New PBW game : "Mediocrity"

[geoschmo]

http://seiv.pbw.cc Game Page

MEDIOCRITY

Game description

Some say games are won and lost at empire setup. If you want to try something different, join this game. All empires will be pure vanilla, no racial traits, no enhanced or reduced characteristics, and all cultures set to neutral. What happens next is up to you.

Starting resources: 20000
Starting planets: 3
Home planet value: Average
Score display: allied
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 0
Quadrant type: Mid-Life
Quadrant size: Medium
Event frequency: None
Event severity: NA
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: Win
Maximum units: MAX
Maximum ships: MAX
Computer players: NONE
Other game settings:
All Empire cultures must be Neutral
All empire characteristics must be average (No reductions or improvments)
No Advanced Racial traits
36 Hour Fully automatic turns

For those of you that remember the "Neutral Challange" from Last year, this is pretty much the same idea. But you can use any shipset or racepic you want for this one.

Geoschmo

[ May 01, 2003, 22:57: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Ragnarok]

This is a very interesting game idea. I'm tempted to join. I'll have to think about it some more though.

[geoschmo]

Filling up fast. Four spots taken.

Geoschmo

[mottlee]

Geo, forgot to add in upload...ship set...Teran

[Slynky]

Everything sounds kind of interesting 'cept for that "neutral" culture thing. If you're talking about the setting where you choose Bloodthirsty, Peaceful, or Neutral, then I've never had much success with a Neutral culture. Took it by accident a few time before I read that everything ticks them off... .

[Gwaihir]

The concept is neat, but wh neutral? Oh, is that to make everyone equally uncomfortable, in case you have players used to fairly light race modification? I dunno, if another one of those starts up this summer, I might just join up. (Provided, of course, that the sanity of those in the first game is no more than 50% degraded . . . doncha love being guinea pigs?)

Random question, why the heck is it guinea pigs? experiments are chiefly done on albino rats (they're carefully inbred so as to ensure that they are genetically close to identical - - - you want repeatable results), and before that practice was started cows were used. Rats are so much better tho - smaller, shorter lifespan, much much faster breeding, easy to handle . . . I dunno why they used to use cows. Actually, cool trivia, the guy who pioneered using lab rats was my great great uncle Elmer "Dr. Vitamin" McCollum, the guy who discovered vitamins A, B complex, and D.

Hrm, methinks i got a bit off topic there. But i do want to know why the expression is "guinea pigs."

[ May 04, 2003, 03:55: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Slynky:
Everything sounds kind of interesting 'cept for that "neutral" culture thing. If you're talking about the setting where you choose Bloodthirsty, Peaceful, or Neutral, then I've never had much success with a Neutral culture. Took it by accident a few time before I read that everything ticks them off... .

I think Geo meant neutral cultures (i.e. no Scientists, Warriors, Politicians, etc), not neutral happiness.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Everything sounds kind of interesting 'cept for that "neutral" culture thing. If you're talking about the setting where you choose Bloodthirsty, Peaceful, or Neutral, then I've never had much success with a Neutral culture. Took it by accident a few time before I read that everything ticks them off... .

I think Geo meant neutral cultures (i.e. no Scientists, Warriors, Politicians, etc), not neutral happiness.

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Yes, that is what I meant, and what I said. Happiness type is totally up to you. I do not suggest "Neutral" for that.

Geoschmo

[geoschmo]

By the way, 8 spots taken, 2 left!

[Slynky]

Well, as everyone is probably beginning to know, I am easily .

Thanks to both for clarifying!