MP: Power Beyond Comprehension aka "My power is still raising!" newbie game - Running

[BewareTheBarnacleGoose]

Originally Posted by Rejakor

If you don't have an AI, then it's a big advantage to whoever starts with the biggest field of eatable indies.

AI is slightly harder to kill than indies, plus a restart would be annoying and kill some people's interest which could lead to snowball effect.

AIs are tougher than indies, but they still dies quickly, and the result is that one player gets an enemy capital and all the advantages that entails (+300-500 gold/turn and 6 gems/turn, and a free fort) very early on. It happened to me last game- as Gath, I ate an AI'd LA Ulm in 6 turns, and those extra bonuses kept me in play waaaayyyy later than I should have been given the number of stupid mistakes I made.

But even if you were right that it would be a disadvantage to start next to one, the issue would still be one of unfairness, and that issue is solved by not having AIs at all. So I really think a reset is best if people dont get their turns in.

[HoleyDooley]

I vote for a reset as there appears to be no takers to play Caelum (spelling!!). Deleting the said nation of course.

[jimbojones1971]

Yeah, I am waiting to see who else doesn't send their turns in, to get a feel for the actual player roster. Then I'll zap everyone who didn't put in a turn, and restart once (and only once - a second would kill the game guaranteed IMO). We've still got about 24 hours left on the clock, and only 8 turns in, so (time zone allowing) my plan is to wait until the turn is actually due to host then break out the chainsaw and start pruning the dead branches, so to speak :-)

[HoleyDooley]

Good idea, cut off the dead wood now rather than wait in game. Mate don't wait for a vote on the map. Ideas have been expressed in this thread as to how many provinces per player people want.

Once you have a final number, put up the new map, if indeed there is to be a new one and start the first turn.

[HoleyDooley]

Oh yeah this just gets better and better.

The guy that started this game doesn't have his turn in yet and hasn't been around the forum for like two days.

He didn't respond to the PM sent to him by Caelum either.

Thanks for your excellent work Jimbo, the game is only breathing (just) because of you.

[Anaconda]

Ahha, so your waiting to c wether I submit or not? Well, to save me some trouble consider MY TURN submitted. So its submitted ones PLUS mi self? OK! ?

[mattyburn7]

My turn is in and I'm in for the long haul. Just be aware that I am traveling for business next week. I'll be able to do turns but always at night. I'll always be at a 24 hour interval for next few days. Besides I'm providing a reward of a bottle of lizard lotion to the C'tis soldier that drops the largest Niefel.

[Lung Drago]

I'm still here! However, I find myself in a time-constraint trap right now. Things just snowball on me and all I managed to do for last few days was to skim fast over these posts then go to sleep. Gosh, I still feel permanently tired lately.
Thanks to Jimbo for taking the initiative, with you around we should be able to get the game moving at last even though I apparently took too much on myself^^ Hopefully things will slow down soon...

[jimbojones1971]

OK, so we are up to ten (nine with turns in plus Anaconda) with 24 hours to go til the deadline (I'll likely call it slightly before the turn would flick over).

Once I've got the final count, I'm going to pick a map that seems to suit the number of players and the breakdown of water / land nations still in the game, and do the restart. My thinking is that you want 12-15 provinces per nation (with 15 being the absolute max). I'd guess we will be in the 10 to 12 nation range, giving us a range of about 120 to 180 provinces. If anyone has any suggestions they'd like to throw into the mix that fit these criteria, post them here and share :-)

[swuu]

Pangaea is still in!