[Event] Tribble Soccer!

Please join us for an athletic event for all ages and levels! We'll split up into teams, setup some goals and kick around some tribbles. Feel free to join us on Vent to chat during the event.

The event will be hosted on Stonewall Fleet's Starbase. If you're on attending with an alt, just ask for an invite to the Starbase in fleet chat. Unfortunately, KDF Captains can not dock at Federation Starbases.

The event will be held on October 20th at 3:00 PM EST (12:00 PM PST, 8:00 PM BST).

For those of you that are newer to the game, Tribble Soccer is a fleet event that we've wanted to do since Closed Beta! Originally, K7 was covered in Tribbles and we'd meet up there to kick them around. We often chatted about having some soccer matches on the station, but sadly, they eventually removed the tribbles. Now, with the tribbles on our own Starbase, we can finally have a match!

Event: Tribble Soccer

Yes! Someone read my mind! I'll do what I can to be there.

if anyone would like to join me in practice for this event ... lets plan to do so on main fleet starbase this friday the 19th at 3pm EST .. should be not to late for our welsh and UK friends ... we can muss around for an hour or so .. sorry cannot invite kdf toons to this practice but you can bring a fed alt!

Will see about doing one at maybe 8pm est as well .. but someone else would have to organize that team practice session.

I know the main event is coming up too soon for this .. but just a thought for a possbile 2nd time in doing this .. is to assign teams ahead of time and possibly have folks hit the tailor to try to go with a certain color for each team ... would be kinda cool

Also folks just wanting to watch and dance could 'paint' themselves up in team colors if they knew the teams and colors ahead of time .. (cheesy grin)


And oh yeah I LOVED getting my fleet email for this!

So I was excited when nick announced the tribble soccer and maybe I am brain f*ng this to death but it has so many possibilities .. Bear with me for some ideas.


Tribble Soccer Rules Proposal

3 person teams each must be wearing their teams colors by visiting a tailor to temporarily adjust your uniform. Teams may play shorthanded. (saying 3 cause 5 may be hard to muster depending on time and then also lookign to future and smaller fleets and possible server event hosted by us)

Team play is for 2-4 periods each consisting of 5 minutes each.. with a 3-5 minute break in between. (these quantities should/could be adjusted once we see how it goes a few times)

Use of ventrillo is encouraged and each team should choose their own channel for communications. (therefore we should never see 4 persons in those channels)

An official referee in WHITE BLACK uniform combo will type out goals and call halts in play. (GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAL) ...Therefore no team colors are allowed to be WHITE/BLACK combos even though those look bad arse (maybe solid white ref could work).

A universal chat channel should be established for game play. --- reason is ... once we get rules and things worked out amongst our fleets .. this could be a dern fun server event our guild could host every so often. (have done this with eq2 and snowball fights for 7 years and it gets to be quite fun). The invites to our starbase would require volunteers to aid us in this if made public .. but we got the peeps to do this.

Once our fleet got down the rules and possible cheating problems that can occur .. we could test it out with invites to general .. then work through issues we find .. and amend rules ..then eventually possibly do a shard wide bracket tourney ...

I have found you may even get donations for prizes if trusted .. so by doing a small tourney we could build trust that way that could lead to some donations out of fleet I am not talking tholian web cruisers to each team member .. but there are possibilities ....

One concern would be if you invite someone to our starbase .. can they be kicked if rude?

I have probably missed a million things I know are in my head .. but wanted to get this idea out there ....

(like no introducing/kicking a second tribble into play lol - or maybe that is a new rule that after 3 minutes of play a second ball must be defended and scored with kinda like pinball extra ball .. could be fun)

Many possibilities in this!

Addendum

After typing this out reading it for 10th time and thinking more .. some additional items.

1) After goal is scored time halts till the tribble is 'placed' back in center play field and players await the whistle command from ref .. if a player kicks the centered ball before the whistle command is given then the other team gets possession and the opposing player must back away 5m? from the person with the 'throw in'? just spitballing this idea.

Okay a fleetie had a BRILLIANT IDEA .. to make this even better ...

We center up the tribble lot .. then the team with the most in a goal wins .. would certainly speed up the action and defense points etc .. and provide more strategy for the game .. I LOVE IT!

(Still want team uniforms LOL .. but the volume of pinballs aka tribbles would make this interesting .. a rule would be NO REMOVING A TRIBBLE from a goal ... unless we created a deathmatch veriosn or whatever .. again more possibilities we can try out)

Addiotionally this fleetie said instead of centering them make folks get them from wherever they lie and put in a goal .. a way to CLEAN UP the base... another brilliant idea.

Unfortunately, there isn't going to be much soccer going on.

I tried this out with a fleet captain shortly after we unlocked the Tribbles for our starbase and it seemed to work, but after receiving a message from Brandon telling me that most, if not all, of the tribble are client side and not sever side (meaning the tribbles you see and move aren't the same for everyone else in the same instance) I tried it out again with Ozy. It just didn't work. There were a couple times that it appeared to be working, but before long the tribbles we were seeing were completely different.

I still completely plan on hosting the event and we can have a good time kicking tribbles around, but I think this will end up mainly being a social event for everyone to chat, get to know each other and bond a little. I'll be on Vent, as well.

While this may be disappointing, I'm going to start running my own weekly events on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. I'm going to go for a variety of events and try out a few different ideas I've had over the years. Hopefully, some of my future events will be much more interesting!

maybe someone could create a foundry mission to mimic the functionality? i know you can put tribbles into foundry missions since one of my missions set a bundle of them in the middle of a bbq pit on fire. might be worth checking out LOL.

jamie.

**AHEM**


BAAACOOONNNN!!!!


that is all.

The initial problem with this was that the items didn't render for all .. aka not everyone saw the same tribble .. but now with the party popper for the 3 year anniversary event ... I believe that everyone does see the items popped from it .... so rather than tribble soccer ... would we possibly be able to do balloon soccer?

Think the items render for all, but we would need folks to cooperate and only let the event organizers 'generate' the 'balls' ...