MP Game - Casual Carnage (noob/int game) - running

[deccan]

Thufir said:
I would love to play a 17 player game on Orania, although I think there's little hope of getting a noob game of that size going.

Well, I'm already in Musical Chairs which is a big game using the Orania map, so I wouldn't want to be in another. What I'm thinking is something more similar to what the "Battle of the Danes" people are doing, with say, four players or so with another 3 or 4 AI players set to Impossible on a map like Karan.

I think that a big turn-off for newbies starting in MP is how cut-throat the human competition can be. With a set up like the above, it's more of an SP game, with the added incentive to do better because other human players are involved.

[deccan]

Boron said:
and taking away provinces from a neighbor has some appeal too

I knew it! You evil, evil man!

[Lex]

my battlefield ID is LEXLUTHER

and what's "luck-draining"?!?!? what specific effect does it have?

and why does it increase your expansion?

[deccan]

Lex said:
my battlefield ID is LEXLUTHER

and what's "luck-draining"?!?!? what specific effect does it have?

and why does it increase your expansion?

It's a joke, lex, at Boron's and my expense. Relax.

[Thufir]

Lex said:
my battlefield ID is LEXLUTHER

Thanks!

and what's "luck-draining"?!?!? what specific effect does it have?

and why does it increase your expansion?

There's no such thing as "luck-draining". I just thought it was rather perverse that I got as lucky as I did (it's a long story, but my start position was pretty sweet), despite having misfortune 1, while Boron and Deccan, both having L3, got the infamous exploding lab screw-over (I'd vote for a rule change that prevented that happening before turn 5, for any nation with Luck scale >= 0).

Anyhow, what goes around comes around, and YellowCactus has seen fit to do some luck draining of his own - we'll have to see how that works out

[deccan]

Thufir said:
Anyhow, what goes around comes around, and YellowCactus has seen fit to do some luck draining of his own - we'll have to see how that works out

Ah, so YellowCactus was the one who attacked you. I was wondering.

[deccan]

Thufir said:
(I'd vote for a rule change that prevented that happening before turn 5, for any nation with Luck scale >= 0).

That's nice of you but then you'd want to prevent all sorts of other things as well, such as having one fourth of your population drown in the first few turns. Randomness is just part of the game.

[Thufir]

Just Boron left to post his turn.

[Thufir]

deccan said:
That's nice of you but then you'd want to prevent all sorts of other things as well, such as having one fourth of your population drown in the first few turns. Randomness is just part of the game.

Well, it's not niceness on my part so much as an interest in a balanced game (which Dom2 by and large does very well). Putting in this exception does make it a special case, and that in fact raises a red flag that maybe doing so would imbalance things, exactly the opposite effect of what one would want. However, it does seem that the lost lab/temple in opening turns is a particularly heinous event.

[Aku]

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