PBEM game: King of the Hill (Over)

[Alneyan]

There was not a modified map; I should just have my eyes checked I guess.

A gentle bump as we are still looking for four more players.

[PhilD]

I'd be willing to play in this. I'm far from being an expert player, but I like losing in MP.

If naming nations at this point is acceptable, I'd go for Man.

[Alneyan]

Welcome aboard! Feel free to claim dibs on the nation of your choice.

The rest of the settings will remain as usual by default, but can be changed if someone feels a serious heartburn on any of these items.
- Independent Strength 6
- Magic site frequency: 40
- Standard magic research
- Renaming activated
- Master password activated
- Ten entries in the Hall of Fame

I will upload the slightly modified Theater of War tomorrow, after making sure all starting provinces are equally close to the Hill. The only modifications are the change to the SE isle, the addition of the Hill, and the removal of six of the starting positions.

And something I failed to address previously: do you prefer a 24 hour turnaround, or do you need 48 hours per turn?

[Rainbow]

Sounds like an interesting game. I would like to join it.

Not going to claim any specific nation just yet. Going to have a look at the map first, once it is uploaded.

24 hour turnaround is fine by me. Since it is a PBEM we can always slow down a bit later if people have problems meeting the deadline.

/Rainbow

[Alneyan]

Welcome aboard Rainbow!

I have finished doing my basic modifications to the map; it may not be complete yet, as I have not fully tested all six positions to compare their ease of access to the Hill. For example, I had set up one of the nations right in the middle of several farmlands, which would be harder to take than poorer provinces, and there may be other similar occurrences in the current Version.

The main changes are as follow:
- Removal of six starting points, and some changes of a few others (namely the ones that were two provinces away from the central outer province, instead of the regular three).
- Normalisation of the South East outer isle, as Cainehill pointed out.
- The former sea province near the South East isle (128) has been turned into fresh water, as it otherwise slowed down the SE player too much. (I am not too fond of my solution, and farmland seems rather odd in the middle of a lake, but...)

The main problem is that the colours of special provinces no longer matches with their true nature (in the case of a few starting points, and the SE central province). I will give the list of the six starting points when the game starts, as this information is available by simply looking at the map file, but the SE matter is a bit more annoying.

The current map file is attached to this post. You should download the Theater of War map from Illwinter, extract it in your maps directory, and do the same with the theater6.map file (attached to this thread).

[The_Tauren13]

I will join as Ermor if I can convice you to play with difficult magic research.

[Alneyan]

I have no objection with Difficult research. So unless another player asks for a different setting, it will be Difficult research.

This game is still looking for one more player, and all the spots will be filled.