Players League
The PL is a series of games which is created by players for players. The League starts every 1st. of a month a new game on different maps, with the players that have signed for the next game. Nobody needs to play every game. The winners of a match get points for the hall of fame.
Here you can find the hall of fame: click
Prize
The Players League starts in July in a new season. A season runs for six games, after the six month we get the winners of this season. The winners get following prize:
Rules [updated]
The PL is organized by the following three players: @miech, @wildL SPQR and @Xarus if you have questions feel free to contact us or leave a reply here.
Disclaimer:
If you sign-up for the Players League, you declare that you read the rules and except that Bytro or the support team get the rights to kick you out of the competition if you break the rules/use Gold.
PL = players league
NAP = non aggression pact
ROW = right of way
SM = shared map
AI = artificial intelligence
HC = high command
The way we have it now is that we start one map, when that is full, we open another. And this is to make sure that games are full or as full as possible. No need for weird automations or randomizations. It is not the matrix, ok? Works perfect as it is now.
However, we should make it possible to join that second (or third) game a bit longer than the first game. Several players were left out of this round because they did not join the game in time.
Well, that would certainly help with the balancing issues.
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.What balancing issue?
Well, there are issues in current model. If we have a full map with 100 players and leftovers go to second map, second myp is having most likely weaker players, so if one of the stronger intentionaly wait for second one to open, he has a great advantage. Add to that the fact that second map is having a lot more AI and that point rewards are same for both maps and you get an issue.
We already have a solution for this 
Stay tuned.
Hi, I think I have a problem. A few minutes ago i logged in to control the game and I saw that my coalition partners are inactive. But how is it possible? I spoke with them in the coalition chat yesterday, and this morning at least one of them was moving his troops, so he was certainly active. I'm confused.
check the news - it seems they used gold, be it on purpose or not.
In the previous game we decided eventually on a zero tolerance policy in that regard - if gold was used by accident, it should have been reported (bug report button) before that.
The decision cannot be unmade, sorry.
I just menaged to contact one of them. Manta65 (Ontario) says that he didn't even noticed that he pressed the gold button, so he couldn't actually report that fact. Ha says that maybe he pressed it while trying to cancel a production or something like that. Dont' know about the other player. I'm not trying to justify their actions, I'm just reporting what he told me.
By the way, you don't have to be sorry, I'm not upset with you or with the admins in general (there are rules and they must be respected). I'm just worried about my future since I've lost both my coalition partners this morning!
Yeah, for you its indeed sour the most, as you are the only one losing 2 coalition partners.
You can take advantage of the situation. First, try to get other coalition partners -- if that is to your advantage. Second, your former coalition members -- since there are gone -- are fair game...be first to take over their lands. Now, because you know where their forces were (presumably) you can quickly plan out your assault to take advantage of information that no one else in your match has.
That's a big advantage. But, hurry, the AI, won't leave everything in place for long. If they had left their backsides bare along your mutual borders, then you will have very little opposition for the earlier parts of the war that you would bring on them. Of course, this all presupposes that that your coalition partners were adjacent to you.
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.This is the last message regarding this theme, I swear!
I menaged to contact my other (former) ally. I write for him because his english is even worse than mine.
He says that he didn't use gold (I know, everyone says so) and he asked if the fact the he used gold can be checked again.
I have a question about the social experiment you guys are trying. Is that only based on the first round, or the other two rounds as well for this month's player league?
This Player League is not credible as well as all Bytro System . Players that are thrown out arbitrily by the game . Just one complaint or a suspect or having a companion of alliance as an administrator and you're out .Bytro must decide to create maps for who don't want gold and hold off that window (you can't click on !). But Bytro should keep everything else as otherwise would they gain ? In the meantime while you're playing are sent away with no cause.(system anticheat etc...for gold ...for multiaccount)....then ...maybe...after few days you get reinstalled in the match with apologies but in the meantime have already invaded your territory. Another question...can you play a game of 100 players without resources ? On the third day already there there is nothing !!!! Either there was a famine !!!!!! It's Ridicolous !!! I could understand after a period but who are preparing for a war have a minimum of stocks....ahahahh....and instead the gold box is available to administrator's friends and Bytro players.If you don't change this game is over as this useless league .
Don't be so cynical. This player's league is by players for players. The server admins are doing it as a favor using a limited prize series based on what Bytro provides to the admin to utilize. But I don't think this tournament is an officially sponsored thing. It's not Bytro, but the server admins that are conducting it.
We should thank our community volunteers for making it possible for us to have this contest. They don't actually get paid, you know. They get "Gold" and High Command...and maybe a few other in-game perks. Perhaps the highest position(s) get paid, I don't know, but even if they did, this is still by players for players.
The nuances are a work in progress, I think, so ... contribute your opinions, but don't fault anyone for how it's operated. Like I said, its by players for players...it's the community of players for which you and I are members WITH the volunteers.
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.Karl Kar wrote:
This Player League is not credible as well as all Bytro System . Players that are thrown out arbitrily by the game . Just one complaint or a suspect or having a companion of alliance as an administrator and you're out .Bytro must decide to create maps for who don't want gold and hold off that window (you can't click on !). But Bytro should keep everything else as otherwise would they gain ? In the meantime while you're playing are sent away with no cause.(system anticheat etc...for gold ...for multiaccount)....then ...maybe...after few days you get reinstalled in the match with apologies but in the meantime have already invaded your territory. Another question...can you play a game of 100 players without resources ? On the third day already there there is nothing !!!! Either there was a famine !!!!!! It's Ridicolous !!! I could understand after a period but who are preparing for a war have a minimum of stocks....ahahahh....and instead the gold box is available to administrator's friends and Bytro players.If you don't change this game is over as this useless league .
