MP: YARG3, non newb MA+ENP2 RAND game. Executor's Ulm winner on turn 76

[WraithLord]

yugi24862, can you please tell me a bit about your MP experience?- I need to ask since too big a difference in experience can unbalance the game.

Every player will list three nations he wants to play. I assume Dimaz would give the players their top choice when possible and role a dice to decide conflicts otherwise.

Aethyr, sorry to ruin your plan not to join another game this summer but I'm sure glad you'd be joining this one

[TwoBits]

Originally Posted by WraithLord

Every player will list three nations he wants to play.

Wait, we're not doing totally random race selection like the previous YARGs?

[Stagger Lee]

Originally Posted by WraithLord

cool. glad to have you on board.

re. ENP2. yeap, I'm aware of this. only the MA nations of the pack are available.

I'm not sure if completely random nations would work. Since for that you'll need what?- 27 or so players?

Perhaps three picks per player would work better.

I didn't mean that we would need 28 (I think) players, just that 28 nations go into the hat, Dimaz uses whatever system he wants to give each player a nation, and none of us knows what anyone else has, or which ones are still in the hat until the game starts.

If we are listing preferences, we should be doing that by PM to Dimaz since publicly stating a preference will give clues to who is playing what. And I would vote not to complicate things for someone who is doing us a favor.

Thank you in advance, Dimaz.

[WraithLord]

TwoBits and Stagger Lee. We could do it totally random as Stagger Lee suggests.

I also agree with Stagger Lee's suggestion to PM Dimaz with the preference re. nation assignment by picks or completely random.

EDIT: OP updated.
You know, I came up with the nation picks idea thinking that we may end up with a small number of players. Seeing as we're already up to 15 I think it makes sense to just use the same mechanism that has served previous YARG - totally random assignment.
Does it make sense to you?
I do hope we're not giving Dimaz too much of a headache