If your an SP player let me know if....

Doo · #1 January 13th, 2011, 02:40 AM

If your an SP player let me know if you would be keen to participate in a multiplayer "humans vs AI's" game I'm organising.

I advertised this game in the multiplayer section of the forum but think that MP gamers would generally not be interested in playing vs the AI and SP players may not look in the multiplayer section, not being interested in MP.

If your a SP player who doesn't want to play against other people this would be a fun game. I'm aiming to ally the AI's into one or two groups and play the game on a SemiRand map which will increase the difficulty. It will be a challenge but one I'm sure we can handle.

Open to all players, vets and noobs alike, its all about having some challenging fun.

endomorphious · #2 January 13th, 2011, 12:09 PM

I'd be interested in giving it a shot. I, however, only play vanilla. If your also playing vanilla then sign me up.

rdonj · #3 January 13th, 2011, 12:25 PM

Just one note, the AIs as I understand can only be in one alliance due to the limitations of map commands.

Doo · #4 January 13th, 2011, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by rdonj

Just one note, the AIs as I understand can only be in one alliance due to the limitations of map commands.

I intend to set all that up and load the .map file to the llama server. Players will choose the map, their nations, we'll decide on which AI's to fight and what teams to put the AI's into. Then I'll run the map through the SemiRand program. Then manually assign the AI alliances and upload.

This would make the starting positions random which I was thinking, let me know if this is ok.

Vanilla is fine, as long as the other players agree.

So far then we have endomorphious, Mauxe (privately told me of his interest and myself. I think we only need one, possibly two more players.

Any idea on Era and general difficulty?

llamabeast · #5 January 14th, 2011, 07:16 AM

I don't think rdonj is correct. I believe you use the #allies command to ally a pair of AIs, so using that you can build up several different AI teams.

Hrum · #6 January 14th, 2011, 07:40 PM

I'd be interested in trying this. I like the idea of team games.

I don't have any strong preferences regarding era.

Were you thinking of doing something thematic with regards to nation selection? Ie. the players picking "good" nations (or "evil") or something? Hot vs Cold?

Doo · #7 January 14th, 2011, 08:42 PM

I was thinking EA, everyone can choose the nation they want and we see whats left over to create the AI teams. It would be good to have teams set around themes but it depends on what everyone else wants. Basically I'm thinking if you want something in the game, say so or I'll just make the decisions

I was thinking standard settings for things like gold, resources and gem site frequency. I was thinking of using the Better Independents mod.

NTJedi · #8 January 16th, 2011, 02:51 AM

Very interesting... I created a map you guys may be interested in using. The map has 400 provinces and setup with victory points allowing humans to win after taking the capital of Atlantis and Neifeilheim which belong to AI opponents. Each of those AI opponents start with well equipped supercombatants and the map is large enough where players will have plenty of time to research and expand.
Let me know if you're interested in this map or advice with using map commands for AI opponents on another map.

Hrum · #9 January 16th, 2011, 03:07 PM

Hmm... 400 provinces might be a little... ginormous for what Doo was proposing. And I think his idea was to have more than 2 allied AI opponents. Which map is it BTW?

I don't have an objection to Better Independents - just be ready for the horde of AI archers. Would Endo be OK with that since he says he prefers vanilla?

Standard settings are cool with me.

I'm considering playing Kailasa if noone else was thinking of doing so.

With Better Idependents being considered, Kailasa might be an illogical choice (one of they're big weaknesses is their vulnerability to archers afterall), but what the hey. And I'd be happy to change to something theme appropriate if you guys decide you want to do a theme based nation selection thing.

Gandalf Parker · #10 January 16th, 2011, 04:30 PM

The size of the map is only large medium or small depending on the size of the game. The number of provinces per player is the defining factor. Dom3 considers S/M/L as 10/15/20. So if there are 20 players total including all human and AI players then it would only be a "Large" game. And more would make it move toward a medium game.