MP NewbsWithLowSelfEsteem - Year 8: A Dance with Illithids

iRFNA · #1 February 5th, 2011, 05:56 PM

Another all ages newbie game! No rules and such, just chaos. Besides the whole newb thing, going with the definition of having played under 10 MP games.

Mods:
Single Age Mod
Llama's Streamers and Standards
CBM 1.82

Info:
Host: Gandalf's server (game.dom3minions.com), direct connect
Port: I'll PM it, make sure your PMs are enabled!
Map: Cradle of Dominion
Players: 14

Settings:
48-72(+?) hour quickhost (discuss)
35 magic site frequency
Score graphs off
No nation info (can't read pretender names and titles in statistics)
Renaming on
15 Hall of Fame entries
Everything else default

Players:
iRFNA - MA Caelum
Thanatus del Dragos - EA Agartha
Finalgenesis - MA R'lyeh
NaivePhilosopher - MA Ermor
Soyweiser - EA Lanka - DEAD
SirMu - EA Niefelheim - DEAD
Admiral_Aorta - MA Abysia - DEAD
lwarmonger - LA Ulm - DEAD
bbz - MA Bandar Log
Hylobius - MA Vanheim - DEAD
Peacekeeper - LA Pythium - DEAD
nttea - EA Fomoria
PavlovianCat - EA Tir na n'Og
DarkAvenger211 - LA Ermor - DEAD

If you want to quit mid-game for whatever reason, please allow me to find a sub! Just post and say you're done! Having someone stale out or spontaneously go AI really sucks! It's ok if you're losing and want to quit, just say so in this thread and let me find a sub!!!

Soyweiser · #2 February 5th, 2011, 06:04 PM

No rules? So hidden autospawn locking of castles is allowed?

iRFNA · #3 February 5th, 2011, 06:05 PM

...I guess? If anyone knows to do that, they're not really a newb. Return to the soulless dom playing from whence you came, veteran!

Soyweiser · #4 February 5th, 2011, 06:23 PM

Not really that hard to discover now is it

. Just read some of the rants by Calahan and you know about them.

I just pointed that out because that trick is not really counterable. (And a nasty a-hole move). In fact at the SA forum, a place with a reputation for using as few rules as possible. The hiddencommander autospawn castlelock trick is banned, next to copying the rules of a mind controlled bogus archer to other commanders.

So, as one newbie to another, I would ban those two tricks. (And I would also consider banning scout move blocking armies).

Just to prevent a lot of drama later on.

(Edit) Thanks for calling me a vet. It made me feel all warm inside

. Sadly I'm not. Only a SP vet.

iRFNA · #5 February 5th, 2011, 06:24 PM

Eh, I hate the idea of banning, and SA goons have an ingrained hard-on for authority. If anyone does such jerk maneuvers, put a screenshot or two in this thread and we'll gang rape them! Street justice and all that.

Ya, here you are running around with all this forbidden knowledge. My ears (eyes?) are burning from being exposed to it!

Thanatus del Dragos · #6 February 5th, 2011, 06:31 PM

I have low self esteem and am a newb! I'll plate LA Gath.

iRFNA · #7 February 5th, 2011, 06:33 PM

Well, there's one. Any preferences when it comes to quantity of players (10 or 16?) or hosting time? The two maps I've picked are extremely similar in format and look pretty fun, so I'm more interested in if you'd rather end up with a larger game later on (could be micro heavy or epic, who knows).

Thanatus del Dragos · #8 February 5th, 2011, 06:34 PM

No, I'm a newb, I dont know the difference.

Finalgenesis · #9 February 5th, 2011, 10:07 PM

Thanks for hosting! About time to try out cbm 1.71 and low gems game.

MA ryleh

I prefer Crown5, 16 ppl, 48 hrs hosting (later setting to 72 hrs as micro gets tougher)

iRFNA · #10 February 5th, 2011, 10:35 PM

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn