Clash of the Hippo 5 - 2v2 Event feat. Capture Age

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Clash of the Hippo 5 is a 2v2 Tournament hosted by Nili_AoE. During the 11th and 12h of May 8 teams will fight for a $1,300+ prize pool.
All games will start in Feudal Age with Medium resources guaranteeing action packed games. In addition to that stone walls/gates will be delayed to Castle Age and slinging to Imperial Age.

Nili_AoE will be using Capture Age for the entirety of the event.
CaptureAge, created by Dico & SirLaurenceNZ, allows Age of Empires 2 to be broadcast in ways that have never been seen before in Team Games! The CaptureAge team have developed many exciting features to reveal during the event.

Schedule​

• Saturday 12:00 GMT - Quarter Final #1 - Bo5: Nicov + Mbl vs LaaaaaN + dogao + miguel
• Saturday 14:30 GMT - Quarter Final #2 - Bo5: TheMax + Villese vs Yo + Lyx
• Saturday 17:00 GMT - Quarter Final #3 - Bo5: TheViper + TaToH + JorDan vs BacT + ACCM + St4rk
• Saturday 19:30 GMT - Quarter Final #4 - Bo5: Liereyy + Hearttt + Hera vs DauT + slam

• Sunday 12:00 GMT - Semi #1 - Bo7: Winner of QF#1 vs Winner of QF#4
• Sunday 15:00 GMT - Semi #2 - Bo7: Winner of QF#2 vs Winner of QF#3
• Sunday 18:00 GMT - Finals - Bo9

Prizepool - $1,300+

$1,000 guranteed by Nili and $300 added by the CaptureAge team.
All streamers are collecting to further increase the prize pool

1st - $585 (or 45%)
2nd - $325 (or 25%)
3rd/4th $195 (or 15%)


Mappool​

• Arabia
• Chaos_Pit
• Coast to Mountain
• Continental
• Dry_River
• El_Dorado
• Flooded_Cross
• Golden_Hill
• Graveyards
• Rift_Island
• Team_Acropolis

Mappack should go in this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Age2HD\Voobly Mods\AOC\Data Mods\WK Hippo Mod\Script.Rm

Game Settings​

Spoiler: Game Settings

All games will be played with the Wololokingdoms Hippo mod: no stone walls/gates in Feudal, -370 stone at the start
Game: Random Match
Size: Medium (4 player)
Difficulty: Standard
Population: 200
Resources: Medium (Resulting in the start of 500 Wood, 500 Food, 300 Gold, 30 Stone)
Game Speed: Normal
Reveal Map: Standard
Starting Age: Feudal Age - Imperial
Victory Condition: Conquest
Team Together: [X] Yes
All Techs: [ ] No
Allow Cheats: [ ] No
Lock Teams: [X] Yes
Lock Speed: [X] Yes
Record Game: [X] Yes
Multi Building Queue: [MQ]

Player Restarts
There are no restarts for this tournament.

Sling
You are only allowed to give ressources to a team mate after you reached Imperial Age.

Civilizations
Pick civilization without repeating within a series.
For the "Hidden Civilizations" under "Advanced Settings" in the Voobly Game Room Settings menu must be enabled during every game.

Bugged Map & Admin Restarts
A player can request bugged map restarts during the first 3 minutes (game time).
A bugged map is defined as the following for standard resource starts:
Gold: Less than 5 tiles of a main gold cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra gold are excluded.
Stone: Less than 4 tiles of a stone cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra stones are excluded.
Berries: Less than 4 tiles of a berry cluster are at least accessible on one side.
Animals: Spawned with less than the standard resources or the animals being trapped.

Graphical Mods
Any graphic changes that only affects the player's Age of Empires II are allowed.

Cheating
Cheating is not allowed under any circumstances. Players using any kind of cheat will be disqualified from any future Nili-Events.

Respect & Fairplay
Every player must respect their opponent. Bad behavior will result in a warning and may lead to an immediate disqualification of the player. This tournament values not only great skills, but also sportsmanship and fairness. Any insult, non-PC behavior or flaming will not be tolerated. Laming and mind games in game are allowed.
Players are requested to limit the time between games as much as possible to make the experience as smooth for everyone as possible.

No Smurfing
All players have agreed to the no smurf rule.

Stragglers
Players are not allowed to delete the straggler trees which spawn within 10 tiles of an opposing player’s Town Center. This rule does not apply if the straggler treewhich is being deleted forms part of a wall for the defending player. "Laming" of fish is forbidden aswell.
On maps where main forests are exclusively straggler trees it is strictly forbidden to delete straggler trees from opponents (using the "palisade trick") unless they are being used as part of a mid-section of wall.

Player colors
Players have to use the same color in every game of a series.

Coast to Mountain
On the map Coast to mountain you are only allowed to build a barracks, stable or archery range after your TC is finished.

Map Drafting

Spoiler: Game Settings

Higher seed := A
Pick A
Pick B
Ban B
Ban A
Pick A
Pick B
Pick B
Pick A
Pick A
...

