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Yeah, I heard bad things about MA Mictlan. Looking at their mages, I don't really see what's so bad. They look exactly like EA Mictlan, but they get a N/S mage. Can someone explain where the shortcoming is at?

Jazzepi

Re: Placeholder for new Megagame - Evermore
 

And no LA Ermor in the game. Yay!

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All the traditional mictlan strengths, w/ none of that pesky blood to slow you down?

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Woops. There's no blood? x.x

Ack.

I just checked. How disappointing =\

Jazzepi

Re: Placeholder for new Megagame - Evermore
 

So what is the patch supposed to do for MA Mictlan?

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I think they get access to air.

Jazzepi

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air, but lose non-cap jaguars? i'm not sure they come out the best on the deal, as non-cap jags are all they have now... But i'm not sure.

ask for a mulligan? you can't update this game to the next patch after it has started, if mictlan does lose non-cap jags...

edit: eagle warriors everywhere? oh my... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I also believe that Eagle Warriors instead of Jaguar Warriors will be recruitable everywhere.

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Sure you can http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I know the map looks like a alot but:
15.75 water provinces per water player &
16.75 land provinces per land player

A lot more balanced than Perp... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Though I like the idea for other types of games (The team games/varients) Evermore will stay standard.

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I think it looks good... as long as Oceania is a good ways from me.

Is there a mod we are supposed to use?

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Is it possible you could rerandom me? I really, really don't want to get stuck with a nation that's going to be completely different if we apply a patch midway through the game. I can't just imagine having a strong bless, and going from an army of jaguars to nothing =\

Jazzepi

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Normally I wouldn't - but since MA Mictlan is going to change around pretty significantly I can understand how it would be difficult to plan when aren't sure of the patch release date.

So... your new draw is...
LA Pangaea

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The mod is ready:

http://67.66.187.69/dominions3/mega-agev2.zip

Feel free to check it out and let me know if there are any problems.

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Is the mod exactly the same as in Perpetuality?

EDIT: diff says .dm file is the same. But banner directory is mega2, not mega. Either you've attached wrong file or that directory has wrong name.

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Not quite. It has all the same stuff as the perp mod in addition to a slight increase in the costs of gem producing items.

You'll need the new one to play - but not to upload your pretender.

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It looks like this mod will overwrite the one used by perpetuality, does this not pose some problems?

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Blah! Fixed the .zip. Extracting and overwriting with the incorrect .zip shouldn't have had any negative effects though.

Accept any overwrites. For example it doesn't change the flags (snes folder) so if you overwrite them it won't hurt.

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Ok, I DL'd the mod. It seems a bit more complex than any other mods I have. There are 2 folders: mega2 and sns3, plus a file: mega-agev2.

Do I just dump them all into the mod folder as they are?

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Dumping into mod folder should work fine.

Hm, EA Oceania, I'd have thought someone else would've picked it also. Haven't actually ever played an underwater nation before, now it's again time for me to make a fool out of myself. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Huzzah! That's what these random picks are all about.

Jazzepi

Re: Evermore - MegaGame - Pretenders Due 10/04 10p
 

I clicked "open" next to Vanhiem, and was told "Your god is now in control of Vanhiem." Am I right to assume I've done the procedure correctly?

Re: Evermore - MegaGame - Pretenders Due 10/04 10p
 

Yup. I believe if you've created more than 1 God for that particular era/nation it'll prompt you. Otherwise it'll just upload it.

Jazzepi

Re: Evermore - MegaGame - Pretenders Due 10/04 10p
 

Not surprised I received EA R'Lyeh. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Three of us starting in the water should prove interesting. I'm looking forward to another enjoyable megagame.

Re: Evermore - MegaGame - Pretenders Due 10/04 10p
 

Not really a mega game, maybe a large game however....

I do hope the map compensates for the fact that we only have 3 water players (not basing it on the full 7 that is)

Re: Evermore - MegaGame - Pretenders Due 10/04 10p
 

We have four:
EA R'lyeh
EA Oceania
MA R'lyeh
MA Atlantis

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yeah my bad, a bit odd than none went for LA ermor or LA R'lyeh. Guess it's just as well..

I heard about a few late commers that wanted in, maybe we should give them random nation seedings among whats left (with that 20% bonus).

Re: Evermore - MegaGame - Pretenders Due 10/04 10p
 

Oops yeah 4, missed 1 there the first glance.

Re: Evermore - MegaGame - Pretenders Due 10/04 10p
 

Yes, it's going to be crowded in the water. I expect some early violence.

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cant upload my pretender..... there is no naion to select on the late era port. why is that ? the other ports dont work either

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when i connect to the middle era server, i cant upload because everyime i scroll down it scrolls right back up... really weird

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ok now it works, no idea what happened before

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All the start locations have >= 4 neighbors, and there are at least 3 provinces between each pair of start locations - by this criterion, I fit 27 *exactly*.

I placed the four water starts manually. The two which are in the "middle" of the water (i.e. have two water neighbors instead of 1) are also slightly less choked-off, so I think those are more or less fair.

The 23 land start locations were placed by my algorithm to minimize the variability in remoteness (the sum of the shortest path distance to all other start locations). Given that the map is not wrap-around, though, obviously it varies a lot.

I *could* give them another bonus. Possibilities include:
* Another slight pop boost for the least-remote land start locations (mentioned by Velusion).
* 1 or 2 of their neighbors could be made site-rich and/or large.
* I could give them +X% to the size of their initial army to help fend off their many bloodthirty neigbors.

Alternatively, the map is playable as-is. Should I post it or do people want their start locations kept secret (with the exception of the water, which is pretty obvious, I haven't peeked).

P.S. - Which nation #s are EA Tir and EA Lanka, again? I don't want to peek but I'll need to load up the map in order to check that I got them right otherwise http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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I think that if we keep the start locations secret it will make the early game more interesting and scouting more important. These are good things.

I would also vote for 1+ site-rich provinces for the nations that are in the middle. In previous games, I have found it to be a large advantage to have one or two borders that you don't have to defend.

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the middle? that just means you have more directions in which to expand... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ack! I just realised that FAJ made the seeding list but got left off the front page... I'm afraid there are actually 28 land players http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

My profuse apologies DR P!

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I can fudge him in if I poke stuff by hand.

Vel - what, if anything, do you want me to do to the starts?

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Giving them one site rich province nearby is fine with me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Update: 19/28 pretenders uploaded!

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Ah dammit to late to sign up.. well if there is a way to play let me know (PM) else I'll keep waiting http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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So, are we starting soon, as in today? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Depends on if the map is ready and everyone has uploaded thier pretenders. We had 21/28 when I checked this morning..

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I'll figure out how to jam in another start locations when I get home this evening, which will be around 10ish Eastern Time.

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As far as pretenders there is just Thrawn and tibbs to go.

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I just e-mailed the map to the last address you used to send me e-mails from (other than new-turn messages).

Let me know if that's not the right one.

--TNDP

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Don't hesitate to mail me if in want for an additional player..

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Is this game starting tonite?

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The deadline has passed. Only waiting on tibbs.

Aezeal - if tibbs doesn't respond by the end of tonight you can have his spot (shin 10%) if you'd like.

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tibbs is seemingly awol in the just started dawn of war game... i'm guessing something in RL came up, or he lost internet for some reason. hopefully he shows up this evening