Attack of the Ankle-Biters - Replacment player needed.

[geoschmo]

I have decided to go ahead and give this idea a try. The game is up on PBW waiting for players.

Attack of the Ankle Biters

...I have made a couple small changes (I think they are small changes anyway) I hope Slick doesn't mind. I think they are improvements.

First I am going to allow transports, since they are a ship size you get from the start anyway. And even though they are bigger then frigates the cargo requirment means they will not out gun them. I think they will serve well as carriers, but of course there are many other uses for transports.

Second the players will be limited to small weapons platforms, small drones and space stations (small bases). This is just for balance since the largest war ship anyone is going to have is a frigate.

I haven't decided if this will work better as a mod or just a gentlemans agreement to avoid using the Banned techs. Eitehr will work. My main concern with the GA is if people miss their turns the AI will not abide by it. We can discuss that among the players that join.

Other stuff:

Starting resources: 20000
Starting planets: 3
Home planet value: Good
Score display: allied
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 2000
Quadrant type: Midlife
Quadrant size: Depends on number of players
Event frequency: Low
Event severity: Catastrophic
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: Last man standing. You are free to make all the in game alliances you want, as long as you kill each other in the end.
Maximum units: MAX
Maximum ships: MAX
Computer players: NONE
Computer difficulty: NA
Computer player bonus: NA
Neutral empires: No
Other game settings: No more then 100 mines per sector. The game will allow to cooperate with an ally and lay more then 100 mines in a sector. I am banning that practice by house rule for this game. Because of the tiny ships it's going to be difficult enough to keep enough sweepers to handle 100 mines. It's asking to much to allow more then that for this game.

Ship/Tech/Planet trading, surender, retrofit series, and any other stuff that some people call gamey will be allowed for this game. I don't want to have to enforce a bunch of rules, and I think the small ships and no ally victory will help limit most of that stuff anyway. If the game allows it I will.

If some ugly bug noone knows about right now comes up don't abuse it without discussing it with me first. We will make a group ruling on whether it's allowed.

Just play nice.

[geoschmo]

So everybody join the game, and maybe if we actually talk about the game for a while in this thread Slick won't be able to fight the urge to join the game himself.

Geoschmo

[Slick]

You dirty guy! I promised myself I wouldn't play this game due to RL, and now it looks like you are gonna force me. GRRR!!! I'll play on one condition not mentioned in your setup: if the turn length is 48 hrs (or more) I'll play. There, are you happy??!! You made me do it. I can't believe you made me do it! In fairness to the other players getting my turns in on time, I'd need the 48 hrs occasionally. On a normal turn, I could get them in at least daily, though.

You twisted, evil, manipulating, ...well actually pretty super guy...

What say you?

Slick.

[Slick]

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

You already set it up for 48 hrs!!!!

You dirty, rotten, sneaky......

*trots off to create his empire*

Slick.

[Joachim]

Great idea!

Count me in. The real challenge is working through various racial techs to work out the impact of only having little ships... sounds of deep pondering.

[Slick]

3 in a row. Not like me at all. Needless to say that I haven't played this type of game yet, and this is not a complaint, but I think the game will be ruled by Transport Carriers. We'll see how it actually turns out, but I think everyone will gravitate to fighters due to the cargo capacity of the transports. Either way it will be fun and a learning experience.

Slick.

[Narrew]

Just signed up, is Intel going to allowed or not?