Armor and cannot be in an Infiltrator Suit. Maxes and vehicles will not be used in determining a winner other than the players may start off seated in a vehicle. There will be no throwing projectiles permitted in the Tie Breaker (no grenades, plasma, etc…)

·                   We’re planning on starting the event on Wednesday September 6, 2006.
·                   We will schedule at least 9 games for every team within a 10 week span.
·                   There will be 1 or 2 games per night per server.
o        The first event will start at 6pm and the second will start at 8:15pm

 
Thank you for your patience while we get this set up for you.

Best regards,

Thom

AKA Enrico Pallazzo