Mongoose - Starting (at last!) - Page 6

llamabeast · #51 September 21st, 2007, 11:24 AM

Alright guys, tips for a fun game:

- Engage in lots of diplomacy. It's fun. Send messages to your neighbours, preferably in the character of your nation. Make threats, deals and alliances. One thing though - if you actually agree to a deal (such as peace for n turns, or exchanging items), do stick to it, otherwise you are likely to upset other players and make the game unfun.
- Post in-character stuff on this thread. See Tuidjy's posts on the "Neo Xekinima" thread for an excellent example of this. I really enjoy reading that thread.

People always say the most fun games are the ones with lots of messages flying around and posts on the forum. Silent games are fun too, but miss out on one cool element of multiplayer play - they're a bit more like single player versus very competent AIs.

llamabeast · #52 September 21st, 2007, 11:33 AM

And another PS - you shouldn't need anything like 48 hours for the first turn, try to all get it done ASAP, it's nice if the game moves fast at the start.

Loren · #53 September 21st, 2007, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Sensori said:
... Two Lorens? Guess we get a restart, then. ;p

EDIT: and when I made that post, you hadn't posted yet. Weird timing. :-D

I guess you're gonna use the Pretender Loren sent the last, right? Lawl. ;p

Oh yeah, and that's one thing you could add to Llamaserver, people should not be able to put in two Pretenders into one game, would stop this from happening altogether.

Actually, he's using the one I sent first which is the one I wanted.

The problem is that the server was sending back a confusing reply that I misinterpreted as saying that my nation was rejected when in reality it was something else wrong that had nothing to do with my file.

I figured someone else had grabbed my nation (I hadn't declared any intent here, that certainly could have happened and the nation I picked did show up as a picked nation in the reply) and so I picked a new nation.

Eldanesh · #54 September 21st, 2007, 04:04 PM

Yeah.. after last game I will be looking for lots of allies. Anyways I must say thsi is an interesting way to run a game.

Janlm · #55 September 22nd, 2007, 02:19 AM

was there going to spawn another game from this?

fabio80mi · #56 September 22nd, 2007, 04:45 AM

Can't wait to start meeting my neighbours and possibly do some diplomacy stuff, imo the diplomacy aspect is the thing that really makes mp experience so much more enjoyable!

llamabeast · #57 September 22nd, 2007, 06:06 AM

JanIm - I was going to, but since Chicanist is busy for a couple of weeks and I can't get hold of Forsooth (the other excess player) I thought I would leave it a couple of weeks. Would you like in?

llamabeast · #58 September 22nd, 2007, 06:07 AM

First turn is just waiting on Ermor/Aezeal.

Aezeal · #59 September 22nd, 2007, 06:16 AM

what does the crown mean?

PS 2nd turn is waiting on the rest of you

Aezeal · #60 September 22nd, 2007, 06:44 AM

Proclamation from Ermor:

It's clear that the nation of Ermor is designed for greatness...

Fate has seen our inevitable victory and decided to even to odds a bit for the other, lesser, nations. Propaganda from other nations has caused some unrest in our province, hampering tax collections but fear not... we will overcome

In our divine benevolence, we want to let the other nations know that we are a peacefull empire and we think a live and let live policy can benefit all nations. We hope we can make peace with our neighbours while we get to know eachother. Time will learn which neighbours are worthy, in wisdom and strenght, of longterm peacefull relations.

So sayeth the wise emperor of Ermor, devote follower of Aezeal our god, to whom the whole world should bow and sacrifice young maidens