Streaming Policy​

Spoiler: Streaming Policy

• All the games will be streamed on http://www.twitch.tv/nili_aoe who is also guaranteeing the prize pool.
• Every caster/player is allowed to stream
• 50% of all donations & bits are going into the prize pool (same for Nili_AoE)
• The relevant time is considered starting with the pre-game show and ends with the after show
• Every caster should clearly state to his audience that streamers are working together to generate a prize pool (and that 50% of all donations/bits are going into it)
• The maximum a caster has to pay is $500
• POV streams have a rate of 20% with a $200 max and a 2 minute stream delay.
• Spectator Delay in Voobly will be set to 2:30 minutes.
• Most relevant casters have been informed of this before

 

[chrummi]

I dont think thats really needed since you only start with 130 stone. Yes, you could build one tower with that, but then you wont have enough stone to build a tc forever, so i dont think anyone will do that.

 

[Nili_AoE]

You are starting with 130 stone... if you build a tower you cant build a TC

 

[nimanoe]

Forgot about that 11

 

[teutonic_tanks]

In theory you could build a market straight at the start with 1 vill (preferable with saracens), while you sent 1 vill fwd, buy 100 stone and then tower up the enemy dock once you see it and therefore making it useless to fish. Or you could tower up the mountain side straight at start and deny players from wood, that would be even worse 11

 

[dogao]

In theory you could build a market straight at the start with 1 vill (preferable with saracens), while you sent 1 vill fwd, buy 100 stone and then tower up the enemy dock once you see it and therefore making it useless to fish. Or you could tower up the mountain side straight at start and deny players from wood, that would be even worse 11

That's some nasty shit right there

 

[TriRem]

In theory you could build a market straight at the start with 1 vill (preferable with saracens), while you sent 1 vill fwd, buy 100 stone and then tower up the enemy dock once you see it and therefore making it useless to fish. Or you could tower up the mountain side straight at start and deny players from wood, that would be even worse 11

I don't want this to be banned 11 sounds too much like a mess.

 

[dodageka]

In theory you could build a market straight at the start with 1 vill (preferable with saracens), while you sent 1 vill fwd, buy 100 stone and then tower up the enemy dock once you see it and therefore making it useless to fish. Or you could tower up the mountain side straight at start and deny players from wood, that would be even worse 11

Would be interesting to see whether it is worth it - you are still delaying yourself a lot, so will always be behind in military and villagers, not sure one tower is enough compensation for that

 

[Henkdesupernerd]

You could also just put your tc aggresive instead

 

[teutonic_tanks]

You could also just put your tc aggresive instead

Nah then you run forever with all your vills, not worth it

 

[Mouttie]

I don't want this to be banned 11 sounds too much like a mess.

Sounds something that vivi of the west (rubenstock) would do Kappa

 

[King_Marv]

Casual up to 16 games in a top level in one afternoon

 

[Jineapple]

I updated the WK installer with an updated version of the Hippo Mod so it's on 5.8 balance. Let me know if there are any issues. Installer Version is 5.8.1 (e)

 

[Mgl003]

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​

Clash of the Hippo 5 is a 2v2 Tournament hosted by Nili_AoE. During the 11th and 12h of May 8 teams will fight for a $1,300+ prize pool.
All games will start in Feudal Age with Medium resources guaranteeing action packed games. In addition to that stone walls/gates will be delayed to Castle Age and slinging to Imperial Age.

Nili_AoE will be using Capture Age for the entirety of the event.
CaptureAge, created by Dico & SirLaurenceNZ, allows Age of Empires 2 to be broadcast in ways that have never been seen before in Team Games! The CaptureAge team have developed many exciting features to reveal during the event.

Schedule​

• Saturday 12:00 GMT - Quarter Final #1 - Bo5
• Saturday 14:30 GMT - Quarter Final #2 - Bo5
• Saturday 17:00 GMT - Quarter Final #3 - Bo5
• Saturday 19:30 GMT - Quarter Final #4 - Bo5

• Sunday 12:00 GMT - Semi #1 - Bo7
• Sunday 15:00 GMT - Semi #2 - Bo7
• Sunday 18:00 GMT - Finals - Bo9

Prizepool - $1,300+

$1,000 guranteed by Nili and $300 added by the CaptureAge team.
All streamers are collecting to further increase the prize pool

1st - $585 (or 45%)
2nd - $325 (or 25%)
3rd/4th $195 (or 15%)


Mappool​

• Arabia
• Chaos_Pit
• Coast to Mountain
• Continental
• Dry_River
• El_Dorado
• Flooded_Cross
• Golden_Hill
• Graveyards
• Rift_Island
• Team_Acropolis

Game Settings​

Spoiler: Game Settings

All games will be played with the Wololokingdoms Hippo mod: no stone walls/gates in Feudal, -370 stone at the start
Game: Random Match
Size: Medium (4 player)
Difficulty: Standard
Population: 200
Resources: Medium (Resulting in the start of 500 Wood, 500 Food, 300 Gold, 30 Stone)
Game Speed: Normal
Reveal Map: Standard
Starting Age: Feudal Age - Imperial
Victory Condition: Conquest
Team Together: [X] Yes
All Techs: [ ] No
Allow Cheats: [ ] No
Lock Teams: [X] Yes
Lock Speed: [X] Yes
Record Game: [X] Yes
Multi Building Queue: [MQ]

Player Restarts
There are no restarts for this tournament.

