Colorado Newbie game starting (hopefully)

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by JJ_Colorado:
It would be no fun to have a Graeme or a Norfleet or a whoever wiping everyone out.

*A* Graeme or *A* Norfleet? There's more than one of us now? Are we made in factories?

[JJ_Colorado]

One change to the ground rules for this game. Let's play Orania map and allow a couple more players. I initially picked Inland and 8 players cuz I thought it would be hard to find enough. But let's go with Orania and 10 players instead. If someone wants to play a water nation that would be ok since we have more water provinces on this map. It looks like we have 6 players so far so need 4 more. So far we have Ulm (I haven't received a pretender yet though), Abysia, Man (I haven't received a pretender yet), Machaka, Caelum, Pythium. As soon as I get all 10 pretenders I'll start the game. Hopefully everyone just has fun and doesn't get gripey/grumpy/mean in this game. It's just a newbie game for fun and to learn.

Norfleet - I don't know if you are made in factories but you guys seems scary good, and even one of you would be enough to wipe this game I'm guessing. I think I'm "ok" but I've never played against another human and I'm pretty sure that the good human players would just roll over me and other newbies with no sweat. ;-)

PrinzMegaherz - Schmoe already claimed Machaka. Please pick another country and send me a pretender for that one.

CUnknown - yes send me your pretender ASAP. I'd like to start the game tonight if we get enough players.

Skolem - Caelum is fine. No one has claimed that yet. Midnight EST (US) is I think 5 hours behind GMT/UTC time. So 5am UTC/GMT.

Best,
John

[ May 10, 2004, 14:47: Message edited by: JJ_Colorado ]

[Sly Frog]

I'll take Jotun. At work, so pretender will have to come in later tonight.

[ May 10, 2004, 15:34: Message edited by: Sly Frog ]

[CUnknown]

I'd like to play on a smaller map if at all possible. Inland looks pretty frickin' huge already, and did we just change to an even bigger map? *boggle* I hope I'm not being annoying, but I'm just saying I would like to actually finish a game. On Inland, it looks like we'd be playing forever.

[JJ_Colorado]

Hi CUnknown,

Ok, good point. We now have 8 players at this point so we'll start the game with 8 players on Inland map. Sorry for the waffling but you are right I think. So, no water nations after all.

FYI - Nations taken so far are:
Abysia (pretender received)
Machaka (pretender received)
Man (pretender received)
Ulm (pretender received)
Caelum (pretender received)
Pythium (pretender received)
Vanheim (pretender received)
Jotun (no pretender yet)

At this point please assume the game is full.

Oh, also please be SURE that you have put passwords on your pretender files. Someone who sent me one earlier forgot to do that.

Thanks,
John

[ May 10, 2004, 18:23: Message edited by: JJ_Colorado ]

[Huzurdaddi]

Oh and all of the 3l33t players say that having score graphs off is the way to go. Otherwise it's a gank fest on the top player.

What do you think?

[JJ_Colorado]

Hi Huzurdaddi,

What is 3I33t?

I think we should leave score graphs on. I hadn't really thought about it much but my thinking is for 3 reasons:
1) it's fun to be able to see how the game is going instead of being stuck in a "hole" and not being able to see what's going on.
2) I don't think it'll be a gankfest cuz I don't think ppl will really actually coordinate that well in a newbie game (or any game really).
3) I read an AAR with graphs on at www.faithful.dk and the author seemed to be getting a kick out of looking at the graphs every turn

I dunno - I could be convinced otherwise. Does anyone else who is among the 8 ppl in the game wanna weigh in? I think the graphs will be fun to check out.

Best,
John

[ May 10, 2004, 20:32: Message edited by: JJ_Colorado ]