MP: Chronicles_MA - General Game Discussion

[Gandalf Parker]

Most games tend to set two hosting settings. One amounts to the soonest (such as quick turn) and one for the latest which is often something like 24 hours to give everyone anywhere in the world a chance to make a turn.

[Baalz]

Well, I don't suppose I can rightly turn down an honored reserved spot.

[Irenicus23]

This is my first post and want to say hi to the community. I have played the demo for a week and just opened my copy of the complete game today from amazon. The special requirement for writing is a neat idea. Can I join this game or should I get more experience first?

[Otherling]

Having considered it, I think using the all-ages mod is probably better for this type of game. The main argument against it, I think, is that nations from some eras are simply stronger than others, and that the middle era is where things are the most balanced. However, in this particular game, I would hope players are mostly choosing their nations based on having a narrative ready for that nation.

I admit also to some selfish reasons for wanting the SA mod, in that my planned storyline for LA Atlantis goes out the window if we're using the middle age. But I think there are others as well whose preferred nation is from EA or LA, and who will have to change things around if forced to settle for a MA nation.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Irenicus23

This is my first post and want to say hi to the community. I have played the demo for a week and just opened my copy of the complete game today from amazon. The special requirement for writing is a neat idea. Can I join this game or should I get more experience first?

Just my own opinion but hopefully this game will be less focused on who can beat the game and more focused on making a story of it. So it might be a great game for beginners to get into if you are a writer, poet, bard, or daydreamer type.

But if you want to try multiplayer games fast and small then you can always play some of the small games on my server.
http://game.dom3minions.com/bin/blitz_chk.cgi

[Lokean]

Yay! Baalz noticed my sycophantic homage! You can go and have a look at the signup thread here and pick a MA nation. In general you can ask for a Mod nation, if you prefer, but not if it's made of weirdness and godmodding.

[Wrana]

Main argument against the Single Age mod (at least mine and what I've seen here) is NOT a disbalance between different ages' nations. It's that there is a history of Dominions world which describes how various nations changed with time which mostly forbids their coexistance. Lokean offered that they can be something like "factions" or "sects" of the same nation, but this strongly disagrees with what is known for almost all nations (possible exceptions being MA/LA Marignon and MA/LA Pythium). At the same time, there ARE factions of the same nations in the game already. These are Lanka/Kailasa, Pythium/Ermor, Helheim/Vanaheim, plus to some degree MA Man/Eriu.
The only way I see to reconciling Single Age with existing history of Dominions nations is to use a "space-time warp" kind of backstory, where colonists from different times passing through some extradimensional gate(s), end up in the same continuum (by the way, this calls for some really exotic maps, too...)

[Irenicus23]

Thank you for the advice Gandalf and the link to your server.

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Irenicus23

Thank you for the advice Gandalf and the link to your server.

Hi Irenicus23. Are you already playing on the blitz server? I'm also contemplating playing a blitz game. I made LA ermor pretender on bl_accost on port 8818.

[Gandalf Parker]

I just noticed that the initial post on the other Chronicals thread has been updated to game info.

Hmmm I must have missed some discussion, or wasnt watching the counts as well as I should have.

How did we get on PbEM, and CBM mod?
Thats going to take some getting used to. I will need to figure out how to do the PbEm thing with my setup.