Sling
You are only allowed to give ressources to a team mate after you reached Imperial Age.

Civilizations
Pick civilization without repeating within a series.
For the "Hidden Civilizations" under "Advanced Settings" in the Voobly Game Room Settings menu must be enabled during every game.

Bugged Map & Admin Restarts
A player can request bugged map restarts during the first 3 minutes (game time).
A bugged map is defined as the following for standard resource starts:
Gold: Less than 5 tiles of a main gold cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra gold are excluded.
Stone: Less than 4 tiles of a stone cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra stones are excluded.
Berries: Less than 4 tiles of a berry cluster are at least accessible on one side.
Animals: Spawned with less than the standard resources or the animals being trapped.

Graphical Mods
Any graphic changes that only affects the player's Age of Empires II are allowed.

Cheating
Cheating is not allowed under any circumstances. Players using any kind of cheat will be disqualified from any future Nili-Events.

Respect & Fairplay
Every player must respect their opponent. Bad behavior will result in a warning and may lead to an immediate disqualification of the player. This tournament values not only great skills, but also sportsmanship and fairness. Any insult, non-PC behavior or flaming will not be tolerated. Laming and mind games in game are allowed.
Players are requested to limit the time between games as much as possible to make the experience as smooth for everyone as possible.

No Smurfing
All players have agreed to the no smurf rule.

Stragglers
Players are not allowed to delete the straggler trees which spawn within 10 tiles of an opposing player’s Town Center. This rule does not apply if the straggler treewhich is being deleted forms part of a wall for the defending player. "Laming" of fish is forbidden aswell.
On maps where main forests are exclusively straggler trees it is strictly forbidden to delete straggler trees from opponents (using the "palisade trick") unless they are being used as part of a mid-section of wall.

Player colors
Players have to use the same color in every game of a series.

Coast to Mountain
On the map Coast to mountain you are only allowed to build a barracks, stable or archery range after your TC is finished.

Map Drafting
TBA

Streaming Policy​

Spoiler: Streaming Policy

• All the games will be streamed on http://www.twitch.tv/nili_aoe who is also guaranteeing the prize pool.
• Every caster/player is allowed to stream
• 50% of all donations & bits are going into the prize pool (same for Nili_AoE)
• The relevant time is considered starting with the pre-game show and ends with the after show
• Every caster should clearly state to his audience that streamers are working together to generate a prize pool (and that 50% of all donations/bits are going into it)
• The maximum a caster has to pay is $500
• POV streams have a rate of 20% with a $200 max and a 2 minute stream delay.
• Spectator Delay in Voobly will be set to 2:30 minutes.
• Most relevant casters have been informed of this before

This is gonna be a big flop

 

[archxeon]

This is gonna be a big flop

Why?

 

[chrummi]

This is gonna be a big flop

 

[Mgl003]

Why?

Because it is out of standard starts, and the last tournament players didn't enjoy it. Ta afai aesto game khala ra har na.

 

[chrummi]

Yeah of course, noone enjoyed it. Thats the reason why the Coth4 finals is the video with the 2nd most clicks on Nilis channel, even before NAC2 finals.

 

[Valak]

nice

 

[n0brain]

considering the current signups im really interested in how people wont enjoy it :D

 

[Nili_AoE]

Seeding is done (thanks for the Input from dogao, Nicov, T90): only the two higher players were considered for the seeding

1	Secret1	Viper	TaToH
2	aM1	Nicov	Mbl
3	aM2	Liereyy	Hera
4	Suomi	TheMax	Villese
5	SY	Yo	Lyx
6	Secret2	Daut	Slam
7	Heresy	LaaaaaN	dogao
8	VNA	BacT	St4rk

Sadly
Frantic: Vivi + Pretty_boy
VNS: ACCM + saymyname
Heresy2: Melkor + Feanor
didn't make the cut

Update 8th of May: Added ACCM to the VNA roster.

 

[iViktorius]

so dogao and Nicov gave input for the seeding and both dogao's and nicov's team made the cut.
Rigged much?

Kappa

 

[Bowserlord]

im so damn HYPED for this event!

 

[Influenza]

tfw being 2k4 is no long enough to play in tournaments

 

[joubine9]

I installed hippo mod but everytime i join a room the game launch and crash. Any idea pls?

 

[Jineapple]

I installed hippo mod but everytime i join a room the game launch and crash. Any idea pls?

Can you start a game with it by yourself?
As a start, you might want to try just reinstalling it