Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?

[parabolize]

Alneyan said:
Of course, we are still looking for a Guinea pig... erh, a volunteer, to set up our game. The earlier someone signs up, the faster we'll stop comparing Webster to Larousse.

I can if no one else has.

[Slynky]

parabolize said:

I can if no one else has.

That would be très cool in my book, PB. We'll need one to look over the settings carefully, etc.

Of course, Alneyan will need to sign off on this. AND, there's that little suggestion he had about modifying the Bal mod he'll need to address.

[Alneyan]

1) Yeah, I absolutely didn't get the Parabolize reference. My current excuse kind of works, actually: in my book, this word ought to be pronounced like "parabola", and that word cannot make me think of "pair". So, I'd like my intelligence level to be raised back up to "Dull as a stone".

2) My Xtreme skilz in English warn me of at least three different meanings for "to sign off". That would give "to withdraw", "to stop transmitting" and by extension "to become silent", and finally "to agree". So, I'm sensing a trap here. I'm *sure* Slynky tried to trick me in agreeing to my own defeat before the game even started.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. So, I'm fine with having Parabolize as our host. Besides, he *is* a KOTH Admin, so it should be easy to bribe him. Hey Parabolize, I sure hope Slynky will be stuck between a couple high-powered blackholes, or else.

3) I withdraw the suggestion about system types, since it'll be nastier than I thought. Basically, Balance 2.0 has created a swarm of Balanced systems, so a new quadrant type using all those systems plus the non-Balanced ones would be a pain in the neck to set up. Well, it probably wouldn't take more than a few minutes, but still.

So, I'm throwing that one back to Slynky: Balanced, with no nice system to play with, or vanilla, with random planets all over the place? I don't think it matters quite as much as in a standard game either way (full tech makes economy quite a bit different, and full tech makes for an interesting game no matter what, so my biggest objection to Balance does not apply here).

[Rathar]

/Grumbles something about falling for old tricks which are so old that no one ever uses them anymore so no one prepares for them so...

/shuffles down the hill poutingly!

Rathar

[Glyn]

Some time the old tricks are the best. Your godlike research ratting had me worried for a while.

Rathar, what did you think of playing without point defense?

I found it didn’t extend missile usefulness as much as I though it would. Fighters pretty much made missiles obsolete. I was starting to make the switch to beam weapons from fighters when the game ended about turn 43. Rathar already had a good start on switching to beam based ships.

[Glyn]

Glyn looks around from the top of the hill and see Slynky has clawed his way back to battle once more for the crown.

What game settings would you like?

[Rathar]

I think that no PD created a tiny window in which missiles ruled the galaxy but were then superseded permanently by fighters.

Rathar

[Slynky]

Glyn said:
Glyn looks around from the top of the hill and see Slynky has clawed his way back to battle once more for the crown.

What game settings would you like?

Sorry for slowness...that time of year.

What kind of game does the King have in mind?

[Glyn]

Slynky said:

Sorry for slowness...that time of year.

What kind of game does the King have in mind?

Checkers?




I couldn't resist. I'm open to suggestions. Anything between a plan Vanilla to something like our last match.

[Slynky]

Glyn said:

Checkers?




I couldn't resist. I'm open to suggestions. Anything between a plan Vanilla to something like our last match.

Well, some sort of manual placement would be nice...just to start off with. Then.... hmmmm....

ZERO racial points;
Full tech;
When constructing race, can't pick anything off the Advanced Traits screen;

OK...that's my "non-vanilla" suggestions...comments/suggestions?

PS: OH, did you make a "funny"? I just got it. Checkers! As in, "Crown me!".