Megatherium - MA PBEM. Started.

[Gregstrom]

Greetings all readers!

Megatherium is a MA PBEM game, and as you can tell from the name it will be hosted (with llamabeasts kind permission) on llamaserver.

Megatherium will be a slower-running game than most, as it is intended for those Dom3 players who have to work their games in around other major time commitments (small children, jobs in the medical profession, or just several other ongoing PBEM games). It will therefore spend most of its lifetime on a 96 hour (4 day) quickhost. How quickly the first 10-15 turns can be run through is a matter for negotiation. Extensions on individual turns will be granted freely.

Skill level: This game is intended for players with roughly 5 games under their belt.

Map: Currently undecided, and dependent on the number of players interested in joining.

Mods: This game will use the Worthy Heroes and Epic Heroes mods - I believe they're compatible with each other. It's worth toying around a little with these mods before starting if you haven't used them before. I believe they place a little more value on luck scales and higher dominion scores.

Players:

1. Greenaris - Vanheim
2. LDiCesare - Arcoscephale
3. Aapeli - Ulm
4. Gregstrom - Pangaea
5. Thrawn - Abysia
6. Niarg - Czelum
7. Agema - Pythium
8. PAR - Machaka
9. Semigall - A water nation.

[Aethyr]

I'd really like to join, but I'm probally a bit overloaded right now. I your like the idea of "slower" games and I hope you'll consider organizing more in the future.

[Gregstrom]

I certainly shall. I'm not sure how often would be ideal at the moment.

[LDiCesare]

I'd be interested. Not sure about the nation yet, let's say C'tis?

[GreenAris]

Thanks Gregstrom and lamabeast. How do I use the mods?

[Gregstrom]

Download the files, unzip them into the dominions3/mods directory and then start the game. Go into Preferences, then Mod Preferences, then click on the mod titles to enable them.

[Aapeli]

I could join. I was in the epic heroes game and would like to give Ulm and the black duke another shot. Ive got about 5 games (wich two im playing) in tough I didnt go over mid game more than in just one of them (suricate wich is still running).

[Zeldor]

When do you plan to start? I could consider joining that one too as Pythium. I got extremely bad luck in Epic Heroes II.

[Gregstrom]

I don't have expectations on a start time, beyond 'when we have about enough players'. The game setup is slightly unusual (turn time, mods), so I'm not going to set an arbitrary deadline when I'm not sure what demand will be like.

Joiners have been added to the top post, btw.

[Zeldor]

Gregstrom:

You could also use Conceptual Balance Mod.