Kalico

out of curiosity, i just spoke to gid about it thinking maybe i heard her wrong...and she confirmed what i thought about the final scores.

It's good of you to clarify with her, because I don't think there was a clearly defined means of ranking or some sort of victory condition specified from the onset. Land or exp owned are 'obvious' quantities to rank by, but I absolutely agree that they are far from optimal means of determining success. (I'm guessing the list on the front page is ordered by exp owned.)

I have to say I like the idea of ranking by "How successful you are in conquering territory from others" - note, not counting purchases of unclaimed land. But so as not to put the defending armies at a disadvantage, I would propose that we also have some measure of "success at defending your territory against attack" as well. Perhaps a rating in terms of exp (or equivalent exp worth of land) succesfully won/conquered or defended against. This means that the size of your country doesn't matter, but it does enable you to leverage weapons (which Gid had so meticulously planned!) to help you.

Dioma

>.> this is an anime wallpaper "war", where did the "happy to take part in this" spirit go?

Hear, hear.

Kalico

can i ask why the first link to the rules (that gid makes in an update) links to this?:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1250/battleground4zy.jpg

I don't remember exactly when that was, at some point in time, somebody (out of a very small pool of suspects!) decided to play a prank and change the link for "the rules" to point to that image, and Gid didn't notice it for a while. When she realised the prank, she restored the link to correctly point to the rules thread, but posted that little note there to acknowledge the prank. Note it says The "Rules" in quotation marks.

Ya, you were right hamster. i just checked the rules and it doesn't say anything about how an army wins. but amount of land makes more sense than exp i guess. i'll change the standings' list sometime today kalico. it's not that much work ;p (sorry ramen)

Quoting Dioma
>.> this is an anime wallpaper "war", where did the "happy to take part in this" spirit go?




Hear, hear.

there's always been some tension but overall i think everythings alright. i've noticed that all groups tend to fizzle out eventually...life and short attention spans always get in the way ;)

No need for sorries :3
As for me, I'm fine with everything as long as I can do something I don't normally do. But those power rangers made me wish to strangle someone >.> people in tight suits are so icky... I mean, it's tight everywhere /me gags

chibicrystal

but amount of land makes more sense than exp i guess. i'll change the standings' list sometime today kalico. it's not that much work ;p (sorry ramen)

You misunderstand. Amount of land is no good either, land owned and exp owned are not fair measures of performance in the battleground. What's needed is a measure of how successful each team was in their battles:

- How successful are you in conquering territory from others
- How successful are you at defending your territory when attacked

Which can be based off the wager/spoils. This would be properly independent of the land/exp economy aspect and focus on the wallpaper battles.

Edit: I found it! Earlier reference to determining ranking of armies:

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it's the amount of land you obtain through battle, not buy.

hamstersanonymous

- How successful are you in conquering territory from others
- How successful are you at defending your territory when attacked

Which can be based off the wager/spoils. This would be properly independent of the land/exp economy aspect and focus on the wallpaper battles.

Agreed ^^

Apparently my post was misunderstood a bit; I was talking about things overall, rather than the current army standings. I realize amount of land bought at the beginning doesn't directly affect an army's losses, I just pointed out if both armies lost their HQ, one would rank higher than the other out of technicallity. Strategy does play a part in it, but the problem is, 'ranking by land' was never decided upon in the beginning, when the land was being bought up.

And Yes, Kalico, I realize we lost big time. It's really not a big deal, since we had a lot of fun with the first battle at least, and there's still more we can do. But I could really do without the 'Ramen bites the dust' comments.

Personally, the 'ranking' really doesn't matter much at this point. The Battleground isn't going to end anytime in the near future, and a lot can change in the 'standings' until then.

I need to stop by here more oftan :/

I could only find Kalico's Post from like 2 months ago. but apparently LONG before it has been established that

Kalico

ermmm...it's not how much land you have...but how much you win, beckor >_>
that doesn't make us the underdog at all. and i'm pretty sure we'll be proving that soon :3

and i believe that It was actually in the rules. we're out of this so it doesnt matter for us. but just for your reference since the rules is gone.

PS> the quote is referencing the first time when armies bought land, but, we weren't in time for that and we didn't really buy much land at all. and so Beckor said we're in bad shape. and then i guess, according to the rules written (which is not there anymore) that it wouldn't matter because.. again refer to the History.

Rules are still there (check the threads...).

Oh yeah.. LoL you're right. even though the link on the front page isn't working. the post is still there.. oh rather. Maybe I can find it in there. if not, either it's been mentioned tO Kalico before , or is in one of the posts before. I mean. I'm sure she wouldn't make it up that early in the stage if it wasn't the rules. :D

oh. but i found something interesting on joining. unless you fix that

BattleGroundRules

Recruiting: Once the war starts, the group will be open to Join on Approval. However, in order to join, the person must already a member of an army (i.e. the person contacted the army leader and worked everything out), and listed in the Recruits thread. Anyone else who joins and is not part of an army will not be accepted.

;)

I like hamsters analogy either way with the winning/loosing thing

Edit: I found it! Earlier reference to determining ranking of armies:

it's the amount of land you obtain through battle, not buy.

once i have the warlog done we will be able to rank according to that. lol, the threads are such a jumble >_<'

Hey chibi, Yina's back now, so you can go ahead and put her as commander now. (PMs go to her now, btw)

Gotcha :)

So....the free land has been open for 2 days now...i'll give you guys till the end of today to claim it or else EVI will buy it... (hint hint TLM cuz morrow days sure doesn't need it ;p)

The system was flawed from the beginning, and the organizers were unenthusiastic throughout.

There, i said it. =/

I'm not trying to start up any disputes, im just saying how I felt throughout this event of sorts.