Vanilla LA - hosted [started]

[Denisius]

Are we going to play with the new patch?

[Hoplosternum]

Just curious but why do people NOT want scores on? I can see a slight point for ermor. They will have a huge army count compared to the rest and this may hurt them in Diplomacy. But they have trouble with diplomacy anyway due to their dominion.

But in general not being able to see the scores will just hinder diplomacy surely?

If I am losing and lack allies then let me be eliminated and spend my time on joining new games. If I am winning then let me press my advantage and give my opponents chance to unite against me to stop me. Why draw out this process by hiding how well people are doing?

[cupido2]

If I'm allowed (I'm not so new anymore but quite harmless) I take Patala. Graphs on plz.

[Real_friend]

Bogarus

[Denisius]

Real_friend, Bogarus has already been taken by Kazoo.

[Kyosti]

I'd like Arcoscephale please. I'm also a newbie.

[Xavier]

ok, updated the main page with signups. Will put the server up tonight (within 12 hours).

I'm giving Real_friend 12 hours from now to change his country selection and keep his spot as our 12th player. If we don't hear from him the next person to post a valid country selection (from now) will get his spot.

@Denisius: yes, we'll play with 3.15 from the start. So harass your other game hosts to patch

@Hoplosternum: you've pretty much got it, but not just to hamper diplomacy. It really changes the feel of the game. You take out another indy province and suddenly discover you're bordering on Caelum...but you have no idea how strong Caelum is, how much research they've finished, and so on. It also means that people don't know what global enchantments to be expecting, or whether all the artifacts will be gone by the time they hit con 8, because you can't see how other peoples research stacks up next to yours. And finally, it creates a neat situation where scouting information is really valuable, not just for yourself, but in diplomacy as well.

[Xavier]

oh yeah, and Kazoo: You just create your pretender under 'game tools' and then connect to the server and click on the nation you're playing.

[Kazoo]

Thanks Xavier.

I am ok to give up Bogarus to Real_friend. I'd like to have Pythium, Serpent Cult instead, if possible.

[Xavier]

you sure?

p.s. I won't be back on here for a few hours...so assuming everything's sorted when I get back I'll just put the server up and you can do whatever you've decided.