[PBW] A House Divided - Discussion thread (PBW Setup Online!)

[Joachim]

Boing!

One slot left in what promises to be a very interesting game.. Step up!

BTW, I dont mind about ship sets.

[General Woundwort]

To the Big Five (and you know who you are...)

To keep things moving, here's the plan re: starting the game (also giving time for that one Last victim to volunteer...)

1) Get The BALANCE Mod if you don't already have it. The Default Strategies Mod from Fyron's USM will also be used, but not until the game actually "begins".

2) Make your race's Main and Race pics. If you don't/can't make one, I'll make a race/main for you based on your empire file, and send it to you for approval. Also indicate if you want a shipset OTHER THAN the stock Terrans.

3) Make your race's empire file - 2000 points, rock/oxygen, no racial abilites or techs that are not "human". A little background on your faction would also be helpful (more on that below).

4) E-mail me the EMP file and pics. I'll set up the shipsets and post them to PBW for you. Then I'll set up the game in PBW for you to join.

Background - I'm trying to keep it as "generic" as possible, but the basic outline is that a human world inhabiting an isolated star cluster sent out 5 (or 6 ) colony ships after astronomically surveying their surroundings. These ships colonized the most desirable worlds in the cluster, and formed the core of the competing factions. At the time, travel and communications were primitive, so they had a chance to "develop" with a certain degree of freedom, but they still owed allegiance to the Empire back on homeworld (think feudalism). Now, communications and travel are much faster, and there is a power struggle between the regional governments and Homeworld (think transition from feudalism to modern nation-state). A particularly power-hungry (and also inept) Emperor has recently attempted to consolidate power - and got removed in a spectacular fashion (watch for upcoming story thread). This leaves the players to fight out who will run the show, and the game begins...

EDIT - The BALANCE Mod, NOT THE PROPORTIONS MOD. (Smacks forehead repeatedly...)

[ April 29, 2004, 11:18: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Joachim]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
To the Big Five (and you know who you are...)

To keep things moving, here's the plan re: starting the game (also giving time for that one Last victim to volunteer...)

1) Get The Proportions Mod if you don't already have it. The Default Strategies Mod from Fyron's USM will also be used, but not until the game actually "begins".

We playing proportions? I dont recall that bit, it is a big change is it not? I have not played it before will that be a problem?

[Loser]

Wait, we're using Proportions?
I thought it was just the PvK Balance Mod...

is everything going to be colonized, or will it just be that our shipsets are the same?

Perhaps I misunderstood the original message.

[Joachim]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
To the Big Five (and you know who you are...)

To keep things moving, here's the plan re: starting the game (also giving time for that one Last victim to volunteer...)

1) Get The Proportions Mod if you don't already have it. The Default Strategies Mod from Fyron's USM will also be used, but not until the game actually "begins".

We playing proportions? I dont recall that bit, it is a big change is it not? I have not played it before will that be a problem?

[General Woundwort]

ACK!

Note to self: don't post at 4:30 in the morning.

I meant The BALANCE Mod.

Sorry.

[Alneyan]

3) Make your race's empire file - 2000 points, rock/oxygen, no racial abilites or techs that are not "human". A little background on your faction would also be helpful (more on that below).

What kind of abilities should we not take when making our empire files? Or rather, what would qualify as being adequate settings? (For example, Temporal Knowledge wouldn't quite qualify as being human, but what about the characteristics?)

Thanks in advance!

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
What kind of abilities should we not take when making our empire files? Or rather, what would qualify as being adequate settings? (For example, Temporal Knowledge wouldn't quite qualify as being human, but what about the characteristics?)

Thanks in advance!

Organic/Crystaline/Temporal Technology, Mechanoids, and Emotionless would probably be out of bounds.

Characteristics I'm less worried about.

EDIT - since this is a basic SEIV setup other than the Balance items, better nix Religous as well. That Talisman would be just too... well...

[ April 29, 2004, 15:58: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Alneyan]

Thanks for the quick answer!

Incidentally, I seem to recall that you *may* need the USM mod when creating your Empire in order to have access to these formations during the game. Or rather, Fyron eluded to this, as he said that you could play a vanilla game with these extra formations provided you made your Empire with this mod. Don't quote me on that though, since my memory is likely faulty.

[General Woundwort]

That doesn't make much sense, as the DefaultStrategies file doesn't really affect any other data files - but it wouldn't hurt to have it set up before you do your empire file anyways.