Game Idea--Capitals

[Jmenschenfresser]

I've mentioned this idea in another thread, and since then, I've more or less have a working mod to start a PBW game of capitals.

How it works is that on turn one, all empires will scrap on facility on one of their 5 or 10 starting homeworlds, and in its place build a Palace; thus signifying that world as a capital.

The general gist of the rules I've written down forbid the moving of this Palace for the entire game. No exceptions.

The winner is he who captures a given number of the total capitals. I like the idea because if the number of capitals needed to win is set at the right number, the game has a chance to end before it degenerates into one massive empire or coalition cleaning up the galaxy. But you needn't worry about the game being short. If one empire is about to claim the final capital he needs, he'll probably find himself short on friends.

The game cannot be won through an alliance, whose total capitals are over the number.

The question is how many would be willing, within the next week, of starting a game like this? I have to do a bit of final testing on the mod tonight...then I will put it up on PBW, and maybe here.

Here's a basic list of the changes I've made. They are few in number. And I am thinking about lowering the ground combat turns to 5 and possibly lowering the space combat turns as well. Not sure about that though.

Changes in CapitalMod:
-Upped the "to kill one Pop." to 1000.
-added the Palace facility
-added the Facility #2 file with palace costs upped to 100,000 of each resource.
-Small troop and Troop weapons tech are available on startup
-Medium troops are now reached with troop level 1
-Large troops are now reached with trool level 2
-New massive troops (25k) are reached on level 3
-Taken out the Puppet Political Party intel op.
-Max # of sats per sector = 200 (up from 100)
-Max # of systems = 150

One final thing to keep in mind. This game will rely heavily on people's honor. I am not going to even attempt to stop you from building palaces on all your worlds through my mod, but I hope that all who respond want a fair, fun game.