Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Age: MA
Number of players: 6
Banned nations: Ashdod, water nations
Hosting: llamaserver
Hosting interval: 30 hours throughout
Map: Six Lands
Mods: CBM 1.6, EDM 1.1
HoF: 15
All other settings default

This game is for people who like a fast paced game that finishes in a 2-3 month period. We will be on a 30 hour hosting interval the entire game. Since that reduces the potential audience considerably I'll refrain from making any other changes to settings as I might normally do. ;) Moving at this pace does put pressure on players as the mid-game begins but I also find it really gets everyone into the game having a new turn every day.

Some things to consider:

* Every player will get two 30 hour hosting delays that they can use whenever they want. If you have used your delays it's your responsibility to find a sub.

* This game will not take that long to play. Please commit to seeing it through. Obviously if you are a major power and stop taking your turns I'll be forced to look for sub. Given the small audience for a game like this I don't imagine it will be an easy task finding one. Out of consideration for the other players please finish the game even if you've lost interest in it or Dominions in general.

* Note that there are several holidays in the next few months. I am open to deciding ahead of time that we will put the game on hold on those days. But if you have a vacation planned please arrange now for a sub to take over for you during that time.

* If you are successful you will get to the point that your turns will be fairly complex. If the thought of not having the time to fully optimize your strategies bothers you this probably isn't the game for you. There may be some turns where you have to say "good enough" and send in your turn.

* If you sign up for this game you should have experience in how long it takes you to complete late game turns. Early on this won't be any different than a normal game so consider if you can handle it if you've got 30-40 provinces and are at war (if you've got more than 40 provinces this game should basically be over anyway).


Player Roster (with # of available 30 hour delays)

Arcoscephale - Saros (1)
Ermor - ghoul31 (2)
Jotunheim - Kojusoki (2)
Man - earcaraxe (2)
Pythium - odeoderok (2)
Vanheim - Valerius (1)

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

ermor

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

Ill take arco

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

Pythium, please.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

May I have Jotunheim please?

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

Actually, I probably should stay out, got enough games going atm. Good luck.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

Ghoul31, Saros and odeoderok welcome to the game!

Sorry to hear that but it's always good not to join too many games and have them become chores (especially one that has the quick pace planned for this game).


I'm open to map suggestions. Looking around the llamaserver I see a lot of maps around 90 provinces but I really don't think we want to go that high - a 70 province map will make the endgame a lot more manageable for the final few players. We could also just generate a random map.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

hi! i have intention to join. man. :)

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Recruiting!
 

finally a fast paced game! id love to join! ill send the nation asap

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Design Pretend
 

Welcome, earcaraxe and Kojusoki! The game is now full.

Kojusoki, the game isn't yet setup on the llamaserver. I'll do that in the next few hours.

As far as a map goes, Sixlands is balanced but at 15 provinces/player it's larger than I had planned for. Opinions?

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Design Pretend
 

Ok, the game is on the server. I selected the Sixlands map and I'm fine with using that and having 90 provinces instead of 70. So unless someone has a better suggestion let's go with that map so we can start playing! :)

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Design Pretend
 

i can start in 15 hrs. Its evening here so i can upload the pretneder and play a few turns tommorow. I hope its not a problem. Im taking machaka probably

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

Ok, I marked you down for Machaka (you can of course switch if you change your mind). If we can get all the pretenders in by Saturday that would be great but if people need more time to test their build how about we say Sunday?

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

im back and starting designing pretender - if there is no rush o would appritaiate starting Sunday anytime basicly. What I do like, is to play first 10 turns one by one - if there are just 6 persons i find it possible!

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

ok, Jotun Pretender ready, so please change it. Im ready

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

I've switched you to Jotun. I don't know that we'll be able to play 10 turns at once to start the game (I can't set a time for it myself) - but it would be nice to get off to a quick start. And if everyone is able to check for new turns a couple of times a day at the beginning of the game we should be able to do so (and of course if you are the last to send in your turn, immediately send in the next turn).

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

I uploaded my pretender. I agree we should try bang out the first dozen or so turns asap to get this thing off the ground.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

perfect - this is the kind of game i was looking for!

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

The game appears to have disappeared from the llamaserver. I recall this happening once before and the game reappeared - not sure what the problem was. I'll wait a bit to see if that happens again before contacting llamabeast.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

Well it was back for a little while but I couldnt access it and now its gone again!

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

I decided to recreate the game on the llamaserver. Everyone please resend your pretenders to NewCrucible. Thanks.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

looks we need to reload

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

game is up!

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

Yeah, it looks like the second attempt worked. If the first version of the game reappears (and maybe even autostarts because all pretenders were in) please ignore it and I'll delete it from the server.

And one last reminder to please check the server when sending in your turn. If you're the last person, wait a few minutes for it to host and send in your next turn so that we can keep a good pace going early on.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

Did you put indie strength up or am I just unlucky? All the bordering provinces to my cap have like 80-90 pretty nasty troops. Good thing elephants are so good at large scale stomping heh.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Send Pretender
 

Nope, I kept indie strength at the default of 5. So it looks like just bad luck. But like you say, elephants are quite good at killing indies. ;) Still, it's a bit of pain not to have at least one easy target to start off one's expansion.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

I'm going to be away for a day this weekend so I may have to get a short extension. It depends on a couple of things so this is just a heads up.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Sorry guys turns out i'm away for two nights starting tomorrow. I should be back around 0300 GMT on the 24th. So if I could have an extension after this turn is played that would be great.
Sorry again I didn't know I was going to be away when I signed up for the game :doh:

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

To clarify as I cant find an edit button anywhere I will be available to play turn 8 but after that a 30 hr extension should be plenty of time. The extension counts as running from the end of the 24h turn timer right?

