[ZKEvent] The Civil War Begins

Greetings all.

In an effort to create more diverse games, I'm starting up weekly events. Starting every weekend at 16:00 UTC (likely next week), there will be an event of some sort going on unless there's a tournament. This event will continue until the story's conclusion in about a month's time where a new season will begin. You may choose to create your own faction, or join a preexisting one. Think of this more like an organic/spontaneous planet wars. Throughout the week, you may roleplay in this thread to create conflicts with other squads/factions. (Note: may extend this into #CivilWar)

At the end of the week, the various conflicts will be resolved through combat on Friday or Sunday (aka games). You may sign up for the event as a squad of up to 4 people at any time. These squads are then paired off with other squads to try to create a balanced small to big teams game (2v2 - 8v8) which will progress the story in some manner.


Note this is an early idea and may be subjected to change. If you want to join, join #civilwar on Sunday this week or reply to this forum post. All are welcome of any skill level!

Best of luck!

The objective of this event is to create smaller team games and diversify the current game mode support by offering semi-organized games with a little bit of a story behind it. For our initial run, we're looking for a few squads of people who are interested.

Players will be in teams of 1-4 players and get mixed and matched to create battles. These battles are then made into a story here that effects the next week's battles. I may see about creating simple scenario maps in advance to help drive the story. A lot is up in the air right now. For our first Civil war event, we'll be dividing squads into two starting factions: The Hegemony and the Horusian Rebels.

Horus is a core world of the Hegemony. After having a large percentage of its population drafted for the lobster wars, the locals have had enough and wish to cede from the Hegemony. The Hedgemony, which relies on Horus for a majority of its metal production, has taken noticed and has deployed a number of commanders planetside for the first battle of The Eye.

There will be a number of battles for the Horusian Uprising:

1. Battle for the Eye [Eye of Horus]
2. Battle of Calamity Isle [Calamity]
3. Cervino Struggle [Cervino v1]
4. The War of Stronghold Hill [Desertmountainv17]
5. Battle for the Capital [LTA Complex, overall Rebel victory] or The Last Stand [Desert Plateaus, overall Hegemony Victory]


After this weekend event, I'll be creating set piece battles based on the events of this weekend for next week's gathering. (If not I'll try to get some scenarios for us to play this weekend)

Budget planetwars?

This post is extremely confusing and i'm like "wat".

Not digging all the "meta" stuff tbh.

But it says something about small teams, that's good.

Battles with context and lore, I like. But christmas times are just the busiest time there is so..

This is FFAs era, begone you little firefly

quote: can we call it clusterpluk?

what the pluk?

Calling it FuckCluckFuck cuz more "f words" make you sound cooler.

First off, some rebranding has been done to make things more holiday themed:

Galactic Christmas is coming! The Dominion of Peace, tasked with delivering the gifts is running behind schedule. However, the Rebels of Taurus Prime have been plotting a very naughty surprise for the good commanders of zero-k. They seek to smash all the gifts, shut down all the gift factories and bring an end to holiday cheer because they're rebels and that's what they do best: be rebellious.

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Wargoals:

Dominion of Peace
Score: 0
- Safeguard as many gift factories as possible. [Map I + II]
- Keep the starports safe. [Map III]
- Safeguard the convoy delivering the gifts. [Map IV]
- Safeguard the Holiday Headquarters [Map V]

Rebels of Taurus
Score: 0
- Break as many gifts as possible.
- Kill 4 or more gift factories [Map I, II]
- Shut down the starports. [Map III]
- Kill the convoy en route to the merchant fleet. [Map IV]
- Kill the Holiday Headquarters [Map V]

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The first map is a scenario map in which the Rebels attempt to smash the gifts destined for the coreworlds. The planet of Reppel is quite heavily entrenched though and protects the dominion's gift factory. Rebels will be readily reinforced, while defenders have a very well established presence here. Victory here will mean the Christmas effort will be set back a bit.

This is an asymmetric scenario where the defenders attempt to run out the clock while defending the presents and the gift factory. This map will hopefully be available tomorrow.

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Do not worry if you miss an event! All event maps will be played on Dec 25 @ 18:00 UTC!