Homecoming Game on PBW: Debrief

[sparhawk]

As already proposed, some people liked the idea of a team based space empires IV PBW game.
Who is interested is such a game.
The idea was to make a game were there are no AI players and 4 x2playerteams, and something like this:

Starting resources: 20000
Starting planets: 3
Home planet value: Average
Score display: allied
Technology level: Medium
Racial points: 3000
Quadrant type: Open for dicussion
Quadrant size: Large
Event frequency: None
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: Allied
Maximum units: 2000???
Maximum ships: 500???
Computer players: None
Neutral empires: No

The problem that I have is: what if your partner is on the other site of the galaxy
Any idea how you can ally yourself with him

Or maybe that will be another tasks for the players: find your partner

But what if some team are on both sides of the map and others are next to each other...

If your interested, has some ideas or want to join this game, please say so

Sparhawk

[ November 27, 2002, 11:54: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[dumbluck]

Well, you could always have it that the first empire you meet is your partner. (random teams)

Not that I have any time for new games....

[tesco samoa]

u could make each teammember play the same race.

That way when they meet they become friends.

Also each races lore is based around this long lost society.

THat would be a way around it.

And the reason why these races went into space is because of this.

Set one rule that the same races must become allies....

[Fyron]

Or, use the map editor to assign specific starting locations, and have the team members start in the same system, or adjacent systems. You can still have a random map with this, just make it in-game, save it, and then randomly select starting postions. Just try not to look at the map too much. Or, have someone that isn't involved in the game set the starting locations.

[Stone Mill]

sparhawk,

Actually, I'm playing a game of this nature and it is EXTREMELY fun. It's all about working together with a partner. Surprising how challenging that is!

See Duplicity 2 on PBW.

The way this was set up is with both races edited to begin in the same system, pairs evenly distributed throughout the quadrant.
However, some of your suggestions, such as "find your partner" do not sound bad. May even be a fun twist, but they require some rule-setting up front.

[Batman]

One thing I've wanted to try in a game like this is to take empires with different racial techs, then gift ships to each other and refit them (i.e. Organic armor, with Psychic weapons etc)

You run into the problem of cost limits when refitting, but if you were careful it would work.

Another idea I had for a team game (borrowed from the Tycho scenario on the Gold CD) would be to make one team the "defenders" and the other team the "attackers" and make the goal for the attackers to get say, 2000M people to a given planet behind the defender's line within a given # of turns.

A lot of these ideas would require specially created maps, maybe I'll try my hand at creating one.