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Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

Lanka, Hinnom, Niefelheim

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

Given that someone's taken Ermor as their first choice and I can't seem to make T'ien Ch'i work with difficult research, I'd like to switch to:

Mictlan, Caelum, Atlantis

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

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Originally Posted by GrudgeBringer (Post 692675)

I thought that was kind of different also Sil...

SOMEONE is going to get the 'Roll' on every nation thats picked on the first go round which leaves you in a whatevers left situation.

He seems to have it thought out pretty good and maybe I'm missing something though.

The first round will be the one that selects for most people. There are only a few people who will be rolling against someone else for a nation. So, yeah ... some people may not have their 2nd or 3rd options available and will have to choose from what there is left. I'll be picking up one of the "nobody wants" nations, but I'm sure one or two people will be in the same situation if we have a game that's close to full. It'll be a pain I can tell, but my purpose was to make sure everyone has a chance at a nation they want to play ...

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

Okay, everyone is allowed to change their picks once before we actually do the selection process. It's really just the players in a roll-off for the first round that need to re-assess what they could actually get in round 2. I think next time I try this method it'll be blind bidding :D.

I just ran a mock selection with the players and picks we have now and one person was forced to choose something else. Everyone else got one of their three picks (one person got a third).

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

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Originally Posted by shard (Post 692681)

Yeah, I think I will have to repick my 2nd and 3rd choices too.

Won't too many players esp with those that are new cause the game to be a bit unwieldy? Especially with stales possibly unbalancing the game.

Might also put ppl off with all the micro u need towards the midgame and beyond.

Your choice of course, just some comments. I'm ok with anything rly

Recruiting a couple alternates would be ideal, but we may well have a couple interruptions to try to recruit replacements. That is basically how it is, though, regardless or whether a game has 12 or 24 players.

I think under any victory conditions, we'll always have the option of everyone conceding to the leader and the game being called if it gets to be no fun.

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

You might want to think about putting a link to CBM 1.5 up for the new guys.

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

I'm in: Agartha, Hinnom, Atlantis

CBM 1.5 is <a href="http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=43120">here</a>

and Streamers and Standards is <a href="http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=39989">here</a>

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

Welcome, Vanishag -- we've hit 20 players. Very nice.

Wow, there's still I chance I might get Hinnom. If everyone is terrified of them, they can leave it that way. Myself playing them is a nerf all by itself. :D

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

I've started nosing around for maps and so far have found two that are the right size. There is Glory of the Gods (SP edition) and Edi's Faerun 466, which also has some modded special sites that could be used for fun as well.

That's it that I've found so far that is in the 400-500 province count. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know. I would rather not use a random map.

Re: Mists of Time: Early Era Newish Player Game [recruiting]

I noticed in D/L the CBM 1.51 Mod that when placed in the Mod section of the game that it has a SEPERATE Worthy Heroes 1.51.

I read the description and it said it included ALL of previous fixes but it seems Worthy Heroes 1.51 would be a NEW fix.

A question you might want to find out...

Does 1.51 include Worthy Herows 1,51 or is it staying with the older version and we have to physically (if we even want it)enable 1.51.

2. The Glory of the gods SP game does not have Preset starting locations from what I have seen, which means 1 person may be in the middle of all swamp while another player may have a starting location with 2 neighbors right next to him and they will either want a restart or go AI quickly.

I know nothing about Edi's map but will look at it.

There is a game called Darkheavens going now that took 24 players with preset starting positions, it has around 250 to 275 Provinces. It is a really good map and plays well with a lot of players. (LOL, btw the map is also called DarkHeavens)

Do we really want a map that has 400 or more starting provinces?

It will be a while before any contact is made and will already be doing quite a bit of Micro Managing even BEFORE we start scrpting battles. And you will be asking a LONG (maybe 6 month) commitment.

Just a thought...as you asked for suggestions, I will play what ever you want, with what ever map and mods you want (as I know I will get one of the 'Good' starting positions:angel)!!!:D