Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 13/17.
 

Hello Pablo, If ano and team have no problem, I don't see any reason why you can't join the supplicants in a noob slot. I'll pencil you in until I hear otherwise.

I am posting the BI gold version mod, the map image file (which you must have), and a vanilla version of the .map file (optional) if anyone wishes to check out connections or try out some of the starting locations. I am not putting in any starts or specstarts in this version, as where your team will be will not be known until the start. If any team desires to check out a given location (the start provinces are in the .doc file) just throw in the #starts for the nations and province locations you want (nation numbers are listed in the mapedit.pdf in the dom3 doc folder).

A few minor wording changes to the teams&themes.pdf (mostly concerning Ashdod) and looks like we may actually be able to get underway in the near future.

If you haven't signed up for the team forums yet, please stop by and register:

http://noobsvets.silverforum.net

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

I'd play, but it looks all newbie positions are taken :) ?

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

You can take an alternate slot on the team of your choice, there's a good chance you might be able to get in before the game gets started if someone drops or can't be located.

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

You are welcome, don_Pablo. I'm glad our team is full now.
Guys from the Supplicants of Set, please register at the HQ forums as I already posted some things that need to be discussed there.

Septimius Severus
Actually it is a matter of balance and roleplaying. If you want more balance, roleplaying will suffer and vice versa. In my opinion, though roleplaying is nice, balance is always more important because it provides an interesting game. That's only my experience and feeling, of course, and it is too early to discuss yet.

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

Correct. The game has a heavy emphasis on roleplaying, balance is more a secondary goal of mine. (i.e. I don't want to see a death bless on the blood team, or a blood bless on the death team, or an astral bless on any team but the Usurpers or the merc, and so forth). It's sort of a balance between enabling possibly beneficial contributory paths on pretenders and preserving each teams advantages as much as initially possible. As it stands, with pretender magic limited to primary and secondary paths, a few pretenders namely (Bakemono Kunshu, Carrion Dragon, Vamp Queen, Dracolich and Bog Mummy) fall outside of these parameters. That's not to say they cannot be added with certain restrictions at some point, but I say the simpler the better. :D

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

Main post files updated, added map files and BI mod.

All restrictions on Ashdod have been lifted since a nature bless for COC is currently a non issue.

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

Sorry. This is a harsh change that is hardly acceptable. I already built a strategy and a guide for our team and changes like this really make me lose enthusiasm. Even although it affects our opponents even more than us, I am strongly against this and have to further think if I'm going to play under such settings.

p.s. I understand a "no-rainbow" setting but not this. Sorry. A compromise between roleplaying and Dominions should be found. Also, what your pretender is for if he can do nothing?
p.p.s. It would be nice if we could stop changing rules or at least stop changing them so drastically.

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

Well, he can manage some high-level rituals... Nature bless is good, too... Other than that, yes, our pretender choices do suck. : ))))

At least they are immortal!

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

Thought a bit more and decided that I can't accept these changes so if they are kept, I will leave. I joined a game with a rules clearly stated in a pdf. I liked these rules and thus joined. Yesterday pdf changed with some pretenders added, some removed etc. Ok, I could live with it but I had to change my plans a bit. Today I again find updated pdf with another, this time really harsh change, and I'm not sure what I will find tomorrow.

Once again, sorry for that.

p.s. Natpy will 99% leave either.

Re: Noobs and Vets II: Days of Infamy. MA, BI, Enlisting 14/17.
 

Let me second the notion: removing the restrictions on ashdod is a bad idea.