[PBEM game] Entwined Destiny (Over)

[DragonFire11]

Howday all! I have been willingly drafted by PashaDawg - he must enjoy losing! So count me in.

[Tuidjy]

Well, it seems that we have six teams already (combine GriffinOfBuerrig and the
Birthday Party) so when do we start? I think that we can expect race picking
to take a while, what with waiting for each team to pick a race in order, twice.

By the way, this was just to confirm I am in. From now on, Yvelina speaks for
our team. Oh, and it is 'Yvelina and Tuidjy', or I'm in trouble :-)

[GriffinOfBuerrig]

@Alneyan: So please decide about a system in what order we will decide over the nations.!

Hey BithdayParty, we are a team

[Yvelina]

> The realm of Somewhere is renowned for its mastery of magic, but more mundane warfare has been discarded

Exactly... that would describe my Vanheim/Man/Pythium/Caelum (We will get one of these, I hope) perfectly after turn III

[Alneyan]

So, we have this final roster:
- Aku and Boron (I have both mails)
- Alexti and Izaqyos (I have both mails)
- CUnknown and YellowCactus (I have YellowCactus' mail)
- Dragon11 and PashaDawg (I have Pasha's mail)
- GriffinOfBuerrig and the BirthdayParty (I have Griffin's mail)
- Tuidjy and Yvelina (I have both mails)

The method to pick the order claims are made will be random, and I will be casting the dice to see who goes first.

To save some time, I was thinking of asking two or even three teams at once about their pick. The team(s) not speaking first would make other choices in case their first nation(s) of choice are already taken.

To make that clearer: let's say I mail team X, Y and Z about their nations. X claims Ulm, Y claims T'ien Ch'i and Ulm, Z claims T'ien Ch'i, Pangaea and Marignon, but wants their choice to be cancelled if someone picked Ulm before them. In this example, team X would have Ulm, team Y T'ien Ch'i (they are before team Z in the order), and team Z Pangaea.

One Last note: since the map has not been chosen as of yet, the water nations will probably be out of the game (that, and it would make nation choosing more complicated).

[Alneyan]

And the settings as of yet:

- Number of players: six teams of two players
- Map: manual placement of the teams next to each other, though the placement itself may be kept secret (if playing on a standard map).
- Independents: The usual 6 for now
- Research: To be determined
- Site frequency: The standard of 45% for now
- Hall of Fame: 15 entries
- Scores are off, but there will be comments about the nations.
- Victory condition: Last team standing (or when all teams are willing to concede to a team)
- Mod: Zen Pretenders mod 2.0, available from here. The latest change lot for the mod is available here (it is currently the latest post in the thread).

[Alneyan]

I have just sent mails to the first three teams in the order (random order as decided by the die). The first team makes a single pick, the second team picks two nations, and the third one picks three nations, with the first nation not claimed by anyone else attributed to this team. The water nations are out of the game.

Sending mails to three teams at once should make nation picking a bit faster, as I will only need four rows of mails to get that part done. In the meantime, there are still a couple of items in the settings that have not been addressed as of yet. The main one is about the map that will be played; I only made a suggestion here about Theater of War (because of its layout).