Madness - 24 players, MA+LA, CBM 1.4 (running) - Page 7

Phalent · #1 January 13th, 2009, 09:14 AM

I'll take MA C'tis please

Reay · #2 January 13th, 2009, 09:34 AM

Is there still room? I will take LA Mictlan. If they are banned I will take LA Gath instead.

Zeldor · #3 January 13th, 2009, 12:15 PM

Yep, we still need few more players. I am not really sure if I should ban LA Mictlan, their sacreds are not really better than MA one.

chrispedersen · #4 January 13th, 2009, 01:13 PM

ERm, Gath is in and you're thinking of banning LA Mictlan?

The difference between LA mictlan and EA mictlan is ... -2 blood (which makes gem income good for late age) and they get +2 commanders that don't have old age, and provide ready access to water, with one additional sacred.

Without water, I don't view the commanders as an issue. Now CBM made changes to kappas; off the top of my head, I don't know how relevent they are. But..... I never use the kappas. Jags are just too good.

Oh, and I think they get an oracle pretender they didn't have in EA. Still should be ok.

Zeldor · #5 January 13th, 2009, 01:41 PM

That's why I didn't put Mictlan as a banned nation in the first post, when I was updating it

Zeldor · #6 January 13th, 2009, 01:56 PM

It looks like we have 21 players already. I have updated first post. I still don't know if I should put gold and resources at 125 or 150. They are at 150 in Preponderance...

Incabulos · #7 January 13th, 2009, 02:02 PM

I would like to join this game but have yet to pick a nation, need to see what is taken so far.

Redeyes · #8 January 13th, 2009, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Incabulos

I would like to join this game but have yet to pick a nation, need to see what is taken so far.

The first post is up to date with nation picks.

chrispedersen · #9 January 13th, 2009, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeldor

It looks like we have 21 players already. I have updated first post. I still don't know if I should put gold and resources at 125 or 150. They are at 150 in Preponderance...

Well, the resource cost for a lot of units is lower in CBM. A lot lower. Bogarus's cavalry is a *lot* more competitive for example.

I'm of two minds.. 150/150 was a lot of fun in preponderance. made a lot of builds possible that otherwise would not be.

I would be interested in seeing a game with resources at 75...

I think sites being set to 60 had a huge effect. And I think that 150/150 really encouraged and explosion - very rapid ramp ups. We are only well into the 2nd year, and already we are seeing 9 forts, 7 forts...

I think my vote would be 100/100 with sites set to 60. Make it a more subtle game, and let people learn the effects of CBM 1.4 by themselves rather than in combination with heavy resource + money.

Plus, people may want to change their nations if you change the settings. Of course, if it gets me LA ulm, I'm all in favor of it. However, MA Ermor looks a lot less interesting with heavy resources/income.

Zeldor · #10 January 13th, 2009, 02:24 PM

I will go with 125/125 then, in the middle

There will be some tight space in the beginning for everyone. I will try the restricted resources approach maybe for next game

[it could probably work with just 12 players on a map big like that]

I also hope I will start working on my next map soon, hand-drawn that time

And yep, if someone wants to change the nation, there is no problem with that. I think I will go with LA TC and leave MA Shinu open.