SmokyBat - Started

llamabeast · #1 June 25th, 2007, 05:21 AM

I've decided it might be a good idea to host another game for new/newish players (this is an overspill from Chinchilla in fact, since that filled up really fast).

I'm thinking around 10 players or so (we'll see how many we get, anything over 4 is good fun), and a not-too-large map - maybe around 15 provinces each. In my experience this is plenty big enough for lots of interesting things to happen, but not so big that it can get overwhelming. We can sort out details when we see how many players we've got.

Oh, it'll be an MA game.

It's up to you to decide if you're "newish" enough. If you've played only a few MP games, I reckon that's good enough. SP games don't count I think - it's a surprisingly different skill.

Please post here and choose a nation if you'd like to play.

So far we have:

Bandar Log - Torquemada
Man - J Henry Waugh
Abysia - Memento
Marignon - Dallan_Invictus
Atlantis - Chantillary_of_Kerisdale
R'lyeh - Aristander
Shinuyama - Shuma
Agartha - LazyPerfectionist
Jotunheim - Yucky
C'tis - Schaedelbaron
Pangaea - Atreides
Vanheim - Remmy
Pythium - CelestialGoblyn
Ulm - Graywind

J Henry Waugh · #2 June 25th, 2007, 02:55 PM

I will play and claim "Man"�

Memento · #3 June 25th, 2007, 04:05 PM

mmm I'd like to take Abysia, if you dont mind
and, it is my first experience in playing MP games - so I'm very, VERY "newish"

please tell something about mods and other settings - I would prefer to play vanilla

lch · #4 June 25th, 2007, 04:15 PM

May I suggest the next name? "Chupacabra"

Dallan_Invictus · #5 June 25th, 2007, 05:47 PM

If ER doesn't get rid of that question mark and claim Eriu, I'd like to take it. Otherwise...Man's taken and I didn't notice, oops. Arco?

llamabeast · #6 June 25th, 2007, 06:12 PM

Great, I've added you all to the list.

Hmm, I had considered chupacabra, but it's a bit sinister for my liking. I kind of like cuddly South American mammals.

(For those of you who haven't noticed, I'm going with a South American mammal theme for my game names).

Dallan_Invictus · #7 June 25th, 2007, 07:27 PM

Actually, I'll let ER have Eriu, and try Marignon this game. They look...intriguing.

Saxon · #8 June 29th, 2007, 03:58 AM

What is your aimed for turn around time?

IndyPendant · #9 June 29th, 2007, 05:06 AM

I generally don't like MP games; I've been SP pretty much all my life. But I would like to test the MP waters with Dom3. And I notice that the MA nation I have the most SP experience with is not taken--in either this game or the Chinchilla game. So.

Put me down for Tien-Chi, if you still have room, in either game; I'll play whichever I'm needed most in. And, almost certainly, get my butt kicked...: )

llamabeast · #10 June 29th, 2007, 05:24 AM

Yucky - great, I'll put you down.

Saxon - sorry, I always forget to write this. The game'll be 24-hour quickhost. That means it hosts 24 hours after it last hosted, or when everyone has got their turns in, whichever is sooner. In practice this seems to work out nicely, and maintains a nice pace. Later on in the game when the turns take longer we can extend the timer if people want to. Hope you'll play by the way, am I right in thinking you normally play SP?

IndyPendant - good stuff. I also generally avoid MP, but I'd very highly recommend MP Dominions. Would you mind joining the Chinchilla game in fact? If you could upload your pretender ASAP that would be brilliant. There's instructions for doing that somewhere in that thread.