PBW "newbie game"

[Dragonlord]

Phoenix, I agree, Newbie I is not much fun anymore either. My main fleet is glassing Baal's planets, another fleet is defending my frontier, and a third is in position in case Spoogy wanted to attack me.

I think I will set up a new game on PBW and invite you all. I'll post the game config shortly, I didn;t get much feedback here about how people would like it. I hope changes can still be made to a game config before the game starts.

[Dragonlord]

Guys, I have just configured a new game on PBW called "Spiralus". (hey, I ran out of imagination). I would like all of you from Newbie I and II to join in.
Here is the game description :


Spiralus takes place in a medium sized Spiral Arm.
This game is the succesor to the Newbie games, and probably best suited for intermediate PBW players.

Starting resources: 20000
Starting planets: 3
Home planet value: Good
Score display: Allied only
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 3000
Quadrant type: Spiral Arm
Quadrant size: Medium
Event frequency: Medium
Event severity: High
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: 400% of second place player, or 1.0 years of peace, conditions apply after 6.0 years.
Maximum units: 1500
Maximum ships: 200
Computer players: Medium
Computer difficulty: High
Computer player bonus: Medium
Neutral empires: No
Other game settings: Intelligence is disabled because of the 1.41 CI bug. 3000 racial points so you can tweak your race just how you want it, without having too many abilities. Remember to reduce "cunning" to 50%. We have a low-tech start so make your early strategic research decisions well.

[The_General]

Hey folks, just read the Posts and will stop sending turns in on NewbieII game, and DragonLord, I will get in on your game. I'm also working on a game. It will be called "King of the Cosmos". Not finished yet with the custom map and AI designs. Once finished, the goal is for the players to work they're way thru the cosmos against other players, AI, and system traps to take control of a single sphereworld. No intellegence, warp weapons, cloaking, killing off of AI or other players. I'll try to get it finished soon.

[Phoenix-D]

Uh, Dragon, isn't that ship limit kinda low? Considering the fleets that were being thrown around in Newbie 1, let alone 2..

I just hit "finished" for each race in Newbie 2. That SHOULD end the game.

Phoenix-D

[Dragonlord]

Phoenix, yes I'm a bit worried about that ship limit too now. But I don't think there's a way to change it now, short of scrapping the game and creating a new one?
Then again, so far in none of my PBW games have I had more than 200 ships in play, I wouldn't be able to support it. And given the map used for Spiralus, unless you have real bad luck, you shouldn't need more than two fleets to defend your borders.

Also, do you know what the Statistics display on the game admin screen is for exactly? does that function work? I checked all the checkboxes (except for Intel) just in case, so you can keep tabs on how your allies are doing.

[Phoenix-D]

Haven't seen the stats stuff myself.

As for changing the game settings- you do that in SE4. The PBW description is just text, you have to set everything up in SE4 then submit the first turn. Don't forget the password!

Phoenix-D

[Dragonlord]

Great, I will up the unit limit to 2500 and the ship limit to 500 or so. How exactly do I distribute the first turn? All I have now is a Spiralus.gam file. Does a button get enabled on the PBW site or such, when we have 7 players?

BTW we are doing nicely, we already have 4 out of 7 players within hours. If you know any good players from other games you are in, especially ones who roleplay well and don't always wait to the Last minute for turn uploads, please invite them to this game. I already convinced "Shoujo" from another game to join.
Once we get started I think I'll start another thread on this forum so we can discuss our game here. I think Shrapnel is faster and easier to use than the forums on PBW, and I check here every day anyway.
Besides I don't think people would mind, we know some of them even follow this thread even though they weren't in any of the Newbie games.