I'll just give you the short version. Basically, football has been around in some form or another for 100s of years. The British are the people who really embraced the sport. At the time, the game was played with a round ball and only feet were used. Then, in the 1800s (I think, it might have been earlier) a school in England (or thereabouts) named Rugby changed the rules and started carrying the ball and running with it. This split the sport into two games that they called Rugby Football and Association Football. The word Soccer is derived from the word "asSOCiation". When the game migrated to the US, the Rugby version became the more popular sport. People started playing it in college, sort of like an intramural sport. Then, some colleges wanted to play each other. When they got together they realized that they all had slightly different rules. So the officials sat down to write down rules everyone could agree on. Thus, our Gridiron Football was evolved! From Football (or Soccer) -> Rugby -> Gridiron. You can say that Soccer is Gridiron's grandpa!


Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_the_name_'football'_come_from#ixzz1lsXlj9ly

Another thing about numbers: a lot of English-speaking countries use the short scale to voice their numbers, and the others use the long scale.

For example: British and Americans use these words for 10^6, 10^9, 10^12 and 10^15: million, billion, trillion and quadrillion. But long scale users such as continental Europe use these words for the same numbers: million, milliard, billion, billiard.

That can be pretty confusing, because when an American says that there are 7 billion people on the earth, a European would say: "No way! There are a thousand times less on the planet!"

Hello =]

Bye :)

@Not even all countries group their numbers by three digits, in India for instance, they use: xx xx xx xxx yyy. Here, x represents the integral digits and y the fractional digits. I can't remember what they use to split the groups though, could be either periods, comma's or spaces, nor can I remember if they use a decimal point or a decimal comma (or, for that matter if / how the fractional digits are grouped).
Funny thing, this is not something which they could really change, because it's not just how they write numbers, it's also how they name them. Where as our names for numbers are based on three-digits-at-a-time (thousands, millions, etc.) they use names (which, of course, I also can't remember ;) ) based on the same subdivision (thousands, hundred thousands, ten millions, etc.).


dd,cc,bb,a3a2a1

here:
a1=ones
a2=tens
a3=hundreds

b=thousands

c=lakhs

d=crores

source: i am Indian.

Ignore Alpha, he's the new name of Vostro.

hmmmm , good to know :¬)

rugby is in england. but i was joking a little bit when i asked about the etymology of american football.

Ace Windu wrote:
|> I believe there has been some misquoting

Aaaaaaaaaargh... Sorry, my bad. Markdown (the markup system used on this board) very "conveniently" let's you just put a "|>" in front of the first line of a quote. When a quote is hard-wrapped (has "Enters" at the end of every line) that's a nice trick, *but...* it does mean you need to include an empty line after a quote to mark its end. Which I forgot (and, can't edit). My apologies.

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Alpha wrote:
|> dd,cc,bb,a3a2a1
|>
|> here:
|> a1=ones
|> a2=tens
|> a3=hundreds
|>
|> b=thousands
|>
|> c=lakhs
|>
|> d=crores

Even if he used to be called Vostro, he is right about that (I recognize the words now that I see them), thank you!

British English used (within living memory) to have "billion" == 10^12 but that usage is now effectively dead.

After working on my huge map for 2 weeks, i've made a 2nd map, a smaller one, just to test how maps should be. Took me one day.

http://warlight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=9864

=] I am awesome at mapping.

"=] I am awesome at mapping."

No.

Single territories should never be given such a high bonus. Means that being awarded those in manual distribution all but ensures victory.

Make your bonuslink squares bigger to support the double-digit numbers instead of having them clipped as they now are.

Beyond that the map is okay. Not one I would have any interest in playing but that is also true for many published maps.

You don't understand how i mean it D:

The heart of Hell and Heaven are not dealed out in distribution, And instead of 2(neutral army amount on normal territories), the hearts contain 15 armies. So they are hard to get, I tested it in Single-Player, and it's fair, as long as you got the good settings..

So basicly; use the "Jkiller's choice" distribution, which is everything except the hearts, then at "Initial distribution" at config, you put neutral army amount on territories that are not distributed on 15, so that the hearts will be hard to get, and the game is also meant for 1v1 =]

- Hell Circle West and Hell Circle South seem to be missing.
- Isn't it customary to place Hell at the bottom and Heaven at the top?
- I think (personal opinion) that it's good practice for a map to be well-playable with default settings. How about lowering those circle bonuses to zero (for the map itself), than make a custom scenario with the circle bonuses re-instated and share the link to that scenario.
- Territory borders get the colour of either the first or last (I forgot which) bonus they've been added to. I think the map would look nicer if you re-add all territories to their bonuses again, but this time, in order; currently the colours look kinda random.

Your intention is immaterial. Distributions are merely recommendations... they don't have to be followed and often are not. Setting the bonuses in this fashion is an open invitation for the scammers and 'cheaters' to take advantage.

RvW, the borders match the color of the first bonus added.

|> the borders match the color of the first bonus added.

Ah thanks for the reminder. That's kinda inconvenient though... If it were the last, it would be much easier to fix up later on.

May gods bles you for your previous failure, have saved us the trouble. i'd personally spam your email/feedback just for that try

Well this is a small version, as the name says, i'll expand it soon =]

your second map sucks too seems like as stupid idea

Currently i've put in 28% of the centerpoints, 14% of the bonusses and 0% of the connections.. And after that i'll be done... I hope.