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Many of you don't sound like newbies to me...

::glances nervously about::

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Ahhhh!

I thought you said Newby! Like Jack Newby. I thought it was a family reuinion.

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I am on turn 14 of my first multi-player game now.

Sammual - And I am in Last place in everything but Gem Income (In a three way tie for First Place in that).

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I'm about turn 12 of my first MP game, and I already feel the hot breath of the experienced Abysian player in my neck...

And on this game, I'll be playing as Man (but with a theme I hadn't tried before). Completely goofy design. Might be fun, or completely worthless. We'll see. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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Ok, I have 10 people signed up now, which makes Aran way too crowded. I'd suggest that Inland be used instead, as nobody has picked a water nation. I've received

There's a conflict for Arco, which can hopefully be resolved peacefully. I'll play something other than Pythium if that will help resolve it.

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I'll be the 10th player, playing C'tis. If Graeme sticks with his plan of playing in Aran, I think we'll all be breathing down each other's necks ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Another thing that might be worth considering is altering the victory conditions from standard. I've played in about half a dozen MP games of Dom1, and not a single one of them played out to conclusion.

How about something like control of 60% of the map's provinces?

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It sounds like this will be one big game, I can't wait.

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60% sounds good (for province control, I mean). Although, with lots of players, 51% would probably be OK. Winning Dominions by total domination is very difficult and tedious.

Another victory setting, victory by % total population under your dominion, might be interesting... but it doesn't exist yet... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif It would be problematic with Ermor and Ctis, though.

You know what would be cool? If we could get some Johans and Kristoffers in the game=) Send them a couple PMs! Designers are notoriously bad at their own games, because they play the way it's SUPPOSED to work, rather than how it actually works=) Thus, they could probly be considered newbies http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

-Cherry

[ November 25, 2003, 00:23: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

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I am SOOOOO gonna get stomped http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif