Another Newbie Slugfest - Restarted

[Oversway]

Yeah excellent point. Wrapping map for sure.

[Warhawk]

I like Aku's choice of settings, except for the Faerun map. It's just too damn big. As Oversway points out, it won't be much of a "slugfest" on a map that large.

I'll also cast my vote in favor of a wrapping map.

[Boron]

The small faerun map is only about 320 provinces . Thats almost 19 Provinces average per player with 17 players , thats actually less then on a cradle with 10 players which would be 22 Provinces per player .
And the former Slugfest was on cradle with about 10 players ^^ .

[Boron]

Though i would prefer a huge map like Faerun i am playing on any Map and at any settings .

If we still decide surprisingly to play faerun i take Atlantis otherwise i keep Pangenea .

[PashaDawg]

I like the idea of playing on Chandrea2 (from Chazar).

[Oversway]

How does this sound?

Map Chandrea2
Zen's three mods

Indies 9
Magic Frequency 75
World Rich
Map Faerun(would need to get 17 players)
Research Very Difficult
Events Normal


I am wondering if a Rich World and High Gem frequency will counteract the Very Difficult research. Will troops become obsolete too fast? I'm not really sure?

It looks like Chandrea2 has a fair amount of water. If we have water nations, I would prefer we have both of them. I will take one if only one other person wants to switch.

Unless anyone has objections or changes, I'll start a new post for the game tomorrow (march 18th). Slugfest 3, right?

[Aku]

I have been looking at the 3 zen mods (pretenders/spells/scales). Lets try them out all 3 of them no matter what settings or map we do.

I personally hope we do the Faerun map because it is a very nice map and AD&D players really appreciate it.

With 75 magice frequency probably everyone will have sages. So it probably will counteract very difficult research to make it seem like normal research maybe if you are focusing hardcore on research. But I rather have that because it is unfair how like one or two players get sages and nobody else does in every game. Or how one player always gets one of those uber sites and nobody else does. I think 75 frequency will make it more fair. Also we have lot of people who dislike hoarding and the 75 frequency will even out or actually outweigh extreme hoarding with a player that expands his empire instead of sitting there hoarding every turn like crazy.

The settings will make the game very interesting and the zen mods make for some fresh gameplay. I really hope we get the faerun map!

[The Panther]

Actually, Aku's settings on a very small, crowded wrap-around map with a lot of players would be darn fun. Something like 10+ players on a 100 province map. Now, THAT would be a true slugfest.

This new map Chandrea2 (from Chazar) is interesting. My son and I just started a 2v2 on it so I will see how good it works. There is a lot of water, though, and would require a water race (or 2). It is a wrap-around map with just over 100 provinces. Also, it is twice as tall as wide so no one really gets the disadvantage of being in the middle or the advantage of being in a corner. Perfect slugfest material, in other words. I would even switch to R'lyeh for this purpose.

I have become a huge fan of the three Zen mods. They seem quite balanced to me, except for his inexplicable failure to nerf Ghost Riders.

As for the infantry balance mods, there is a test game fixing to soon be started to check those out. It is probably too early to try those as yet.

[Saber Cherry]

Thanks for allowing me to play in this game, but unfortunately my harddrive just failed, and I'm already starting another game (as The Panther noted) to test the balance mod. So it'll be hard enough for me to find time to take turns on other people's computers as it is, until I get a new HDD up and running.

So thanks, but I'm going to pass on this game. Have fun though! Maybe I'll play in the next one