Proportions Mod: Multiplayer anyone?

[Gorgo]

Hmm, I guess we've already got 4 people to play, that is PvK, Dogscoff, Osweld and myself. If 4 is enough for all of you, let's talk about settings:

I think PvK should know best which settings would be appropriate for his mod and should make some suggestions here. In order to make our .emp files, is 3.000 racial points okay?

(sorry my previous remark, Dogscoff, it was careless)

Gorgo

[Osweld]

4 is enough for me, but the more the merrier.

The only real prefence I have is that it's not 5000 racial points (3000 is OK), and a quadrant which isn't just a web of warp points. (I just checked out the mod, and the ancient bi-polar or sparse edge quandrant types would be nice.) But I guess I can live with any quadrant type, really.

[Gorgo]

Yeah, I like the new quadrant types, they're looking awesome.

[Arak Koba]

If this game is going to start Sunday or later, I could play too. Seems my schedule won't be as constraining as I first thought.

[Gorgo]

This is cool, so we're already five people.

[geoschmo]

I'll try to get the proportions mod setup on PBW over the weekend. I'll post something here when I get it done.

Geoschmo

[PvK]

Yes, let's take as many players as want to join, though our current five is fine, so we can start as soon as we're all set up. I would suggest we not include any AI empires, because it would create a huge opportunity to try to capture their homeworld. Unless we want a "King of the Hill" type scenario.

I would like to try to use the 1.5 Version, which I'll try to have ready and send to geoschmo (and post here) by Friday night or Saturday day. I want to take another look at the racial attribute point costs, to double-check the balance, so hold off on tweaking your planned empire abilities.

Dogscoff, PBW is mainly an automated PBEM host - it just makes PBEM faster and easier. PBW will email you the turn files (and offer them on the web) automatically as soon as everyone has submitted their turns. You don't need to be continuously connected, but if every player happens to be playing at the same time, it can go about as quickly as TCP/IP or hotseat can. Hosting is just a matter of setting up the game and filling in web forms on PBW, but I'll be happy to do it.

PvK

[Gorgo]

Suggestions for settings?

[PvK]

So far I'm thinking the settings will be as follows. I'm happy to change things to suit players' tastes, so let me know. I've included the requests so far.

Hosted on PBW.
Turn duration: 48 hours or as soon as everyone has their turn in.
Proportions mod Version 1.5.

Quadrant:
Large Ancient Bi-Polar with all warp points connected, all player planets the same size.

Event frequency: medium
Max event severity: high

Tech cost: medium
All tech areas allowed.

Starting resources: Medium
Home Planet Value: Average
Number of homeworlds: 1

"Evenly" distributed

Player can only view own score

New player tech level: low

Racial points: 3000

No AI empires or neutrals

AI Difficulty high and computer bonus high, in case a rebel faction appears.

No set victory conditions

Max ships and units in space: 5000 each (pity we don't all have Gold 1.64 yet... )

No cheat codes.

Gifts and tributes ok.

No technology gifts (send a gift ship if you need to).

Surrender not allowed (subjugation ok).

Intel projects ok.

Ruins will exist. Note that most of them will be red herrings.

No strict limits on colonization.

No saving map during game.

Simultaneous movement.

[Gorgo]

That's fine with me.



What happens in Gold 1.64? Larger numbers of ships and units allowed?