New Team game, new(ish) players prefered

TrajanX · #1 November 23rd, 2007, 11:27 PM

The Platypus game, 8 player / 4 team newbie game just ended -- congrats to Cicadian and Cleveland!! After a promising start, my teammate and I were handily crushed, repeating with many frightening similarities the whooping Potatoman gave me in Opposom, the only other MP game I've played.

Now I am Domionionless-- sad. Is there enough interest, particularly among new players, for another team game? There seems to be a glut of newbie games that I missed out on joining, but none of them teams. I noticed in Platypus that (from my perspective, at least) the team aspect was extremely fun, and also that the teams seemed to be fairly good at coordinating. The downside seemed to be some uneven start points which decreased interactivity between players, and the small number of players (8 is a lot, but since it was teams, only 4 actual factions).

Before I formally propose a setup, is there enough interest in another team game, with a goal of 6 two player teams? Twelve players in all, 24 hour turns, ideally hosted on our favorite camelid's Llamaserver, but as I haven't asked him about this yet, maybe by PBEM

or I could set up a 24-hour basic server.

I'm thinking a large map, obviously, pre-set but randomized start points, maybe EA? and a preference for new or newish players. For comparison, I've played two single player games, neither to completion, and never played the earlier Domiions. Multi-player 0-2 and will count myself lucky if I even get to see what "late game" looks like.

Is there enough interest, particularly among new players, for a game like this?

Torin · #2 November 24th, 2007, 12:27 AM

Random nations and teams would be cool

Zeldor · #3 November 24th, 2007, 02:32 AM

TrajanX:

I am in 3 games, all of them being beaten

So 0-3 for me. I may be able to join that one with a teammate if it started in 1-2 weeks. World of Geometry looks like a great map, but I will be probably playing on that in 1 game.

TrajanX · #4 November 24th, 2007, 03:35 AM

Heh well I think you qualify Zeldor!

I dont mean to set a high bar with my 0-2 record, just trying to give an example. I think anyone who has played five or fewer multi player games and doesn't think they are an expert is still very new. And since we're looking for 12 players here there will probably be room for other "new-ish" players!

llamabeast · #5 November 24th, 2007, 07:52 AM

Yep, I'm happy to host it on the LlamaServer.

Zeldor · #6 November 25th, 2007, 01:40 AM

I would really like to see Conceptual Balance mod in use here. I think it makes game more interesting and fun.

FrozenFalcon · #7 November 29th, 2007, 06:31 PM

I would like to join the game, if there is still places open. I have no prefered age, mods or nation, anything goes to me.

DonCorazon · #8 November 29th, 2007, 07:18 PM

Anyone keeping track of how many people have signed up?

djo · #9 November 29th, 2007, 08:11 PM

I am not a new player, but I have a friend who is, and if you don't mind having an experienced-but-not-generally-successful player, we'd be interesting in joining as a team. Assuming the other game parameters work for us. Mostly, early era, and a slower pace after 15ish turns.

Zeldor · #10 November 29th, 2007, 09:17 PM

Zylithan:

Yeah, that is a great map. King of the Hill style with 1 province with victory point. Nice indie garrisons and so on. For 10 land and 2 water nations. But I don't know how it would be with dividing start locations with teams to make it fair.

djo:

How many games have you played? I think that newbie has max 5 games played, not including blitz ones. And I think that game will be MA.