Any Interest in another Big Game this summer(May).

[Xietor]

I understand that some cannot play pbem(: But I have hosted 2 mp games on llamaserver already, and that is what i am comfortable with as a game admin.

It also removes any chance of file hacking etc., though I think that stuff is exceedingly rare in any event.

Moreover, to date, no one else has offered to host it. But even if they did, my comfort zone with llamaserver is very high.

[Zeldor]

Xietor:

Nah, I think llamaserver has no way to prevent file hacking [unless you mean only getting some other people's turns]. But I also prefer llamaserver.

[Ossa]

I'd also be interested.

[Amhazair]

I would definitely be tempted to join again, the first one was a blast. At the same time I'm afraid to last till the end and having to manage such a huge empire again. Still, I think I'll have a go again.

I would suggest raising the cost of gem-producers even higher than what Velusion uses for his 'big' 20-player games though. If you look at the comments after Perpetuality ended, you can see Evilhomer had enough clams to cast 5 wishes a turn, and a medium size nation like Ermor had no less than 120 clams by game end. My suggestion would be to rais the cost of clams to 4W2N (yes, that's a lot, but if I was in a secure position I'd still craft them for a game this size) and fetishes to 2F2N. Not so sure about Earth stones, perhaps 3E4B.

Personally I also don't see the need to ban Utterdark/Arcane corruption/Burden of time, but I know you feel quite strongly about them. In any case banning them certainly won't make me back out of this game.

[Salamander8]

I had gobs of clams as well. Not as many as Evilhomer, but still had a ton of them, and was making several every turn.

[Xietor]

1. Yes, it may be good to raise the cost of gem producing items by 2 paths, rather than 1.

2. As for a victory condition, I am thinking a certain number of capitals. Though capitals can be hard to take. I fought many wars and in 90 turns only had 7 capitals at game end.

I would be curious if Velusion, Atul, or EvilHomer can recall how many capitals they owned? Taking capitals rewards aggressive nations. Nations that choose to sit tight and clam and build up may be very powerful, but it may be hard to gain ground in a race for capitals.

And if there are 60 players, what would be a reasonable number of capitals to win? 15? That means someone vanquished 15 nations. That is pretty good.

3. As the game moved along, we would need llamabeast to update how many capitals each major player owned.

4. With respect to file hacking, llamabeast can always look at any suspicious file. He can also verify if someone is cheating(by using a banned exploit). Of course he would not do this as a matter of course, only if some dispute arose.

[thejeff]

If you want capitals as a victory condition, can't you just do victory points with only capitals as victory provinces?