MP: Noobs vs. Vets, Game Over, Noobs are Victorious! Hail Noobs!

[Trumanator]

FYI, 1.41 has an issue with LA agartha's blindlords having A8 magic. Either we could hold off till 1.42 or we could all just dive in and fix our mods.

[Aristander]

I would like Gath

[Lingchih]

Pangaea please.

[BigandScary]

I prefer Ermor, but if people are against having them, I'll be Midgard.

[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by BigandScary

I prefer Ermor, but if people are against having them, I'll be Midgard.

I haven't mentioned any restrictions in terms of nations, I don't see why you can't have Ermor, that is unless anyone has objections or perhaps people think it better it go to a noob.

Depending upon how many vets are active and decided (possible 5), we may need to increase the number of noobs to 10 to compensate, or one vet can go to standby, we'll see.

With regard to the error Trumantor mentioned, if the fix is easy, I suppose we all could do it, or if no one chooses Argartha, it won't be an issue, or we could go back to the earlier CBM, or wait for a newer one. Didn't plan to begin the hosting anyway till Friday next week (Feb. 6), as I'll be out of town on a business conference. But we could start sooner if we get all nations and pretenders in before then.

[rdonj]

If it matters, Zeldor has fixed the errors in a version he made up for the madness game. If necessary we could use that version.

I would rather the vet team not have an LA ermor, but I'm not going to worry about it too much, especially with R'lyeh on our team.

Team Noob: A lot of our chance of success relies on organization. We are going to want to communicate as to where we are and what we're doing every turn. This means we need a way to talk to each other during the turn, therefore relying on the in-game messaging system isn't going to work, unless we're excessively organized.

I'm not going to try to enforce a specific strategy for the game or anything, but I think we should commit from the beginning to declaring what provinces we're taking every turn and sharing as much intel as possible. To that end, I think it would be best if we all had each other's email addresses for ease of communication. If people would rather we stick to pming instead that's fine, but it would make it slightly more difficult to do team-wide communication, and possibly give away information to the enemy if we accidentally message the wrong person.

Whatever method of communication we end up using, it would really be best to try to check on it at least once every turn so the rest of the team knows what's going on. We absolutely do NOT want any early blunders with our own armies running into each other. Anyway, if you could please state your preference in the thread that would be great.

I of course would prefer emails, for ease of mass-messaging.

[Trumanator]

No preference. I'm an alternate anyway.

[ano]

I of course would prefer emails, for ease of mass-messaging.

Maybe skype (or other) conference-chats will help you. I think it is a good option.

[rdonj]

Originally Posted by ano

Maybe skype (or other) conference-chats will help you. I think it is a good option.

You're right, I should have mentioned that too. A conference chat like you said or a private room in IRC are also possibilities. Though with something like that it does require us all to be connected at the same time. In the early phase of the game I'm not sure if we'll need to go quite to that level of organized communication, but it would definitely help when things get going in earnest. Thanks for the suggestion Ano.

[Trumanator]

Well the obvious first step is finding out peoples' time zone so we know how tough it will be to get together for IRC or what have you.
Just to start off, I'm US Pacific TZ