Betelgeuse 2 - Game Finished! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Game Specs:
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- Single age game

- Map: Shahrivar by Sandra, updated by Sombre
- 11 Players (FULL): Blood nations only. Blood nations are defined by having at least one recruitable mage with Blood as a standard pick. This mage may be capital only, such as the case for MA Pan.

- Game Status page here.

- Llamaserver starting on 24 hour Quickhost and going up from there as needed.

- Delays given as needed. For those of you that need delays please e-mail me. My address is theamazingfightingpeanut[at]hotmail[dot]com. Also, please notify me when you get a sub, are eliminated, or are going to go AI so that I can update this post.

- Mods:
-- Single Age Complete Mod :click:
-- CBM 1.6 :click:
-- Streamers & Standards :click:

- Settings: Magic sites 45, Renaming on. All else default.

- Victory conditions: On turn 60, all remaining players will take a vote here. Vote here for who you think should be named winner or post with an Abstain if you want the game to continue. Any vote for your own nation will count as an abstain. I'll declare the game finished if we can get a nation with at least half of the remaining players' votes. If we can't get a majority, the game continues and we repeat the process on turn 100. If there are only 2 nations left, whoever gets the other guy to surrender first wins.

- Diplomacy policy: Treaties are not unbreakable, so all you have to trust is the other nation's word. Unlike Libra, I will allow conspiring via forum PM or e-mail as needed.

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Current Players:

:dagger:1: Methel: EA Lanka
:dagger:2: Alpine Joe: EA Niefelheim
:dagger:3: Pyg: EA Hinnom
:computer:4: Agent Smith: EA Sauromatia
:computer:5: statttis: LA Marignon
:computer:6: Tollund: LA Ulm
:dagger:7: ghoul31: EA Vanhiem
:computer:8: Stagger Lee: LA Bogarus
:computer:9: militarist: LA Gath
:dagger:10: Wrana: EA Helheim
:dagger:11: michai: LA Utgard

Status:
:dagger: : Playing
:skull: : Eliminated
:computer: : Gone AI

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Recruiting! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

tentatively, put me down for la-mictlan

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Recruiting! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I'll take niefelheim

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Recruiting! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Hinnom.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Recruiting! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I'll join as Sauromatia, this'll be my first PBEM game then

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Recruiting! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

LA Marignon please.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Recruiting! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I keep forgetting some people actually let hinnom in games =)

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

can you give us a list of the nations?

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

LA Ulm for me.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Ghoul31:

The list of Blood nations that have not been taken at this point are as follows:

EA

Mictlan
Abysia
Pangaea
Vanheim
Helheim


MA

Abysia
Pangaea
Vanheim
Jotunheim

LA


Abysia
Midgard
Utgard
Gath
Bogarus

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 11 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

EA Vanheim

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 11 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Never really looked at blood nations before, but after reading the description of the fivefold angel...

Bogarus please!:angel

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 10 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

EA Mictlan

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Sorry, change me on on EA hellheim if it's not busy yet. Just didn't notice it's still not taken.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

No problem at all. Anyone can feel free to change nations to whatever they want before they send in their pretender, so long as it hasn't already been claimed by someone.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Helheim, please. I also think about Midgard, but have no experience in them. :( So Helheim is preferred.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Sorry, but the link for single age mod leads to a page with two mods - singleage by Gandalf and singleagecomplete by Slobby. Which one are we using, and if it is the latter as I suspect, do we have to rename it?

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Stagger Lee: You want the Single age Complete by Slobby.

Wrana: Sorry, but militarist switched to Helheim first. I'll put you down for Midgard for now, but if militarist wants to switch to something else, then Helheim is fair game.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I see. I'll try to make Pretenders for both, but it WILL take time. And if he will want to switch again, I think I'll strangle him! :mad::D

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

:nono: No sir, that won't do at all. This is a blood game. :evil:

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 9 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

But all his blood won't go to waste! :angel
Surely you can see it wouldn't make sense to waste it, eh? ;)

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 8 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

This is taking quite a bit longer to fill up than I had hoped. Oh well, 10 is still a good number of players. If people want to start ASAP, I'll look for another map and put up the Llamaserver page.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 8 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I'd like to try Utgard

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 7 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I will be away for a few days, so this is how this is gonna go down:

Anyone that wishes to start ASAP will post here saying so. If I can get at least half of the current players to say this, when I return, I will close recruiting and will create a game on Llamaserver for however many players we have at that time with an appropriately sized map.

