So we need one more vet captain, a neutral volunteer to design the AI builds and place teams and nations, more alternates are always a good idea especially for teams with players who may be absent from time to time, a few more noobs, a co-admin to help busy Severus would be nice too.
I'm turning my attention for the moment to the question of victory and handling team concessions.
The victory condition is quite simple but may need some refinement. It is essentially defeat all other teams which is another way of saying last team standing. We may need to define/refine what a "team" means for this purpose.
If one player is left on the team that wins, does that still constitute a team?
Should there be a requirement that at least 3 nations be alive on the winning team or the game be called a draw by default?
I do have a slight fear that the game might devolve into a FFA between the vet team captains with everyone else having been killed and want to ensure that captains will not forsake the noobs on their teams.
Regarding concessions. At first I was going to say no team can concede but that would be difficult to enforce and likely impractical. Obviously this won't be an issue with the comp team, since it will not concede. But the human teams are different.
For instance, a team reduced to a single nation and a few provinces may very well want to throw in the towel and may hardly be expected to continue playing till they are completely wiped out or may otherwise lose interest and stale anyway.
We could handle team concessions by turning the team's remaining nations AI. However this would turn AI against AI if the AI team is still alive or in the area.
Or we could let the conceeding team just stale.
Or possibly distribute the remaining nation or nations to other human teams.
Show their be an automatic concession/defeat rule? Say if you lose 1/2 of your team's nations?
Comments/suggestions?