playing ANYONE against everyone

[Tyrant]

I'd love to play this if it comes together, and i think i'd like mid Abyssia, but there are lots of cool choices.

[Meglobob]

Joining a game like this and getting knocked out early would be very depressing.

[FrankTrollman]

Deleted.

[KissBlade]

Experience in large games have shone me that,that simply isn't true. Once you have approached late game, a majority of your power comes from summoned units. Also I'm not sure how you can say that MA Pan has any sort of strong late game magic ... pans are just not that formidable.

Most huge games all generally meld around the same way of players building up clam pools and hoping out nuke the other player's clam pools out of existence.

[djo]

Meglobob said:
Joining a game like this and getting knocked out early would be very depressing.

(a) By turn 517 in 2009, it might be depressing not to have been knocked out early.

(b) I get knocked out early in most of the games I play anyway. It's still fun.

I'd do it just to do it. It'd be a historic event in the online Dominions community. I'd play any one of a bunch of nations, Ermor, Marignon, C'tis being particular favorites of mine.


Question for veterans of very long games: do games ever get so long that blood becomes less effective due to lack of population? Or, referencing KissBlade's comment immediately above, does it just become irrelevant before ineffective?

[Meglobob]

djo said:

(a) By turn 517 in 2009, it might be depressing not to have been knocked out early.

Good point, having a 50+ province empire can be painful, timewise and logistically. Ideally, it would be good to get defeated between turns 51-100.

[TirAsleen]

Especially painful with Ashen Empire.

[Shovah32]

One nation i can see doing well here is ctis(probably LA) due to their powerful sauromancers. They have strong access to death aswell as good astral/nature(national summons ftw ) and fire in LA. With a pretender to cover the paths they dont have and maybe forge boosters i can see them being a very powerful force(i wonder what happens if all squares on the battlefield are full and you try to cast raise skeletons... )

[Gandalf Parker]

Im hoping that the grizzled old veterans will leave the proving of their pet peeves to the younger set. Aftr all, if its a major abuse then anyone should be able to do it.

For them, Im offering abit of a challenge. I will include the empty and unfinished nations.
They can take:
13) Tir na n'Og - Land of the Tuatha
14) Fomoria -
20) early Gath - Time of Nefilim
45) mid Gath - Anakim
65) late Gath - xxx
69) Filler 69 - Veteran or Freebie
70) Filler 70 - Veteran or Freebie
71) Filler 71 - Veteran or Freebie
72) Filler 72 - Veteran or Freebie
73) Filler 73 - Veteran or Freebie
74) Filler 74 - Veteran or Freebie
75) Filler 75 - Veteran or Freebie
76) Filler 76 - Veteran or Freebie
77) Filler 77 - Veteran or Freebie
78) Filler 78 - Veteran or Freebie
79) Filler 79 - Veteran or Freebie

Since these are holding slots they would be very difficult to play. A bare list of gods, a generic starting army, no national sites, no national units.

Im still considering two things about the game. Whether to turn AI on for all unchosen nations. And whether to allow veterans to send a name and epithet change for their choices.