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Originally Posted by chrispedersen
People often forget that the implications of luck are much more severe with CBM than with vanilla Dominions.
But I really think restarts are in order if you get the merchants in the temple event (knocking you out of the game)
the barbarian horder or knights on your capital, or the huge unrest event...
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I agree. For me, only being able to participate in two games at a time, I see no issue restarting a game until everyone has at least a decent start (don't worry, I'm not advocating just opinion-ing). I know some people feel that that is just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes and you should just deal with it and move on. While that may be reasonable for those who have time for three or four or five or six games at a time (you know who you are ... [cough]JimMorrison[cough]), those of us whose gaming time is a bit more limited really get screwed.
It takes me weeks to either find a game to participate in or get a game started. Getting a game ender first thing after weeks of planning and then having to look forward to more weeks of planning to get into a different game (once you have done your duty and played out the end of your original game or taken the time to find someone willing to sub a lost cause, of course) is really unrewarding. So far I haven't had very good luck with MP games. I seem to spend more time looking or preparing for a game to start than I do actually playing. It just gets really old after awhile.
I wonder how difficult it would be to script a mod that just banned some of the more terrible bad events (and maybe as a balance some of the best good events) within the first three turns or so, or maybe even just the first. I know it might unbalance the value of luck scales (+ or -) somewhat, but it seems like it would be pretty negligible over the course of a whole game (I'm certainly no expert). Just a though, and probably one for a different thread.
Anyway, I would like to thank everyone for the chance to actually see my weeks of preparation for this game come to fruition. I do greatly appreciate it and am eagerly looking forward to pitting myself (as Jomon, along with JimMorrison as Lanka) against everyone here and having a great game.
Good luck everyone (unless you took negative luck scales I guess).
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