MP: Noobs vs. Vets, Game Over, Noobs are Victorious! Hail Noobs!

[Alpine Joe]

I'm interested, in as a noob who has yet to finish a multiplayer game.

I like the cold war idea.

[LumenPlacidum]

I'm new and would love to participate in something like this. I agree that the very large team probably wouldn't work, so the 2v2v2v2v1v1v1v1 is probably a better idea (or the 3v3v3v1v1v1). I'd also be very interested in the Cold War sort of game. It would be awesome playing as the oceanic nations while people on either side work against each other. Of course, it would be nice if it were possible to just ferry over people who could pay you .

[darloth]

I'd be interested, I think.

[rdonj]

I don't really see a large team game being that unwieldy personally, you just have to make sure not to step on each other's toes... so as long as you communicate you should be fine. Plus in a big team you have access to all sorts of gems and should be able to spend them very efficiently.

[Micah]

3 on 1 is pretty brutal no matter how you stack the teams, especially so early on before there's much magic available.

[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

The CBM mod nations are not any stronger than the vanilla nations, so they won't really help with balance. They might be fun though.

This sounds like an interesting game! I would join it if I had a little more time.

I've played with Nehekhara, they did seem to bit over-powered. I wonder why most games don't incorporate them then? If they are not over powered, I mean?

[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by BesucherXia

In my personal experience, teams with more than 2 members will make the game very burdensome, as the team members will spend too much time arranging cooperation. (exchange boosters, group gems for GE, assign different strategy, etc.)

So I suggest: let newbies make groups of 2-3 players/team, while the veterans must fight sololy as usual.
This seems to be more attractive at least for me. (Though I have no more time for another game...)

Part of the reason is to teach us cooperation.

I worry that a team of 2/3 noobs having to contend with other teams of noobs (if that is what your suggestion was) as well as vets might easily be overwhelmed.

[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by LumenPlacidum

I'm new and would love to participate in something like this. I agree that the very large team probably wouldn't work, so the 2v2v2v2v1v1v1v1 is probably a better idea (or the 3v3v3v1v1v1). I'd also be very interested in the Cold War sort of game. It would be awesome playing as the oceanic nations while people on either side work against each other. Of course, it would be nice if it were possible to just ferry over people who could pay you .

Small teams might are also more likely to have to worry about (what if their partner stales, drops, what have you). If not against multiple small teams of noobs, as long as they are not pitted against each other.

[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

What about something Baalz suggested in another thread, a kind of "Cold War" scenario, where you have a few vets who are required to be hostile to one another, and the newbies will sort of coalesce around them as their "sphere of influence" so to speak. Would make for a very interesting game. As far as maps go, personally I would prefer something other than Cradle since I'm currrently playing a game on it already, but anything is fine.

Edit: if you want to use fixed starts, know that Cradle only has 11 land starts and 1 water.

That cold war scenario thing would end up pitting noobs (as vassals of the vets) against other noobs and that is a bit different than what I had in mind. Nice idea though.

If it were possible, I'd like to pick and choose where I place the nations, so that the noobs would occupy one portion of the map, while the vets the other. 1 water vet would be fine, they should know how to handle themselves, vs land as well.

[Ironhawk]

Doesnt seem like you've really settled on a game format yet, but the idea is interesting, conceptually.

Put me on standby as a vet.