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Old June 15th, 2005, 09:02 AM
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I also want in.

Only thing is I prefer not to have a biltz pace.
something along the lines of 24h hosting at first and 48h later would be fine for me.
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On the subject of pace:
I was thinking of 48 hour quick host. This allows the game to move very quickly at the start if we have no stales. Plus, with a victory condition, the pace will not need to change except in extraordinary circumstances. Also, I am certainly willing to wait for Alneyan to get back from vacation, or perhaps the host can make the first couple of moves for him. It will be a while before we get enough people to start the game anyway.

On the subject of quitters:
Yes, every MP game has people who drop out for various reasons. I have been thinking about this and suggest the following when a nation stales something like 4 turns in a row:
1. Have a list of alternates willing to step in when needed.
2. Set the game to run on the impossible level and turn the staling nation over to the AI. The computer players will thus get the extra gold every turn but not the boosted pretender.

On the subject of mods:
Has anybody looked at the hero mod yet? That might be cool in that it gives a player another reason to avoid taking the usual misfortune. EDIT: The hero Mod has been added to the game settings.

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Oh heck!
I'd like to play tool.

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Cool concept. I'm at (well past ) my limit of mp games right now, but if I die quickly enough in some of them before this game starts, maybe I'll hop on. Otherwise, I could be an alternate.
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I'll play, I'm itching for more games !
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I've looked at and played with the hero mod - I think it's a good thing. Without it, only a couple of nations actually care much whether or not they get their heroes, meaning yet another reason misfortune is appreciated.

Using the mod, it seems that any time a hero shows up it's good news; the ones that were previously uber-heroes are still uber-heroes, but the ground-pounding commanders with no magic paths are now equally welcome and useful.
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I support using the hero-mod, definitely!
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Sold!
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Well of course I have to be in the first long MP game using my mod.
I´m in!
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Is there a central place from which all the mods for this game can be downloaded?
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