The New Game: The Revenge

archaeolept · #1 March 10th, 2004, 11:55 PM

what map and settings are you thinking of using?

Norfleet · #2 March 11th, 2004, 01:11 AM

Illwinter/Torvak's World map, Indy-6, Magic-75, Random Rare, Rename enabled.

Norfleet · #3 March 11th, 2004, 06:25 AM

So, who all is on the victim list now?

Argitoth · #4 March 11th, 2004, 06:29 AM

i don't think you should do events rare.

Norfleet · #5 March 11th, 2004, 06:33 AM

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Originally posted by Argitoth:
i don't think you should do events rare.

Well, if you insist. It's more of an ingrained habit than anything else, as I've always had a firm distrust of random events from other games, and even on "rare", there's an awful lot of them: I've always felt the game played faster and focussed more on the actual strategery if every turn didn't drag out into an extended nuclear waste disposal program or turn into an extended crapshoot of who got hosed by a random event today. Besides, most of them are beneficial to me anyway, as I'm Turmoil and Luck. I don't even mind the population killers. Losing 1/4th of my 0 population doesn't really bother me.

It should be noted that playing on a large map already greatly increases the probability of random events greatly. Even on rare, I rarely go turns without 2 or 3 randoms.

[ March 11, 2004, 04:35: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

archaeolept · #6 March 11th, 2004, 09:43 AM

normally, I'd be against rare randoms, but Norfleet makes some good points - given the size of the map, and also helping to lessen the chance of completely messing up a game start.

However, I just checked out the map, and in two of the three games I started in a one territory island w/out any link to any other land mass. That would be a game breaker, IMO, given I was a completely non-water nation.

The other time I started in Ireland

Norfleet · #7 March 11th, 2004, 10:18 AM

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Originally posted by archaeolept:
However, I just checked out the map, and in two of the three games I started in a one territory island w/out any link to any other land mass. That would be a game breaker, IMO, given I was a completely non-water nation.

The other time I started in Ireland

Yeah, that's a pain. We used to have a problem with this, and with a few players in the game, we used to end up declaring 3 or 4 mulligans before everyone had a start position that didn't suck.

The problem seems to have subsided with the innovative solution of flagging some of the really crappy starting positions nostart. That shouldn't happen anymore as a result.

Game update: The start of the game will have to be delayed an hour to 2000 EST, because the server op won't be back on that day until then and can't start the game until he returns. Once the game has started, however, subsequent days can run at 1900 EST just fine.

The server will be brought up tomorrow for the start of sign-in. Would all participating please declare their national pick at this time?

I'll be playing Ermor. As usual.