Empires Winter League

Start Date
Start date will be the 7th of november or 31st of October depending on interest

Captains
If you are interested in becoming captain please ask me or post on the forums.
Captains will have to organise there teams, pick commanders and come up with the plans for the maps. if you want to nominate someone as captain please feel free. Captains must be able to show up every match if not you must nominate a general to take over.

Teams (you must join a group in order to play)
Team Foxtrot: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/empiresscrimteamfoxtrot (Lazybum)

Team Victor: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/empiresteamvictor (Amatoxin) capguy and jk as generals

Servers
One week it will be hosted on a US server then the next a EU server to keep both us players and eu players happy.

Maps
Mainly snow maps i will post the list of maps to be played every week here once we have decided what will be played.

Please tell all empires players you know about this event.

Me, catface and tama are leading the event. We will play for the team who has the least players or too counter stack a side.

 

Teams
Lazbums team
Team Foxtrot

Amatoxins team
Team Victor

 

Tribute must be made

I nominate myself, capguy, and jk as tribute, I mean sacrifices, I mean captains for one team.

 

Where's Empirescup scrim?
Pure ball kicking, no killing.

 

A much better idea. I'll see to updating it regularly in coordination with other event organisers.

Training sessions are nice, and id be willing to help organize them. But not at prime time (Friday/Saturday/Sunday evenings) though.
Commanding is something that is still just learned through participating in many games. Once people understand the game (including vehicle combat and squad mechanics) they can give comming a try by getting in the CV during a low pop match or one where one team is already winning.
At the moment we still have enough comms for scrims and pugs (including the weekday one). I think it's best to spend the time implementing drones or other mechanics that would better support low pop matches so new commanders have another way to learn the craft.

That's not been a problem so far. I definitely notice that a lot will not show up at both of the weekend pugs, but by having them on both saturday and sunday, people have more freedom picking when they want to show up and are more inclined to play more because the game is more active.
In the end, I'm seeing more attendance now then when we had only one pug a week, or once every two weeks.

Not really. I've seen plenty of nocturnal euro players show up on the VIPER Wednesday pug, and that was primarily geared towards NA players. There's no split in the player base, though certain times will be more favourable for players from one continent over the other.

I'd like to suggest the following:

We do 4 events a week.

1. Wednesday PUGs. Scheduled at 20:00 GMT for Euros, with another one at 20:00 EST for American players.
2. Friday PUG/test. Event schedule is similar to Wednesday, but either two of the times will be used for a weekly test. This way both time zones will have a bi-weekly opportunity to test.
3. Saturday PUG at 21:00 GMT. For all time zones.
4. Sunday Seasonal Scrim league, followed by a PUG. Time still to be decided upon.

In the end people are more inclined to show up when they know others will show up. Even if it's 4 times a week.

 

If you choose Metruption as captain I promise every game will be quick and relatively painless.

 

Ounin will captain the spectators i presume?

 

Right i honestly need around about 3 or 2 people to captian/command the other team now im going to let jk amatoxin and capguy do one team. I was thinking of big teef and acoouple of others to do it if i remember he actually had some good ideas in the xray vs quebec scrims.

 

I don't care who's going to comm.
In terms of the understanding of this game, I have no respect for all of you and I will just selectively ignore your orders.

 

Think about all the bad things that could happen if you put Teef and I in charge of a competitive Empires team. Isn't it relaxing? It's like you're meditating because your mind has gone blank.

 

Oh jolly god you what

 

Jesus what up your ass security ? too pro for empires i take it ?

 

Could you also maybe post on moddb when we are doing events?
Maybe bring in some people who might want to try Empires that think the mod is dead as they seem to only try when no one is playing.

 

Gotta love security

 

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Can i just say Hobbes can actually command pretty well. When he used to command for meg he never used to boomtank he just used to play it safe. I wouldn't mind Hobbes commanding but he would not have to boomtank.

 

When it comes to pure comming skills, Hobbes is definitely top 5.

Hobbes doesn't boomtank in serious games, he knows when to fuck around and when to not, just like me.