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Community Events / Re: Aerodrome 3 Announcement

« on: August 10, 2015, 11:54:37 am »

Do you upload the matches to youtube? It would be great to save the footage.

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The Signal Tower / Re: Exclusive competitive POV footage

« on: July 31, 2015, 09:28:51 pm »

Maybe the game has different behavior in Linux but I highly doubt that because I never felt a difference between changing throttle on Linux and Windows. I'm clicking really fast though.

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The Signal Tower / Re: Exclusive competitive POV footage

« on: July 31, 2015, 08:34:03 pm »

I play with default key bindings.

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The Signal Tower / Exclusive competitive POV footage

« on: July 31, 2015, 05:32:51 pm »

Private POVs of one of our competitive matches combined together. View GeoRmr and me shooting and piloting at the same time. This VOD features our first match round 1 in the R&D Invitational European bracket on Duel at Dawn against Mad Hatters:
Lueosi and GeoRmr Competitive POV split view

Blenderfish and Metagalleon vs. Hades Pyra and Blenderfish. The first engagement was close, but the gunners turned it around.

Enjoy a real competitive game from the point of players and take a look at how communication in this game can work. It might be confusing if you don't know the voices and you hear everyone talking over each other. If you enjoy it, there are plenty of private POVs waiting to be published (any feedback welcome).

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Community Events / Re: Leaderboard - New Implementation, Easily Accessible, Diminishing Returns

« on: July 27, 2015, 07:01:11 am »

Hi Steve, thank you for the questions!

How are the points awarded in the first week, when the leaderboard is still empty?

In the first week, nobody is ranked, so everybody will get the 4 points each win.

Do you get the participation points every time, or just if you lose all matches?

Only if you lose all matches. So the 1st ranked team is even more at disadvantage, because no wins are better than one win for them.

You said "Multiple clans with equal points awarded" when you make mixed team, but what if you make a team from the 1st and the 2nd team? Shouldn't they get different points?

Actually the wording is misleading here. The base points aka wins will be shared, but the multiplier will be accordingly to the clan's ranking. If first and second rank play together the second ranked clan will get the double amount of points (except they lose all matches then both will get the two participation points).

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Community Events / Re: Leaderboard - New Implementation, Easily Accessible, Diminishing Returns

« on: July 26, 2015, 08:00:01 pm »

Credits go to Ayetach, DJ Logicalia and nanoduckling. I just supported the idea and provided some test results based on past SCS data.

I really hope this will mobilize some new (or old) teams for the SCS to fight for those ranks!

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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #61 (Signups for Sunday July 26th)

« on: July 26, 2015, 05:21:36 pm »

Do you have any feedback about the round robin + final format we had today?

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Community Events / Leaderboard - New Implementation, Easily Accessible, Diminishing Returns

« on: July 26, 2015, 05:20:36 pm »

New Leaderboard Implementation
Some may have wondered what the empty leaderboard is about. Those of you who are around for longer already have seen it used during first weeks of Hephaestus Challenge a year ago. But now with the involvement of Ayetach I am proud to announce a new leaderboard season! It will only last 3 months to see the concept in a live environment while getting feedback to improve the implementation.

Basically what you need to know is simple:

Accessibility
It is incredible easy to join the leaderboard season. All you have to do is, sign-up at the SCS (weekly skirmish event) or other favoured tournaments. But what if your clan or team is too small? Not a problem! Just group together with another clan or some of your best friends in this game. All you need to take care of is getting a team of at least three clan mates per clan sign-up and voila, your results and participation will be valued. That way two clans can get the points at once. Multiple clans with equal points awarded. Mixed signups are great fun, so lets reward you for it!

Favours Participation
So what if you are new, or the team hasn't practiced much together. You will never be able to rank up on the board? No worries! Participation matters! Winning benefits you, but you gain a base point value just by participating and if you sign-up regularly you will rank up over time! Also top-ranked teams get a whole new adjustment system...

Diminishing Returns
So here we come to the most interesting point about the implementation: No longer will one or two top tier clans dominate the leaderboards with their wins - this is due to the adjusted value of points they get based on where they rank on the leaderboard this gives up and coming teams a chance to take on the top spots as well. Diminishing returns ftw!


