MP: Chronicles_MA - General Game Discussion

[Kristoffer O]

Sounds like I can manage the amount of writing. I'm in.

Hmm, I've only joined two simultaneous games once before in my life

[Lokean]

Well, K_O, I suppose I'm honoured on behalf of the reading public...

djo: Um, I've just gone and made an account for the YS wiki and cleaned out all the random links to cialis adverts on the main page (which somebody seems to have started filling it with some time this year). So it's actually still usable.

[djo]

It might be a good idea to try to contact puffyn and ask permission. S/he was a good person and deserves the courtesy.

When I am back home after the holiday, I may try to find an email address for them.

[puffyn]

Yeah, I sort of fell off the Dominions wagon. Anyhow, I'd be happy to let you guys use the wiki if you'd like. Thanks for cleaning up the link-spam, Lokean. I think there's some way to restrict new users, which I may try to figure out how to turn on in order to cut down on some of that crap. I'll be in touch by e-mail with the details.

Yarnspinners was a lot of fun. I look forward to lurking, and maybe reading your stories will motivate me to dust of my copy of Dom 3.

[Otherling]

I love the concept of this, and I figure I've got room for one more ongoing game. Do you have room for one more?

[Zapmeister]

This concept sounds quite similar to a game I started back in the days of Dom2, call "Yarnspinners". In that game, writing your AAR was the main point and that was reflected in the rules of the game as follows:

1. Each turn, each player submitted a couple of paragraphs of narrative to an independant, non-playing gamemaster that scored the submision as follows:

- 0 points if nothing was submitted
- 1 point for overly terse (one-liner) or excessively verbose submissions
- 2 points for anything else

After a nominated number of turns (I think we chose 60) the game ends and nations are awarded further points for being the front-runner (10 points) or runner-up (5 points) in each of the score graphs except army size.

Nation with the most points is the winner. The idea was popular enough to spawn a second game (Yarnspinners2) although I wasn't involved with that, and I think they tweaked the rules a little.

Anyways, good luck with Chronicles!

Zap

[djo]

In YS2, we ditched the points. We had a neutral nation that handed out astral pearls for each posted story.

In my opnion, people are going to write or not regardless of reward. As long as people are into it, you'll get good stories.

[Lokean]

Originally Posted by djo

It might be a good idea to try to contact puffyn and ask permission. S/he was a good person and deserves the courtesy.

When I am back home after the holiday, I may try to find an email address for them.

First thing I did was email the person who owns the domain, who could well be puffyn, too.

EDIT: And who appears to be a web developer, if the blog on there is anything to go by.

[calmon]

I would like to join this game.

I prefer a "normal" game with VPs and a lot of writing/AARs.

I'm not such a fan for giving points/awards for paragraphs submitted. If people don't want to write they don't need to join the game. There are enough others...

[Gandalf Parker]

This is one of the few games offered that have tempted me to play (as me).

So just to toss in my 2-cent opinons.
Dawn is a good map but might be limiting here. Id prefer a really large random map. Especially if modded nations are added as it can drive the number of players quite high. Most know that I prefer maps with high mountains in order to generate more choke points. I think those AAR well. Like this...
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMaps/TriMega.jpg

Normally I like what VPs do to games but how would you AAR it? How do you recognize a VP in role? "I am proceeding toward the important province to the north"? Unless the VPs are just capitals of course, then its simple.

Heros mod would be good, nations would be fine. Im not sure if any others would be a good idea (except maybe single age if there is enough interest).

I prefer Era 1, Hall of Fame 15, Renaming on, Indepts 9, magic sites higher than average for AAR. Maybe noscoregraphs for AAR sake.