MP Game. CB Mod. Random Nations.
 

Having not played a MP game in months, I'd like to get one one more in before Dom3 is released. For this game, I'd like to randomly distribute each of the nations to the potential players. We will be using the latest version of the Conceptual Balance mod, and there are no house rules. We will be playing on a map with no more than 15 provinces per player. Turns will

The game conditions will be:
Map: 10-15 provinces per player.
Magic Sites: 50%
Independents: 6
Renaming on
Standard Research
No house rules
48 hr quickhost
The winning condition will be to control a number of victory points equal to the number of players. Each capital will count as a victory point. There will be a number of other victory points spread around the map. The amount of these victory points that are spread around the map will be one less than the total number of players.

Current players:
Graeme
Peacekeeper
WraithLord
Turms
Folket
OG_Gleep
Cainehill

The server is up at:
ip:68.148.13.231
port:10101

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Random nations, but not anonymous? Might be fun.

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The problem with fully anonymous play is that somebody has to know who is playing what race, so unless we can get a third party that's not playing to make the selection, it won't work.

Of course, I also happen to like the diplomacy, and the in-game communication system doesn't work particularly well.

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sign me up.

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48h quickhost.
Random nations.

Sign me up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Very nice settings. It's half a year since I last played any MP Dominions. I would like sign up. I just hope I don't get Machaka again (had it in the last 2 games).

Turms

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I like it, sign me up.

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I'll play. I need to learn new nations.

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We now have seven potential players, which is just about the right number to get started.

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I'm ready whenever.

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I'll be starting this game Tuesday evening, with however many players have signed up by that point.

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The players and their nations are:
Graeme: Ulm
Cainehill: Pythium
OG_Gleep: Pangaea
Peacekeeper: Ermor
Wraithlord: T'ien C'hi
Turms: Machaka
Folket: C'tis

I'll set the server up tonight.

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Pythium? Whoot, ain't played them in like a year. Cool. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
Let me know what lottery numbers you play - I will be sure to never, ever choose them.

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Log in at 68.148.13.231 port:10101

Have any suggested maps that are between 70 and 105 provinces?

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Eh - Cirlani, Aran, and Chandrea (versions between 94 and 103 provinces,), and Saephi is close (124).

Still somewhat of a dearth of maps in that range, sadly. My vote would be for one of the Chandreas, you'd probably want to edit slightly to remove existing VPs and, I think, mages.

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Oh - when is the desired start time? Hopefully not for a couple days, given that we all have random nations to construct a pretender for.

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I don't plan to start it till the weekend, unless everybody is ready before hand.

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Awesome, always wanted to try Pangea.

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Damn, it just had to be Machaka.

Well I am am happy to play anyways http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ok my excitment on Pangea has turned to fear after playing around with them for the last couple hours.

What is richness going to be set to?

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Normal richness.

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Check how much sloth you can afford while using centaur warriors.

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Sloth, death, and Turmoil are out if you plan to use anything other than satyrs with CB mod. Its not so big a deal in Vanilla, but it seems silly to spend all those points for Order, only to come out with a net gain of 3% per lvl. Both Production/Sloth and Growth/Death have a 4% impact on income while Order/Turmoil has a 7%.
Heat/Cold has almost as big of an impact as Order/Turmoil does. It would have to be luck (and I really like Luck) or Magic, which isn't appealing because of their low reasearch potential.

With regular richness its even more important to have no negatives towards your income.

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Has a map been decided on? I'm still experimenting with pretenders. ( Britain is another map in the desired # of provinces, but has anyone _ever_ played on that map? The colors are horrible, since Dom2 you can't change province lines. )

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I tried out Cirilani, and its pretty cool. If we go that route, I'd suggest lower indy strength. Some of the indies can be pretty brutal.

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not sure how you guys feel about this, but if you assign me a nation, i will super-quick test it and upload right away....i've been out of town, but am back to stay now...

not sure if you already have it all preset, and if so, no worries, i understand, but i'd be down for another game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

either way, goodluck everyone!

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True, and Cirlani is one of those maps that you fairly often wind up with only two neighboring provinces - having knights in one and say, blood druids in the other can mess up your expansion. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Edit : Actually I'd vote against Cirlani for these number of players. Inevitably a player or two will get stuck on the narrow strip of land at the bottom, which kinda screws them compared to anyone starting in the northwest with lots of room to expand.

So - I'd suggest Chandrea (with out the wizards & armies, since everyone would have to redo pretenders) as first recommendation, or Saephi or the latest version of Zen's modded Aran map ( lots of provinces #nostarted, and population / richness made more balanced).

Oh! Actually, the Ringworld map might be perfect, and even interesting - a flat skinny wraparound map with 106 provinces, so _everyone_ is going to butt heads with 2 empires simultaneously. And there's even a small version for people who don't have broadband.

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I like to idea of ringworld, ive wanted to try that map since seeing it.

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I just downloaded it. About to give it a whirl.

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Let us get the game started. Seems like we can agre on ringworld.

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Ringworld it is then. We're still waiting on Pythium, Pangaea and T'ien C'Hi.

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Sorry - didn't realize IP and port had been given - might want to put that into the first post.

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I will put my pretender in the next couple of hours.

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Done and done.

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Game is started. Take your turns everyone.

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Ug...worst starting position ever. Guess Luck doesn't impact starting positions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Heh.

Incidentally, I'll point something out that might not be immediately obvious : the little mini-towers ( Spoke Stations ) that protrude from the top and bottom of the map aren't just graphical fluff the way the big towers, stars, novas, etc, are.

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ya, they are actual provinces! what a surprise that was. too bad every single on is Wastes.

thanks og for pointing it out to me and caine for everyone else =)

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LOL! Did OG start in one of the mini-towers??? I thought my position was bad, with only 3 neighbors, didn't see any that could be worse, but if the map-dude didn't #nostart the stations.... Guess there's room for some improvement on this map, albeit I think the concept is great.

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no, he did nostart the mini-towers and any provinces adjacent to them. I have no idea where og started. In my games ive found you can start with as little as 2 adjacent provinces though, which can be a little hard on you.

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Really? I scanned through a lot of the map looking for that, didn't notice any - did notice (and in the game, got) land provinces with only 3 land neighbors vice the usual 4 or 5, but 3 neighbors tends to be enough to be okay.

2 neighbor provinces ought to be nostarted though.

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You used ringworld?!? That map is cool but the terrain is very bad. Too many sections that are all wastes or plains. It is really easy to get a bad start.

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Hello,

New turn is waiting. Actually has been for 12 hours, but the forum was broken last evening.

Good luck everyone!

Turms

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Ooo I didn't know you could start with 2....Guess I'm not so bad after all.

Good luck all.

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Bah - more like the forums were broken for 48 hours, and Shrapnel couldn't be bothered to put anything on the front page of their main site.

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bastages

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sorry for the wait, the next turn has been hosted.

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New turn is up

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Anyone run into some VERY strong provinces?