MP: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Finished (Ulm won by agreement)

[Mightypeon]

I would like to give MA Ulm a go.

[krpeters]

I would like to play Atlantis. My experience: I've played 3 MP games, and sucked in all of them. I should be easy meat for anyone with a clue.

[Squeelch]

I have no preference on map so just choose whatever you want to.

[krpeters]

With respect to map choice, I like the idea of a wraparound map, but Urraparand is fairly linear (check it out, it's a thin snake working itself around the world). Is there another reasonably sized one with a better shape? The Desert Eye is shaped well but probably too small, and Orania is huge.

Also, can we leave score graphs on, so I can see who's most dangerous and attack him first?

[Lung Drago]

Originally Posted by krpeters

With respect to map choice, I like the idea of a wraparound map, but Urraparand is fairly linear (check it out, it's a thin snake working itself around the world). Is there another reasonably sized one with a better shape? The Desert Eye is shaped well but probably too small, and Orania is huge.

Also, can we leave score graphs on, so I can see who's most dangerous and attack him first?

With the way new players are coming in, I think Orania could pretty well be a valid choice. A solid one at that.
Another possibility would be Riverlands (V1.2). I'll propably start a poll in the near future regarding the map now that we have some names to work with.

And graphs are going to be on. It reduces the need of scouting somewhat, and I do not expect many players here to scout that good with the way I scout badly.

[jimbojones1971]

I would like to suggest Plain of Rusty Nails v4. Advantages:
- it is a wraparound map, as requested, which prevents the weird dynamics that can happen if someone gets a corner to themselves
- Calahan has made it a personal crusade to correct the game, and by v4 it is a safe bet that it has few if any bugs left
- fixed starts, so no-one should start in a truly awful situation

I got stomped on this map playing T'ien C'hi, and can vouch that it is a good map to play on :-)

It does however have a limit of 10 land plus 1 sea. At the moment we've got 8 land plus 1 sea, so if we go with this map we could take two more players and then we'd be full.

Edit: Sorry, forgot the link to the map. It can be found here (v4 at the bottom of the thread):
Plane of Rusty Nails
It is already up on the llamaserver (with v1, 2, and 3 ...)

[krpeters]

How many provinces per player are we looking for? 10? 15? 20? We're going to need a lot more players for Orania. But I think we are going to wind up with more than Rusty Nails can accomodate.

[Lung Drago]

Originally Posted by krpeters

How many provinces per player are we looking for? 10? 15? 20? We're going to need a lot more players for Orania. But I think we are going to wind up with more than Rusty Nails can accomodate.

Personally I like big maps (20 provs) Counting 10 players, Orania comes out with 28 provinces per player (...big!) while Rusty Nails comes out with 15.5 provinces per player. RN really dwindles in size if more players come in. It is perhaps a good map for our current state, but not if we get more players in.
A bigger alternative would be Riverlands (with 24.5) that scales itself nicely up to 14 players and anything bigger than that is Orania.
Nah, I am going to set up the poll now ^^

edit: OK, voting is up. Let us see on exactly how big maps we will settle

[Heinrich]

Pleas count me in as Pangea.

Thanks

[FAJ]

"Diplomacy: Encouraged! Machiavellian type, with a 3 turn warning before attack"

Could you clarify this? Does this mean that NAP-3 agreements we make must be honored? Or does that mean that I have to declare war 3 turns in advance against anyone I meet, even if we have no other diplomatic agreements?