PBEM game: Song of the Blade (Running)

[Blofeld]

I'm in. Random nations could be fun - I have to start playing something else than Ctis or Marignon at last.

[Oversway]

I'd like to join. I think Zen's balance mods would improve the game, especially the pretender one.

[Alneyan]

Blofeld said:
I'm in. Random nations could be fun - I have to start playing something else than Ctis or Marignon at last.

Blofeld! Please sign that non-aggression pact, for a duration of 200 turns! No strings attached, no fine print (none that the naked eye can see at least), a once-in-a-lifetime offer! I'm cutting me own throat!

Welcome aboard Oversway and Blofeld. It makes seven of us, so I guess there is still room for a couple more players. The current settings go as follow; feel free to protest if something does not quite strike your fancy.

- Map: Inland
- Independents: 6
- Research: very hard
- Renaming is on, HoF has 15 entries.
- Victory condition: controlling half the capitals, though the game may go on if the player in control of the capitals wishes it.
- Nations will be assigned randomly
- All the other settings as default
- Mods: a mod making hoarding items much less appealing (I think I will go with Panther's values: 5 Water for the Clams, 3 Nature/3 Fire for the Fetishes, 4 Blood and 2 Earth for the Bloodstones). Zen Pretenders will be enabled as well.

And the remaining queries about the settings:
- Should water nations be kept out of the game?
- For the victory condition, should it be "full control" of half the capitals, or would "being besieged" be enough?

[The_Tauren13]

Alneyan said:
- Mods: a mod making hoarding items much less appealing (I think I will go with Panther's values: 5 Water for the Clams, 3 Nature/3 Fire for the Fetishes, 4 Blood and 2 Earth for the Bloodstones).

Erm, I couldn't agree more that clams are way underpriced, but 5W??? Couldn't we stop at 4W? I think 4W 1S would be cool. And what about soul contracts? Am I the only one who thinks those are just as badly underpriced?

[Alneyan]

Well, the values Panther proposed were made to make those items too expensive I believe, hence the 5W. I have no objections to lowering it to 4W however, with perhaps another path thrown in for good measure.

I have no opinion on Soul Contracts, simply because I have never seen them hoarded, but they seem to be quite a bargain for their price (if left alone for a while). How more expensive would you make them?

[Oversway]

- Should water nations be kept out of the game?

I don't care too much either way. Depends on the map, of course.

- For the victory condition, should it be "full control" of half the capitals, or would "being besieged" be enough?

I'd vote for full control.

[rabelais]

I'd like to play, if there is room.

I think a small map is critical for a game like this.

Are themes being randomized as well, or is no one being forced into Iron Faith, etc

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[Alneyan]

There is still some room, so welcome aboard Rabelais!

I like the idea of enforced themes, but it would be difficult to check. I could check the starting sites on turn 1, and give the location of all the capitals, or the first turn could be sent to a third party for a quick check. "Hey, lucky you, you got Caelum in the random picks... Too bad I rolled heads, and you end up with the Raptors theme."