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Llama - Coobe (Lanka) also dropped out after the first turn if you could boot him too.

So much for my awesome start...

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I only realised today that he had dropped out because of what seemed to be a technical issue. I'll see if he's interested in trying to fix it - I PMed him earlier.

PS Sorry about your start! Hope it is repeatable.

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And we are now accepting new players. Please sign up if you'd like to play. This looks to be a fun game, 16 players (hopefully), EA on the smaller of the Glory of the Gods maps. See the first post for which nations have been taken.

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Well, that's what I get for not paying attention to the forum... I would have been happy to continue (I had a great corner start!) Ah well, let's try it again!

Do I need to reload my pretender, or is C'tis good to go?

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All the pretenders from the previous start are good to go, assuming you don't want to change them.

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Arcoscephale played by me is out, as mentioned in another thread looking for subs in my other game.

Good luck everyone http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'd like to get in as Mictlan if it's available, since this is an EA game. I'm not prepared to play any other EA positions though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

-Ubercat

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Hi Ubercat,

You're welcome to play Mictlan. But, I would be careful not to join too many games. It can get stressful down the line when they all start getting time consuming. For me personally, 3 has always been an upper limit, and even 3 I found to be a bit much. Still, if you have oodles of free time, I will be glad to put you down.

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Meh, I'm bowing out of this game. Remove me from the player list, please.

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Wow, seems our player lineup has been quite severely cut down. Quite a false start for the old dolphin.

I suggest shifting to Cradle of Dominion, then restarting the game pretty soon, with 10 players (11 with Ubercat). Would people be happy with that? It'd be a bit less crowded than originally planned, but I've been playing a 10 player game on Cradle and it has been pretty good.

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Are you still accepting new players for this game?

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Yep, we are indeed. Check the first post for which nations have already been taken, the rest are available.

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Great, I am in as Niefelheim if that's ok.

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Indeed it is, please send in a pretender.

Ubercat, I see you already have, so I guess you're playing. Cool, glad to have you.

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If we get a few more players we'll return to Glory of the Gods.

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I'll play pangaea

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Great! Please send in a pretender - instructions in first post.

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Glory of the Gods has two versions, correct? An enormous one, plus a smaller one meant for multiplayer, IIRC. I say we use GotG anyway.

A few more players would be great, but I'd like to use that (MP) map even if we only have 11-12 people. At least we'd have some room to develop our positions. Armadillo with 22 players was (is?) a cluster you know what. I was dead before I could do anything.

-Ubercat

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As I am soon to be finally exterminated by our wonderful host in another game I would like to have a go at Oceania. Will upload pretender soonish.

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Cool, so we are back up to 15 players. We'll definitely use GotG (MP). I'll start the game up some time today (don't worry Digress, I'll wait for your pretender).

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And we're off again! 48 hours for the first turn in case of problems (hopefully we can get it done far sooner than that), then onto 24 hour quickhost.

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Hooray! We're playing again!

Wah! My starting position isn't as good this time!

Ah well, my lizard hordes will eat you all anyway, never fear! Bwahahahaha!!!

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I am happy my starting positon is better Muahaahaahaa

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Who's playing Caelum? Can't seem to find the relevant post.

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Me, apparently. You forgot to remove me from the looks of it. :-p I guess I'll play then.

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Oops. Sorry. Are you happy to play?

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I'm probably going to die from a few games soon(er or later) so sure, why not, I'll play. Just wasn't aiming to play this too right now. ;p

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Er, okay, cool. Glad to have you! Sorry for the bungle.

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I find it amusing that in 3 of the 4 games I am playing, I am waiting for Vanheim to move.

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Ubercat has kindly volunteered to admin this game. So, if you have any requests for postponements etc, he will sort that out. Thanks Ubercat!

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Looks like Lanka and Arco are out of it...While we could set them to AI I think it might be more useful to just have someone get on them with the master password and crank up their province's PD with all of their nation's gold each turn...I think with a 6 month delay the AI is going to be easier pickings for a player than really buffed out PD anyhow, so at least this way the province won't be a free capture and will take a bit of an army to take over. What do people think?

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I just spotted Arco's capitol and was going to e-mail llamabeast asking him to set them to AI since it seems cheap to just take over a staled nation. I'm fine with Micah's suggestion as well.

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hmm seems i managed to stale for some odd reason

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Indeed, "oh crap I'm next to Lanka! Hey, wait a minute....". I wonder why we've had such issues with people abandoning this game before even taking the first turn.

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Erm... ahem. *cough*

So, I looked at the first post to see who the naughty stalers were... and they're not there. It seems somehow I left the pretenders there from the false start (could have sworn I'd cleared them all out). So actually noone is staling. Many apologies for the incompetence.

So, I'm not quite sure what to do about them. Whoever captures the capitals with minimal effort will have a big advantage. Should we say they're out of bounds or something? I'm open to suggestions.

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How about we agree not to storm the castles? Default PD is generally tough enough to justify the gold income, particularly if there is guaranteed to be no magic sites. Once anybody else takes that province from the initial player it can be fair game (no unopposed effort then).

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I think another restart is in order. ;p

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I'd go for a restart. I got boxed into a little corner by my friendly neighbors.

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I'd agree with a restart.

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I'd be fine with a restart. I'm right next to one of the people getting set to AI z.z

Jazzepi

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Restart or keep playing with whatever house rules is all acceptable to me.

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restart is fine with me. Or keep going. whichever

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Restart is fine with me as well.

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*sigh* guess we are restarting again then

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I go with restart too

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Ugh, so embarrassing. Okay, we'll restart. I'll just wait to hear if Sensori wants to play again (being as he was in by accident this last time), then I'll restart it.

Sorry for the cock-up guys.

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NP Llama, thanks for your efforts hosting! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hey LLama, is it OK if I change nations? I wanna try Lanka instead of this constant mammothry. ;p

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I second that (Baalz's comment)!

Also, I got the feeling that some people didn't really mind a restart, probably made some starting errors (myself including http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif) .....

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Okay then, I'll reopen the game for pretenders for about 24 hours, then we'll be off again. If you've already sent in a pretender you don't need to resubmit it, but you can send a revised version if you want.