aar details to be determined

[Arryn]

Targa,

My AAR turn Posts are clearly labelled as turns, to set them off from other Posts in the thread.

AStott's AAR is fine, and very informative. I was aiming for something a tad less dry, closer to what Tacticus has been doing. Something that has most of Stott's level of detail, but presented more literarily. I'm sorry that you find it confusing or boring.

Dominion is a scale of 1 to 10. It requires no great leap of imagination to equate a ten-point scale with percentages. But you are correct that changing the phrasing from 1-10 to percentages may well confuse some newbies.

I just wish you'd made these comments in my AAR thread, days ago when I'd started, before you gave up. It's hard to know that someone dislikes something if they don't speak up.

[condors]

heh there is alot of choices but i am leaning toward pangaea(as i want to learn more about nature magic anyway). Any pretender and scales suggestions?

[condors]

i am looking at that father of nature guy seems to fit in with the theme

[Gandalf Parker]

You have 3 choices (I think just 3)
You can play Pangaea like an Ulm (new era) or like an Ermor (carrion woods) or the very difficult sneak army mode.

[Targa]

Originally posted by Arryn:
My AAR turn Posts are clearly labelled as turns, to set them off from other Posts in the thread.

Yes, I know that. Poor choice of words on my part. What I meant was that in reading the AAR, it is, as you put it, "literarily written", which made it difficult for me to follow what exactly you did, and what happened on that turn. I'm sure that many (if not most or all) others have no difficulties in this regard.

Dominion is a scale of 1 to 10. It requires no great leap of imagination to equate a ten-point scale with percentages. But you are correct that changing the phrasing from 1-10 to percentages may well confuse some newbies.

You're still confusing the newb in me. How is dominion a scale of 1-10? You stated at the start of your AAR: "With the remaining points we have, I increase Dominion as much as I can (to 5)." How is a 5 a 10? Unless you're equating 1-10 with 10%-100% (like "how would you rate this on a scale of 1-10"). Or, if you're talking about 10 being MAX dominion, then I just missed the part where you built enough temples to raise your dominion from 5 to 10.

I just wish you'd made these comments in my AAR thread, days ago when I'd started, before you gave up. It's hard to know that someone dislikes something if they don't speak up.

Nah. It was clear to me that many people enjoy your writing style, and that they had no difficulties in comprehending each turn. I would not be so presumptuous as to ask that you change your style of writing to accomodate my personal tastes (or ignorance). Your AAR is fine just the way it is, which is why I clearly stated in my post below that I intended no offense, and that it was a matter of my personal preference. Keep up the great work!

[condors]

argh i am overwhelmed to say the least

i tried to goof around a little and realised i have no idea what units are capable of what my pretender didn't have the ability to cast the ritual spells needed

i tried to goof around with the carrion woods theme and proceded to get my pretender killed(didn't seem close to the cyclops for early expansion ability) then spent way too long recalling only to get him killed again several turns later, the ulm forces are sieging my castle before i have any clue as to what i should be doing and i still am not sure what the units are capable of.

going to do a search and see what i can come up with to put a plan of action together. any pretender/scale setting thoughts are more than welcome

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Targa:
You're still confusing the newb in me. How is dominion a scale of 1-10? You stated at the start of your AAR: "With the remaining points we have, I increase Dominion as much as I can (to 5)." How is a 5 a 10?

Now I understand your confusion. In the first few Posts I am doing pretender design. The default starting Dominion level for this pretender was 3. I spent points to raise it to 5. I am sure you are aware that base Dominion can go up to 10, either during god creation by spending design points, or later via temples. The minimum is, of course, 1. Any less and you'd be extinct before you started, so the game won't let you go down to zero (or less). During the creation process, you cannot even drop below the starting level for the type of pretender you chose. That is, drop from say 3 down to 2 to get more points.

Unless you're equating 1-10 with 10%-100% (like "how would you rate this on a scale of 1-10"). Or, if you're talking about 10 being MAX dominion, then I just missed the part where you built enough temples to raise your dominion from 5 to 10.

Later on, once the game actually started (Turns 1+), I refer to province dominion in terms of %, so that a level of 1 is equal to 10%. It's poetic license on my part to thematically justify dominion in terms of how much of the populace has been converted over to worshipping my god. It presumes that a level of 10, the max, would be 100% of the population. I hope that clears things up for you (and anyone else).

Keep up the great work!

Thanks!

And my apologies to Condors for hijacking *his* AAR thread with explanations about mine.