Posts from Tournaments "New Year's" - Orc Campaign

Joint offline tournament for King’s Bounty Crossworlds "New Year"

As you can easily guess, this tournament is dedicated to the holiday loved by many - the New Year! ;)



Players registered on at least one of the websites covering the theme of King’s Bounty may participate in the tournament, namely:

http://www.handbookhmm.ru
http://www.heroesworld.ru
http://www.softclub.ru
http://www.ag.ru

Tournament Rules

1. The tournament takes place from 23.12.2012 to 08.01.2013 on the licensed version of King’s Bounty Crossworlds campaign: "Orcs' March" 1.3.1 (build 6170).

2. Tournament Goal: Maximize Amelie's characteristics (attack, defense, intelligence, leadership, and medals) on the island of Debir.

3. Results will be evaluated based on the following parameters:
- sum of primary characteristics attack, defense, intelligence including equipped artifacts (PH);
- leadership (L);
- medals. For each reward level: 0.5 points for each 1st degree order, 1 point for each 2nd degree order, and 1.5 points for each 3rd degree order (M).

Then the total result will be calculated using the following formula:
R = PH + L/200 + sum of M

Thus, game time is not involved in calculating the results. You choose for yourself what to prioritize and how to do it.

Example. Player Vasya Pupkin finished the game on Debir and sent a save with the following characteristics for Amelie:
- sum of primary characteristics: attack 5, defense 3, intelligence 4;
- leadership: 1302
- "Fire Mage" 2nd degree (1 point), "Trapper" 1st degree (0.5 points).
Then his result will be as follows:
R = (5+3+4) + (1302/200) + (1+0.5) = 20.01

4. The following are prohibited in the tournament:
- sailing to other islands;
- digging up and picking up chests during battle (digging up and picking up chests on the adventure map is allowed!);
- playing with installed mods;
- using any cheating programs that can change the game structure or starting save;
- restarting the game (you may only play from the starting save).

5. Instructions for saving and gameplay:
- Download the starting save orcs_Start_KB.7z and unpack it to ... My Documents\My Games\Kings Bounty Crossworlds\$save;
- launch "Crossworlds", load the "Orcs' March" campaign, and load the starting save;
- if a battle was conducted without losses, you must take a screenshot (Print Screen). Additionally, you must save every time, before and after each battle;
- after completing the game, make a final save with your nickname (for example, orcs_AlexSPl.sav) and send it to email address VDV_forever@bk.ru. In the letter, you must specify the subject Kings Bounty and preferably the website the player represents.
Note - you do not have to clear Debir completely; partial clearing is sufficient. The player decides this themselves. However, a save will not be considered if no battles were conducted at all. i.e., the starting save cannot be the final one :rolleyes: .

I wish everyone a pleasant New Year 2013! ;)
I invite everyone who wishes to take a short break from salads and drinks and dive back into their favorite game.:smile13:

P.S. Thanks to aristobal for the great help provided in preparing the tournament!

This tournament seems a bit strange to me. Does anyone else think that the player with the better artifacts will most likely win? Oh, and leadership also matters; everyone will choose a Warrior, no one will play as a Mage because their leadership is lower. The difficulty level is unclear. Although, I don't have time for tournaments anyway, I confess.

This tournament seems a bit strange; does anyone else think that the winner will most likely be the one who gets better artifacts? Oh, and leadership also matters; everyone will choose a Warrior, no one will play as a Mage because they have less leadership. The difficulty level is unclear. Although, I don't have time for tournaments anyway, I confess.

:eek: Everyone plays from the starting save, :p, so all the artifacts are already set, and the game is played as a MAGE, with an unreal difficulty level.;) All players are in absolutely equal conditions!

P.S. You need to be more attentive :)

But you're wrong. You also need to rest;)

Congratulations to all tournament participants on the successful completion of the tournament!
I hope that the tournament sincerely brought you pleasure from the game.

So, let's summarize the results:



It is evident that there is a very tight distribution of results, but none of them repeat another, which indicates that overall the tournament was conducted quite well, even despite the shortcomings that occurred. Shall we talk about them?

1. A clear flaw in the rules of this tournament could be considered the situation allowing one to flee from the battlefield and conduct battles over and over again, leveling up medals and thus inflating the overall result, but fortunately, you did not abuse this technique.
Of course, with a ban on fleeing, such inflation would have been excluded in principle.
Additionally, this technique allows one not to buy troops, but simply to gather them for free, which completely destroys the concept of the tournament Walkthrough intended by the organizers.
Conclusion - a ban on fleeing from the next tournament!

2. The idea with the trap turned out to be unwanted due to the purchase of the scroll, which is a pity. After all, it would have been very easy to earn 1 point for a level 2 trap.

And a few more questions that I ask all interested players to answer:
- How much real time are you willing to spend on a tournament?
- What kind of tournament would you like to see next: speed (similar to the "Arena Champion" tournament), development (similar to the "New Year's" tournament), or your own version.
- What changes to the rules should be introduced from your point of view?
- In which part of King's Bounty would you participate in a tournament? same LoR, PvD (with expansions),
BS (which patch version).