Outer Rim War III

Scoring

(# points - item [fictional equivalent])

• 6 - 1v1 win [victory on the battlefield]
• 4 - 1v1 tie [stalemate on the battlefield]
• 3 - 1v1 loss [defeat on the battlefield]
• 4 - 2v2 team win (per person) [large victory]
• 3 - 2v2 team tie (per person) [large tie]
• 2 - 2v2 team loss (per person) [large defeat]
• 4,3,2,1 - 2v2 performance, 1st through 4th [damage dealt to enemy]
• 1 - 20 minutes on the waitlist [patrolling territory]
• 1 - connection failure [scouting territory; orders not to attack, or a brief skirmish]

A club's score will be the sum of all of its members' scores.

Rules

• A person may only play the same opponent configuration three times per week or less.

Example: Person A may play Person B 3 times in a 1v1; AC vs BD may additionally play 3 times, but AE cannot then play BD that week.

• If a person is in multiple clubs, he or she may only play for one club per week.

Clubs

Club name	Status	Website	Contacts	Type	Past wars	Notes
Rebel Squadrons (RS)	Confirmed	http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/	Rear Admiral Licah Fox, Fleet Commander, fc@rebelsquadrons.org; General Leonard Cable, Executive Officer, xo@rebelsquadrons.org; Colonel Eric Skrevski, Operations Officer, EMW1824@hotmail.com; Vice Admiral Spokes, Assistant Operations Officer, spokes_rs@comcast.net	Loosely affiliated with New Republic	ICTE, CF, ORW2, ORW, Minos	DB ally
Dark Brotherhood (DB)	Unconfirmed	http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/	Grand Master Jac Cotelin, JacCotelin@gmail.com; Dark Jedi Master Xanos Sadow, Deputy Grand Master, xanos.sadow@nagasadow.org; Templar Lucius Xerxes Entar, Tribune:ICTE, nevergood@gmail.com	Dark Side of the Force (Sith, Obelisk, Krath)	ICTE, CF	RS ally
Force Elite Soldiers (FES)	Unconfirmed	http://www.fesgaming.com/	Rasr Culdan (Rage), Head Ambassador, Rage@fesgaming.com; Winfil Motti (Motti), Multi-Club Ambassador, Motti@fesgaming.com; Kalra Jessorn (Kalra), Multi-Club Ambassador, Kalra@fesgaming.com	Dark-affiliated	ICTE	RS, DB ally
Star Vipers (SV)	Unconfirmed	http://www.starvipers.org/	Sector Admiral Phoenix Berkana, Fleet Commander, phoenix@crimson-net.org; High Admiral Gaius Horn-Berkana, Executive Officer, keldorn@btinternet.com	Imperial-affiliated	ICTE, CF, ORW2, ORW	RS, DB ally
New Republic 5th Fleet (NR5F)	Unconfirmed	http://www.newrepublic.de/	Grand Admiral Michael Simon, Fleet Commander, manfred.simon@t-online.de; High Admiral Commskywalker, Fleet Executive Officer, commskywalker@hotmail.com; Rear Admiral Mattias Gustafsson, Republican Diplomatic Corps Commander, the_tax_collector@hotmail.com	New Republic-affiliated	ICTE, CF, ORW2, ORW	RS, DB ally
Vast Empire (VE)	Unconfirmed	http://www.vastempire.com/	Grand Moff Kadann, Head of the High Council, kadann@vastempire.com; Grand General Talon, Operations Officer, talon@vastempire.com	Imperial-affiliated	ORW2, ORW	RS ally
Emperor's Hammer (EH)	Unconfirmed	http://www.emperorshammer.org/	Grand Admiral Astatine, Fleet Commander, fc@emperorshammer.org; Sector Admiral Cyric, Executive Officer, xo@emperorshammer.org	Imperial-affiliated	ORW2, ORW, Minos