Implementation rules
Let's look at the concept (2vs2 only so far), scores are calculated weekly:

• 2 points for participation if you don't score a win any of the matches.
• 1 point each win for 1st ranked team (based on the leaderboard).
• 2 points each win for 2nd ranked team.
• 3 points each win for 3rd ranked team.
• 4 points each win for all other ranking teams.
• Only clans are rewarded for points in the ranking (no special team ranking)
• A team can register a maximum of two clans for the ranking, both clans gain the full amount of points each
• A team has to have at least 3 clan members participating in the roster (to get points for the clan ranking)
• If your clan signs up with multiple teams, the best resulting team will be counted for the points.
• For the record: This is a ranking system and designed to gauge your skills and participation in the SCS, therefore no prizes are awarded.

The leaderboard season will start next week Sunday August 2, SCS #62.

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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #61 (Signups for Sunday July 26th)

« on: July 25, 2015, 07:52:42 pm »

Brackets: http://goiocommunity.challonge.com/SCS61
Maps: http://pastebin.com/ea3JjKan

Stream: http://twitch.tv/theobviousshow with Kajros and nanoduckling

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Community Events / Re: Aerodrome: TMW Week 2 Match Schedule

« on: July 25, 2015, 11:11:03 am »

GLR requests merc match 2 Fjords as traders.

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Community Events / Re: Aerodrome: TMW Week 2 Trader Contracts (Blue Spawn)

« on: July 20, 2015, 01:15:04 pm »

Contract Requested: Arcca Fuzzy Wuzzies

Company: GLR (Geographical Llamas Reservoir)
Mission Statement: "Defending the goods, Till death do us part."
Base of Operations: Kinforth, Anglea
CEO: Hillerton
Steam ID, In game Name: The_Hillerton, Hillerton
Willing to merc: yes

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The Gallery / Re: Guns of Icarus Print Guide

« on: July 18, 2015, 06:18:31 pm »

While there are currently seven ships available to players, those under
level 8 will be restricted to three ships

I think you should explicitly mention the restriction only goes for novice matches.

Figureheads appear on the bow of the ship.

A few figureheads on a few ships show up at the front of the balloon.

[Pilot - ] Can only be used while at the helm

I find that a bit misleading and would formulate it to something like Pilots can only join ships as captain.

While no ship can truly counter another directly

I would say While every ship has the potential beating any other ship, some may have an advantage against some special ships.

Pilots can also use their Stamina (default: left shift) to boost the ship without damaging the engines.

Nor the balloon.

These tools can be selected by using either the mousewheel or the number keys.

You should discourage players from using mousewheel as one will activate unwanted tools when scrolling through them.

The Spyglass, Rangefinder, and Tar Barrel require an additional button press once selected to activate.

I'm not an expert of the Rangefinder but I think you don't need to click. Also Spyglass and Rangefinder have three different zoom levels with mousewheel. Additionally you don't need to zoom in with Spyglass to mark ships which allows very fast spots.

Drogue Chute also lowers engines power. You should also mention some tools to keep their effects after activation for a specific period.

he "My clan" not showing up is going to be a little more difficult since I'm already in a clan, so any screenshots I'm taking are obviously not going to appear properly.

If you are not the leader then you can easily leave and join again.

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The Gallery / Re: Guns of Icarus Print Guide

« on: July 18, 2015, 05:35:53 pm »

The My Clan button is only available if you are a clan member

You should take a look at how it looks like if you are not member of a clan. I think the button is "Create a clan" or so. Definitely useful for fresh new players.

The Leaderboards show the highest-scoring players.

Currently the leaderboard doesn't show anything, but it's purpose is to display a ranking of current competitive clans. In fact the weekly skirmish event (SCS) will implement this ranking based on participation and wins in the very near future.

Guns of Icarus Online runs regular community events, such as fighting the game’s developers for
free items. Upcoming events are shown here.

I would also mention the regular semi-competitive (VIP, Iron Fork) and competitive events (SCS).

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The Gallery / Re: Guns of Icarus Print Guide

« on: July 18, 2015, 05:05:36 pm »

As one of the recent Wiki authors I'd like to review too. Email via pm.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Capture Point Mechanics

« on: July 17, 2015, 12:16:38 am »

Capture times in the wiki are still up-to-date (at least I verified Labyrinth with 35sec from neutral to capped).