MP Game - Newbie Game (by Aku)

[PashaDawg]

It appears the Drool is still AWOL. Has he responded to your inquiries, Aku?

I am playing another MP game currently, and someone in that game is AWOL, too (which is not very much fun for the rest of us).

If it becomes clear that someone has dropped out, do we have the power to turn his/her empire over to the computer's control? (This would be a drastic remedy, but in some cases it might need to be done.)

Perhaps, we could set up a standard. For example: if a player misses his/her turn for 10 turns in a row and has failed to communicate an explanation to the other players, then the other players shall have the discretion (perhaps, after a vote) to turn the missing player's nation over to the computer's control until the player returns.

I think things would be different if the player had a reason to leave the game temorarily and requested that the other players indulge him by pausing the game, etc. (For example, I know I will be traveling to Italy in late September. )

[PashaDawg]

Well, shut my mouth, is Drool back?

[Boron]

hm i had bad luck too .
random event vampire count attack
the province will be lost for a few turns grmml
given my slow expansion with cw this really hurts .

[Boron]

Originally posted by PashaDawg:


I think things would be different if the player had a reason to leave the game temorarily and requested that the other players indulge him by pausing the game, etc. (For example, I know I will be traveling to Italy in late September. )

hm finding a sub is better . because in a 10 player game most likely about 5-8 players will e.g. be in holidays 1-2 weeks at least too .
so only pause if the player in holiday doesn't find a sub or if there are 2+ players in holiday at the same time .


oh and enjoy your trip to italy then Pasha

[Boron]

Originally posted by alexi:
yeah.. i figured standard vanheim was better. and sloth3 prevents you from building a bunch of 20 unit squads of skin shifters within a few turns.

but today i started playing around with the Midguard theme, and it kicks ***!! much better then standard theme. Cos in midguard you get cheaper researchers with astral2. This didn't strike me as more usefull then the other magic unit which has A2 and 2random. But imagine the sight of a squad of 25-30 skinshifters that are all ethereal and lucky, making them almost impossible to hit, and if you do hit them, they go into beast form and regenerate!! And then you have 6-10 Stellar Cascades stunning your entire army so that even your best units are unconscious, just waiting for my impossible-to-hit-regenerating-beasts to rip them to shreds.. its extremely effective.

All that WITHOUT a pretender! No bless, no rainbow, no supercombatant.

Anyways, I'm sure you could adapt this strategy for any race that has cheap S2 mages. And it would be even more powerfull with sacred units and a F9 or W9 bless.

hm good strat i never thought of that problem :
etheral effect is canceled by magic weapons .
caelum has magic weapons .
every race with f9 bless too .

+ you need 2 turns with your mages casting etheral + luck and your skinshifters on hold orders .

so archers/x-bows espeically with wind guide/flaming arrows can cause severe damage while you buff

so do any flying armies with attack rearmost orders or something similiar


but otherwise a really nasty idea . evil


Last problem that comes to my mind :
enemy = ryleh / pythium :
they mind duel your S2 mages to death with ease

[Klatu]

**IMPOTANT ANNOUNCEMENT**
Hey All, This your server host Klatu.

T'ien Ch'i (Drool) has just missed his 4th consecutive turn. What should we do about this race? The turns would have played much faster, but we keep having to wait for his no show.

Please post so i can get a general concensus. I guess the options would be: 1. Keep waiting for him in case he plays; 2. Leaving T'ien Ch'i as it is, but force a host when all but he has played; 3. Put T'ien Chi on an AI setting; 4. (not even sure if this is possible) Delete T'ien Ch'i from the game.

[archaeolept]

uhh, i'm not in this game, but 4 stale turns in a row is beyond the pale. can his cowardly ***.

(hopefully you have a master password. otherwise, your only alternative is to try and PM him and plead w/ him to go AI).

force hosting each turn is a pain, and an insult to you and the other honorable players. just turn him over to the AI if you can. deleting a nation is not an option.

[ August 01, 2004, 16:31: Message edited by: archaeolept ]