MP: ANDalusian Sun: Lolomo wins after more than 2 years of gruelling competition!

[WraithLord]

Do we have finalization on settings, and, most important for nation selection, mods?
Are we go or no go for lesser holy wars?- Same for CBM 1.83.

Sasooli handles nations assignments and Dimaz will admin, right?

Edit: Sasooli has PMs turned off.
I vote for fe2 as well

[Aethyr]

Perhaps I'm being (over) infuenced by experiences in my last two MP games, but I'd suggest we consider adding the Banned Spells mod.

[WraithLord]

What, no BoT and no AC?- I'm sorry Aethyr, but I wouldn't like to see them banned. I don't think they're OP or abuse-able, they're just extremely annoying - yet part of the fun of this game.

[Aethyr]

It's just a suggestion, I'm not saying they are OP, just an "annoyance" I can do without. I'm cool with whatever either way.

[WraithLord]

I know you didn't say they're OP, neither did I say that I was thinking that you were thinking that I was saying that you were saying that they were OP
Bah, I blame it all on trigger happy Executor

On a more somber tone - I will accept the majority decision here and already stated my preference.

Oh, and I think I managed to PM Sasooli on the other forums.

[Fantomen]

I vote against banning spells.

This look very interesting: http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/...?showtopic=377
It's an experiment in improving the spellcasting AI, if Llamabeast thinks it's ready for MP testing I'd be willing to give it a whirl.

[llamabeast]

You know, obviously it's brand new and kind of experimental, but actually I think it might be good for MP testing (once people have had a quick prod in SP). Because it just has two effects:

- Self-buff and summon spells will only be cast when scripted (with the exception of Raise Skeletons), or when the mage has absolutely nothing else to do
- Self-buff spells can be cast repeatedly (with no additional benefit of course). This is obviously undesirable, but in reality I think it hardly matters - you won't script to cast them repeatedly, so it will only come up when the mage has nothing to do, for example as the enemy are running away.

So I am optimistic that it will give a straightforwardly beneficial effect to casting AI. More Lightning Bolts, less Phantasmal Warriors. All your astral mages shouldn't cast Twist Fate, Resist Magic, Astral Shield, Personal Luck every single battle (unless you want them to). And hopefully, your massed ranks of fire mages won't cast Phoenix Pyre!

[WraithLord]

llamabeast, your mod sounds great and I'd like to try it out in SP but I think it's premature to introduce it to this game. I'm more concerned with what we don't know about it than what you told us, i.e. all those possible undesired side effects or possible bugs that needs to be ironed out.

I think a smaller MP game focused on play-testing this mod would be more appropriate. Perhaps as early as a week or two from now you'd have enough feedback to at least "beta" your mod. If it were "beta" then I'd be in favor of adding it, currently it's probably more "alpha" state.

[llamabeast]

WraithLord, I think you're right, this is too big a game to get too experimental on. Just got overexcited.

[rabelais]

I think I will have to drop out. My kid is sick again, and I was mostly excited about the holy war mod. Plus I just fell asleep from exhaustion and staled in a different game.

Definitely not time for a new one, sorry for the tease.