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Old July 18th, 2008, 12:12 PM

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Default Re: A different style of playing multi-player Dom

While I do agree that there is some aspect of luck to the game, Alhorro (in the sense that certain sites can be extremely helpful), the game is far more than 20% skill. There are reasons why players such as Micah and Calmon (among others) tend to win frequently, and I hesitate to attribute that to luck.
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Old July 18th, 2008, 12:21 PM
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I also moderated a game similar to this, the Highlander game. The rules of that one were no out of game communication except through the public forum. Made it pretty difficult to coordinate any actions or negotiate treaty terms.
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Old July 18th, 2008, 08:04 PM
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Default Re: A different style of playing multi-player Dom

Hi:

A RAND game stands for: random nations, anonymous, no-diplomacy. So, the host cannot play, because he needs to assign nations randomly. Players are revealed as their dominions are snuffed. It's been described as SP but with human AI's. It can be a lot of fun.

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Old July 18th, 2008, 08:11 PM
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Both of these sound interesting. I assume anything was allowed in your game, Baalz? So long as it was discussed publicly in the game thread, so actual alliances would be dangerous to make, and covert scheming which is so rampant in other games, would be impossible.

I don't think I'd want to play these kinds of games exclusively (though they reduce Inbox spam! ), but variants are intriguing.
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I also moderated a game similar to this, the Highlander game. The rules of that one were no out of game communication except through the public forum. Made it pretty difficult to coordinate any actions or negotiate treaty terms.
I was in highlander. It was a neat idea...but just using the in game diplomacy got became frustrating as the game went on and one power emerged. With no way to coordinate a way to oppose him we stood no chance.
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