Organizing MP Tournaments

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Organizing MP Tournaments

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In references from myself and other Forum members, in other threads and posts, a few of us have mentioned organizing different types of tournaments for MP.

Little Powell and I have stated that we are both interested in a "Courier only/ From the saddle camera view" type of battle. I'm willing to bet there are a few others would would enjoy that type of battle as well.

And Little Powell has suggested a possible tournament, where players earn promotions from Brigade Commander to Division Commander, etc. Again, I'll bet more than a few players would enjoy that. In fact, I would prefer to learn how to fight in MP, in just that way. At brigade level.

Not to mention all the good ideas that haven't been posted yet.

The reason I'm bringing all of this up is, when the game is released, I suspect this Forum is going to explode with new members. And I'm sure everybody and their Uncle will be clamoring to get into MP and fight. And all of us will have an ideal type of battle we would like to experience. That could make for a bit of a chaotic cluster.

Question: Is it to early to get some types of tournaments organized? Or at least discuss what different types there could be, and make a poll to get some indication as to what players would prefer.

Just kicking around some ideas.
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I like the suggestion of earning promotions, although I guess it begs the question of who is commanding before anyone earns a promotion. If there is some kind of ranking of players (this may not mean brigade or division, but some other kind of scoring), I would recommend that the players be ranked according to the corps that they have played. For example, my rank playing in the 3rd Corps may be higher than my rank player in 2nd Corps and I may not be ranked at all in 6th Corps. This would eventually allow us to see who are really good in what corps, division, etc. and form "dream teams" according to where people have played the most or done the best.
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We know enough to be able to explain what would work in game with your ideas. It has been out goal to get mp in the game and get it stable. Many extra features, to support things that you suggest here, will probably come in the patch. After people play and let us know what they need to support ladders/tourney's, etc.
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I believe that everyone should have a starting position, then get jostled around from there.

For example: Lets say I start out in command of a division. If I score a Major Defeat or whatever for 3 times in a row, I get demoted, and the next senior player takes my place.

For Corps command, it is a little more tricky, since you can't demote brigade commanders.

1st, if a corps commander scores a major defeat for 3 fights in a row, you look and see if all divisions (engaged ones), have similar scores over the three fights. If they do, then the corps commander is demoted to division command, and the senior division commander is promoted.

However, if one division repeatedly scores less than the others, that division commander is demoted, and the senior brigade commander takes his place.

Same for army commander.

How does this sound?
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That sort of detail will have to be sorted out by the players. The game just knows about 1 mp game and will stay that way for a while. So stuff that goes from game to game will have to be handled by the players.
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everyone talking about starting out as brigade commanders.. i think you will have so many wanting in on MP games that regimental commanders are a possibility, which i would not mind doing. and play from the saddle. In other words two many players and not enough brigades to put them in.

maybe we need something like fantasy football. you would sign up for a league (20 or so players) and thats who you will look to play with all the time. that league could interact and discuss when playing times are best and also just have scheduled battle dates.
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Spoke too soon, you cannot play reg commander, brig is the lowest. Just like the game. But you could also mod an oob to have reg at brig level and companies at reg level. It's all how you look at it.

One thing that that happens in the game is that say you are div commander. If all of your brigs are human controlled, you have no forces to play with. All you can do is send suggestions by courier to the humans playing the brigs. It's the same at every level. So it's going to take a good team to work out which level everyone is.
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:P ohh ok.. someone could be an artillery commmander!! a real team player to do that. lol
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You shouldn't say that...

A good artilleryman for a battery is essential for division command.

For example:

I place a battery along the front lines of a formation. A copse of trees is off to my right, and the battery is placed between the brigade line and the copse of trees. If I just put an AI controlled person there, the guns are limited to a narrow area. However, with a human artillery commander, they can position guns on the other side of the copse, and within the brigade line... essentially, anywhere they should be. I don't have the time to do that, though.
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For MP, can the artillery be stripped off a division and all of it be placed under one player or is it one player per battery? Can a player command a brigade and an artillery battery within the division? Meaning, if I am a divisional commander, with 3 brigades and 3 batteries, can I have 3 players each have command of 1 brigade and 1 battery each? Can I have 3 separate brigade commanders and 1 player handling all the artillery? Can I have 3 separate brigade commanders and do all the artillery myself?

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