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I think a march madness tournament each year for the conqueror title would be great...have the top 64? players play for conqueror. Work to get there, then battle it out for the title. I think the most negative aspect of these unfortunate discussions are the discussions. Farming, ranching, bogrolling, flippin' stacks, etc....causes so much negativity to be displayed openly and only discourages new(and veteran) players looking in forums at people talking shit at each other. Lets just set up a yearly or bi-annual tourney for conqueror and let all of the extra shit go. No more discussions on it. The conqueror will have worked to qualify for the tourney, and then will have had to fight it out with his peers in order to claim the title. I don't know about you guys, but I am pretty tired of hearing about this subject in post after post after post. Everyone has their things to say, and mostly they just get repeated over and over with only the expletives and choice insults changing from time to time.
I don't have all the specifics of the tourney here, but I think that would be the easy part. I think that making the Conqueror come from the competition rather than just score alone is the biggest part of the suggestion. I think that if the approval comes for that, then the tourney can be fleshed out later.
Just a potential sketch would be like so:
To qualify you would have to be in the top 64 on the scoreboard by an allotted day. Following a confirmation, empty slots would be filled by next in queue on the scoreboard.(ie.. a freemium who isn't free to play, or someone who doesn't wish to participate.) You can use a random or ranked bracket, for this example lets use a ranked bracket like the NCAA, where the top 16 players would be divided up to the four main brackets....etc...
You could use a 3 or a 5 game set and have each player designate a home map and settings with randoms making up the middle games. As a personal suggestion, I would enjoy seeing at the sweet 16 or elite 8, the sets go to 7 with the players adding 1 additional home map and settings. The tourney plays out and our champion is crowned Conqueror. He would then hold that until the finish of the next Conquerors Tourney.
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
Doing it this way, you don't have to complain so much if they want to contribute to the education and introduction of CC to newer players if they so choose. Hopefully the buzz will change from this mess to an actual excitement for an event such as the Conquerors Cup?...
I think that this is something that could potentially eliminate or substantially reduce this issue altogether. Lets work together to fix it. Just trying to keep adding more rules and regulations to try to calm the furor will probably only exacerbate the problem and cause more work and controversy for admin and staff. Change the system. It is a smallish change and could have a largely positive effect.
thanks,
J
Note: Most of this comes from an earlier post of mine, and was copied here afterwords.
