Any Interest in another Big Game this summer(May).

[Herode]

I think I will also be in. A megagame in DomIII is for sure something to try !

[Cor2]

I am certainly interested.

[Xietor]

Mega Age Game II will be hosted on Llamaserver, so it will be a pbem game.

There are a few advantages to Pbem. One is that there is no need to use a password. In fact I will ask players not to set a pw. No one can look at your turn file as it is sent to your email address.

And if the email address is changed for a race by the game admin. the player gets an email sent to his old email address informing him that his email address was changed.

With no pw, it is easier to set a race to ai, or to turn a race over to a sub.

If you have a pw and your race needs set to ai, llamabeast must do it himself. A glance at the number of games hosted on llamaserver shows you how unfair a burden that is to llamabeast.

[Rathar]

If you change your mind about pbem I would like to play.

[Lingchih]

Likewise. I will play if it is not pbem. Otherwise, probably not. My reasons for this are stated in several other posts.

[Aethyr]

I would be interested.

[Xietor]

I understand that some cannot play pbem(: But I have hosted 2 mp games on llamaserver already, and that is what i am comfortable with as a game admin.

It also removes any chance of file hacking etc., though I think that stuff is exceedingly rare in any event.

Moreover, to date, no one else has offered to host it. But even if they did, my comfort zone with llamaserver is very high.

[Zeldor]

Xietor:

Nah, I think llamaserver has no way to prevent file hacking [unless you mean only getting some other people's turns]. But I also prefer llamaserver.

[Ossa]

I'd also be interested.

[Amhazair]

I would definitely be tempted to join again, the first one was a blast. At the same time I'm afraid to last till the end and having to manage such a huge empire again. Still, I think I'll have a go again.

I would suggest raising the cost of gem-producers even higher than what Velusion uses for his 'big' 20-player games though. If you look at the comments after Perpetuality ended, you can see Evilhomer had enough clams to cast 5 wishes a turn, and a medium size nation like Ermor had no less than 120 clams by game end. My suggestion would be to rais the cost of clams to 4W2N (yes, that's a lot, but if I was in a secure position I'd still craft them for a game this size) and fetishes to 2F2N. Not so sure about Earth stones, perhaps 3E4B.

Personally I also don't see the need to ban Utterdark/Arcane corruption/Burden of time, but I know you feel quite strongly about them. In any case banning them certainly won't make me back out of this game.