New game: HomeComing3; suggestions and joining

[sparhawk]

We need a replacement player for homecoming 2: its a team based game, so you always have one partner, with whom you have to win the game, so also a good game for newbies, but NOT for quiters

Game description:

Home coming 2

Thousand of years have past since the Last galactic war. As a result of this war many races had to leave their home planet searching for new resources and peace.
Some found what they were looking for, other perished.
Those that found a new world mostly lost their high technology and were confined to their new home planet.

Now after hundred of years some races have invented new ways to travel and explore space…

This is a team-based game
To avoid prearranged teams and races this game is set as followed:

Starting resources: 20000
Starting planets: 1
Home planet value: good
Score display: allied
Technology level: Medium
Racial points: 3000
Quadrant type: Custom
Quadrant size: depending on number of player (>10 = large)
Event frequency: None
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: Team that colonize their home planet (see description of your race) with a space yard, mining miner-, Organics Farm- and a Radioactive extraction facility. Furthermore, when you have colonized your home planet, you have to mention this to all other races. When you have manage to keep your home planet after again 2 years (20 turns), then you have won the game.
Maximum units: 2000
Maximum ships: 500
Computer players: None
Neutral empires: No
Version: 1.78 (gold patch 2)

The game owner will start the game and will tune every race with one sentence that refers to the home planet where the race originated from.
Every race will have a partner race, which originated from the same planet: your team-mate (random) N.b. you can only win as a team!!
Because all races are scattered over the map, you have to find your partner.
The game owner will design a map and put all players somewhere on the map (taking in account the different team players), this will prevent random placement of each player/team-mates.

Further Rules:
- Maximum alignment with non-team mates: Trade Alliances!
- Intel is on
- No computer or neutral players
- No Ancient race Trait!!
- Max 100 mines per sector

Sparhawk

[ March 28, 2003, 09:56: Message edited by: sparhawk ]

[phaet2112]

Hey Id like to try my hand in this...but I dont see it on the seiv pbw site. Im a pbw virgin, and relative newbie to seiv gold, but am looking for at least some intro games to get to know the game and how it's played over the web.

[trooper]

If I had one advice to give, it would be to try a solo game in simultaneous turn. You will see what you can do and not do while "programming" ships for the nextturn. It's quite usefull, before starting playing.
I you're OK with simultaneous concepts, I have nothing left to tell you. Oh, just one thing left : Beware of Weyrlings...

[Cheeze]

I thought we had a replacement...what happened? Or, is phaet about to be added?? I hope it's soon!!

This is great news!!! I'd hate to see a player miss out because their partner is an AI!!! Especially now that game is really starting to get going!

[ March 27, 2003, 07:47: Message edited by: Cheeze ]

[sparhawk]

I already have a replacement player, but he just have to log in...so therefore I kick that other guy. Nothing personal, but first in first out.

sparhawk

[Krsqk]

Glad to know it wasn't personal. I'd hate to be on anyone's blacklist, especially since I haven't played against you. Guess I'll have to wait for Homecoming 3. Dum dee dum dee dum... *drums fingers on table* Is it ready yet?

[Gandalph]

WOW

I am finally leaving Homecoming 2. This has been a Great Game! In this game, my partner was eliminated before I met him; I was confined in exandable space; and I was in between 2 Religious Partners who met each other early. I played the spoiler as long as I could and eliminated 1 of the religious partners, then forced the other Religious player (who has been in first place the majority of this game) to concentrate on the damage I could do.

I had a great time with this and look forward to Homecoming 3.
Gandalph

[Ruatha]

I'm still in the game after being on the brink of destruction once, one planet and no ships left...

It's one of the most interesting games I've played as the battle goes back and forth, capture systems, loose them, recapture them.
Oops lost them to intel...
Build more intel facilities, darned, the fleet got wiped out...
Rebuild the fleet, attack, oops I'm attacked... retreat.. etc
And having a partner pre-defined was fun, first to find him and then to have him, I wouldn't have survived this far without him!

Currently doing turn 218..
The only PBW game, heck the ONLY GAME, preiod, that I'm playing now.