Mara - EA game for newish players - full

[fungalreason]

I've decided on Maverni. Don't have time to create a pretender just yet. I'll do it later tonight though.

[llamabeast]

ARgh, it's true this could be a viciously rushy game. People should take that into account when designing pretenders. An SC might be a good idea, and you might want to run a test game to see if it can withstand a small rush of Helheim sacreds.

By the way, if you want to change your pretender design but have already e-mailed it in, you can always e-mail in a new one and it will use the new version.

[IndyPendant]

You can control the placement of the nations, right Llamabeast?

If a quick rush is going to be the huge concern it seems it might, why not just place the three major rush-y nations together in one 'corner' of the map? Maybe even with an extra 'buffer zone' of 1 or 2 provinces' distance from that group of 3 and the rest of the players.

If they're going to rush other players out of the game--let them rush each other. : )

Will we need to download a new map to play this game?

[llamabeast]

I'll have a think about how to place the nations, thanks for the ideas IndyPendant.

I'll attach the map file here when the game's about to start (and I've made the thing).

Right, I suggest a deadline of late Sunday night for getting the pretenders in. As in, maybe 8am Monday morning in the UK, so late at night in the US. This is arbitrary, it's just to provide some encouragement to get your pretenders in so we can get the game started.

[Warhammer]

I will be Tien Chi. Need to think of a good pretender though.

[parcelt]

Llamabeast, what strength will you putting the independents at?

[Methel]

Chupacabra? thats the goat sucker right? Think I remember it from an x-files

[llamabeast]

parcelt - all settings will be on default, unless anyone has any strong opinions. So indies at 5.

Methel - yep, that's the one. Incredibly I never actually saw a single episode of the x-files though. Don't know how I managed that.

[IndyPendant]

Rename on! Strong opinion! : )

[Warhammer]

Any mods for this game?