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Old April 28th, 2010, 12:03 AM
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Default Re: Sitting on the fence

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Since the thread is unearthed....
Solitare PBEM challanges
players are given same nation/pretender/map
who can beat the ai in the fewest turns
maps and start locations are identical but choose your own nation /pretender
blitz. As above but who can win in the shortest time ( not turns)
ssj
With abit of work the challenge map can also remove many of the randoms of the game. It can preset (or remove) populations, poptypes, recruitables, magic sites. And it can preset all of the factors of the AI. Which nation, which pretender, which scales, etc. That would make it more fair.

There is also a variation of having the same nations battle each other. Such as Ulm vs Ulm, or 12 nations in a game which are totally the same.

Im not sure why it would be pbem, especially with a blitz, but I guess that would work depending on the server.
G,
PBEM would be to keep people from redoing turns (though that could be another variant).

I agree the SP blitz game would be best done on a server like yours for "unambiguous" timing of each games.

-ssj
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