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Count me in. Sounds like a lot of fun!


Oh, question: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

How do you "generate new pretender files using the chosen designs"? Do you just start a game and look at the starting province and the pretender, or is there a tool to actually read the pretender designs from the files?

[ July 07, 2004, 20:01: Message edited by: reverend ]

Re: Players needed for an experimental game
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Assume your victim will be given "your" Abysia.

I just put the abysia.2h you sent me in my newlords directory, create a new game with Abysia as a human player, load the 1st turn, look at the theme, god, god's magic, castle, dominion strength and scales, and duplicate the design using this data, except I'll add your victim's password. I'll use that duplicate design for your victim when I create the game.

Not simple enough? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ July 07, 2004, 20:10: Message edited by: Nagot Gick Fel ]

Re: Players needed for an experimental game
 

Sounds interesting - I'll stay.

Re: Players needed for an experimental game
 

I'm in.

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Heh. You know, somebody, somewhere, is laughing about this.....the guy who sent 17 FUBAR pretenders is going to be laughing when he winds up having to play none of them.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes but that is part of the fun. Especially if he gets beaten by his own FUBAR pretenders. But I don't think anybody sent in 17 bad pretenders on purpose. That doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't bad - they were just not intended to. :-)

Being very new to this game, and never having played an aquatic race before, I am not sure I would want to play with my own pretenders.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Maybe, but I seriously doubt that anyone would make 17 FUBAR's for himself to use in MP and nobody knew that opponents will be using them until all pretenders were submitted. That's probably the reason why Nagot was so secretive.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, at least one player I spoke to had been pondering exactly that. Whether he actually carried through, I don't know. If he did, he's laughing very hard right about now...

And hey, I warned you there was something dodgy involved. The sheer oddness of insisting that we not set a password, and actually tell HIM that password, was pretty suspicious right there.

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I am definately in -- thanks for your effort so far!

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm afraid I don't understand at all, sorry.

1. Do you mean by "assassin" that my job will be to eliminate a specific opponent nation (either by out-preaching or by conquering all provinces)?
2. Is this correct: If my first choice was, say, Caelum, and I get "assigned" my first choice by the algorithm you mentioned in your first post, then my job will be to assassinate Caelum and I will do this by playing the nation which the Caelum player originally wanted to play?
I don't understand which race it is I will be playing and against whom.
3. To be honest, I can't remember at all which pretender designs I sent in; this was a very busy week. Does that matter?
4. If I know whom I am supposed to "assassinate", won't they know who it is that is supposed to assassinate them (because I will be playing the nation which they wanted)?

Thanks for clarifying, sorry if I am slow today

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Are you really as untrusting and sceptical as you make yourself appear in your Posts or is this merely a witty and ironic masquerade for the good-natured philanthropic person you really are?