Platypus: Noob Team Game Full

[Zylithan]

Avoiding putting two rush races together sounds fair to me. I'll look at some other races and will change. I reckon Formoria is also a good bless rush race, so I'll avoid them, as well as the ones you listed.

Would me being Yomi, Ermor, Agartha or Pangaea be okay?

I haven't played any of these races, so I'm not familiar with their units/strats.

[cleveland]

So my game just arrived, right about to install.

Again, I'd like to reiterate that I'm going to be terrible. So maybe I (Ulm) should be paired with someone/ some nation that's considered "good."

Anyways, I'm all set. Please let me know what comes next.

[Zylithan]

Cleveland - are you going to have any time to play this weekend? Of the people who signed up, ExitJudas might have had the most experience (he said a whopping 5 turns). but... I dont think thats very meaningful.

Aside from mapmaking, I have played < 10 hours single player and no online multiplayer games before this week. I've been on the forums more than I've played the games.

I'm willing to put off starting the game a while. EVeryone can play with pretender builds (make a pretender, play a little single player with that pretender and race, etc.)

Other suggestions?
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I'm temporarily switching to Ermor, but might switch again.
Anyone else wants to switch races just say so.
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Everyone is okay with the proposed start spots idea if we can settle on teams? If so, I might work on that tonight.

[Zylithan]

Cleveland - In my opinion, playing bless rush races are easier . If you took someone like Niefelheim or Lanka or Vanheim or Heilheim (the races Llama mentioned) that might make it easier for you?
If I switch away from Lanka and you swithced to Lanka, for example, the race pairings would be similar to what Llamabeast suggested.


Also, make sure you download the recent 3.10 patch. You can get it from shrapnelgames.com I think.

[cleveland]

Yes, I'll have time to play this weekend.

I certainly don't mind switching nations, they're all the same to me.

3.10 installed.

[Zylithan]

okay, update for folks. As of now, teams remain the same, but I am changing to a non-bless-rush race.

I looked at urraparrand. I tried to find 4 sets of start points that are as fair as possible, in starting income and in position for play.

This is the best I can do:
8&23
141&118
84&52
146&153
So those will be the start points. As discussed above, llama will help in randomly determining which team ges which set of 2. You can then decide which of you goes in which. Tell me, and I will adjust the map. (Everyone will know where everyone starts). Then we begin.

Please state strong objections.

(as said before, all settings default, excpet 150% gold as recommended by the map, and graphs off, renaming on).

[llamabeast]

Giving Cleveland Lanka might be a good idea, they are a strong and interesting race.

All the ones you suggested for yourself would be good Zylithan. They are all nice, interesting races, and none of them are very rush-y.

[cleveland]

I frankly don't think the game is over at all.

High-level magics haven't really been touched yet, and I doubt we could take every province before they're opened. Could potentially change the entire game.