United Pilots Alliance (UPA)	Unconfirmed	http://www.upahq.org/	Supreme Council, upahq@upahq.org; UPA_Falcon, Head of UPA Website, falcon@upahq.org; UPA_GoldLeader, Head of Expanded Universe, goldleader@upahq.org	presumably New Republic-affiliated	CF
Last Starfighters League (LSF)	Unconfirmed	http://www.starfighters.com/lsf/	Admiral Ghent, Commanding Officer, ghent@starfighters.com; Captian Zorro, Executive Officer, zorro@starfighters.com; Pallos, Executive Officer, pallos@starfighters.com	Multiple factions	ORW
Galactic Empire: An Empire Reborn (GE)	Unconfirmed	http://www.empirereborn.net/	Fleet Admiral Sirus Polanski, Supreme Commander, polanski@blueyonder.co.uk; Admiral Tiberius Fel, Strategic Development Director, fel@empirereborn.net; General Jacob Jansen, Ambassador, jansen@empirereborn.net	Imperial-affiliated	ICTE	DB ally
Imperial Directorate (ID)	Unconfirmed	http://imperialdirectorate.org/	Imperator Nyykl Orzon, Grand Moff, gmf@imperialdirectorate.org; Tribunus Salth "Wil" Khan, Prime Minister, pm@imperialdirectorate.org; Equite Destavol A. Gin, Minister of Operations, add_r_us@yahoo.com	Imperial-affiliated		DB ally
Tie Fighter Alliance (TFA)	Unconfirmed	http://www.darkjedi.org/club/TFA/	Fleet Admiral ExarKunONe, Commander	Imperial-affiliated		BattleStats club: XvT, XWA
The Rebel Alliance (TRA)	Unconfirmed	http://www.darkjedi.org/club/TRA/	Fleet Admiral Pilotbaby64, Commander; Commodore Highlander01, Executive Officer	Rebel-affiliated		BattleStats club: XvT, XWA
New Republic Navy (NRN)	Unconfirmed	http://www.nrnr.org/	Fleet Admiral Das717; Admiral Mother	New Republic-affiliated		BattleStats club: XvT, XWA
Brotherhood of Selected Sith (BOSS)	Unconfirmed	http://clubs.battlestats.com/clubs/BOSS/	Dark Lord of the Sith Cobra; Dark Lord of the Sith Suntear Keeper	Dark Side-affiliated		BattleStats club: XvT, XWA
United Confederation of Free Planets (UCFP)	Uncertain	http://www.ucfp.org/	Syndic?		ORW2	Website down, but Syndic is around in the RS B&G. He reports that his members all left for college, but he may be able to bring them back for an ORW3 competition.
Imperial Order (IO)	Uncertain	http://www.imperialorder.org/	Emperor Larsen, emperor@imperialorder.net, Grand Admiral Wulfman, Chief of Operations, chief_of_operations@imperialorder.net	Imperial-affiliated	ORW2, ORW	This club may not be active. The last forum post was in 2004, and the latest site update appears to be 2005.
Galactic Imperial Order (GIO)	Apparently defunct	http://www.realmofkingdoms.org/gio/			DB ally; Website down
Elite Republic Commandos (ERC)	Apparently defunct	http://www.ercforces.com/				Website down
Antagonist Wing (AW)	Apparently defunct	http://www.antagonist-wing.net/			ORW	Website down
New Republic (NR)	Apparently defunct	http://www.neumedia.net/~lightman/nr/			ORW	Website down

To do:

• SW game (non-XvT/XWA) clubs from BattleStats;
• Go through EH allies list;
• See if the following XvT/XWA clubs should be invited: NIR, RWS, OLD, A, BLESS, CM. None of them have had more than one pilot flying in the past two months, but they may be worth contacting.
• Set up orw_alliance egroup for use by the new ORW Council.

