Squirrelloid and I are interested in admining a PBEM team game on LlamaServer with some straightforward settings.

• Teams of 2. Teams are permanent, declared before the start, and both players win (or lose) with their team's victory or defeat.
• A team or a single player may register for a position. Positions are first-come, first-served. Preference is given to teams: if a team registers and the slots are full with single players, the last-registered single player gets bumped. Single players are responsible for finding their own teammates.
• Teams pick nations, again on a first-come, first-served basis.
• 8-10 players. Keeping the game smallish should make the endgame more manageable.
• LA.
• CBM 1.6.
• Special rules: site frequency 75 (high), HoF 15, renaming on, other settings as normal.

Please do not hold intrateam discussions in the thread :).

We're using a modified version of rim of darkness.

Slots:
Iainuki/Squirrelloid (Patala/Ulm)
FrozenLama/Trumanator (Pan/Utgard)
Juffos/Quitti (Marignon/Mictlan)
Micah/Johnarryn (Midgard/T'ien Chi)
Viccio/Statttis (C'tis/Gath)

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FrozenLama/Trumanator

what's the settings as far as nations/map?

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Ah, another team game. It is good to see the team format being used more frequently in this sea of FFA type games. Especially one created by NvV alumni. You might consider Shahrivar, Land of Legends, possibly World of Symmetry, or a even a small random map.

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We're picking nations. I emended the intial post. The map is to-be-decided. (It partly depends on the number of sign-ups.) Again, suggestions welcome.

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Well i have to ask Trumanator what he wants, but i think i will take Pan

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There's no one to place positions, and we're interested in encouraging more team games, which will be easier if there's no need for a volunteer who won't play to futz with a map. This is, I admit, a bit experimental.

Teams don't lose until both players are eliminated. A team with one player eliminated can even win the game if the remaining player is sufficiently strong :).

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I'm interested to play, but i'm alone :(

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Can i reserve Utgard for Trumanator, even though that Might change?

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Viccio: I'll reserve a slot, but you have to find your own teammate, sorry.

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i find my teammate, statttis, i wait her confirmation

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Johnarryn and myself, I'm taking Midgard.

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I'm going to wait for confirmation for viccio or statttis that they're going to play before starting. Other players who have not done so also need to select nations before we begin.

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New official rule for the game: all teams but Micah/Johnarryn must attack them before making any hostile actions vs other teams. ;)

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Put us down for C'tis + Gath.

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I think there's a mistake here. Please *do* hold intrateam discussions in the thread. I want to know what you're planning. ;)

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I'll take Tien Chi (as part of Micah's team).

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Ok, we're thinking about using the Shepherds of Creation map. You can get an overview of the map by looking at "Fomorian War" on Llamaserver, but there's no link for download. If people like the look of the map, I'll upload it on thursday and we can move forward. Otherwise, i'm entertaining suggestions.

(its like ~155 land provinces + 8 water provinces, so it probably has a few more provinces than is ideal, but is a nice looking map and reasonably good size)

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its a beautiful map that's for sure, but i worry about its balance since the northwest, and southeast are clearly inferior to the other areas. but i won't make a huge deal about it, if others like it, i'm all for it

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I'm talking about those same concerns right now on IRC, Lama. I'd like to either mod in some extra pop for some of the starts if we use the map or swap to a different one myself.

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Karan has also been suggested. 20 sea provinces, but they're somewhat widely distributed. 162 total provinces.

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Ok, some displeasure was expressed with Shepherds/Rim of Darkness because of the unequal distribution of valuable provinces. I've tweaked the map a bit - Turned some wastelands/swamps into plains/farms, tweaked province size occasionally, made some farms into swamps where rivers enter the sea (when near other high value provinces), and added some knownfeature mines to low-value areas of the map. Uploading files for perusal - if there are no objections I think we'll use this map.

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A quick update of the map - fixed it so the island has #nostart (since starting there is really not ok). I've uploaded the whole thing again so you can just overwrite what you have, and this can be attached to the first post.

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The game is up on LlamaServer, please start submitting pretenders and post further discussion in http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=44022.