No Diplo EA Game - No Wankers Allowed - Game Over, Baalz/Abysia Wins

[Kobal2]

What's the sitch on banned spells ? Do we indeed ban Astral Corruption, Arcane Nexus and the Forge ?

[Executor]

I think it's a good way to go, and I think BoT should be included.
All those globals give too much power to one single nation which without diplomacy (global dispel, or attack) might just hand over the victory to the player that cast it/them with little or no effort.

But if guys want the spells in I guess we could keep them.

[Fantomen]

I'm positive to banning them.

[Ragnars Wolves]

Would you be banning them because of their power or becaue of the no diplomacy (or both)?

[Kobal2]

Yeah, Burden of Time probably needs to go too. It's less powerful in the EA but it's still basically a you-lose button to all the human nations (esp. considering few of them are big Astral players)

@Ragnar: Well, they are really powerful anyway, but in a no diplo game the rest of the world pooling their pearls to counter them is a no-go. Which essentially means the rest of the world would rely on the usual Astral suspects (Kailasa, R'Lyeh...) to dispel them, who may or may not be around at that point. Besides, they can't be expected to dispel the broken globals thrown around by 16 other nations on their own.

This would be even more true of Astral Corruption, since that spell relies on slaves which are and will always be more plentiful than pearls in a 1-on-1 context.

[Saros]

Yeah i'd say definitely ban all the big 'I win' globals as they are normally balanced by being a declaration of war on the entire world but that doesnt work so well when there's no diplo.

[Calahan]

All

I just found out about a death in my close family, so I'm sorry but I'm not going to be around for the next several days to get this game started.

I think the game can start with any admin though (a non-player admin only really needed to sort subs, check-up on stalers etc. once the game is well under way), so I'll PM the password to Executor for him to sort the game start out.

I should be back by next weekend.

[Herode]

Sorry to hear that, Calahan. No worries for the games, of course, and thanks for your involvement.
Bon courage,
H.

[Aethyr]

I'm sorry for your loss Calahan.

[Executor]

Still waiting on some players, the map question is still up, so it will probably be Asia Twist if I can add another start location, or Alexander.
It Should be sorted out during the day.