Spring RTS Engine

I have a few ideas for further BA community specific awards. They are as follows:

1. Bobbel award

This award should be given to the player who made the most HLTs in any game.

2. Xanax award

This award to be given to any player who killed Xanax. Obviously it is quite difficult to work out who precisely did the majority damage to Xanax in any particular game unless there is some way through data to track that so maybe a cheap and inexact solution is just to work out who killed Xanax's last unit or bit of eco.

3. Talking too much award

This award to be given to the player who says to much in ally and spec chat. Probably I will often win this award so this is blatant self interest here in getting pointless awards.


And, yes, this post is not really very serious.

Actually I rather like this idea and I had originally planned to implement it - but it is much easier implemented for ba:r where we have chili and can make tabs/menus effortlessly. E.g. keep the default awards shown but also have a tab less serious awards.

So - (inoffensive) suggestions for non-serious awards are welcome! I'm not so keen on awards that focus on specific players.

3. Talking too much award

I like this one.

4. Mental age of a 13 year old boy award

For the person who draws the most penises (peni? what is the plural?) on a map. I really think we should have such an award if we are going to have such awards because we do want it recognised that this kind of thing is puerile.

5. World's worst techer award

Somehow measured between the time a com is selfD (to remove losing coms through enemy action) and the completion of the first Afus?

6. CPU killing spam award

For the most T1 units built by any player

7. I thought I was playing SimCity award

For going the whole game without making any offensive units

8. Really angry recriminations award

I wish I could think of some way to measure this but it would go to the player who did the most ranting when things went wrong, with especial kudos going to any player who blamed everyone else on their team. Perhaps it would be possible to parse the word "noob" in the ally and spec chat and count the number of times that word is used?

4. More like Graphomaniac award, just by amount of lines drawn (would be kinda useless to detect penises)
7. is really nice, easy to calc through (metal used)/(damage dealt)

Great ideas here :)

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?: gave the most units to allies, repaired/assisted the most ally units, shared the most resources

With a Bang: did the most damage to enemy units with commander explosion

also is it possible for AIs to get awards?

9) less typo award (need a word DB though, so dunno if adding 20Mo data to BA wroses it )

10) worse/best CPU award

11) 10 with ping

10) worse/best CPU award

Call it the Babage award
and best pc: mainframe award, but I suggest not even give award for the best cpu/system, its just not relevant.


Word dictionary is bad, unless it covers all languges, and even then its a non game related award

Some nice ideas

It occured to me also - suggestions welcome for death messages too!

As regards death messages:

"Player [ ] came. He saw. He died really horribly."

"Player [ ] didn't just buy the farm. He bought an outdoors toilet and the next door neighbour's cabbage patch as well."

"Player [ ] took on the Grim Reaper at chess and came out second."

"For Player [ ] the proverbial fat lady has well and truly sung."

"Player [ ] - think of it not so much as death as learning a useful lesson about your limitations."

"Player [ ] now regrets proclaiming that it is victory or death. It wasn't victory."

"Player [ ] died. He should have played better."

"For Player [ ] death is but a door - to a new world of recrimination."

Honestly I could think of endless ones like these. I like all the existing ones as well.

I'm taking you down with me: Player's com-blast resulted in more than 2 other commanders dying.

Fear of flying: Took the longest to react to the first enemy bomber being built with anti-air or planes of their own.

The life aquatic: Commander spent the most time underwater.

Technophobic: Slowest to build a tech 2 factory.

Pelican award: Built the most pelicans.

Zangeeph award: player won using an outlandish strategy that no one has ever heard of before, generally involving intruders or spamming e-stores to capture llts while cloaked.

Serial Killer: who killed the most commanders

death message: was successfully trolled

Thats just a Flash-wound

Surviving Flash hitting more then 50 % of your buildings..

More death messages:

Player [ ] didn't want to play this silly game anyway.

Player [ ] blames all his teammates, compendiously, for everything from and including original sin.

Player [ ] should not consider this death but instead a severe test of his bonhomie and lively sense of humour.

Player[ ] retired and made a fortune, renting out his former base as tank parking lot.

Player[ ] has learned to let go, drifting off into the nil-wanna. He will be reborn as a Fleah.