MP: 'Stillborn Noobs' Running

[tratorix]

Originally Posted by aaminoff

I don't think Marcel posted anywhere looking for a sub. Unfortunately, since Marcel owns this thread, we can not change the first post or the thread title (eg, to "Stillborn noobs - looking for a sub").

It probably makes sense for Tratorix to post in the looking for players thread. Tratorix could also create a new thread for this game and put a link to it here, and perhaps we could get Marcel to edit the first post to point to the new thread.

I have the feeling that the most important skill a game admin needs is fluency with forums. The ability to write clear, effective, and polite forum messages.

I'm going to create a thread looking for a sub and hold the game until we find one, if we don't find a sub within 72 hours, I'll be looking for suggestions of how to proceed, as playing with the AI really isn't an option for how this game is set up.

[kuketski]

oh! looks like turn resending is back on line!

[aaminoff]

Well, unfortunately, it seems like in a week we have had no nibbles of folks interested in subbing.

I can imagine continuing this game as a training excercise. Setting Pangaea to AI is a bad idea, but we could just allow Pan to sit where they are and agree that nobody can attack their territory, or not until 10 turns from now or something. I am not sure whether the way Pan expanded means that one of team 2 or 3 is greatly advantaged by that solution.

Or, here's a wacky idea. Teams 2 and 3 bid numbers of provinces to take from Pan. Whoever bids lowest gets a NAP with Machaka for some number of turns or something like that. What I mean is, one team gets a bunch of provinces, the other gets an ally. The whole thing sunsets after a certain number of turns and then it is a free for all.