Faerun Test Mod - 17 player modded game STARTED

[Soapyfrog]

Next hosting will be Sunday morning at 1:00am EST, and then we go to 72 hours. I extended it a bit since I had to bring the server down briefly for maintenance.

[Crash]

Anyone want to form an alliance??

Ermor is currently fighting a group of 3 players, who have support from at least one other. Ulm has been driven to AI status, but Pangea, Man, and Caelum remain working in concert with the support of at least Jotunheim.

Apparently this confederation had been planned from the beginning of the game, as indicated by the build and expansion patterns of my neighbors.

Ermor is about dead, but the rest of you should know that if you engage one of these guys, you'll probably end up fighting all of them.


Good luck.
Crash.

[archaeolept]

ahh, crash - this game was also advertised on another board, quartertothree, and, as such, the players from there know each other and it is no surprise that a group of them are working in concert. - especially since they most likely have played previous domII games together.

[Soapyfrog]

I am in no position to help, alas. Still working on my little island off the west coast...

[The Panther]

I am miles away from the action, but I hereby announce that I will join in an alliance against any people who start a game allied. That ruins the FFA nature of the game and is unethical at best. I even consider it a form of cheating that people like this do not announce pre-game alliances BEFOFE the game begins.

So, is it Man, Caelum, and Pangaea that everybody else should fight any chance they get? Should Jontunheim also be included in the anti-cheater alliance?

[Turin]

I don´t think that they allied before the game started, or that the alliance will Last if ermor gets destroyed.
More likely they loaded the map after the game started to check out the starting positions and noticed that ermor was put in the middle of them.
So it was probably just the logical choice to take out ermor as soon as possible. Coordination is probably better than in a "normal" dom2 game, because they can easily send each other pms on that board and know each other somewhat.

I´m in another game with some of them as sg ermor myself and I too was under coordinated attack from three nations very early. But that came as no surprise since I was put in the middle of them, so it was only natural to ally against me. Fortunately sg ermor is very good at defense, so I came out ahead in the wars and now 11 out of 15 hall of fame spots belong to my commanders.

[Huzurdaddi]

Well I don't know if I would call it cheating, but it is really unpleasant to be on the receiving end.

I wish I could help him out but my research stinks and I am on the other side of the board.

Finally, I don't think Caelum is part of the alliance and it sounds ( again I do not have 1st hand knowledge ) that Jotunhiem only has a treaty with Man.

[Graeme Dice]

The Panther said:
I am miles away from the action, but I hereby announce that I will join in an alliance against any people who start a game allied. That ruins the FFA nature of the game and is unethical at best. I even consider it a form of cheating that people like this do not announce pre-game alliances BEFOFE the game begins.

I suggest that you get over yourself instead of whining that people have a planned alliance. There was no mention made of any silly house rules about alliances, so you should assume that people will ally as they see fit. It would make no difference anyways if they had allied before the game started, since any good player who looked at that map would see that you should ally with Ermor's neighbours and rush them early.