SWLCG – OCTGN Tournament!
By Matthew– February 24, 2013
I’m planning on running an online tournament on OCTGN if I can find enough people interested. I’d tentatively like to send out initial pairings next weekend, so jump over to FFG’s forums and the thread I started there with your OCTGN username if you’re interested. If you don’t have a FFG account and/or refuse to use their forums because of how horribly slow they are, feel free to post here as well. The tournament will be swiss, but I haven’t decided on the exact scoring method yet (Update: now that the official tournament rules are posted, we will use those). As there are no prizes or any such things at stake, I plan on playing too. Should be good practice for regionals!
If you’re new to OCTGN, I found this website to be a useful resource when learning it myself.
Participants (OCTGN UN):
1. red5ccg
2. doctormungmung
3. yobo93
4. jzwink
5. marcr
6. sageleader
7. grover3870
8. warren12
9. Erthafein
10. Shikaku
11. MasterJediAdam
12. ScottNJ
13. Hucklebarry
14. brad_harrington
15. agnos
16. Jedi_Knight
17. nckball
18. Bazeleel
19. Chlemtil
20. JMCB
Edit:
I’m excited by all of the participation! I’m hoping to post the round 1 pairings either Friday night or Saturday morning. Exact tournament rules will be posted at that time, unless FFG posts them between now and then. I will be double posting everything here and on the FFG forum thread linked above. Spread the word!
Update:
Gary Hall recently posted a blog with Nick Harrison that also goes through how to play on OCTGN. Also, I’m going to set the registration deadline for 11:59 pm EST on Thursday, 2/28. Basically, I’m going to go with the list as I have it when I get to it on Friday, so while you might be able to sneak it after midnight, post before the end of Thursday to be guaranteed a spot.
Update:
I’d be interested. I’ll try to get OCTGN going asap.
We’d love to have you! I found this to be a useful resource when setting up OCTGN myself: http://dbzer0.com/blog/star-wars-the-card-game-lcg-on-octgn
Also, you probably won’t have too much trouble finding somebody willing to play a game or two to help you learn.
I am definitely in for this. Thanks for organizing it!
Awesome! Thanks for the help learning octgn last night. I’ll get the participants lists updated later tonight when I have a real computer instead of my phone.
No problem. It’s always fun getting any form of game in, and I needed the refresher myself. OCTGN seems to be one of those things that if you don’t “practice”, the knowledge fades rather quickly.
And to actually follow the rules here, my OCTGN user ID is doctormungmung.
I would play BUT, OCTGN is pc only sadly.
Sorry. I haven’t seen a good cross platform option. This is why I set my computers up to dual boot (Windows and Linux).
I could have sworn there were PC emulators for those mac users our there…
You can come over and borrow a PC! HelI I might have enough parts laying around to build you one. lol.
they have SWLCG on TCOL…just saying.
Im in! OCTGN UN: yobo93
Oh yeah! I’m in, can’t wait.
Okay, still getting everything set up in OCTGN. User name is “jzwink”. This may be bad of me to ask, but does anyone have “uncensored” picture files of the cards that I can download?
in, user on OTCGN is marcr
Looking like a good tournament coming! If you have a FFG username, please let me know it or post in the thread there. Knowing that will help you arrange your matches once we get started.
Is it a download? I’m really confused at how to get this working:(
You can download the OCTGN program from http://octgn.info/
To set up the SWLCG to play, I suggest following the directions found here: http://dbzer0.com/blog/star-wars-the-card-game-lcg-on-octgn
There have been a few cosmetic changes to OCTGN since that guide was written, but the steps all still work. Feel free to send me a message if you have a specific question.
And Patrick did indeed join, username Bazeleel
This is a thing I would be interested in
Will need to sign up and get OCTGN running
We’d love to have you. You’ll have until at least Friday to make a final decision before I get things started.
Idea for a tentative “prize” for the tournament: the top 2 players get to use the 2 fully spoiled Hoth cycle objective sets in their decks for the final match if they would like. I have an appropriately censored OCTGN file for them here: http://www.mediafire.com/?fzg2zfh710u910p
Keep in mind that any fan-created sets won’t be compatible with the sets I create. So while you might be able to bring the cards in, they won’t have any automations once I create those.
And players who use mine won’t be able to see or interact with cards in your sets.
Understood, I just thought it might be fun. Though what do you mean by the 2nd comment? I haven’t had the chance to test in a game yet, but at least in the deck builder they seem to be working together.
Edit: Oh, did you mean that our Hoth stuff wouldn’t work together? I expected that.
You will see the cards yourself, but if your opponent doesn’t have your set installed (and instead has what I release) they will see blank cards on your side.
Thanks. That’s pretty much what I expected. Especially when I could not reverse engineer your card ID system easily. I put my file together specifically for potential use in the tournament, where it shouldn’t be a problem.
I’m using normal GUIDs. I sync them with what is on cardgamedb, so the only way to have compatible sets is if you can get the owner of cardgamedb.com to add the spoiled cards to their db and export an xml file for you.
I usually get an xml once the full set is spoiled and then I create it.
Makes sense. I was just trying to correlate the GUID to the card number or some such thing so that I could give correct IDs for the previews. If you’d rather I not have the preview sets posted to avoid problems, let me know and I’ll take them down. I was just thinking it could be fun.
You can post them, but make sure you inform people that any decks containing cards from your sets will be incompatible with my official release.
To be fair though, maybe some other kind of reward might be more interesting. Like some kind of TC badge? Dunno
I like the badge idea. I don’t have the power to make it happen myself, but perhaps I can talk somebody from TC into it.
just reading this briefly since kinda busy right now, when planning on starting this? because id be interested but id have to figure out how to instal and run octogn first
The plan is to post Round 1 pairings on Friday. I promise by Saturday, but unless something crazy happens I will have them up on Friday.
ah ok ill just do the next one
Sorry to lose you. Hopefully some other time.