Games

JA, JO, JK

• 10 minute 1v1 or 2v2

XWA, XvT

• 10 minute 1v1 or 2v2

Coding

IRC bot

• Coder: Dessan
• Announce all activity in the main channel
• Signups for 1v1 and 2v2, to be done via PM !signup
• Removes for 1v1 and 2v2 upon parting channel or quitting, or via !remove
• Matchings - make matches only if it does not violate the 3 per day rule
• Topics - Checks for updates to the score every 5 minutes and updates topic accordingly.
• Turning on/off - Websites are more reliable than IRC connections, so the bot simply needs a local on/off button.

Website

• Coder: Licah
• Graphics: Terrak

Matches:

• Place the match reporter here, instead of on IRC as before.
• Place controls for admin match modifying and turning the competition on/off.

Overall:

• Follow format from previous ORWs, with appropriate modifications.

2004 proposal

------- Forwarded message -------
From: "Licah Fox" <Licah@likeafox.net>
To: Mav <mav@chaoslogic.com>
Subject: outer rim war 3
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:59:20 -0400
 
 
A proposal for a new multiplayer competition!
 
Problems encountered during Celestial Fury:
1) Participation not rewarded: Not enough participation.  People waiting
and not getting anything for it.
2) Winning rewarded too much: One person can win the entire competition.
Wins matter tons.
3) Standard 1v1 melees are boring, because they've been around for so
many
years.
 
Let's fix these.
 
 
Outer Rim War III
 
Events, flying:
 
- 1v1 combat missions
- 2v2 melees
 
Points awarded as follows:
 
6, win
4, tie
3, loss
1, every 15 minutes spent waiting to play someone.
 
Special points:
1 pt for highest score on team in a 2v2 (so, two people out of four get
this bonus per match)
 
 
Combat Missions (The 1v1):
--------
These should be custom missions built by whichever club's members can
help
out.  They should last exactly 5 minutes, and be played on both hosts
(keeping the traditional 5/5).  These will pit one set of goals against
another.
 
Combat missions will have a handicap.  The handicap is a rating of how
difficult the mission is to accomplish.  The handicap will be 0, 1, and
2,
equivalent to easy, medium, and hard.  The idea is for a "n00b" to get a
handicap of 0 and therefore have a chance of beating an "expert" who has
a
handicap of 2.  This will make it challenging for both sides.
 
Calculating the handicap: This will be done directly from the person's
overall ORWIII standings for that particular game.
Wins/Total Matches %:
0-33%, handicap 0
34-66%, handicap 1
67-100%, handicap 2
3 or fewer matches played in the tournament, handicap 0 (all new players
will get no handicap).
 
Each player's handicap will be computed automatically by the bot and the
settings for the combat mission will be calculated and very clearly
stated
to both players, to make sure they get the settings right.  How the
handicaps are actually implemented in XvT, i.e. what makes the mission
harder, will be up to the missionbuilders at a later stage.
 
 
Melees (The 2v2):
------------
These will be the standard melees found in WoW and other places.  As it
has been hard to get four people at once to play MP, the additional
bonus
of 1 pt to two people will be offered.  It will be 10 minutes on one
person's host or 5/5, as preferred by the players.
 
 
 
The idea here is to make 1v1s interesting and challenging, and 2v2s
profitable.
 
A few examples of the points system chosen:
Let's take an example that might have happened in CF: 4 DBers are signed
up for an hour to play RedBaron.  RedBaron wins once every 15 minutes,
giving him 24 points.  Each DBer is credited with 3 points for the 45
minutes they waited for a game, and 3 points for their loss, giving them
each 6 points, which means the DB has also earned 24 points despite
going
0-4.  In this way, participation is rewarded.
Also of note is that 2 losses nets as many points as 1 win.  Winning
still
gets your club lots of points, but having lots of people turn up and
lose
will also boost your club.  I want participation to be rewarded in a way
that it hasn't before.  People will feel productive sitting on the list,
because they are earning points.  That will lead to more people on the
lists.
 
 
Obviously the ORW3 will be a large collaborative effort on the part of
many clubs, so every part of this proposal is up for discussion.  I also
do not know much about JA/JO as I have never played those, so someone
may
have to help me out there if more ideas are needed.