Highlander - LA limited diplomacy (started)

[Baalz]

There can be only one - no out of game diplomacy.

Now taking signups for a MP game hosted on the llamaserver (thanks llamabeast!). This is play by email, though I’ve got some scripts which automate this to a large degree (moving turn files around and handling the emailing) for windows if anyone wants to use them.

# of players – at least 10 to start, we’ll fill up all the slots if we have enough interest. The more the merrier.
Game settings:
Map - Alexandria
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1
Era – late
Score graphs – off
Renaming – on
indies - 9
Everything else default


House rules –
The only diplomacy allowed is through the in-game interface. The idea is that this will drastically reduce player’s ability to coordinate and make diplomacy less effective. I’ve got nothing against diplomacy, just thought it’d be fun to try. I’ll make no effort to enforce this, but anyone who is contacted for diplomacy out of game should post such to this thread for public ridicule. One exception – you can post anything you want to this thread, so any “open” diplomacy (ie “Mictlan is gonna win if we don’t all gang up on him!”, “I want to trade for air gems”) is fair game. Heck, you could even coordinate attacks if you’re ballsy enough to do so publicly.

All’s fair in love and war- everything else allowable in-game is valid. All exploits, bugs, etc. are considered fair play. Everyone’s on the same page here, though I’m open to suggestions of game breaking exploitable bugs that should specifically be banned. I’m the final judge of this, and I’ll only ban something if you can convince me that not doing so will make the game significantly less fun. Nothing I know of comes to mind.

Hosting schedule-
24 hours until at least two players request extending it, then we'll add 24 hours to the timer every time two requests happen.

2 consecutive stales result in being set AI (my discretion). Hopefully anyone leaving will find a replacement or at least set themselves to AI.

I am open to suggestions for any house rules or settings changes, realizing that it’s my game and I’ll end up picking whatever sounds like the most fun to me...

Players:
Marignon - Baalz
C'tis - Tharsonius
Pangea - meister_miagi
Midgard - Jazzepi
Ulm - BigandScary
Ptala - rasko
Jomon - Sir_Dr_D
Caelum - thraveboy
Rlyeh - ano
arco - Hadrian_II
Tien Chi - Revolution
Abysia - Slobby
Ermor - Falkor
MAN - Kalash
Pythium - otthegreat
Mictlan - Sawyer
Utgard - karnoza
Agartha - Firewalker
Atlantis - OoohSnap

[llamabeast]

How big a map are you thinking? As in, how many provinces/player? I vote few (maybe 12-15).

I'd like to provisionally reserve Mictlan.
Edit: Decided I'd better not play after all

[Niarg]

I'm in, I'd like C'Tis please

I'd say play on a non random map, or at least with someone picking start positions to make it fairer.
I'd also like to see lower indy strength than 9.

[meister_miagi]

I'd like to play as Pangaea.

[Jazzepi]

I'll take midgard.

Jazzepi

[BigandScary]

I'll be Ulm.

[rasko]

I want Patala please.

[Baalz]

llamabeast said:
How big a map are you thinking? As in, how many provinces/player? I vote few (maybe 12-15).

I'd like to provisionally reserve Mictlan.

Yes, I'll be aiming for about 15 per player. If someone wants to volunteer to make a map that'd be great, otherwise I'll pick (and am open for suggestions) one of the included or community made maps of roughly that size once we see how many players we've got.

[Sir_Dr_D]

Put me in as Jomon.

[thraveboy]

I'd love to take Caelum.