Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, starts March 21st!
 

Heh, this is getting funyn :) Always interesting how people fail to understand basic chance calculation :) Just for the record, I am not a mathematician, I am a pharmacist, but that hasn't stopped me from being able to figure out how to calculate probabilities; probabilities are after all quite simple if you think about for more than three seconds :)

Heh mate :) It never did cross your mind that my above post per chance (sic) was a joke? All those smilies might have been a give away, you know ;) Perhaps *you* should lighten up a bit, and not believe everybody are dead serious all the time; it is after all about a *game* :) Still, when people talk about bananas and somebody walks in and trumps the discussion with "But apples are always red!", it does leave one a bit baffled.

No offense meant, of course :)

The joke here is that nobody claimed a 79% chance of *somebody* not showing up. You *are* actually missing the point, are you not? :)

The point, I believe, was that it is practically 99% certain each individual will show up. You know, one might get run over by a car, the computer might fry, etc. Nobody can be 100% sure they will even wake up tomorrow. The ~79% chance thus derivated has no hard evidence behind it, but it is based on the fact that nothing is certain in life; lets give the unforseen a 1% chance. As a matter of fact, in human sciences it is customary to give that 1% chance for unforeseen phukk-ups per individual, because life has proven it *is* true: There is always about 1% chance something phukks up in an unforeseen way when you are dealing with humans :)

Thus the derived 21% (which I still think is a very clever gig from Cleveland, my hat is off in respect!) chance is not the chance that *one* player fails to appear (as you seem to be believe), it is the chance that one *or more* players wouldn't make it. It would be very bold indeed to assume people who sign up to not make it in 79% of the cases; in fact, if that was true, basically no MP games ever would launch :eek:


It would be interesting to calculate the chance for one or more people failing to comprehend this post and getting angry. But given human nature, it is practically guaranteed somebody will not understand and get angry ;) :p I believe I have now pissed off enough people (always a smart move to piss off people right before you start a game where diplomatic skills are needed... :doh:).


To Incabulous: If you want a better than 50% chance the answer is 23 :)

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, starts March 21st!
 

Never once did cross my mind. Dang, now I feel like an idiot. To me it just sounded like you were making fun of them.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, starts March 21st!
 

If we have a couple days to post pretenders, then were the game at. Because I ain't seeing no 'Magellan'

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, starts March 21st!
 

Pretender all set and ready to go..just need a place to send it too.

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, starts March 21st!
 

Right. I'm home now, haven't yet gotten around to uploading everything to llamaserver. I have a conference call in a few hours that I have to prepare for...I'll set it up during the con call. It's not like anything will actually be accomplished during the con call, whose sole purpose is to ensure all members have prepared for the con call, and are sober enough to operate a telephone. After that, you're free to zone out. :D

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, starts March 21st!
 

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Magellan

:up:

So if you're new to llamaserver, have no fear, it's very simple to join the game. First, install the 2 mods linked through the above link (i.e. CBM 1.41 and Standards & Streamers). Then activate them. Then design your pretender using the Dom3 pretender creation tool. Then follow llamaserver's FAQs:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=35160

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Upload Pretenders!
 

I guess we now need to Re-Patch to 3.23b before we start.

They said it was on the main Dom page but I didn't see it, if we could get someone to put a link in here it would surely speed up the start and cut down on the confusion.:confused:

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Upload Pretenders!
 

Yeah it's on this page in the lower right: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwint...DOM3_page.html

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Upload Pretenders!
 

2 announcements:

1) Pretenders are due in around 8 hours, so make sure you get them in!

2) House Rule: No Trans-Continental sailing is allowed across province #215 (aka "The Maelstrom")

A last-minute announcement, I know, but I think it's necessary to avoid a potentially unfair situation...Long story short, if a sailing nation starts adjacent to that province, they'll have sailing access directly into another player's capital. By forbidding trans-continental (i.e. from one continent to the other), this problem is avoided. Flavor: a massive maelstrom perpetually swirls at the center of this province; no sane sailor would dare try to cross it. Any Questions?

Re: Magellan: All-EA Nations CBM game, 3D spherical map, Upload Pretenders!
 

So pretenders were due 3hrs ago, and 3 players haven't yet submitted.

But it turns out to be a blessing in disguise. This will give me a chance to alter to map to eliminate the unsightly house rule I had to announce last night.

I've sent PMs to the 3 players asking if they still intend to play. Hopefully they won't all submit before I finish modding the map!