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Actually you just reminded me that I forgot to change the llamaserver's default hosting interval of 24 hours to 30 hours after the game started. So that's now changed. Normally this won't matter since we've been playing quickly (no surprise there since only people who wanted to play quickly would have signed up for this) but it could help if someone needs extra time or to use one of their extensions.

It sounds like one extension will be plenty of time. Maybe now that I've corrected the hosting interval you won't even need one at all. So I'll use an extension if I think you aren't back and are about to stale.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Thanks a lot. I will need the extension as I'll be back around 52 hours from this post timestamp according to the plane tickets.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Sounds good to me - I dont have to take my laptop with me also :)
Im out since Saturday morning (i can do the turn about 7am) and then im back Sunday afternoon. GMT+1

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

30 hours have been added to hosting as per Saros' request. Kojusoki, Saros did you a favor as his extension avoided the need for you to use one of your own. ;)

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Just borrowed a laptop to look at the Llamaserver and it says hosting in 50 mins eeep! I wont be back for another 15 hr or so so I hope the extension is working properly else I am going to stall out for this turn?

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

No, I think it's working fine. I just checked and it lists the hosting time as 14:55 GMT Sunday and is still waiting for your turn.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Ahaa my mistake I forgot i'm running NZ time so i'm a day ahead.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

He saved my backbone as I didnt have to carry my laptop :)

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

If only your gratitude would extend as far as not invading me huh :re:

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

We are not ividing you - your soldiers kidnapped smiths doughter, Kundegunda, from village of Halbathria. We are just pursuing them and try to have the poor kid back... There are tales about what Arco magicians do with Giants children... Thats terrible and we will not stop our mission until the last house is searched! Of course if you sent her back we will move back...

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

::::ARCO INTERNAL MEMO::::

Sir.
I'm sorry to report that experiments with 'volunteers' have determined the amount of blood spilled in the casting of blood magic does not influence the power acquired from the sacrifice. The plan for 'discount' blood magic using 'acquired' giants is now on indefinite hold.
Some researchers have also expressed concerns that such experiments are 'inhumane'. Thankfully a recent ruling from our great lord of ambidexterity puts to rest the notion that giants are people so such concerns are unnecessary.

Sincerely
S2E1F1

P.S. the giant contractors working on the walls outside are very distracting, please see to their removal posthaste.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Just over four hours for that turn! We're averaging about two turns a day.

@odeoderok: nice counterstrike! I was worried both whether I had enough troops and whether any number of troops would be enough to handle your pretender. Looks like I was right to worry. Your pretender design looks familiar from Momentum3. ;)

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Why thank you sir, the sneak attack wasn't too bad either, you rat! :) Yes, I have to say I was inspired by Zeldor's pretender from Momentum3, although having completed const8 and alt6 before fighting would be nice.

@ Everyone: Please destroy the nation of Vanheim posthaste. Invisible fairies trampling on our geometrically correct cabbage fields is really quite too much.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

We have already received another case from our customer service department. The ticket#1223 relates to your capital and says that the walls need examination. We will try to get there as soon as possible and fix them. We have a skilled technical team with special bonuses in examination.
However, due to the late working hours, there are people very unhappy about our presence and they are disturbing our man while on teh job site. The most annoying are the undividuals riding elephants - if such attacks will not stop, we will be forced to leave your capital and walls not properly checked and the ticket will be considered null and void.

Technical Team Lead, Mr. Z

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

To all civilized nations,

the Emerald Empire has defended itself succesfully for nigh on a year now against the perfidious sneak attack by the primitive and corrupt nations of Man and Vanheim. But the light of civilization is failing, and the torches of the savages light the night outside our walls. The emperor has withdrawn into his chambers and will see no one. If someone does not soon invade the odorous lands of these mongrel nations, the Emerald Empire will be no more.

Bartholomeus, head of the council of theurgs.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

And we're on turn 30 already! I know I've been lagging a bit and have been last to send in a turn several times recently but I should be back on track and sending them in more quickly.

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

The scout in Ene Umrul has acted against the orders of his military leaders, and acted on his own behalf. We will throw him into prison, cut his fingernails and force him to listen to our grand orchestra playing Tokyo Hotel songs.

With apologies,

the bard council of Man

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

That was a really nice ans fast game! Hope to play with you again.

Good luck!

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Thanks for playing, Kojusoki! I'm glad you enjoyed the game. Tough luck for you and Pythium in that you were double teamed but you both put up a good fight.

I couldn't handle more than one game at this speed but I am enjoying the pace as well (and it's forcing me to stop rethinking every move and just send in my turn ;)).

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Well, the Emerald Empire went the way of all empires after being raped by barbarians and betrayed by it's allies. Alas for the works of men.

It was a fun game and I really enjoyed delaying the inevitable. Thanks to everybody, especially Man and Vanheim :D

Re: Crucible - MA, CBM, EDM, fast pace (30 hour hosting entire game) - Running
 

Thank for playing, u really put up a big fight!