two v. two v. two v. two v. two (full)

[Aku]

bump for panther/tauren team to see

what is your 2nd pick? you are up

[The Panther]

Tauren moved off to college yesterday. He has yet to come up on line from his dorm room. I expect it will take a few days for him to get settled in with the school computer.

He does know that he needs to decide on a nation, as Machaka was his pick.

[Zooko]

I'm going to configure the server to send an e-mail message to a list of addresses announcing the availability of a new turn. If you want your e-mail address to be on that list, then please post your e-mail address here, or send e-mail to "zooko@zooko.com" with the string "DOM2" in the subject line. (So that I will notice your mail and not delete it as spam.)

I personally love getting e-mail announcing new turns, so that I don't waste hours of my time compulsively re-connecting to see if a new turn is up.

[Zooko]

Ugh. I just spent way too much of my time trying to choose 10 starting locations on the Inland map so that it would be fair -- i.e. no starting nation is surrounded by enemies and cut off from his ally and so forth. It doesn't seem possible without a lot of work. Hm... I *could* write a computer program to do it...


*Or*, we could have (gulp) random starting locations, or, um, we could take turns choosing our starting location, or something else.

I think I'll go experiment with writing a computer program to do it...

[King Lear]

Well, since no one else has posted in a day or so, I guess I will. I would like either Abysia or Man in that order. If the people who can choose before me want one (or both) of them, they can have them, and I'll come up with something else.

[Aku]

Team Hubris knows what we want for 2nd pick but waiting for Team Panther to pick their 2nd nation.

[Alneyan]

Zooko said:
Ugh. I just spent way too much of my time trying to choose 10 starting locations on the Inland map so that it would be fair -- i.e. no starting nation is surrounded by enemies and cut off from his ally and so forth. It doesn't seem possible without a lot of work. Hm... I *could* write a computer program to do it...


*Or*, we could have (gulp) random starting locations, or, um, we could take turns choosing our starting location, or something else.

I think I'll go experiment with writing a computer program to do it...

Good luck. I spent about two or three hours on Inland to set up 12 starting points in Entwined Destiny, with three provinces (at least) between either capital of a team and enemy capitals, and only one province between the two allies. In the end, I think most teams had contact with the rest of the world, with the longest "jump" between any two capitals being of six provinces.

If you are interested, I should have the .map file on my computer, but it will have to be made public (meaning everyone knows the starting points), unless you made significant alterations. It's far from perfect though, and was made for 12 players, instead of 10. I don't think you will manage a neat "in row" formation on Inland though: team A will almost certainly have other contacts besides team E and B, and so on.

[The Panther]

I talked to my son today. He will not be online with his new computer until Tuesday at the earliest. But he did choose his nation for this game.

Tauren selects Abysia.

[Aku]

Team Hubris chooses Ermor.

Team Zooko your team choice is up!

Also instead of Inland maybe we should do the map Ringworld? It will give you more what you need in having the setup of teams bordering a team on each side. Just a thought.