[jimbob]

Cool,

Spyder, it's good to see someone else has played Civ (the board game). The barbarian hordes idea is a great one, I'd love to see that happen as a MEE random event.
Is it possible to have "first place player has XX times more points than second place player" as a trigger for the release of the hordes? Is it possible to set up the hordes so that they only attack the first place player (regardless of who it ends up being?)

The civil war ideas are good. While a warning may be good to give the player a chance to get ships back to his home systems, I think that he/she should lose _all_ planets that they didn't get ships back to in time. It reminds me of the Babalonian seige of Jerusalem, which lifted suddenly because the army had to return home to quell rebellions. If memory serves, I don't think they got back in time either!

[ 30 November 2001: Message edited by: jimbob ]