Awards!

[Gunblader]

Ok before I post them, I need you all to vote for these "special" awards:

The Omega Chief Cup (for best stubborn fighter):
The ww2jacob Award (for best expansionist):
The Roc Medal (for most surpassingly dedicated player)
The Codename Prize (for best tactics):
The Gunblader Plaque(for best backstabber):
The Bret Bretonian award:(Best RPer)

[Kobi]

I nominate myself for the ww2jacob award .

Please don't take me seriously

[Kane]

Omega Chief Cup, I'd have to agree with Shard and nominate Abdiel.
ww2jacob Award, probably you GB. Abdiel as a close second, but I think you pushed harder than he did. XP
Roc Medal, well... Depends on what we mean by dedicated. Posting every turn or so?
Codename Prize, that's a toughy... Gonna have to leave that one for someone else to nominate.
Gunblader Plaque, again in agreement with Shard; should go right to ww2jacob.
Bret Bretonian Award, I'd actually nominate Bubble for. Stuck rather closely to character there.

[ww2jacob]

OC Cup: Abdiel

ww2jacob Award: Gunblader (mid-game) or Abdiel (early-game)

Roc Medal: Abdiel

Codename Prize: Tough to say with tactics being PMed. I'd probably go with whatever OC says.

GB Plaque: Me. ;D

Bret Award: Bubble or Shard

There were some other stat-based awards that we often had, but I dunno if anyone would want to go back and tally all that up.


Interesting how it turned out this time. I know I played in a different style, much less like I did in CYOFs 2 and 3 where I earned the right to put my name on that award.

Looking forward to trying another new angle next time.

[ww2jacob]

Oh, I just dug up an old list of awards from CYOF 3, I think it was.
Winner: None

Most Systems Owned At One Time: ww2jacob (Bretonia)
Most Powerful At End Of Game: Codename (Rheinland)
Best All Around Player: Roc (Liberty Rogues)
Most Powerful Alliance: Pirate's League (Wilde and Triyun)
Most Times Backstabbed: ww2jacob (Bretonia)
Least Times Backstabbed: Triyun
Most Times Backstabbing: Gunblader (Liberty)
Most Loyal Ally: tie: ww2jacob (Bretonia)/ The Creator (IC)
Least Loyal Ally: Gunblader (Liberty)
Most Successful House: Codename (Rheinland)
Least Successful House: Deathspike (Kusari)
Most Successful Corporation: tie: The Creator (IC)/ Omega Chief (IMG)
Least Successful Corporation: Richardson (Ageria)
Most Successful Pirate: Triyun (Corsairs)
Least Successful Pirate: None (All did very well)
Most Successful Revolutionary: Wilde (Hessians)
Least Successful Revolutionary: Stormtrooper 110 (Bundscuh)
Most Deadly Fighter: Corsair VHF (Triyun)
Most Deadly Capital Ship: Rheinland Battleship (Codename)
Best IC Performence: Wilde and Codename
Largest Offensive: All vs. Bretonia
Most Desired System: Omega-7

And for a few dubious honors: (Please don't be offended! )

Biggest Complainer: Wilde
Biggest Arguer: Codename
Biggest Admin-Hater: Triyun
Biggest Ranter: ww2jacob

And now for the OMEGA CHIEF CUP AWARD:

ww2jacob (Bretonia)

Some obviously don't apply, but a few might be fun to toss in. All this reminds me of some of the chaos in those old games, and I appreciate even more that this time around we really didn't have any bad complainers, flames, arguments, rants, etc.

[Abdiel]

Best Expansionist was Shard - at the very end of theh game he owned about half of the systems.

As far as best strategies go - I can't judge battle strategies as obviously haven't seen ayone bu mine - but as far as general strategies go, Shard again always had his ships deployed on exactly the places I didn't want them to - too close to my infrastructure yet too far away from my forces. I don't know if this was aa coincidence or intentional.

Best Diplomat - Omega.

Largest Fleet?
Largest Empire (number of stations)?
Best Researcher? (Kane?)
Largest Battle?

[Shard]

Largest fleet, Largest Empire and Largest battle all go to me I think the largest battle in the game was the Hive offensive on Arrakis, or possibly the counterattack on Unimatrix 002.

OC Cup, as previously stated, gotta be Abdiel.

ww2Jacob award: I'm going to go with Abdiel. Although I 'owned' the most territory at the end (quotes cos I wasn't really conquering, just cleaning ) and GB had the largest territory beforehand, Abdiel was incredibly persistent in reclaiming territory and spreading out. Hell, he had the guts to set up in a black hole system...

Roc medal: ...I don't think anyone really stood out, but I'll go with Abdiel again, for working on the encyclopedia index, the territory map, and his regular RP posts. That's a lot of work there, dude.

Codename Prize: Based on success... admittedly I did have more, better ships in a lot of my battles, but I never got a result where I made a serious blunder. So probably nominate myself

Gunblader Plaque: Jacob.

