MP Game - Zap's New game with House Rules

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
Each time I get knocked out of a game I've created, I learn something. Not something about how to play better, unfortunately, but something about the parameters of games I enjoy playing.

So here I go again. I intend to create a game on the mosehansen server (if there's room) to be played on The World map. If practical, I'll edit the .map file (as Norfleet did in his World game) to remove undesirable starting locations.

The registration procedure is as follows. Claim your nation here in this thread, and send the password you will use on your pretender to the non-playing registrar at martin.gregory@bigpond.com

State your mosehansen login ID, the nation you're playing, and the password. Martin will use this password to move you to computer control if you drop out.

EDIT: You will be deemed to have dropped out if you stale two turns in a row.

When registration closes, I'll create the game and you may upload your pretender. If anyone uploads that hasn't registered, I'll abort and repeat until we only have registered players. If anyone uses a pretender password different from the one they register, I shall hate them forever.

The turnaraound shall be 24 hours, HOF=15, research=difficult, sites=50, indeps=6, the rest default. The house rules are:

1) No Vampire Queens unless you play Black Forest Ulm;
2) Clam limit = Half the turn number (see the Orania Semiblitz thread if you don't know what this means)
3) Fortress limit = 1/3 provinces held at the time of building (rounded up)
4) No-one with a Shrapnel alias starting with N and ending with T may play. This can't be enforced, of course, so we just gotta hope ...

Excellent houserules Zapmeister.

I was going to start a new game myself in about a week or so, with very similar rules (including rule number 4 of course ). But since you have done it already, I might as well join your game now, and will start next game of my own some other time.

I would like to take Vanheim in your game.


BTW one suggestion about possible additional houserule, if you will like it Zapmeister. How about

5. Serious players only, no game quiters. If you have some RL emmergency that would make it impossible for you to continue playing your nation, you promise to do your best to find a human sub for you, as well as give all other players as much advance warning as possible. But no quiting because you are losing or because you had a bad start. Everybody agree to play to the end, no matter bitter or sweet one.

(Of course when at the endgame everybody agree that the winner is 100% detirmined than the game does not have to be finished)

IMHO this proposed rule could be especially relivent to the huge world map that you have here.


Also maybe we could play a bit smaller map? If it's not too late and if you, as well as all other registered players would like it of course. It could be the bad luck, but only one of the world-map games that I've played so far was finished (kindof ), the rest were abondoned for the varaity of different reasons. And when we did fininsh it took VERY long time.


In any case, no matter if you will like these proposed additions/changes or not, I will be happy to play in your game.

[ May 25, 2004, 16:16: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]