Ascendant - Game On!

[secretperson]

I'd like to play as Lanka if I can still be in and if Atlantis is still taken

[Renojustin]

I'll disagree that owning 7 of 13 capitals is a completely dominant victory. There could easily be a few holdouts with huge gem or blood economies that are just coming into their own and could be equal in power to any gold-based empire owning half the map or more. If there are any powers like that left at the end of the game, they can certainly hold their heads high.

But I'd say that owning capitals for ONE turn probably ought to do it. And besides, it should be easier to create.

[Renojustin]

I've decided to take a little of Ich's advice, and now holding 7 of 15 capitals and fortifications for one turn will be the victory condition. That's not too much, and certainly not too little. So there will be some very good competition going but the game won't draw out overmuch.

Right now, we need everyone's email, and then we can upload pretenders. Just private message them all to me and I will send them to Ich so he can remind people to take their turns, among other things.

Exciting!

[lch]

Oh, I see, you haven't gotten their pretenders yet. What I normally do is the following:

1) ask everybody to send me their pretender files for the game
2) put all their pretender into my newlords folder
3) create a local game with their pretenders
4) transfer the game to the network server

This is because of the following:
1) I get their email addresses. I can contact them in case I need to.
2) I can check if everything is okay, if everybody set a password and so on. Nobody unwittingly overwrites another player's pretender or takes a nation he didn't sign up for.
3) Clicking the options together is easier than steering the command line.

So, what I'd ask of you to do is parts 1) to 3) and then send me what you got.

[Renojustin]

So, you want me to collect the pretenders, and then start a game with everyone's pretender files, then mail you the game file?

Won't that give me the location of everyone's capitals and knowledge of their scales and such?

[lch]

Renojustin said:
Won't that give me the location of everyone's capitals and knowledge of their scales and such?

No, not if you don't log in with their passwords after hosting the first turn.

Well, to me it seems that you initiated this game and you're the game master, so I suppose that the others trust you when it comes to this. If you think that it's better to be safe than sorry, then I could take the pretenders etc. from the players and host from the beginning. But you'd have to prepare the map and so on so that I only need to upload the pretenders and hit the "start game" button.

[Renojustin]

Well I do have the map; I generated one and it turned out to be pretty much the awesomest map I've ever seen so I'd really like to do that one. But starting positions should all be random and up for grabs still - that was an important part of the initial game concept.

I'd really prefer that I have no possible way to look at the map once capitals are in there. I don't want any special advantage if we can help it. Once this thing starts, I just want to be one more hardcore geek roleplaying my nation's guts out! Ahahaha I can't believe I have a girlfriend sometimes.