Silvan, Running

[IndyPendant]

Silvan

Game Type: Llamaserver (DO NOT PASSWORD YOUR PRETENDERS!)
Speed: 24 hours quickhost for the first 20 or so turns moving to 48 hours per host after that (or when 3 players request it).
Era: Middle
Map: Modified Lonely Mermaid (attached here), with 99 land and 14 sea provinces, and fixed starting locations.
Players: 7 land, 1 sea.
Nation Selection: First come, first served (post here in the thread). We will be starting after the upcoming patch, so feel free to choose one of the new nations if you wish.
Victory Conditions: To the death! Or surrender of all players. (This is feasible on a map with <120 provinces.)
Research: Hard
Hall of Fame: 15
Renaming: On
Graphs: Off
Everything Else: Defaults
Mods: Conceptual Balance v1.21 Pretenders and Scales ONLY (second post in the linked thread, "segmented download"), plus Worthy Heroes v1.8. (Unless the new patch breaks any of these mods and they are not fixed in time, in which case we will play without them.)

I had to create the .map file for this from scratch, so there may be some mistakes, although I was as thorough as possible. If you notice anything before the game starts, let me know and I can correct it.

Random starting positions are terrible for MP games. I have set up 8 specific, random starting locations, 7 land + 1 sea. The starting positions are 8 (sea), 10, 24, 30, 50, 77, 84, and 97. Each starting land province was selected with the following conditions: all have 4 or 5 neighbours; all are 4 or 5 provinces away from other starting provinces; and all (except one) have at least one farm neighbour and one forest/border/mountain neighbour. The starting sea location has 3 neighbours (all are sea), and is 3 provinces away from 3 starting land provinces.

There will only be 8 of us, and we are heading into vacation season, so expect small delays to accomodate player absences. I am willing to turn off the timer (keeping Quickhost on) for up to one week at a time for vacations, if I'm notified in advance. If you stale twice in a row without notice, then you will be replaced/turned to AI. Hopefully there won't be too many interruptions. One reason I am doing this is that I have a one-week vacation coming up at the end of June. ; )

Now let's have some fun!

List of players:
R'lyeh - JimMorrison
Ermor - IndyPendant
Pangaea - Cor2
Caelum - Starshine_Monarch
Arcoscephale - Reverend Zombie
Abysia - klagrok
Mictlan - AreaOfEffect
Vanheim - Wokeye

[Cor2]

Sounds good I will take pangea. Thank you

[Starshine_Monarch]

I'll claim Caelum for the hell of it.

[Reverend Zombie]

Arco, please.

[JimMorrison]

I'd like to take a stab at R'lyeh, if you think you can handle me.

[klagrok]

I was going to go for Oceania, but appears Jim's jumped in the water first---Ill go for the heat peeps--Abysia

[Reverend Zombie]

Also sent to Indy via PM:

Could I have a few extra hours (4 should do it) to turn in my first turn, please?

I missed seeing the first turn by mere minutes when checking my email last night 9 (I was too early), but I fear I won't be able to get back to my email and home computer to do my next turn until after the next turn is scheduled to fire.

Thank you!

[Cor2]

Three is the best number. So if your gonna fill in a wrong number might as well be 3.

Thanks Llamabeast!

[IndyPendant]

Turn postponed by 24 hours just in case. Which is good, because I forgot to submit my turn as well this morning... ; ) I'll get mine in tonight when I get home from work.

[Reverend Zombie]

Thank you!