No one has been thrown out arbitrarily. Bytro Operators went trough our game first, by each playername A-M and kicked those that had used gold. It's get printed in a little sheet with information on, what gold, where, when and what it was used for. So there really is no excuse. I'm sorry you feel this league is useless - I suggest you go outside and get some fresh air!
All the games we have created count in the statistics, so we will have more than one winner this month.Haxxored84 wrote:
I have a question about the social experiment you guys are trying. Is that only based on the first round, or the other two rounds as well for this month's player league?
You're putting it very nice Diabolical. Most sensible thing I've heard you sayDiabolical wrote:
Don't be so cynical. This player's league is by players for players. The server admins are doing it as a favor using a limited prize series based on what Bytro provides to the admin to utilize. But I don't think this tournament is an officially sponsored thing. It's not Bytro, but the server admins that are conducting it.We should thank our community volunteers for making it possible for us to have this contest. They don't actually get paid, you know. They get "Gold" and High Command...and maybe a few other in-game perks. Perhaps the highest position(s) get paid, I don't know, but even if they did, this is still by players for players.
The nuances are a work in progress, I think, so ... contribute your opinions, but don't fault anyone for how it's operated. Like I said, its by players for players...it's the community of players for which you and I are members WITH the volunteers.
Thx. 
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If YOU have ANY issues in the game, feel free to suggest changes or critizise the rules/game setup or even send me a private message (many do).
What we don't like is people yelling at us or over-exaggerating and making it a terrible experience for everyone.
Use your influence to complain/suggest and make the game better. Don't shout at us for not doing exactly what you expected.
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Do not show any response on the real problems of this game that I explained to you and on the use of tricks that allow you to cheat at any time and that the Bytro is very narrow because it holds through this gains .The prints of Bytro? Are you kidding me ? You could print yourself anything ... hahaha ... it's really absurd except that if someone pays to play (the game allows it despite you speak of)rules), has to play and if he is prevented is not exactly legal. So the fact of playing or not PL interests me little I mean to belittle your efforts but will never be a clean game if not solved all these problems. Probably my head (open air) this has got to be a little while you continue to keep your head down and do not understand what happens around you. I suggest you nicely a cold shower?
No - this is generated by the bytro support system - not something that anyone prints.Karl Kar wrote:
Do not show any response on the real problems of this game that I explained to you and on the use of tricks that allow you to cheat at any time and that the Bytro is very narrow because it holds through this gains .The prints of Bytro? Are you kidding me ? You could print yourself anything ... hahaha ... it's really absurd except that if someone pays to play (the game allows it despite you speak of)rules), has to play and if he is prevented is not exactly legal. So the fact of playing or not PL interests me little I mean to belittle your efforts but will never be a clean game if not solved all these problems. Probably my head (open air) this has got to be a little while you continue to keep your head down and do not understand what happens around you. I suggest you nicely a cold shower?
This league is not hosted by Bytro but by players. I doubt we will get Bytro developers to work on a special game feature just for us. You're welcome to suggest it to them...
>I doubt we will get Bytro developers to work on a special game feature just for us. You're welcome to suggest it to them...
The moderators have set their sights too low and they act as though they are merely gamers with special rights. Don't accept a title you cannot admit to being true. Are you a forum/chat janitor or do you actually have the status of a network moderator who secures a corporate network? If it is the latter than you have more pull than you admit too. It would be fairly simplistic to run PL rounds on a dedicated server with modified javascript functions that disallow any attempts at premium function uses and unauthorised administrative commands.
I'm pretty sure the moderators don't have editing privileges to alter JavaScript or Java or Python or whatever language(s) that CoW is coded in. That's for the development team. The devs probably do play Cow and some are on the forums as admins/mods, I think. But only official Bytro procedures will change the game's features. To call the moderators janitors is an understatement. But they aren't network administrators either. They manage the front-end game and commerce services of the servers. But I'm sure Bytro has in-house employees that manage the back-end operability and generic controls.
So, think about the forum and game moderators as community supervisors. They volunteer as moderators and the like to take care of the day to day fairness of the game and to report to the devs when errors do occur. I'm sure also that Bytro has their own software testers and quality assurance people to help the devs catch errors. But the community of users is likely to find the little (and occasionally big) errors that the Q/A people miss. That's why some moderators are also "game operators" as they pay attention to functionality within the game. But even they mostly just have data editing capabilities for matches and users and their accounts. When they receive report of an error, they have to send the data up the chain to Bytro's dev team because -- again -- they aren't employees of Bytro.
I know that a lot of these concepts might be difficult to follow for the majority of players who know little about the software development cycle and the players involved in putting out programs and the like. But it would be nice if those ignorant among us would first try to educate themselves a little bit as to how and why things are done before actually complaining about how and why things are done.
As a developer, myself, I understand how this works -- in general -- and I don't need to know the specifics of Bytro's operations to be able to guess out how they likely accomplish putting this game out. But, even if I'm off a little bit on some procedures, the nuances of what I've said in this post are typically true in a large scale network-based application.
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.
