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[Ragnarok]

What does everyone think of Ancient race? Should we ban it?

[primitive]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
What does everyone think of Ancient race? Should we ban it?

Ban it.

Its too good to not take, and very boring to have.

[Spoo]

It's fine with me if you leave ancient race. I'm not going to take it and ruin my ability to use the planets window to colonize my cluster.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Spoo:
I'm not going to take it and ruin my ability to use the planets window to colonize my cluster.

You can just use the Planets window with Don't Show Systems to Avoid, set your ships to ignor the Systems to Avoid, and make excessive use of the Systems to Avoid feature in Empire Options.

. . .

or not.

[Ragnarok]

I think we will put a ban on ancient race. It will ruin too much of the fun and mystery in the game.

[Ragnarok]

Cirvol has joined up for this game.
Once we have all our players signed up and ready to go I will send out a news item from PBW for the final game settings, most are in place right now but some things could change if players wish.

We now have 2 open slots of any who wish to join this game.

[Ragnarok]

The game has filled its 10 slots. As soon as we have a map, and the new patch is released we will start the game. Start thinking about your empire setups!

[Ragnarok]

Here are the game settings I've updated on the game page on PBW.

Starting resources: 100000
Starting planets: 10
Home planet value: Good
Score display: Own
Technology level: High
Racial points: 5000
Event frequency: Medium
Event severity: Catastrophic
Victory conditions: Last man standing (See below)
Maximum units: Unlimited
Maximum ships: Unlimited
Other game settings:

Surrender to be enabled. But if you are being beaten badly enough to the point where you want to surrender you must approach not only the player beating you but also the game admin. This will make sure we don't have any situations as we did in the Last game.

There will be no Intel in this game.

Religious; this trait will be allowed but the Talisman will be Banned. It will not be modded out of the game but if you are caught using it you will suffer great consequences.

No turtelling! You must leave at least 1 system open for warp points to come in and out of. Turtling will be punished as well.

Ancient race is Banned.

Winning condition; this is Last man standing with a max alliance of 2 players at the end. We will play until it seems right to end the game.

Partnerships; only 1 partnership can be made between players. If you want to have partnerships with 1 player, and military alliances with the rest that is fine but only one partnership treaty.

The Last 2 players will be nagged by PBW automatically. You will also recieve notification when there are just 4 hours left until the turn will be processed. So please do not ask my why I send out an e-mail should you be one of the Last to upload. This is automated by PBW!

Vacation; If you are going to be away for an extended period of time during the course of this game I ask that you please notify me in the forums or by e-mail so that I do not kick you from the game. In some cases we may be able to put the game on LPU but in this game it will Last along time so missing 2 or 3 turns shouldn't hurt too badly if you set your empire up correctly before you leave and fill all of your queues.

If you miss more then 4 turns without notifying me and giving me a reason for the missed turns I will kick you and find a replacement player. So please let me know if you will be gone.

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If you have any suggestions as to more rules we need to implement to prevent problems later in the game I'm open to them.

[ February 18, 2004, 13:25: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Cirvol]

As an idea - whynot just mod the talisman down to something like +75% ?

Otherwise, does just 'removing' it from fair play weaken the religous trait too much?


Glad to see you all in this uber game

[tesco samoa]

Last man standing please... no alliances of 2 at the end.

And I request we turn off the events As they can ruin a game