New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

Jurri · #1 July 12th, 2005, 01:36 PM

Hmm... It would seem that on Orania, in Winterland (#277) there is an Ice Devil instead of an Ice Druid. Is it just me, or can someone maybe verify whether this is the case universally? The only mods in operation are the ones in use with this game, and the .map seems to detail there being an "Ice Druid" in the province. Do the Zen mods touch upon the Ice Druid, or only on the Frost Father? If it's renamed or something, I could see it causing behavior like this.

Not an issue, of course, as a stronger than usual province defense would touch upon everyone equally, but weird things are always intriguing!

Argitoth · #2 July 12th, 2005, 02:16 PM

I don't care to read 10 pages of post to see the status of this game. I'd like to join as C'tis... Note that it is the hosts job to update the first post with info. Come on people, don't be lazy!

RonD · #3 July 12th, 2005, 02:26 PM

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Argitoth said:
I don't care to read 10 pages of post to see the status of this game. I'd like to join as C'tis... Note that it is the hosts job to update the first post with info. Come on people, don't be lazy!

That is a lot of reading, even for the industrious person you appear to be. Perhaps the first few lines of the first post would be of interest to you.

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The rules are simple:
1. All nations will be randomly assigned. No one except the host knows which player belongs to which nation. I am shooting for 17 players here.

Cainehill · #4 July 12th, 2005, 02:27 PM

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Argitoth said:
I don't care to read 10 pages of post to see the status of this game. I'd like to join as C'tis... Note that it is the hosts job to update the first post with info. Come on people, don't be lazy!

Argitoth, perhaps you didn't notice the game is : "Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy"? In other words, nations are randomly assigned, no one knows who has what nation, and there's no diplomacy ingame or on the forums.

In other words, no you certainly can't join as C'tis.
Sheesh.

Jurri · #5 July 12th, 2005, 02:37 PM

Oh, sorry Turin! There seems to be no end to my dizziness these days... I agree about the Oak of Ages, it's far too good to be preplaced. Hence, I'm all for using your mapfile.

Huntsman · #6 July 12th, 2005, 03:57 PM

Sorry folks but I'm going to have to pull out of this one. I'm going away for 4 days and I don't want to hold it up, especially for the early rounds. Good luck.

Argitoth · #7 July 12th, 2005, 04:26 PM

Goblin · #8 July 12th, 2005, 08:06 PM

Being a Newbie and not understanding the potential ramification of the high-powered sites you mention can I just say that: An imbalanced game may be better than none.

With 17/16/15/... players it may be better to accept sum imperfections of set ups and the like and adopt the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid - me being the stupid one which needs things kept simple).

If people think that certain sites are ultra powerful then just list them for everyone to see. That way anyone holding them is likely to have to devote excessive resources to holding them from jealous neighbours - hence balancing things again.

Also I thought Almeyan�s suggestion for victory conditions was brilliantly simple (had KISS written all over it).

Regards,
Goblin.

Turin · #9 July 12th, 2005, 02:18 PM

My map file says that there is an ice devil. I think it�s intentional since he is accompanied by 15 frost fiends.

The ice druid is in winter woods, province 5.

But I�d really like to use my modified mapfile since a known enchantment 50 site with weak defenders is pretty unbalancing. The other preplaced special sites are fine imho.