Until then, recruitment is still open, so people that want to play should still post their nation picks. If we hit 18 players before we get a majority vote to start early, then the game begins as normal on GreeceStain.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 7 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I've returned, so here's a bump for a response and possibly more players.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - 7 More needed! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Well, judging by how things are coming along, it seems we aren't going to get any more players than what we already have. I'm going to create the game on Llamaserver now for just the 11 we have. The map will be elmokki's "Land of Legends" found here.

Edit: Game has been created and original post has been updated.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Indies get progressively tougher through the ages, I think anyway. In a single age game, what is default for them?

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Default for a single-age game is MA. Since they're only at 5 anyway, they shouldn't be too much of a problem. Us EA guys should probably steer clear of Heavy Cavs all the same though.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Hey Star, all..

Actually you started this game earlier than I expected; do you mind if someone replaces me as Mictlan?

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Well, we still don't have all the other pretenders in yet. I don't mind you dropping for someone else, but depending on how long you need, I don't think I'd mind waiting for you either.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I appreciate that Star. Thank you - but you have a game about to start, I would rather your other players didn't have to wait.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

That's fine. Thanks for considering playing at least then. I have reduced the game size to 10 players, a perfectly reasonable size for this map, since it really doesn't look like we're going to get any more and I think I'd rather not put up an ad for a sub before the game even starts.

Damn!
 

It seems like your reducing the game size caused it to stop accepting Pretenders... or it did it on its own!
5 minutes ago I got a "game doesn't exist message":shock:

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I'm not entirely sure what happened, but the game has indeed been deleted. I'll make another one and see if that works.

Also, apparently I can't count. With chris gone we still have 11 players anyway.

Edit: New game has been created called xBetelgeuse2x. Please upload pretenders.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Thank you, now it works.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Sorry, on llamaserver's page map link seems to point to Babylon 5 mod instead.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Looks like the game went away again.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

You need to male sure that the filenames used for the map have no spaces in them or the game will just dossappear as it just did.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

That can't be what's wrong Tollund, as the file I uploaded has no spaces in the name at all. I'll just have to contact Llamabeast and figure out what's going on.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Didn't think so, but i've seen a couple of games here that were stymied by that bug.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

change me to LA Gath.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Send Pretenders! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Done and, as requested, I'll switch Wrana to Helhiem as he originally requested.

Enjoy your strangling Militarist.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Temporarily Postponed - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Why don't we open up recruiting again, while this gets figured out?

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Temporarily Postponed - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I think it's probably best to skip the confusion and just use a different map. One that we know works. Game is back up again and is called Betelgeuse2x. We will be using Shahrivar as our map this time.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Let's Try This Again! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

There are several versions of that map. One has a preset 60% blood magic site in the NE corner.

May I suggest the Sombre/Burnsabre(I think?) rebalanced for MP version? It eliminates some of the most unbalancing preset sites.

I can find it if you are not sure. A very nice map BTW.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Let's Try This Again! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

I agree with Stagger Lee. You want this version as it replaces Summoning Circle with Riddle Dark in 158. Summoning Circle would be unfair in this game... probably most games.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Let's Try This Again! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Edit: Double post. Please ignore this.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Let's Try This Again! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Map has been changed to the proper version. Apparently it was already uploaded. You guys only need the image file anyway, so I'm leaving the OP as is. Go ahead and send in your pretenders now. I'm sure we've got things right this time.

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Temporarily Postponed - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Sorry, but could you find a map with a bit of water in it? I think Vanaheim will agree with me (though many others probably won't)... ;)

Re: Betelgeuse 2 - Let's Try This Again! - SA CBM game for Blood Nations
 

Random wandering commentary:
Shahrivar doesn't have much water, but what water it does have retains the use of sailing. Just check out how few ways there are to cross north south, and where sailing lets you cut around features on that lake. It is more useful than it at first appears. I mean, its not the best map for sailing ever, but what is?

I'd recommend deleting all the pre-set sites from the map. Even the version you're using (if its the same as for landlubber) has a large number of pre-set sites, many of which are rather nice. (ie, 3+ gems, etc...). If you don't, I recommend every player learn how to read a .map file, Edi's DB, and figure out which sites are preset, where they are, and what they do.