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Old January 21st, 2009, 02:15 PM

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Default Re: Noobs vs. Vets, LA, CBM, open recruitment/discussion

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.
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Old January 21st, 2009, 06:39 PM
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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.
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Old January 21st, 2009, 02:46 PM
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Default Re: Noobs vs. Vets, LA, CBM, open recruitment/discussion

I'd have the game of SeptSev as it is - and go for the Cold War in another game (to which I'd love to partecipate... damn, we could play that on a real world map! Except that the America would be pretty much cut from the rest... )
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Old January 21st, 2009, 03:08 PM

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

I like the cold war idea.
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Old January 21st, 2009, 04:19 PM

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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 .
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Old January 21st, 2009, 05:24 PM

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I'd be interested, I think.
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Old January 21st, 2009, 05:29 PM

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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.
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Old January 21st, 2009, 06:31 PM
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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.
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Old January 21st, 2009, 05:41 PM

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3 on 1 is pretty brutal no matter how you stack the teams, especially so early on before there's much magic available.
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Old January 21st, 2009, 06:43 PM

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Default Re: Noobs vs. Vets, LA, CBM, open recruitment/discussion

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.
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