Bret Bretonia: Bubble.

Best Researcher was technically Kane, but only because I gave him loads of free stuff

[Omega Chief]

I'm going to have to agree, the Omega Chief cup should go to Ab, you put me to shame with your stubbornness boy!

The WW2Jacob award for best expansionist, hmmm I'd say either Shard or GB, sa while Ab was constalty reclaiming systems, Shard and GB held onto a lot of systems consistantly.

Roc Medal goes to Ab, no questions asked, his indexing, updating the terratory map and an RP psot every other turn were all great, espeically as we didn't even ask for half that stuff, heck even his constant asking for rule clarifications helped!

Best Tactics, hmmm, Two really stand out for me, first up would be GB's wonderful use of showing why Ambush is a very good tech in Arrakis was a great move. And I know I'll sound a bit egotistical here, but I think my defences of Omega Ceti was pretty impressive too :<

Now, backstabbing, hmmm, another tought one, while GB was his usual self, I think I'd have to give it to Jacob for his stunning total destruction of Abs infrastructure.

And Brets award for best Rper, Bubble, no question, always stuck to character, had some interesting plots going on and even limited certian ship numbers to fit RP!

[Bubble Wrap]

OC Cup - Abdiel, the Valiaas just wouldnt lie down and die

ww2jacob award: Abdiel or Gunblader, both the Valiaas and the Hive spread out as far as they could

Roc medal: Abdiel, the map was much used when plotting the Domain's westward plans

Gunblader plaque: ww2jacob, because that threw the Domain completely

Bret bretonian award: Can't decide on this one, was all great rp

[Abdiel]

May 1, 2010 15:47:21 GMT Bubble Wrap said:

OC Cup - Abdiel, the Valiaas just wouldnt lie down and die

I would gladly die if someone managed to kill me off, I don't have any problem accepting defeat. But I would never surrender if there is the slightest chance of survival left!

May 1, 2010 15:34:54 GMT Omega Chief said:

heck even his constant asking for rule clarifications possibilities to abuse the rules helped!

FTFY

[Kobi]

The biggest battle(albeit shortest) was in the Unknown System, but you guys don't know about that .

[Gunblader]

Ok. awards will be up later tonight. Make sure you're registered on the invisionfree forum I've set up.

[Gunblader]

CYOE AWARDS

Winner: None

Awards:

Most Systems Owned At One Time: Shard
Most Powerful At End Of Game:Shard
Best All Around Player: ww2jacob
Most Powerful Alliance: Shard/Kane
Most Loyal Ally: Omega Chief
Most Economically Powerful Player: Shard
Most Scientfic Powerfull player: Kane
Most Militarily Powerful Player: Shard (CF)
Most Diplomatic Player: Omega chief
Most Shocking Diplomatic Move: The Interstellar Kingdom of Talos betraying the Vaali.
Most Shocking Victory:Imperium victory at The Battle of Deathspire
Largest Offensive: The Hive at the Battle of Arakis
Largest Battle: TIE The battle of Mona Lisa/ The Battle of Unimatrix 002
Most Desired System: Vaali


Special Awards:

The Omega Chief Cup (for best stubborn fighter): Abidel
The ww2jacob Award (for best expansionist):Gunblader
The Roc Medal (for most surpassingly dedicated player)Abidel
The Codename Prize (for best tactics): Gunblader
The Gunblader Plaque(for best backstabber): ww2jacob
The Bret Bretonian award:(Best RPer) Bubblewrap


Special Thanks To:

Our staff: Gunblader, Omega Chief, and Kobi, for doing all the battles and running the game!
Blueman for asking me when the next CYOF was and getting me obsessed with starting a new one.
Abidel for all his map updating and indexing and other contribution.
Kobi for putting up with my ranting and raving as well as running the game as smoothly as he did.
Omega Chief for the CYOE template. We did it man. Congrats on first successful CYOF
All the players!
Everyone who contributed ideas and opinions to the game.
Anyone else who I'm forgetting


Credits:

CYOE, The New Dawn, Rules Created and Designed By: Omega Chief and Gunblader
Based on CYOF by: ww2jacob


CYOE, The New Dawn Players: (In alphabetical order)
Abidel: The Valiaas
Bubblewrap: The Domain of the Steel God
Gunblader: The Hive
Kane: The Union/Shattered Remnant
Omega Chief: The Neo Terran Republic
Shard: The Children of Light/Deathspire Imperium
ww2jacob: The interstellar Kingdom of Talos



Overall Impressions By The Game Admin:
Well what can I say. It was a big success. What began as one person asking me when the new game was going to start ended turing into a full blown new game. A blend of simplicity and complexity made the game streamlined and fun to play. Things like the Western wars and eastern destruction made the game fun and interesting. Role play was taken to the next level and was a major part of this game. Overall, this was probably the best game of this kind in years. Not since CYOF 2 had so much backtabbing taken place. Jacob, you can try to be the king, but you will never be the Ace.